'Ayers' - New McCain Spot
Politics Daily — Filed under: Ads, John McCain, 2008 PresidentJohn McCain's campaign has a new 1:40 minute web video titled "Ayers," out today. It's unclear if a :30 or :60 second TV version of the ad connecting Barack Obama to bomb-making Bill Ayers will make circulation or not. Obama is just too risky? If the Bill Ayers mantra becomes a compelling narrative, it has the potential to be a winning message. Like most political cover-ups, trying to hide a connection makes the original ...

McCain campaign releases new web ad called “Ayers”
Sister Toldjah — The fit’s gonna hit the shan over this one today …

McCain goes full frontal on Obama-Ayers connection
Hot Air » Top Picks — McCain goes full frontal on Obama-Ayers connection posted at 7:09 am on October 9, 2008 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | printer-friendly Team McCain has a new ad out this morning called “Ayers”, a comprehensive attack on Obama on his relationship with former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers.  This isn’t just a suggestive 30-second spot.  It’s one minute and forty seconds that detail the kind of work the two did together, Ayers’ early political partnership, and Obama’s obfuscation of the nature of their political partnership in Chicago: Barack Obama and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. Friends. ...

McCain-Palin Camp Releases Devastating New Ad "Ayers"
Gateway Pundit — The gloves are off... The McCain-Palin Campaign released a new ad today "Ayers" on Barack Obama's longtime relationship with terrorist Bill Ayers: Via HotAir Here's the script for the ad: ANNCR: Barack Obama and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. Friends. They've worked together for years. But Obama tries to hide it. Why? Obama launched his political career in Ayers' living room. Ayers and Obama ran a radical "education" foundation, together. They ...

NR, John McCain, and Ayers
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Matt Lewis: New Web Ad: 'Ayers"
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — Script For "Ayers" (WEB :90) ANNCR: Barack Obama and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. Friends. They've worked together for years. But Obama tries to hide it. Why? Obama launched his political career in Ayers' living room. Ayers and Obama ran a radical "education" foundation, together. They wrote the foundation's by-laws, together. Obama was the foundation's first chairman. Reports say they, "distributed more than $100 million to ideological allies with no discernible improvement in education." When their relationship became an issue, Obama just responded, "This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood." That's it? We know Bill ...

Where is The Truth Barack?
PoliPundit.com — Where is The Truth Barack? McCain’s new Ayers ad. -- KnightHawk Posted at 8:24 am Link to this post | Comments (4)

New McCain ad: 'Ayers'
Hyscience — This is going to cause things to become very interesting, to put it mildly: Related: Bill Ayers: I've been saying for 40 years, you can't separate 'the concept of progressive education from the concept of politics and political change': ... this very interesting October 2006 interview of Bill Ayers in Revolution (the self-styled "Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA"). Some context:  Ayers explains that he returned from summer vacation to his post as a professor of education at the University of Illinois ...

Maverick-y
Suburban Guerrilla — Hopefully none of this crap will stick:

Video : Team McCain Unloads on Obama Over Ayers
The Jawa Report — October 09, 2008 Video : Team McCain Unloads on Obama Over Ayers BRAVO! By Ragnar Danneskjold, Typical Bitter Gun-Clinger at October 9, 2008 07:48 AM | | l digg this

New McCain Ad: Ayers
Wizbang — The McCain campaign must have some polling on this that shows Americans are seriously concerned about Obama's relationship with a domestic terrorist because now the campaign is going head long into the subject. It's a damning ad, which is 1:40 long, indicating that it's an internet ad only. Ed Morrissey speculates ...

Election Central Morning Roundup
TPM Election Central — McCain Camp Steps Up Attacks Against Obama Over Ayers We usually don't post on Web ads, but this new McCain piece is really something, saying that Obama is lying when he downplays his ties to Bill Ayers and the supposedly "radical" education foundation they both served on: "Barack Obama and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. Friends," the announcer says. "They've worked together for years. But Obama tries to hide it. Why?" The syntax here seems to imply that Ayers is currently a domestic terrorist, and that Obama and Ayers have worked together on ...

Too Risque - Needs A Coverup
Classical Values — Too Risque - Needs A Coverup It seems that Mr. Obama is not proud of his friends . It also looks like McCain is going after this with everything he has got. I suspect this is not the end of this subject, either. I'd expect at least one more ad featuring John Murtaugh, the son of the judge whose home got bombed by the Weather Underground. Murtaugh, who is running for the New York state legislature, has already released a statement through the McCain campaign attacking Obama for associating with an unrepentant leader of the terrorist organization that tried to kill him as a boy. I'm certain he will happily participate in ...

New McCain Ad: Ayers
Weekly Standard Blog — Many speculated that McCain's internals must have indicated this line of attack wasn't working, or he would have brought it up at the debate. There goes that theory. The way they're selling this tactic is a little odd. Nicolle Wallace, McCain spokesperson, has been on two shows this morning explicitly saying, "No one sitting around their kitchen table dealing with economic problems cares about Obama's relationship with a washed-up old terrorist." She was saying the same thing several days ago. I suppose the idea is to hit that notion head-on, ...

Gloves, Off
Ross Douthat — Well, we'll see how this plays on Main Street: As Ed Morrissey says, this will put an awful lot of pressure on McCain to "say it to his face" at the next debate. On a not-unrelated note, Nate Silver notes that in the first three debates, Obama/Biden used the phrase "middle class" twenty one times, while McCain/Palin used it twice. And alas, it's not because John McCain read Grand New Party and decided to start saying "working class" instead.

New McCain Ad: Ayers, Obama, and a punch in the face.
RedState: Conservative News and Community — Here we go. Right now, this is a web ad: It's not going to stay one: it's actually 90 seconds and has the McCain "I approved this message" added on, which means that (as Ed notes) you should expect to see it in TV ads pretty, pretty soon. Ed also notes that this is going to guarantee that we're going to hear about it in the debate: Obama rather publicly challenged McCain to say it to his face, and I think that McCain will be rather happy to oblige him. Moe Lane PS: I understand that certain Obama activists have been programmed to ...

Deranged McCain/Palin mob in Strongville, OH; campaign caters to this base with new ‘Ayers’ ad
pandagon.net - we are the public option — by Pam Spaulding Sigh. As I’ve said before, the IQ of these conservatives is dropping like an anchor. Tim Russo at BloggerInterrupted interviewed some of the ignorant yahoos at a Bible Spice rally in Strongville, OH and the ignorance—added on top of the proud bluster, is incredible: A sample of the comments: ”I think he (Obama) is a one-man terror cell.” ”He’s got the bloodlines...look at the name.” ”There have been more personal interviews with Sarah ...

Bill Ayers & Barack Obama - Friends
Flopping Aces — A minute and half spot that appears to be ready for an ad buy in the battleground states. ...

Where Eagles Dare: A Message For Senator McCain
Wizbang — Straight to the point: There's reason to doubt that oft-repeated pledge of 'supporting the troops' when you've worked for a man who tried to kill the troops. So said Jim Geraghty , who hit the nail on the head. I borrow his words and embrace them as if they were my own. If only our candidate would do so and stop affording a hard core leftist plausible deniability through avoidance. The time has come. It is time for John McCain to bring up Barack Obama's ties to - friendship with - William Ayers. Not through Sarah Palin, not on a campaign stop, but directly, in debate on national television. Obama is daring him to, ...

New McCain Web Ad: Ayers
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — Playing the Ayers card, if only the Web:...

MCCAIN AD: AYERS
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McCain’s Ayers Ad
Patterico's Pontifications — Via Hot Air we see that the McCain camp has a new ad about Obama and Ayers: Barack Obama and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. Friends. They’ve worked together for years. But Obama tries to hide it. Why? Obama launched his political career in Ayers’ living room. Ayers and Obama ran a radical “education” foundation, together. They wrote the foundation’s by-laws, together. Obama was the foundation’s first chairman. Reports say they, “distributed more than $100 million to ideological allies with no discernible improvement ...

'Ayers': New McCain Ad Unloads on Obama
JammieWearingFool — Keep them coming. The public needs to know why Barack Obama is friends with terrorists. Of course, I'm sure he'll whine about being smeared . Speaking of William Ayers, it's becoming more evident Obama knew him long before ...

McCain Ayers Ad Says "Terrorist Ayers Isn't The Issue"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Greg Sargent noted on Wednesday how the McCain campaign seems to want it both ways when it comes to using William Ayers as a campaign issue. After suggesting that it was "off the table" and that it couldn't compete with economic issues, the campaign has dispatched Sarah Palin to make repeated references to Ayers. Now it appears, however, that the campaign is coming down firmly on the "pro" side of whether or not to use Ayers as an issue -- with the release of a 90-second ad titled, simply, "Ayers." Produced exclusively for the web, it appears designed to fight with the economic crisis for cable ...

McCain Ayers Ad Says "Terrorist Ayers Isn't The Issue"
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — Greg Sargent noted on Wednesday how the McCain campaign seems to want it both ways when it comes to using William Ayers as a campaign issue. After suggesting that it was "off the table" and that it couldn't compete with economic issues, the campaign has dispatched Sarah Palin to make repeated references to Ayers. Now it appears, however, that the campaign is coming down firmly on the "pro" side of whether or not to use Ayers as an issue -- with the release of a 90-second ad titled, simply, "Ayers." Produced exclusively for the web, it appears designed to fight with the economic crisis for cable ...

The Full Wingnut- The Ugly Fall of John McCain
Balloon Juice — So I guess the McCain campaign has decided in for a penny, in for a pound, and has gone full wingnut with Ayers (count the number of links to the NRO): Several good things. First, after McCain loses in November, we won’t have to listen ...

Ayersmania: John Murtagh Challenges Ayers' Bullshit Timeline; Says Circumstances Establis Obamas and Ayers/Dohrn Knew Each Other from Mid-Eighties
Ace of Spades HQ — Ayersmania: John Murtagh Challenges Ayers' Bullshit Timeline; Says Circumstances Establis Obamas and Ayers/Dohrn Knew Each Other from Mid-Eighties First, the tough new internet ad from McCain. I stress "internet," because I'd really like to see some real ads. Here's John Murtagh: Transcript at Ankle Biting Pundits. ...

New Ad: McCain Drops Ayers Bomb
Nice Deb — Not backing down: This is good, but like I said previously, the McCain campaign needs to keep piling on. Bring up the other bad associations, including Rev. Wright. Hat tip: Hot Air        ...

Ouch! (UPDATED)
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler — When His Imperial Majesty read yesterday about a source inside the whassisface? /Palin campaign suggesting that “we’ll have something to talk about tomorrow” he was, to put it mildly, less than fired up with enthusiasm and high hopes. Tuesday’s coma-inducingly lame debate and the preceding hype about gloves coming off had us a bit jaded, and that’s a British Understatement. Turns out our skepticism and pessimism wasn’t all that called for this time, however: YouTube Preview Image We guess we know what the Obamedia and the Soetoro campaign will be busy doing the next few days, no? Damn, we sure hope that they ...

Brainster's Blog — Ayers Airs Andrew Sullivan will be so disappointed in John McCain.

Obama's Friends. America's Enemies.
Confederate Yankee — A new internet only ad from the McCain campaign, tying terrorists Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers to their protégé, Barack Obama....

And McCain Is An Honorable Man I
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — McCain takes the Ayers attack to a new level: Remember this. And never forget what John McCain actually is. He's telling us every day. ...

It's getting ugly, but is it getting racial?
Althouse — The new McCain ad hits Obama hard on the Ayers connection. That's unpleasant for Obama supporters, but is it unfair? Is it racist? From the SF Chronicle: While Obama's campaign has fended off racially rooted attacks since its inception, analysts say the ones surfacing in the past few days have been more overt, arriving as many undecided voters are making their final decision. They are part of a recent stream of attacks on his background, including his religion and his connections to a former '60s radical. "It is the Willie ...

McCain Campaign Leaks On Resuming The High Road Prove False: Ayers Issue Extensively Used
The Moderate Voice — Late yesterday there was much new and old media buzz about rumblings that the McCain campaign supposedly was planning to resume the high road, drop it’s emerging push on using the Ayers story and get back other substantive matters — such as talking about the economy plus other issues that polls indicate worried voters’ care about. Yours truly got an email from a coblogger and two emails from readers about a story in The Politico about the McCain campaign changing its strategy. Some of it is covered in this post here. But as of today there are no signs that the McCain campaign plans to ...

A Dead Campaign Beats A Dead Horse
The Moderate Voice — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONfJ7YSXE5w With even many sycophants in the right-of-center punditocracy saying that the McCain-Palin ticket is toast, it was with more than the usual amount of interest that I waited for what the campaign promised would be a major announcement this morning. The ...

Shots from the Show 10/9
Tammy Bruce — **This post will be updated throughout the show** The new McCain ad focusing on B. Hussein's relationship with Bill Ayers. Easily one of the best ads so far. The NRA has endorsed McCain. I would guess this is another benefit the mavericky Palin nomination has brought the campaign. Pollster Zogby warns everyone not to believe the Dem hype about the polls. McPalin, you see, is still very much in this race. Philly's The Bulletin: Polls: McCain On The Rebound In apparent ...

Shot from the Show 10/8
Tammy Bruce — **This post will be updated throughout the show** The new McCain ad focusing on B. Hussein's relationship with Bill Ayers. Easily one of the best ads so far. The NRA has endorsed McCain. I would guess this is another benefit the mavericky Palin nomination has brought the campaign.

Shot from the Show 10/9
Tammy Bruce — **This post will be updated throughout the show** The new McCain ad focusing on B. Hussein's relationship with Bill Ayers. Easily one of the best ads so far. The NRA has endorsed McCain. I would guess this is another benefit the mavericky Palin nomination has brought the campaign. Pollster Zogby warns everyone not to believe the Dem hype about the polls. McPalin, you see, is still very much in this race. Philly's The Bulletin: Polls: McCain On The Rebound In apparent ...

"Ayers"
Power Line — This McCain campaign ad on Barack Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers is nicely done. So far, at least, it's web only:

Senator McCain: Encouraging the Very Mentality He Condemns
The Moderate Voice — Watch the first video, if you didn’t watch it earlier, when Shaun posted it. Next, in the second video, see the type of dangerous idiocy the first one yields. Now, answer my suggested question from the other day: Judged on the merits of Ayers’ and McCains’ current behavior, who should we view in the better light? The destructive youth who became a peaceful, productive citizen/professor? Or the irrascible youth who became a U.S. senator and presidential candidate? ...

John McCain Forwards Obama Is a Muslim Terrorist Email
Open Left - Front Page — Here's a bunch of Republicans at a Palin rally saying Obama's a terrorist. And here's McCain's new web ad calling Obama a terrorist. One of the most idiotic parts of our political dialogue is this pretense that the Republican Party leaders are disconnected from their base, a conceit held not only by journalists but also by high level Democratic elites.  While most of us get that we're playing in a partisan system, and the other side thinks our leaders are terrorists, a lot of people are 'surprised' and ...

McCain ad pushes 'risky' Obama theme
The Swamp — by Frank James The McCain campaign has a new negative ad which seeks to further its effort to fuel questions in some voters' minds about Sen. Barack Obama. It's all a part of the "who is the real Obama?" theme the Republican nominee's campaign has been frenetically pushing in recent days. The McCain ad's thrust is that Obama knew Ayers better than the Democratic nominee has let on. Of course, the conclusion it hopes voters will reach through its allegation is that Obama hasn't been forthcoming so how could he possibly be trusted in the Oval ...

Midday open thread
Daily Kos — The Weekly Standard's Dean Barnett is one of the few writers on the Right I genuinely respect. He may understand the netroots better than anyone, on any side of the partisan divide, and I quoted him (favorably) several times in Taking on the System. He is currently in the ICU with a bad cystic fibrosis attack. I'm not a religious person, but I'm sending all the good vibes I can his way. Self-described former "data geek" for the Georgia Democratic Party and now-candidate for state House Chris Huttman gives us a look at the numbers in his suddenly Blue-ing state. ...

Ayers
Boots and Sabers — Total Entries: 13849 Total Comments: 70859 Total Trackbacks: 979 Most Recent Entry: 10/09/2008 07:36 pm Most Recent Comment on: 10/09/2008 07:36 pm Total Members: 572 Total Logged in members: 5 Total guests: 47 Total anonymous users: 1 Most Recent Visitor on: 10/09/2008 07:38 pm The most visitors ever was 538 on 12/01/2007 02:11 pm Current Logged-in Members: GAMazy ...

Terrorists for Obama
Basil's Blog — I’m glad to see the McCain campaign is finally kicking it up a notch. They’re holding Obama’s feet to the fire concerning his association with terrorists, such as William Ayers: The mainstream media is in the tank for Obama on this, failing to ask the hard questions, or follow up on the BS answers Obama and his flunkies give. It’s up to alternative media to get the word out. And that’s you! ...

Two Reasons I Vote for Barr
PoliGazette — Reason 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDofbll86dY Reason 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONfJ7YSXE5w More to come. ©2008 PoliGazette. All Rights Reserved..

Obama and Ayers - video
USS Neverdock — USS Neverdock "America is often portrayed as an ignorant, unsophisticated sort of place, full of bible bashers and ruled to a dangerous extent by trashy television, superstition and religious bigotry, a place lacking in respect for evidence based knowledge. I know that is how it is portrayed because I have done my bit to paint that picture..." BBC's Washington correspondent Justin Webb

A Tale of Two Videos
Hit & Run — This is a video from the McCain campaign called "Ayers." It's 90 seconds long, meant for web consumption, and it spent all of yesterday linked from The Drudge Report. As of 10 a.m. today, it had 418,605 views. Remember "the McCain-Palin mob," the video from a liberal blogger that I linked yesterday? As of 10 a.m., it had 625,561 views. Two small data points, but the takeaway is that the Ayers attack, pushed hard this week by the McCain campaign, and ampliflied by the media, is not burning up the web. Discussion of McCain's tactics is. That, not Ayers, is the McCain story of the ...

Is somebody playing games with the McCain/Palin ACORN ad?
RedState: Conservative News and Community — One does wonder. "Spies, Brigands and Pirates" (what, no ninja?) of Protein Wisdom Pub suspects that the Fox News copyright complaint about the ACORN ad (which you can still see [here,] by the way(http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Multimedia/Player.aspx?guid=4c34dbc7-d1a9-48a0-994f-18fc59cbb81a)) is a fake accusation, given that there's something like 129K Fox News clips on YouTube already. S/he also notes that people were playing "adult content" games earlier with the Ayers video - You know, this one: so who ...

The Ugly States of America: A Chronology
Politics Daily — Filed under: Republicans, Barack Obama, John McCain, 2008 PresidentTime will tell, but as I said on last night's Unusable Signal, I think that the spectacle of increasingly ugly and hostile McCain crowds is going to hurt the GOP nominee badly with independents. Fair or not, it raises the spectre of two Americas, and decent people want no part of McCain's Ugly States of America. The fact that McCain has started to fight the fire he started is creditable, if not laudable. Creditable because, by tamping down the hostility, he risks disarming the only weapon he has left: Obama ...

GOP, John McCain Writing Off John McCain
Open Left - Front Page — Blaring across the front page of the Seattle Times today are two stories - one is about Palin and troopergate, but the other, in the fabled top left quadrant, is on McCain's comments about Obama being a decent man.  The headline blared across the top is McCain Defends Obama.  Already five people to me today have expressed wonderment that McCain is doing this.  Finally.  He's returning to the man he was before this campaign. ...

Shots from the Weekend Show 10/11
Tammy Bruce — **This post will be updated throughout the show** I'm re-playing the Meghan McCain interview from my weekday show. We talked about her book and what it's like on the bus :) Meghan is also the prolific blogger about life on the book and campaign trail at McCain Bloggette. Barry seems to have forgotten, again, that there's that pesky thing called the "election" on November 4th. The new McCain ad focusing on B. Hussein's relationship with Bill Ayers. Easily one of the best ads so far. ...

Ruh-Roh... McCain Closes Gap-- Obama's Character Becomes Issue
Gateway Pundit — This is horrible news for Obama and the Obamedia... As McCain continues to define the radical background of Barack Obama Americans get turned off. Apparently, Americans weren't too impressed with Obama's relationship with a terrorist that was brought up last week by the McCain Campaign. Obama's response that he thought the guy was rehabilitated didn't help him much either. Zogby has McCain and Obama in a statistical dead ...

Who Else 'Worked With' Bill Ayers?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — "Behind in the polls and running out of time to change the subject from the sinking economy, the McCain/Palin campaign has gone hyper trying to morph Chicago Weatherman-turned-professor Bill Ayers into Barack Obama's soul mate," Greg Hinz writes in Crain's Chicago Business. One of the most recent attempts is this 90-second attack ad: The non-partisan PolitiFact found the ad brimming with enough false statements that it earned a "Pants On Fire" ranking on the site's Truth-O-Meter: In ...

Who Else 'Worked With' Bill Ayers?
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — "Behind in the polls and running out of time to change the subject from the sinking economy, the McCain/Palin campaign has gone hyper trying to morph Chicago Weatherman-turned-professor Bill Ayers into Barack Obama's soul mate," Greg Hinz writes in Crain's Chicago Business. One of the most recent attempts is this 90-second attack ad: The non-partisan PolitiFact found the ad brimming with enough false statements that it earned a "Pants On Fire" ranking on the site's Truth-O-Meter: In ...

John McCain doesn't understand "attack" ads
Crooks and Liars — Download | Play    Download | Play John McCain complained last night that Barack Obama's mean health care "attack ads" hurt his feelings and interrupted his Sunday football viewing. MCCAIN: "Every other ad -- ever other ad was an attack ad on my health care plan. And any objective observer has said it's not true. You're running ads right now that say that I oppose federal funding for stem cell research. I don't." Here is the ad in question: ...