Where do they find the useful idiots in that commercial telling us not to tax the oil and gas biz?

[Stinky The Clown]

Do you think they were paid?

Teabag recruits?

Fox viewer contest?

[gophates]

1. I think there were about 78,000 of them in DC last weekend

'Course, three quarters of them weren't literate or smart enough to form sentences.

[madinmaryland]

4. Welcome to DU!

[gophates]

5. Happy to be here

Among reasonable people.

[Caliman73]

2. Paid.

Some people will do anything for a paycheck.

[valerief]

3. The unemployment lines. Yeah, they were paid, for sure. nt

[Hekate]

6. Paid spokesmodels as in all advertisements. Requirement: ability to say "oll" for "oil"

"If yew tax oll, we'll lose are jobs." (sorry, that's my best phonetic rendering)

edited to add: I suspect some are BP employees who have been informed that the job that may be lost is their own if they don't make this ad for the boss.

[louis-t]

10. Same observation here. My guess is locals

who are out of work and will say anything for $. "PLEEEEASE don't tax the poor 'oll' companies!" Or the BP commercial that says they are 'concerned' about the damage and they have paid out x amount and the have $20 billion in a fund (that wouldn't be there if the president hadn't forced them and I still think it is not fully funded yet).

[mrcheerful]

7. They still believe the Reagan BS about how taxing the oil and gas companies will drive up the cost

and make their commodities more expensive. They seem to forget that just a short 3 years ago gas prices jumped to unbelievable prices all due to speculation on the world market, while the oil/gas companies were getting tax cuts plus the capital gains they made weren't taxed either so they received a double tax cut while we paid record prices.

[Botany]

8. Remember Brooke Alexander the american petroleum institute spokes model?

API can't run what a good idea deep water drilling is anymore so they
hire "common people" to push their lies.

Former Miss World who was all put together and sophisticated and what not. :puke:


From Wiki

Brooke Alexander (born 13 December 1963) is an American-born actress from Kailua, Oahu, Hawaii, USA. She attended college at UCLA. She originated the role of con-artist Samantha Markham on As The World Turns in 1994 and played the role until 1996. She has had roles in Magnum, P.I., Island Son, P.S. I Luv You, Tattingers, and The Last Nightmaster and has also appeared on One Life to Live.
She was host of the "WorldBeat" on CNN, then moved to Fox News in a correspondent capacity also appearing daily in segments previewing the day's program schedule.
From 2006 to 2007, she was a host of the "Real Simple" lifestyle television program based on the magazine of the same name.
As of early 2008, Alexander continues work as a commercial spokeswoman for various products and services, perhaps most notably the "Energy Tomorrow" campaign <1> from the American Petroleum Institute.

1981, Brooke became Miss World America and Miss Hawaii World
1995, Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Female Newcomer for her performance in As the World Turns

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Alexander

[Donnachaidh]

9. I was thinking the same exact thing today -- thos ads piss me off

Dumbasses -- ALL of them. :grr: