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The Caucus —
Heading in to the second-to-last weekend of the presidential race, the tenor of the latest TV commercials up for airtime provides another stark contrast between the two candidates. As Senator John McCain has repeatedly hammered away at the remarks made last Sunday by Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., (predicting that his running mate, Barack Obama, would face an international crisis of the first order), now the Republicans are up with a new campaign ad clearly intended by its imagery to stoke fear about such an event. The audio of Senator Biden’s remarks has an echo-y effect, while pictures of tanks, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and ...
Heritage Foundation Asks Obama to Pull His Dishonest Ad
The Sundries Shack —
[image] I recently saw a Barack Obama ad called “Try This” about his so-called plan that quoted an analyst from the conservative Heritage Foundation. It seemed pretty incredible to me that anyone at Heritage would endorse any economic plan Barack Obama might propose. They’re a bit too smart to be suckered like that. At it turns out, the quote was wrong and the analyst didn’t endorse Obama’s plan . In fact, when an Obama staffer made the very same claim just last month, the analyst in question sent a very emphatic letter that was printed in the Wall Street Journal. There’s no way you can mistake something called ...
Heritage to Obama
The Corner on National Review Online —
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 [image] Heritage to Obama [John J. Miller] "Stop lying about our record!" says the think tank: The Heritage Foundation today asked Barack Obama to immediately pull two ads that misrepresent the views of Heritage ...
"Pinko" Palin and Her Socialist State
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A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White palin pink Palin in red & pink; "Pink for Palin" button available at Cafe Press Gov. Sarah Palin may be wearing a lot of red and pink these days, but listening to her speeches, she'll tell you she's the furthest thing from a commie pinko. We all know politicians sound different when they're running for national office than they do when running for state office. But Palin takes the cake on this one. This week, Hendrik Hertzberg writing for The New Yorker ...
Matt Lewis: Heritage Calls on Obama to Pull False Ads
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
The Heritage Foundation is calling on Obama to pull-down TV ads which cite Heritage's website . The following letter was sent by Heritage's lawyer : Dear Senator Obama: Two recent campaign advertisements seriously misrepresent the views of my client, The Heritage Foundation. They suggest, quite falsely, that The Heritage Foundation and one of its analysts support your tax plan. The print ad on your Website as well as your ad entitled “ Try This ” reference a quote from policy analyst Rea Hederman. In fact, Mr. Hederman never said what is quoted there. Rather, the words you quote are from a New York ...
Hederman: Thanks, Senator Obama!
Articles on National Review Online —
T he e-mails started arriving Monday night. I, a low-key, numbers-crunching policy wonk, had become a star, an overnight sensation. All thanks to a multimillion-dollar ad campaign for Senator Barack Obama. It came as a bit of a surprise. Especially since, 12 days earlier, I had published an analysis of the two candidates tax plans showing that his rival s plan would produce more economic growth. [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] Intrigued, I searched the web for a video of the ad. There it was, under the nifty title of Try This ...
The Last-Minute, Anti-Obama Ad Blitz
The Caucus —
It’s been striking in the last 24 to 48 hours to look up from reading, or to glance sideways away from our computer screen, to find yet another anti-Obama commercial on TV. The contrast is particularly pronounced because before this stretch, the Obama machine’s richly financed marketing campaign had dominated the commercial breaks that accompany TV addiction to the point that we’d become almost inured to absorption. So heavy was the stream. And it’s not just the last-minute decision to raise the 20-year faithful attendance of Senator Barack Obama at the church of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright in Chicago ...
