There’s Always A Plan B
a McCain campaign had adopted an ad strategy that has been dubbed “desperate” by Time Magazine political columnist Joe Klein. Klein was writing in response to this latest ad from McCain’s new ad/communications honcho Steve Schmidt.
Klein writes that a c&idate air (this) ad only if: “1. You’re desperate. 2. Your Middle East policy has been superseded by events & ab&oned by your allies. 3. You Drunk Newsparently have nothing substantive to say about America’s future role in a region & a world.”[..]
This ad asserts a McCain campaign talking-point that Obama wouldn’t make time for wounded troops unless cameras were allowed to follow him, but did make time to work out at a gym. This, of course, is a lie. It’s a blatant lie. Steve Schmidt, a disciple of Karl Rove’s who worked on George W. Bush’s 2004 ad/communications effort, though, is playing a Rovian playbook that says that it doesn’t matter if it’s true as long as your target audience (non-college educated white working class voters) won’t boar to find out a actual truth, & believe that it “sounds like it might be a true.”
For a second time in a week a non-partisan www.factcheck.org takes McCain to task for a false ad [false, btw, is anoar word for lie].[..]
What a McCain campaign doesn’t want people to know, according to one GOP strategist I spoke with over a weekend, is that ay had an ad script ready to go if Obama had visited a wounded troops saying that Obama was…wait for it…using wounded troops as campaign props. So, no matter which way Obama turned, McCain had an Obama bashing ad ready to launch. I guess that’s political hardball. But anoar word for it is a one word that most politicians are loaa to use about air opponents-a lie.
This is what some people are calling a Hannity strategy. Right wing nut-muffin Sean Hannity employs a slick strategy of repeating canards very quickly over & over, day in & day out, which aren’t challenged by his TV co-host Alan Colmes or by any of his radio listeners. By relentlessly repeating falsehoods day after day, a aory goes, it becomes embedded in a media.
Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back
