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Senator John McCain and Britney Spears apparently have a very similar view in their support for President Bush. Slaves 4 Bush's Toxic war policies?
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Group Responds To McCain Ad: Britney And McCain Both Heart Bush!
TPM Election Central — Here's a fun video response to McCain's Obama-Britney ad from ProgressiveAccountability.org, that third-party group that reconstituted from David Brock's old outfit... The vid shows a well-known, and particularly vacuous, Britney moment where she professes undying trust in Bush, and pairs it with McCain offering a similar sentiment, if not quite as mindlessly. Heh. ...

The Britney Saga Continues: Pop Star And McCain Share Talking Points
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — The surest sign yet that this presidential campaign -- not even in August -- has already gone on way too long: Britney Spears is the nexis of a political debate. On Wednesday morning, John McCain's campaign put out an attack ad painting Barack Obama as a self-indulgent celebrity along the lines of the pop icon. The Obama campaign responded in due course, saying of McCain's propensity to go negative: "'Oops! He did it again.'" Now Progressive Accountability, producing some of the hardest opposition research on McCain this cycle, has unearthed this nugget showing the presumptive Republican nominee and the troubled pop star to ...

McCain’s Britney Moment
Oliver Willis — As John McCain grows increasingly desperate and morphs into the Mean McCain his close associates and wives know, he has attacked Sen. Obama as a celebrity and used Paris Hilton and Britney Spears in his latest ad designed for the media to run over and over again for him. The problem here is it is John McCain who hobnobbed with Britney Spears and Co. at the MTV awards. It is his daughter who pals around with reality TV stars. And it he’s the one who does all this while walking around in $500+ dollar loafers. ...

Late Afternoon/Early Evening Open Thread
Daily Kos — The REAL Britney, courtesy of Progressive Accountability:

Which Ad is More Effective?
Discourse.net — Which ad is more effective? This McCain ad trying to link Obama to sleazy and brainless bimbettes (oh, and taxes and dependence on foreign oil) … …or this anti-McCain ad from the independent ProgessiveAccountability.org (which probably won’t get as much attention), in which McCain and Brittany turn out to have the same view of George Bush? Incidentally, it may not be irrelevant to note that McCain hired the very guy who did the racially tinged ...

John McCain and Britney Spears have something in common
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — They use the same talking points. But love George W. Bush:

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We've Been Silent On McCain-Paris-Britney Too Long!
DownWithTyranny! — Mother and child Even though Bush personally nixed plans to have Britney Spears play the Republican Convention in NYC in 2004, the trashy, drug addicted and dysfunctional McComb, Mississippi/Kentwood, Louisiana dancer and singer, is as famous for endorsing him (as well as Pepsi and a fragrances called ...

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McCain Ad Links Paris Hilton, Britney Spears To Obama
huffingtonpost.com 7/30/2008 — The McCain campaign is out with the latest in a string of sharply negative advertisements, this time mocking Barack Obama as a self-important celebrity along the likes of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. In a 30-second spot that focuses absolutely ...
McCain's New Ad Likens Obama to Britney and Paris
blog.washingtonpost.com 7/30/2008 — By Garance Franke-Ruta Is John McCain calling Barack Obama a dumb blonde? The man who recently graced the cover of People magazine with his equally photogenic wife and daughters is today the subject of a new McCain campaign ad that alternates images ...
Leave Barrack Alone!
mudvillegazette.com 7/31/2008 — Recently, John McCain put out an ad attacking Barack Obama for his celebrity, comparing him to Britney Spears. Slate V imagines what online video backlash would look like… How would an Obama fan as devoted as the “Leave Britney Alone” guy ...
More on the "Celeb" Ad
corner.nationalreview.com 7/31/2008 — I'm warmer to it than pretty much everyone else in the political commentariat, I think. Yes, the inclusion of Paris and Britney was kind of silly, but you've got to look at that as cable and YouTube bait (800k hits so far). The McCain folks did a ...
Britney and Crypto-Racism
rossdouthat.theatlantic.com 7/31/2008 — Via Chris Bodenner , John Riley explains why we should read that McCain ad as a miscegenation dog whistle: We just got off a conference call with Camp McCain, defending their new ad comparing Barack Obama to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. They said ...