With Commercial, McCain Gets Much More Than His Money’s Worth

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the truth means NOTHING


WASHINGTON — The number of times Senator John McCain’s new advertisement attacking Senator Barack Obama for canceling a visit with wounded troops in Germany last week has been shown fully or partly on local, national and cable newscasts: well into the hundreds.

The number of times that spot actually, truly ran as a paid commercial: roughly a dozen.

Result for Mr. McCain: a public relations coup that allowed him to show his toughest campaign advertisement of the year — one widely panned as misleading — to millions of people, largely free, through television news media hungry for political news with arresting visual imagery.

Political campaigns have for years sought to broadcast their ads free by making them intriguing enough to draw wide coverage from news outlets.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/us/politics/30ads.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

[TwilightGardener]

1. Yeah, we all knew what the fucker was up to. Hopefully he'll get

what he deserves for outright lying and for using wounded troops as a political weapon. Roast in hell, Johnny.

[mwb970]

2. The mccain campaign is much, much worse than I expected.

The Old Man is starting to really turn me off. The only reason I watch him on TV is to see what insanely stupid thing he'll say next!

Still, mccain is obviously going to win, folks. This is America, the country that "elected" bush not once but twice, over blatantly superior opponents. I have confidence that this nation of dunces will do it again.

[niceypoo]

3. A republican I work with says the ad is embarrassing

he said it makes McCain look like he has absolutely nothing to run on. Let them go on and on and on about it. WHo cares...

[spanone]

4. i care because it's blatantly lying. and our media participates in the lie

[zbdent]

5. that was the plan ...

a controversial ad ... creates controversy ... and thus, the "controversy" must be covered, and thus they have to play the attack ad ...