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Harold Ford Jr.'s Attack Ads Are Unbelievably Scummy

Until You Compare Them to the GOP's Racist Travesty, Which Is Right Out of the Ku Klux Klan Field Manual

Just to prove we're an equal-opportunity scold, Democratic senatorial candidate Harold Ford Jr. behaves like a jackass in some of his attacks on Republican opponent Bob Corker. Here's one of them:



We Have Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself

And the Scumbags Who Traffic In It

Look, the Republican Party didn't invent fearmongering. The most infamous example of it was run by the Democrats in 1964. That was the LBJ spot called "Daisy," Tony Schwartz's brutal implication that a vote for Barry Goldwater was a vote for nuclear holocaust.



I Am Dead, And I Approve This Ad

Ronald Reagan Joins Elvis, Satchmo and Fred and Ethel as an Endorser From Beyond

Ronald Reagan is dead. Really. It was in all the papers.



Is Presidential Hopeful George Allen a Bigoted Buffoon?

YouTube Has the Answer

The other day I was talking to a friend about The Listenomics Project.



The Oath

Get Past the Opening Digression and Learn How to Take the Lies Out of Political Advertising

As a major, major multimedi-ocrity, I get asked to do all sorts of things for no money. When the laughter subsides, I then express how flattered I am at the invitation then respectfully decline.







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