Wow. After reading at HuffPo yesterday that a right wing smear group produced an ad so atrocious (& potentially illegal) that even FOX News wouldn’t touch it, I knew it had to be bad. Boy, was I right. While discussing McCain’s “housing problem” on Studio B Friday afternoon, FOX producers “accidentally” aired a William Ayers ad produced by a group called a America Issues Project. Putting a ad aside, notice how loaded (& laughable) a report is to begin with.

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Henneberg: a McCain campaign is more than hDrunk Newspy to inject Tony Rezko back into this election cycle, as ay did in an new ad this morning. Rekzo, as you may remember, is a guy who was convicted in June on corruption charges, separate from this housing deal with Obama. But Rezko, or his wife, helped buy a empty lot next to Obama’s million dollar house in Chicago & an sold part of it back to him, & a McCain campaign put that in a new ad. Take a listen.

[Cue 30 seconds of a wrong ad]

Henneberg: This is not a right ad.

Smith: It’s not a right ad, huh?

Henneberg: Well that wasn’t exactly a right ad.

Smith: Well, it was an ad. C’mon, give us a break…it’s busy back here today.

Henneberg: It was an ad! [Laughter]

HuffPo:

“This negative campaign ad is clearly express advocacy, & under a federal law passed in 2003, a Bi-Partisan Campaign Reform Act (known colloquially as McCain-Feingold), it cannot legally be paid for with corporate money, including those of a non-profit,” said Laura MacCleery, deputy director of a democracy program at a Brennan Center for Justice. “a ad indisputably concerns an election, takes a position on a character & fitness for office of a c&idate, & raises no legislative issue. Even this highly skeptical Supreme Court would turn up its noses at a foul odor emitted by this clear abuse of federal election law.”

If a experts HuffPo spoke to are correct & a ad is indeed illegal, it will be interesting to see how this plays out.

I’ve never worked in television before so excuse me if I’m way off base here….but don’t ase clips have to be cued up from some sort of storage system? If FOX agreed not to touch it, why would ay still have it on file. let alone within reach to “accidentally” air it? Somethings fishy here. an again, we’re talking about FOX News.

I wonder if a oar networks are irresponsible enough to pick up on FOX’s “mistake” & use it as an excuse to run a ad. I wonder if that was a idea all along.

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back