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Obama vs. Rush, en Espanol
Ben Smith's Blog — ... The Washington Post gets some new Spanish-language spots from Obama, reminding voters of the anti-Immigration wing of the Republican Party. ...

Limbaugh, Latinos and loathing: Ad war
The Swamp — ... Credit the Washington Post's Ed O'Keefe for this report on Obama ads that arrive in response to McCain ads tying Obama to the collapse of bipartisan immigration reform - though Obama supported reforms that McCain, Democrat Ted Kennedy and others pushed through the Senate in 1996 only to watch them die in the House. ...

Obama Spanish-Language Ad Ties McCain To Anti-Immigrant Limbaugh
TPM Election Central — ... The Obama campaign has a new attack ad running on Spanish-language TV, attacking John McCain for having dos caras (two faces) on immigration, and being in league with the likes of Rush Limbaugh and other Republicans who routinely insult Latinos: ...

Lame Obama Two-fer: Plays Race Card, Drags Limbaugh Into It
JammieWearingFool — This is so incredibly weak it almost isn't worth mentioning, but since the Obama people plan to play the race card seemingly every day , we may as well chronicle it. And this isn't even some media moron without any brain matter to think of anything else. The Obama campaign has released new radio and TV ads in Spanish that seek to tie Sen. John McCain to anti-immigrant comments made by radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. The ads also suggest the Republican has "dos caras" -- "two faces" -- when it comes to his relations with Latino voters. The new messages, airing in ...

From the Fact Check Desk: Obama's New Spanish Language TV Ad Es Erróneo
Political Punch — ... From the Fact Check Desk: Obama's New Spanish Language TV Ad Es Erróneo September 17, 2008 5:53 PM Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has launched a new Spanish-language TV ad that seeks to paint Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., as anti-immigrant, even tying the Republican to his longtime conservative talk-radio nemesis Rush Limbaugh. As first reported by the Washington Post , Obama's ad features a narrator saying: "They want us to forget the insults we’ve put up with…the intolerance…they made us feel marginalized in this country we love so much." The screen then shows these two quotes ...

Obama Launches Spanish Ad Attacking McCain on Immigration
TalkLeft — Dos Caras...Two-Faced. That's the theme of Sen. Barack Obama's new ad airing in Spanish in Colorado and New Mexico. The Obama campaign has released new radio and TV ads in Spanish that seek to tie Sen. John McCain to anti-immigrant comments made by radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. The ads also suggest the Republican has "dos caras" -- "two faces" -- when it comes to his relations with Latino voters. The new messages, airing in Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico, come in response to recent Spanish-language ads by the McCain ...

New Obama ad: McCain’s an anti-amnesty Republican racist like Rush Limbaugh
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... , an effort sufficiently righteous (and gratuitous, given his pedigree) to warrant some extra traffic. So rather than blather about it myself, I’m going to send you over there for all the details. First, though, let me set you up with the transcript of this rancid piece of race-baiting shinola, which manages to smear first Limbaugh and then McCain in the course of an identity politics appeal so shameless that even the ...

The Daily Bric-A-Brac: Which Politician Will Pull A Chris Cooley?
The Atlantic Politics Channel — ... witchhunter WaMu... next? On the leak of Palin's personal e-mails, the McCain campaign issued a statement: "This is a shocking invasion of the Governor's privacy and a violation of law. The matter has been turned over to the appropriate authorities and we hope that anyone in possession of these emails will destroy them. We will have no further comment." An Obama radio ad uses Rush Limbaugh to paint John McCain as two-faced on ...

Obama Invokes Rush Limbaugh in New Spanish-Language Ads
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... says in Spanish as a picture of Rush Limbaugh appears onscreen with quotes of him saying, "Mexicans are stupid and unqualified" and "Shut your mouth or get out." "They made us feel marginalized in a country we love so much," the ad continues. "John McCain and his Republican friends have two faces. One that says lies just to get our vote and another, even worse, that continues the failed policies of George Bush that put special interests ahead of working families." ... Read more: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/17/o...

Jeremiah Wright Protege Picks Fight He Can't Win
Riehl World View — ... Not only is this a destructive, unhelpful tactic that contradicts his claimed mantle as a post-racial candidate, opening up that line of attack is precisely what he has done. ...

Obama Smears Rush Limbaugh and John McCain as anti-Mexican Bigots
Weekly Standard Blog — The Washington Post's Ed O'Keefe reports on a new Spanish TV ad produced by the Obama campaign: "They want us to forget the insults we've put up with, the intolerance," the television ad's announcer says in Spanish as a picture of Rush Limbaugh appears onscreen with quotes of him saying, "Mexicans are stupid and unqualified" and "Shut your mouth or get out." "They made us feel marginalized in a country we love so much," the ad continues. "John McCain and his Republican friends have two ...

Obama Asks Illegals To Vote For Him For A Change
Snapped Shot — Obama's latest ad is focused toward spanish-speaking people of Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona is asking illegals to now vote for him. You can see the ad and further context here. ...

Old Media Helps Obama Push False Rush Limbaugh Immigration Quotes
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Yesterday, the Washington Post's Ed O'Keefe reported that the Obama campaign was releasing some new Spanish language campaign ads on TV in Florida and other markets that feature Rush Limbaugh making what appears to be anti-Mexican comments. The ads then link Limbaugh to McCain on immigration attempting to smear them both in the minds of voters. The Limbaugh quotes, however, are so out of context that their use constitutes a lie. Unfortunately, too many media outlets are allowing these lies to stand unchallenged. ...

Lopez: Obama Lies
Articles on National Review Online — O n Wednesday, the Obama campaign — no 527, the Obama campaign itself — released an ad , en Espa ol , trying to use talk-radio king Rush Limbaugh against John McCain. The ad, to air in Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico, seeks to convince Hispanics that John McCain, Rush Limbaugh, and the Republican party hate them. It is the brazen response to a John McCain Spanish-language ad that blames Barack Obama for destroying McCain s immigration-reform legislation last year. [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] This, of course, was legislation that Rush Limbaugh opposed. Rush ...

The Early Word: Economics on the Trail
The Caucus — ... television ad on the economy. The Washington Post notes that Mr. Obama has released a new radio ad that attempts to associate Senator McCain with anti-immigrant comments made by the conservative talk show host, Rush Limbaugh. DownBallot Senator John Ensign, head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, ...

Old Media Helps Obama Push False Rush Limbaugh Immigration Quotes
Stop The ACLU — -By Warner Todd Huston [image] Yesterday, the Washington Post’s Ed O’Keefe reported that the Obama campaign was releasing some new Spanish language campaign ads on TV in Florida and other markets that feature Rush Limbaugh making what appears to be anti-Mexican comments. The ads then link Limbaugh to McCain on immigration attempting to smear them both in the minds of voters. The Limbaugh quotes, however, are so out of context that their use constitutes a lie. Unfortunately, too many media outlets are allowing these lies to stand unchallenged. As O’Keefe reported on September ...

Hubris
Balloon Juice — ... As first reported by the Washington Post, Obama’s ad features a narrator saying: “They want us to forget the insults we’ve put up with…the intolerance…they made us feel marginalized in this country we love so much.” ...

Pants On Fire
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days — ... throwing illegal immigrants out on their ear without any consideration whatsoever to humanitarian concerns. Whether you agree with his stance or not, it was a stance that took into consideration the feelings of Hispanic Americans and was undertaken with the hope that it would attract bipartisan support and serve as the basis for a comprehensive solution to the illegal immigrant problem here in the United States. But of course, you would not know that if all you had to go by was this lying ad . Jake Tapper ...

Hussein TV Ad Aimed At Latinos Lies About Limbaugh - With Video
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — ... As first reported by the Washington Post, Obama’s ad features a narrator saying: “They want us to forget the insults we’ve put up with…the intolerance…they made us feel marginalized in this country we love so much.” ...

Pants On Fire
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... throwing illegal immigrants out on their ear without any consideration whatsoever to humanitarian concerns. Whether you agree with his stance or not, it was a stance that took into consideration the feelings of Hispanic Americans and was undertaken with the hope that it would attract bipartisan support and serve as the basis for a comprehensive solution to the illegal immigrant problem here in the United States. But of course, you would not know that if all you had to go by was this lying ad. Jake Tapper calls shenanigans. Others should too. The Obama ...

"Courting" the Latino Vote
Stones Cry Out — ... Oh, and someone please tell Ed O’Keefe of the Washington Post that his entirely uncritical reporting on this new ad does a disservice to his readers (but a rather nice service to Obama).  ...

Senator Obama’s Negative Campaign While Wearing a Halo
Flopping Aces — ... Like running his campaign against 8 years of President Bush, Senator Obama also tried to link Senator McCain- who has been a thorn in the side of conservatives on the issue of immigration reform- to Rush Limbaugh’s “anti-immigration” anti-ILLEGAL-immigration stance: ...