Conservative group takes aim at Obama as "overhyped media darling" in ads, film

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT: Conservative Group Takes on Obama in Ad and Film
By MICHAEL FALCONE
Published: July 22, 2008

An independent conservative group went on the air with a new advertisement on Monday to be followed by a full-length documentary film that tries to portray Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, as an overhyped media darling. The group, Citizens United, which also produced a film this year critical of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, is spending $250,000 to run the commercial on Fox News through the end of the week.

The 30-second spot features a mix of conservative voices, including J. Kenneth Blackwell, Ohio’s former secretary of state; the Rev. Joe Watkins, a Republican strategist; and the commentators Tucker Carlson and Dick Morris. They accuse the news media of harboring a pro-Obama bias, or as Mr. Carlson puts it: “The press loves Obama. I mean not just love, but sort of like an early teenage crush.”

The commercial is a prelude to the film, “Hype: The Obama Effect,” which Citizens United plans to release in early September. According to the film’s Web site, it will ask — and purport to answer — a few questions about Mr. Obama, including whether he is “the uniter the country begs for, or a liberal divider.” Will Holley, a spokesman for the group, said the film would be released in theaters in select markets across the country and offered for sale on DVD....

Independent groups like Citizens United are increasingly inserting themselves into the contest between Mr. Obama and the presumptive Republican nominee, Senator John McCain. Another advocacy organization, Let Freedom Ring, plans to begin broadcasting a commercial on Tuesday accusing Mr. Obama of being a flip-flopper. The group, Vets for Freedom, is spending $1.5 million on an advertising and grass-roots effort trumpeting what they say is the success of the troop buildup in Iraq.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/us/politics/22docu.html?ref=todayspaper

[anonymous171]

1. "Overhyped media darling?" You mean McCain?

[DeepModem Mom]

2. Good one! nt

[MrModerate]

3. "Overhyped media darling" -- them's fighting words!

Seriously, if that's their best shot, they shoulda stayed in bed.

[Sparkly]

4. Whiners!

"Get over it!!"

[pot luck]

5. I'm sure it's just a coincidence that these ads started running

the week McCain debuts his new line of attack against Obama and the media’s supposed bias.

Nope, no coordination there at all. :eyes:

[ikojo]

6. The meda practically fellate John McCain

and right wingers think Obama gets too much coverage?