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Two can play the ‘celebrity’ game
Political Animal — With Barack Obama taking the time off to spend time with his family before the convention, one might have thought we wouldn’t be hearing much from the Obama team this week. Not so — the candidate may be taking a break, but his operation has decided to start the week with a new ad that’s bound to get some attention. To provide a little context, the McCain campaign decided in recent weeks to embrace the “celebrity” narrative with both arms. It’s the principal anti-Obama attack in every ad, every press release, every surrogate talking point, and every speech. The irony, of course, is that ...

Election Central Morning Roundup
TPM Election Central — New Obama Ad: McCain Has "Been Washington's Biggest Celebrity" The Obama campaign has a new national cable ad firing back at the McCain campaign's "celebrity line," pointing out that McCain has "been Washington's biggest celebrity" and has regularly appeared on shows like Jay Leno and Saturday Night Live. The ad is certainly entertaining, but it could also be a sign that the Obama camp sees McCain's efforts as effective and thus requiring a rebuttal: McCain In Pennsylvania Today John McCain is touring the swing state of Pennsylvania, seeking to maximize the ...

Obama's Celeb Ad Adopts McCain Line Of Attack
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — For good or for ill, the "celebrity" meme is here to stay in the presidential race. After John McCain's campaign attacked Barack Obama on the grounds that he's too popular for his own good -- and compared his celebrity to that of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears -- Barack Obama's ad-makers have responded in kind. They had plenty of material to work with. As the Internet Movie Database shows, John McCain has guest-starred or lent cameos to four dozen different television programs, and not just those of the news variety: Saturday Night Live, WWF Raw and Entertainment Tonight have featured the Arizona ...

Obama Camp "Embraces" Celeb Tag
The Atlantic Politics Channel — The Obama campaign calls McCain: "Washington's biggest celebrity." Plenty of footage of McCain's television appearances interspersed with various shots of McCain embracing George W. Bush. The ad will run on national cable, which means that, for the most part, it's intended to make an imprint in the minds of political elites.

Obama Ad: "Embrace"
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — The Obama campaign released a new TV ad, which will begin airing Tuesday on cable TV. The ad shows McCain on 'Letterman,' 'Leno,' and 'Saturday Night Live'; it also shows McCain hugging Pres. Bush in... ...

Obama Ad: McCain Is The Biggest Celebrity in Washington
News — Obama Ad: McCain Is The Biggest Celebrity in Washington Now Barack Obama is attacking John McCain for his celebrity. In a new Obama campaign ad, a narrator says that McCain is the "biggest celebrity in Washington." It features images of McCain embracing President Bush, McCain on "Saturday Night Live," and McCain on the late night talk shows. It also hits McCain for supporting tax breaks for oil and drug companies and for having lobbyists on his campaign. "Lurching to the left, lurching to the right, the old Washington dance. Whatever it takes," the ad's narrator says. Watch it below.

OBAMA AD: EMBRACE
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New Obama ad: “Celebrity”
Hot Air » Top Picks — New Obama ad: “Celebrity” posted at 10:25 am on August 11, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly At long last, a blip on the brain-dead Obama ad team’s EEG meter. There’s enough sinister “Washington fat cat” voiceover to limit the backfire potential here in reminding viewers of McCain’s experience (just like there was enough snark in McCain’s celebrity ad to limit the backfire in reminding viewers how popular Obama is), but if you’re Team Barry, why do you want to keep this meme alive? Thanks to the exposure of McCain’s ad and Paris Hilton’s ad, and of course to ill-advised fundraisers like ...

New Obama Ad Hits McCain For Beltway Embraces
Firedoglake — If McCain thought he'd get the week all to himself while the Obamas are on vacation, he can think again: ...as Washington embraced him, John McCain hugged right back. The lobbyists – running his low road campaign. The money – billions in tax breaks for oil and drug companies, but ...

John McCain, Washington Celebrity
Oliver Willis — Another hit from Team Obama.

Lame: Obama Ad Tries Portraying McCain as a Celebrity
JammieWearingFool — If this is the best Team Obama can come up with, they're in trouble. Sure, McCain was viewed as a celebrity by the left when he was useful to them (i.e., to use as a GOP proxy against Bush). But now that Obama has been clearly defined as a celebutard (and if you missed this ...

Washington's Biggest Celebrity
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Last week, I wrote: McCain actually worships at the altar of celebrity (how many movies has he guest-starred in? how many SNLs? how many dinner parties in Hollywood has McCain been to? how many books has he had ghost-written burnishing his life story? how often does he put out images of his own instant celebrity years ago as a returning POW?) The Obama camp has also adopted this counter-point to the Rovian McCain ads. Could have been more brutal, but it's effective in its way: Game on. ...

And the Obama campaign comes through for me again!
RedState: Conservative News and Community — Bless their petulant, easily-wounded little hearts. I was just thinking about whether we could legitimately put this video: ...back on the front page. It'd would have been a little difficult to justify: there's a half-life to any good ad, and this one is getting to be weeks old by now. Still a little juice left, but would it have really been worth it? Apparently, the Obama campaign thought so, because they decided to finally reply to it - and not in the way that Allahpundit suggested, which would have been the smart way. ...

If You Contributed to the Obama Campaign, You Should Demand a Refund
Weekly Standard Blog — Showing the same sort of rapid response that He displayed during the 14 month Jeremiah Wright “problem,” Barack Obama and His campaign have belatedly issued a rejoinder to the McCain campaign’s almost two week old “Celebrity” ad. I think you’ll agree it’s a stroke of genius. The Obama campaign, done whining momentarily, has responded to McCain’s charge that Obama is a celebrity by countercharging that McCain is – get ready for it – a celebrity. Brilliant! I’m sure at Obama HQ they’re saluting themselves for this inspired piece of I-know-you-are-but-what-am-I counter-programming, but they still miss ...

Likin' This Ad
Talking Points Memo — I don't know how widely Obama is running this ad. But it's good. And it captures something key about McCain ...