April 14, 2008 09:20 AM
"Out of Touch": First Major Anti-McCain Ad Airs Today
Greg Sergeant of TPM has the scoop:
Here's a first look at the first ad being run against John McCain by Progressive Media U.S.A., the new pro-Dem third-party group headed by David Brock that's planning to raise $40 million to bloody up the GOP nominee in advance of this fall's election...
The ad, called "Out of Touch," will be running on cable beginning tomorrow and can be seen in D.C. on CNN and MSNBC -- which is to say, it's a small buy aimed at an insider audience of potential future donors, political operatives, and the like.
Brilliant. Finally the sights are being set on the right opponent.
GREAT AD!
Good, I hope that Barack and Hilary take note and stop slinging mud at each other.
Shut down the production company, this is the only add that is needed. :)
Wow! So much ground covered in such a tiny amount of time. Talk about "McSame", that ad nails it.
they should use an ad with mccdrools face burried in george bushes croutch!!!!!it wont look good with mccsluts chin resting on bushes nuts!
Who Says John McCain’s Tone-Deaf on the Economy?
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=1736
I bet for the rest of his life, McCain will rue the day that picture was taken of him hugging bush. I'm sure he says to himself, What the hell was I thinking?
I love that picture. i've been looking for a big one to use as my wallpaper.
Another reason to support Obama http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/15/obama-would-immediately-r_n_966...
All of this anti-McCain effort will be negated by FoxNews' and HateRadio's god and country wrapped anti-Democratic message
This is a good ad and it goes right to where McCain is the weakest in my opinion. McCain has no economic ideas and does not know much about the subject in general. All he offers to the public are cheap slogans just like Bush.
Problems with the ad:
1. it said "paid for by " what ever whatever PROGRESSIVE whatever whatever." This alienates a good portion of the centrist target audience.
2. have YOU never said "on one hand... on the other hand?" talk about out of context crapola. certainly there has to be something more substantive than this.
3. ditto about the first quote. weak.
i dont know where some of you people come from. you seem to have completely shut off any sort of rational instincts and are treating this like a football game. stop cheerleading (even if you happen to be cheerleading for the same side as i happen to be for) and start thinking.
That rocked.
Nice!
D.C. Fox news local
had a flick of G.W.'s first pitch at the Nat's opening
with an extra heaping of CANNED cheers.
It was so obvious, the announcer grinned.
They need to keep nailing McCain to Bush with every hammer they've got.
And on opposite channels keep hitting McCain with his half-dozen or so positions on every issue.
Great ad. Your turn is coming Grandpa McFraud. We're going to leave your confused, delusional butt in the middle of the street.
Larry Lessig @ 12:
We are thinkers. That's why we oppose BushCo, McSame and the GOP in general. The easiest, non-thinking way to go would be to just accept more of the same and try not to think about it too much as we can no longer afford to get to work, buy food or a decent place to live with our family.
come on ! we can suggest what the democrats should show or do on tv ads but in reality the democrats wont do shit! they dont want the whitehouse ! thier perfectly content to leave the republicans in control of americans! its the corporations who own you! and the dems and the repigs! the law , the news, the factories, the military, and the voteing machines!
This ad is brilliant! It clearly shows the "apeing" going on with McSame - how he not only idolizes his mentor, The Defiler, but actually parrots him on the stump.
John McBush and George W. Bush - Twins separated at birth.
70% of americans want nothing to do with Dubya which means that 70% of americans don't want John McSame - a Dubya Redux!
When is someone going to make a McCain bumper sticker with a pair of flip-flops?
I like my neighbor's bumper sticker. "Any fool can start a war. It takes a Leader to make peace".
And screw all the bitter complaints. Damn right I'm bitter.
BAM!!! In Da FACE!!!!!
tyree: While I agree with you about the lackadaisical attitude of Congress (based principally on the fact that they are impotent to do anything since the "teeth" of their actions will not be persued due to the DOJ being corrupted and resistant to doing their job, the true mettle of this country lies within it's people - the middle class - who is pretty angry and disgusted with this administration of smoke & mirrors.
It will be the people, despite the hacked voting machines and easily erased votes on paper trail machines (using a "special" Diebold marking pen - ahem!) who will show their force and power in this coming election.
The new national order will mean Repukes losing their seats at an unprecedented rate with new Democratic/Independent vigor committed to overturning all of the laws broken by Bush and his cadre of criminals over the past 7 years. It will be the Dem president's first order of business to investigate the crimes of Bush & Co. and see that they get the justice they deserve which, in many cases, will mean time in prison and testimony before The Hague for violation of Common Article 3, Geneva Conventions on Torture. This will include at least 6 administration officials.
So, to so blatantly state that nothing will change, I believe, is an erroneous assumption. Surely, nothing CAN change while Bush still runs the table; however, HUGE change is on the way if Obama takes the white house. Hillary has too much to lose herself because some of what's wrong with this country reflects back to her administration. She's been in on some of the dirt and would be rendered "useless" if elected. (Besides, she will get swiftboated by her past along with her "sniper fire" lies if/when she would be the candidate).
Change is coming - of that we can be certain! With an Obama administration, the Bush crims will be fleeing like rats to exile in foreign countries to avoid incarceration. The investigations will take on an air of Watergate and the people will be joyous to see that the ones responsible for the "tanking of america" are receiving their just desserts.
Umm... It's required. And I don't know how that, in any way, negates the effect of Bush and McSame repeatedly saying the exact same words.
No, I have never said, "On the one hand, on the other hand" with nothing in between. I'm sure there are many other people who've never done that, either. I'd say it's a pretty unusual usage of that expression, actually.
Sadly, it's your candidate, McSame, who is weak.
emphasa @ 2:
Good thought! What's keeping Barack and Hill from spending most of their time knocking McSame/Bush and then just let the voters pick who of them would be the strongest to go against McSame. Simple, cost effective, less divisive, and it will allow the loser to join the winner more easily.
Larry Lessig @ 12:
Gee Larry, you seem to miss the point .... The point is that McCain only is a Carbon Copy of Bush and THAT is what we don't want. So now your ident is blown.
How many americans are "bitter"??? I'd say the number is over 70%!! Obama was spot on with this comment and need not apologize for telling the truth.
Isn't it amazing how "lies" become the accepted behavior for a politician or an administration official? When someone has the candor and honesty to speak truth to power, the criminals (fascist corporate america and press) can't tolerate it. They're spinning Obama's truthful remark like a top and looking like total jackasses in doing so. They're showing us their colors right now as they attempt to smear this truism in our faces as though he's said or done something wrong.
This singular focus by the press in only serving to highlight the "Truth" in what Obama said - yes, AMERICANS ARE ANGRY - VERY, VERY ANGRY - about what's going on in this country and in this war.
We will show our anger in the voting booth - with such an overwhelming landslide for Obama now that the press will be left drooling and scratching their heads and Hillary and John McNutbag will be left in the dust.
#12
"i dont know where some of you people come from. you seem to have completely shut off any sort of rational instincts and are treating this like a football game. stop cheerleading (even if you happen to be cheerleading for the same side as i happen to be for) and start thinking."
What makes you think people are treating this as a football game. Don't presume to speak for everyone! The ad is effective as it shows that McCain is a Bush clone right down to the hand gestures.
You seen one McCain ad you seen them all.
Well, larry must have been someones puppy who sneaked into the kitchen and crapped on the floor.
Will this ad counter the CNN/FOX unending 24 hour wall-to-wall thirst for a 'horserace' ?
Great ad! I especially loved the hand gestures. Hope it runs on all the networks.
thier will be no way to defeat diebold, and thier will be no resistence once americas next elections stolen, as the last two were , so dream on !
I like the use of the ancient tv. Dials- yeesh!
as a great poster once said on here , my friends , oh look walnuts! get used to it!
larrylessig@12: Nice attempt to sidestep the obvious; however, the apeing by Chimpster #2 (Johnny McSame) and his protege, Chimpster #1, is astoundingly obvious to anyone with at least a third grade education.
This ad is spectacular and will drive home the fact that McBush is an exact duplicate of Bush but without the prozac. Hence, his volatility registers higher on the richter scale and makes him very dangerous, indeed. Bush's affect has been altered by psychotropic drugs since his jaw-moving days some three years ago when he underwent serious "training" to stop the jaw swiveling. Since then he's taken all of the damage he's doing to this country like some toddler's romp on a playground...laughing all the way.
This ad rocks and will make a very obvious point and drive it home to even children watching. It's simple, yet clear. Anyone who doesn't "get" this ad either is either incapable of logical mental processes or simply doesn't want to.
Kudos to this group on this ad. Let it rock from one side of this country to the other!
Hoisted by their own pitard!
Great ad.
Nothing like a couple of Aqua Velva men...
Cough...gay...Cough
Say, do you have something in your throat?
37 Stash
Petard, almost like retard.
tyree, you still have a tv like that? Or do you still have one of these?
Kidding..... :^D
The Great Plague
Greed and Corruption
tyree: www.blackboxvoting.org is well on top of the shenanigans used by the GOP. Hell, what percentage of Pennsylvania Republicans have changed their party JUST to hold their nose and vote for Hillary?? Astounding numbers who are deathly afraid of an Obama presidency. They figure that if they throw Hillary over the top then she will become the candidate and they know how easily she will be to swiftboat. Just last week she was caught lying about sniper fire. What the hell else will she be lying about if president? We cannot have another liar in chief - our country and democracy will tumble if that is the case.
As for the election stealing, this only works if the candidates are neck in neck. Otherwise, it becomes obvious and the people will riot in the streets this time. Angry doesn't even begin to describe what americans are feeling right now with their lives being marauded by the insiders of this administration of smoke & mirrors. When the economy totally tanks, it will be all over for this democracy. And, as we've seen, it's well on it's way.
THE ONLY HOPE FOR THIS COUNTRY IS BARACK OBAMA! He is the only one spiritually capable of turning the tide of self-destruction due to overwhelming evil and corruption within.
Some one needs to give WordPress a kick in the butt this morning.
Oh, this is good. This is real good. And just think, this is only the first attack. Excuse me, I have to go write some checks.
Here's hoping that ad runs on a continuous loop from now until November.
Great job!
George W. Bush - The Chimpster
John McSame - The Ape Man
Need we say more?
McDonut is on tv right now giving a speech on taxes and such. He's dangling financial carrots as bait for votes. I guess he figures it worked for bush in 2000, and it can work for him today. Bush promised tax cuts and greedy Americans voted for him. McCain picks tax day to tell Americans how he will give them even more money while also lowering the taxes for big corporations.
But he's still in that grandfather mode, softening his voice when he intends his words to show concern.
say andy did i mention the corporations own all tv? oh and yeah my tv looks just like that one! and every part in its made in the good old usa!!1
This ad tells it all and in it's simplicity really hits a home run! There wouldn't even have to be sound on this one - the mannerisms and hand gestures are carbon copies. This is toooooo good! Let it ring and sing from California to New York!
No doubt this ad is the first of many, many more "home runs"!
The Chimpster and Ape Man, Part 2, should be even better! Can't wait to see it.
tyree @ 33:
Tyree, your spell check isn't working ... Dyslectics Untie!
(joking)
THE ONLY HOPE FOR THIS COUNTRY IS BARACK OBAMA! medussa Says:
Get Busy. Obama isn't going to give you something for nothing.
McDonut is a good one, pissedoff patricia! McFriends is another - let's count how many times this elitist millionaire uses the condescending description of his audience as "my friends". Hell, he doesn't have a true friend in the world, this charlatan grandpappy.
McGrandpappy, McDouchebag, McTorture, McInsane, McViagra, McTestosterone, McApeMan, McFlipflop.....just to name a few.
47 pissed off patricia Says: McDonut is on tv right now giving a speech on taxes and such. He’s dangling financial carrots as bait for votes. I guess he figures it worked for bush in 2000, and it can work for him today. Bush promised tax cuts and greedy Americans voted for him. McCain picks tax day to tell Americans how he will give them even more money while also lowering the taxes for big corporations.
But he’s still in that grandfather mode, softening his voice when he intends his words to show concern.
You notice that they are going with the whole speech with no commercial breaks. You don't see that when democrats are giving a speech.
McCain is Bush is McCain is Bush is McCain is Bush is McCain is Bush is McCain is Bush is McCain is Bush is McCain is Bush is McCain is Bush is McCain is...
It's about time. I knew it was coming and expected it to come a little later. The good news is that it is just the beginning.
LA confidential: And McTorture offers "something for nothing"?? Or would that be millionaire Hillary who's offering "something for nothing"?
Ron: FatPappy McSame gets the red carpet by the GOP fascist media because they know that if he doesn't get into office, they goose is cooked.
"their goose"
The way to go after McCain if you want to beat him IMO is not to go after his weakness....
you have to go after his strengths... MSM.
pissed off patricia @ 47:
Oh I can't wait for the "Old grandpa forgetting the names of the players and where he is" ad. Coming to a TV near you. Bet on it!!!
Remember the psychodrama entitled "The Many Faces of Eve"?? Another good commercial would highlight "The Many Faces of McSame".
StevePam @ 58:
Does he have any strengths? I would guess he thinks his strengths are what I think are his weaknesses.
Captain Kangaroo: If McSame isn't totally "scripted" *just like his idol* he makes a total bufoon of himself. What's even more troublesome with McSame is that his addled brain isn't capable of remaining on topic so he rambles and wanders all over the map with nothing being tied together or making any sense at all. He leaves his audience in a muddle thinking WTF is this eejit trying to say?
StevePam@58: And what "strengths" does this fool have that one can "go after", pray tell? Please enlighten us.
bangkok i love the kidders , gee if id have only went to college! i could have been smart enough to be able to start wars ! because as everyone knows its the smart people who leed us into wars! im not to sure a guy with less then a high school education would start wars because he knows hes the dumb bastard that has to fight them!
61 Captain Kangaroo
Yes the MSM IS his ONLY strength and they should be(and I think they will be) taken to task by the American people for it.
medussa @ 62:
I saw an interview or something where somebody asked him a question and McLame turned to his handler (not Lieberman or Graham this time) and asked “Where do we stand on this?”. At the time it was a simple subject like abortion or something. Damn I wish I could remember where and when that was. Last year at this time? I can’t remember. BUT IT HAPPENED!!! I swear to Buddha.
Oh Medussa@ 63:
Take a reding comprehension class if you think THAT was a compliment to McCain.
In fact the ONLY way that post could draw ire from anyone is if they work for MSM!
Say it isn't so Medussa.
Or a reading class: )
tyree @ 64:
If you would have went to college you would have been an elitist.
im hurt capt kangaroo, elitest? nah ! maby a snob! maby or a warmonger! maby but never an elitest!
Oh, that hug at the end is rich. So very nice. Get used to it. I'm sure you will see that hug over and over and over and over and over and over.... In fact every TV show should just paste a picture of it in the top right hand corner of the screen. Like they have their logo in the bottom right hand corner sometimes.
So let's project into the future a little bit, do a little poll on what everyone is going to do if McCain wins and becomes President.
1. Leave the country
2. Jump off a cliff
3. Go into hiding
4. Join Em
5. Become Rip Van Winkle
tyree @ 70:
Then you will just have to remain "bitter". Good day to ya Tyree.
by the way capn you got a real name or are you just a cartoon ?
You can make the point by simply keeping the picture of them hugging for 30 seconds on the screen. That's all you need. You can add some romantic background music if you want.
bitter? thats funny! hell im not going to be around long enough to see you liveing under a bridge! or rummageing in a dumpster behind the local supermarket for your next meal!
Was that an echo?
I hope they have a whole series of similar ads. This one on the economy, the next on iraq, the next on immigration. G.W. Bush is going to be nicknamed McCain's albatross before this is all over.
Brilliant ad.
Don't let McSame run away from W.
Damn, our media is just a large turd spinning around and around(clockwise) in the bowl. These are things that a real news network would have put out to the public months ago, instead we see peoples kids hauled off(for their own good) in texas because the goverment does not like the way they live. I find it very hard to believe that all 400 of those kids are victims of child abuse. Here we go another waco. America, home of the free? Home of the brave? America home of the two faced chicken shits. their you have it. Oh my, every single living male in this country has no other thing on his mind except to find and fuck one or more children! Oh my were so frightened! Coming next week, the number of cases of sex abuse to dogs is on the rise, see who ,how and why right here on shithole america!
This is why Hillary is so desperately trying to pull Obama down. She knows this bumbling stupid old clown will get his ass totally dusted in Nov. McFraud is so dumb that he is actually running on Dubyah's once in a lifetime fuck ups.
I hope it's the first in a series, building into a little library of echoed talking points: John McC + W in Oh What a Lovely War, McC + W do Beach Boys hits, McC + W's Torturegate Follies.
This will help mccain't get back in touch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64r1MUVKO2I
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McEchO8
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Hey....if I was "a terurist" or "an Al Kida", I'd be voting for mcbush. Hell, what better way to bring the USA to it's knees.
Right now we are sucking wind so bad, it's questionable if we will ever be able to recover from this nightmare.
GREAT ad!
I was just thinking that all ads should end with that hug...
This is brilliant. The media does not seem to be doing their job again. All they talk about is Obama and Hillary, he said she said. It's time to talk about McCain and how horrible it would be to have more of the same McCain!
medussa @ 23:
If only we can get over this primary. Its killing the dem's chance. But of course, they are pushing this bitter thing to keep Hillary in the race because Pennsylvania is offended by the statement. Pennsylvania will give Hillary a convincing victory and she will go all the way to the convention. She, in turn will keep up the "bitter" and the Wright case going along with the Repub. and we will lose to McBush. Nice going Hillary.
Laura @ 87:
Hillary won't let them.
geg6 @ 45:
Me too. Instead we have Anne Oakley shooting guns and drinking beer. Will you pleeeese leave.
I think the "McSame" theme is quite effective. But I think you could ratch it up even more if you do an ad showing how Bush slandered McCain during the 2000 primaries, and then show how "all was forgiven" by McCain during the 2004 re-election campaign.
P.S. here's a bumper sticker idea: "McSame/Cheney 2008"
2 emphasa Says: Good, I hope that Barack and Hilary take note and stop slinging mud at each other.
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Are you talking about HRC? Fat chance.
10 EB Says: All of this anti-McCain effort will be negated by FoxNews’ and HateRadio’s god and country wrapped anti-Democratic message
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Who cares? They already do that. If there's nothing real, they make it up.
12 Larry Lessig Says: Problems with the ad:
1. it said “paid for by ” what ever whatever PROGRESSIVE whatever whatever.” This alienates a good portion of the centrist target audience.
2. have YOU never said “on one hand… on the other hand?” talk about out of context crapola. certainly there has to be something more substantive than this.
3. ditto about the first quote. weak.
i dont know where some of you people come from. you seem to have completely shut off any sort of rational instincts and are treating this like a football game. stop cheerleading (even if you happen to be cheerleading for the same side as i happen to be for) and start thinking.
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1. Is that what you think we do here, cheerlead??
2. Instincts aren't rational, that's why they are called instincts.
3. Something more substantive than this? In the McSame campaign? Have you seen it? Grumpy Old Men at feel-good rallies. I suppose we could run "bomb bomb bomb Iran" on a loop.
72 L.A. Confidential Says: So let’s project into the future a little bit, do a little poll on what everyone is going to do if McCain wins and becomes President.
1. Leave the country
2. Jump off a cliff
3. Go into hiding
4. Join Em
5. Become Rip Van Winkle
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I've already tried all tacks, but #4. Still don't feel better. Revolution is the only answer.
That's better than anything the DNC will come up with.
Good ad. More like this please.
Correction: Sellout McCain and that other idiot are responsible for the content of the ad, not Progressive Media USA. Great ad!
This is completly ridiculous. At some point in their political career, both Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton have assuredly made similar remarks, that could be taken out of context and portrayed in the same way. Take some Castro speeches and some Clinton speeches, and you could do the same exact thing.
Well done! Thanks Progressive Media USA.
actually, george bush and john mccain are responsible for the content of that advertising.
A great ad! And it's about time too. Old Man McCain has gotten away with being a bush-loving idiot for just about long enough. Let's not get complacent like we did in 2000 when the Republicans put up an obvious dolt as their candidate. That dolt is still president!
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