Breaking: NC GOP will not air Obama/Wright Ad per MSNBC

[ScarletSniper]

[tekisui]

1. good.

[PoliticalAmazon]

19. Damage has been done. This is an old, pig-slop political tactic...

...Tell the media a controversial ad is going to be run and that "McCain" (or whomever the politician is who ostensibly will benefit from it) doesn't want it to be run.

This is a win-win situation for McCain (and Hillary): McCain looks like the good-guy, the ad gets as much play as it would have from running it, and the GOP gets to say they "took the high road and decided not to run it."

[anigbrowl]

35. It doesn't get near as much play

you're not wrong, but I think you're overestimating the 'damage'.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

48. FM 101 WZTK condemned the ad today, spent about 2 hours talking about the issue

The Brad and Britt Show, FM Talk 101.1 at WZTK spent alot of their show discussing and condemning the NC GOP's ad that smears the two Dem candidates for Gov, Obama and his pastor Wright.

This show seems to be one that both liberals and conservatives listen too, Brad is a republican, although he admits that his wife will vote for Hillary (to his chagrin).

I sent them an email to thank them for covering this issue and to ask that they discuss it some more.

Will you please send an email to Brad and Britt? Also send this to your other favorite radio or media contacts.

[e-mail]

Send them this Fox News video footage of the Priest who defends Pastor Wright and dresses down the Fox news reporter interviewing him. Of course, Fox news didn't show the nearly half hour video, but clipped it to a 10 -20 second blurb that was insulting. Its amazing how the media can make anyone appear to be a monster if that is their goal, and if they control the edit button.

Brad and Britt, please watch this video, and consider running portions of it on your show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0wvQMqSzTM

Former Pastor Jeremiah Wright is not a racist, he's not anti-American or a bigot according to those that know him.

Catholic priest, Michael Pfleger, is the lastest person to speak out in defense of the reverand following the firestorm of controversy generated by mainstream media. Pfleger speaks of the double standard in media coverage based on race, and racial injustices that still exist today in America.

Further, there is no mathematical way that Senator Clinton can earn/win the nomination, but the media is prolonging the contest by dishonest reporting because it increases their ratings and earnings. This goes for Huffington Post (liberal blog) as well, which is a profit oriented venture.

[jefferson_dem]

2. And Hillary weeps...

[Window]

12. LOL! Probably.

[Yes We Did]

21. She should. She knows it's over. Actually, I just took a survey over that ad.

Really shameful. Take a 4 second clip from Wright and use it to attack Obama and every Dem running in NC.

[Avalon6]

3. I bet they weren't even serious about airing the ad, since the media would show it for free

[gateley]

13. Yeah - didn't have to pay for any air time. nt

[electropop]

41. McLame would be wise to stay away from the "crazy preacher" issue,

given that he has more than a few in his closet.

By the way, I heard it being played for free.

[NatBurner]

46. basically

[wndycty]

4. Its good and my mental rolodex will remind me Hillary sat silent. . .

. . .really stood up for doing the right thing. . .:sarcasm:

[LakeSamish706]

16. You and me both... Where the hell was she in her criticism of this ad anyway? n/t

[PoliticalAmazon]

26. That makes no sense because she would have come out looking like the good-guy...

...like McCain did, for taking the high road.

It could be that she truly is working for McCain now, and is willing to take the hit for him.

[jackson_dem]

44. Where was Obama when his cronies swiftboated the Clintons as racists?

[LakeSamish706]

45. They have been acting like racists of late, so where should he have been? n/t

[jackson_dem]

49. 55% of PA is racist

[rsmith6621]

5. The Cat Is Still Out Of The Bag

.........it doesn't matter now the press ran with the full edition yesterday.....the CAT is still out of the bag which is what they wanted...

[redqueen]

6. Has Obama already changed things?

I'm really shocked they backed down.

This is news.

[AlCzervik]

7. it's already for free about a brazillion times on cable news. I'm sure NC has seen it

many times by now.

[PoliticalAmazon]

28. Hillary again goes for the bigot vote. n/t

[bowens43]

31. I'm a major media market in NC

and I haven't seen it.

[AlCzervik]

33. well anyone in that area with CNN/M$NBC or Faux news will see it on the loop

they keep playing in the guise of a story to show just how awful it is.

[MaineDem]

8. KO predicted this

They didn't have to show it. It's been all over the news. And McCain and the RNC get to appear like the good guys.

It's the GOP strategery.

[tridim]

18. Yep, that's exactly how it played out. Perfectly to plan.

Big fucking whores, all.

[berni_mccoy]

9. Thank you John McCain. SHAME ON YOU HILLARY!

John McCain spoke up and asked them to not air it. He insisted. Where WAS HILLARY?!?!

[LSparkle]

10. Good -- for a change all of the hoopla has a good result

They got enough free plays on cable yesterday anyway.

[BlueIdaho]

11. Uhhhh... too late damage done. Guess Hillary owes McCain a few drinks now.

[JBoy]

14. Clinton campaign couldn't come up with their half of the cost?

[wndycty]

15. That's funny

:kick:

[mmonk]

43. Despite the new cash, they have to pay down some debt.

NC GOP won't take credit cards for it.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

50. Didn't get enough five spots I guess. nt

[SoCalDem]

17. Their work is done.. They already got every news venue in the US to air it for free

several times... then when McCain "denounced" it (wink-wink), they all RE-RAN it and discussed it for hours & hours..and now a week later they "pull" it, and guess what? The media shows it over and over and over again and discusses it some more.

Pretty good coverage for a non-ad, eh?

and it's on YouTube and being emailed like crazy.. media just advertised for them for free ..:puke:

and in a few weeks, there will be a story about the YouTube-ification of the ad, and they'll all cue it up some more & talk about it again...

and in the general, Mccain will use the "story" as a way to convey his "clean: campaign. and and and and ..you guessed it

republicans are NOT STUPID.. just evil and devious

[powergirl]

20. John McCain is more honorable than Sen. Clinton

It hurts me to say these words. Clinton could have really come through and made herself a symbol of decency, and put a halt to her negative polling numbers. But she didn't. Thank you Sen. McCain. I salute you. :patriot:

[galaxy21]

29. Can we stop getting so personal about mccain now??

Yes, he's absolutely the wrong person the to lead the country, but he's done some good things in his life and has a certain amount of decency so we shouldn't have these personal attacks saying how bad a guy he is.

And honestly, I don't care if he cheated on his first wife, or his second. It's a private matter. The old guy likes sex, so what?

[gal]

52. Really Bill Clinton did it..

and enough people seem to like him around here.

[high density]

22. Why bother? They already got the free coverage on the news just like the Swiftboaters.

When are the media and these idiot talking heads going to wake up and notice that they're being played?

[wileedog]

40. Heh, they are not being played at all

The more outrageous the ad, the more people will tune into their show to see it.

They're fully complicit.

[madfloridian]

23. Maybe Dean shamed McCain...saying he could not control NC GOP

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/04/howard_dean_enters_battle_over.php

""This is a test of leadership for John McCain. If he can't pick up the phone and make members of his own party stop airing a television ad he claims to oppose, how can he lead our country through an economic crisis or the war in Iraq?" Dean said in a statement just emailed over by the DNC. "If he is serious, he will get this ad pulled."

[DemVet]

24. Yet.

It WILL be aired....eventually. Probably waiting for the GE.

This Wright issue is not going away. It worked too effectively in PA for the GOP to give it up.

[DJ13]

25. .....and yet MSNBC runs it every 20 minutes

They need to change their station call letters to RNCNBC at this rate.

[bluestateguy]

27. How many times has the ad aired for free to due to the conrtroversy?

What a bait and switch.

[Bok_Tukalo]

30. For some reason I am reminded of Huckabee

<POE>

[napi21]

32. I don't think it matters anymore. All the new idiots already, and so

did the internet. It cost them next to nothing and they accomplished their goal!

[PM7nj]

34. The media already played it for them!

Why would they bother actually paying for the ad to be shown now?

[flpoljunkie]

36. MSNBC just announced the ad will run, beginning Monday!

[kentuck]

38. Yep! That's news to NC Republican Party...

They are going to run the ad and John McCain will continue to denounce it.... but he won't stop it.

[wndycty]

39. Hillary must have lined up some funding for them. . .

:kick:

[ScarletSniper]

37. Now they are saying its inaccurate...some kind of beef between NC and National GOP....on MSNBC right

now..ad is supposed to start running Monday.

[blogslut]

51. Think this might be the reason?

The new ad, of course, is intending to scare, not inform. It's affiliated with a website called ExposeObama.com, which was registered by Floyd Brown and is run by Bruce Hawkins, a former field organizer for Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson who recently worked for Mike Huckabee in Iowa. According to public records, Hawkins filed for bankruptcy in 2005 and the IRS filed tax liens against him for $159,180 that year and again in 2007 for $245,000. It's unclear whether he's since resolved the issue.

Yet Brown and Hawkins can't simply be dismissed as a bunch of crackpots (even if they are). Their website lists the same address as the Impacto Group in Washington, a Hispanic media firm run by Leslie Sanchez, prominent GOP talking head who's worked for the RNC and the Bush White House. The original head of research & development for Impacto was GOP pollster Lance Tarrance, a senior strategist for John McCain's Straight Talk America PAC.

link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20080422/cm_thenation/45314260

[uponit7771]

42. Dangit!! They're going to hold it till the GE!

[dave29]

47. Now lets see if Hillary does it anyways

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