MSNBC has played the "Harold, CALL ME" ad several times DAILY since the RNC "canceled" it...

[Human Torch]

I have to wonder sometimes how stupid the American public is supposed to be. How can something be "canceled" if it's in "heavy rotation?"

That Harold Ford ad has been on TV EVERY day since its premiere. MSNBC has been running DAILY "Worst of the Attack Ads" features, which...of course...give them the opportunity to run the ad...over and over and over again.

I don't know if Fox and CNN have been pulling similar stunts...I just know that I keep on MSNBC for "background noise," and I've seen / heard the Ford ad several times DAILY for the last week.

I've got to say that a Harold Ford victory tomorrow will CERTAINLY qualify as one of the sweetest in the bunch. The time has come to draw the curtain on the "Karl Rove Legacy."

:patriot:

MSNBC's Shuster made no distinction between true and misleading claims when discussing "five nastiest ads" run during election

http://mediamatters.org/items/200611030012

Republican advertisements

Introducing the first Republican advertisement, Shuster reported that "a corruption investigation has reached associates of Democrat Bob Menendez (NJ)." Shuster then aired an advertisement by Menendez's Republican opponent, Thomas Kean Jr., in which the announcer claimed: "Bob Menendez believes sometimes you just have to break the law ... Is that why ... he wants to give your Social Security money to illegal aliens? Or why he's under federal criminal investigation?" The ad appears to be referring to the Senate immigration bill, which, as Media Matters noted, would do nothing to change the current prohibition on illegal immigrants receiving Social Security benefits. Shuster's report that the investigation has "reached Menendez associates" is vastly different from Kean's claim that Menendez is personally "under federal criminal investigation." As CBS News reported on October 26, "it is unclear whether the allegation is true."

The second Republican advertisement was by challenger Paul R. Nelson, attacking Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) for voting to fund specific NIH grants. Shuster reported that Kind voted to "maintain peer-reviewed research standards at the National Institutes of Health. The standards cover all research." The vote cited in Nelson's advertisement corresponded with an amendment by then-Rep. Pat Toomey (R-PA) to H.R. 2660, which would have forbidden spending on specific NIH grants. Kind voted against the amendment.

However, the advertisement misled on the nature of the studies. The advertisement claimed that "Ron Kind voted to spend your money to study the sex lives of Vietnamese prostitutes." According to the American Psychological Association (APA), that grant was for "the first HIV prevention intervention study targeting Asian commercial sex workers at massage parlors in the U.S." Of another grant, the advertisement said "Ron Kind spent your money on masturbation habits of old men." According to the APA, that grant was for "a new analysis of data originally collected in the late 1980s" to study "sexual function and how it changes with age." The APA noted that "without a better understanding of age-related changes in men's sexual function, physicians may assume that declines in function are normal when they actually reflect early symptoms of diseases such as diabetes and heart disease." Deutsch said of Nelson's advertisement: "My favorite one is the candidate who is paying for masturbation habits of old men and pornograph -- I mean, the way these people connect these dots, it -- it's really sickening. ... I think people are sick of this stuff. And I think consumers are not stupid."

The third Republican advertisement was the Republican National Committee (RNC) advertisement featuring a scantily clad white woman posing as someone who "met" Senate candidate and Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D-TN) "at the Playboy party," and who invites Ford, an African-American, to "call" her. As Media Matters has documented, the Los Angeles Times reported that "critics said the ad ... plays on fears of interracial relationships to scare some white voters in rural Tennessee"; former Republican senator and former Secretary of Defense William Cohen, on the October 23 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, said the ad made "a very serious appeal to a racist sentiment"; and NAACP Washington Bureau director Hilary O. Shelton also has denounced the advertisement. Shuster misleadingly reported that the advertisement "was so over the line that the Republican National Committee pulled the ad off the air." In fact, according to the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the RNC did not admit it was "over the line"; rather, RNC spokesman Danny Diaz "said the party was replacing the ad as part of a normal 'rotation.' "

[goclark]

1. This one is going to get real down and dirty

This is the tip of the iceberg. :(

[spag68]

2. Wait till 08, I'm sick of it allready.