RNC trying to block the new DNC/McCain 100 years in Iraq ad. No response from FOX
By John Amato Sunday Apr 27, 2008 8:00pm
The RNC is crying over the very accurate ad that the DNC is running about John McCain. You remember his 'I'll stay in Iraq for 100 years," statement? Well, they are trying to force MSNBC and CNN to stop running the ad. Marc Ambinder reports this: (his link is broken so I'm posting it)
The Republican National Committee wants CNN and MSNBC to stop airing the DNC's new national television advertisement, calling it "false and defamatory" and illegally coordinated.
"This is a complaint about the facts that are being misrepresented in the ad, and this being a deliberate falsehood, that we are saying, stations have an obligation to protect the public from airing a deliberate falsehood," said Sean Cairncross, an RNC lawyer.
The RNC provided no evidence to support their change that the communication was illegally coordinated, aside for a few newspaper articles pointing out that some Democrats work for both a candidate and the committee, like pollster Cornell Belcher. DNC chairman Howard Dean said this morning that neither campaign saw or heard the ad before the put it out.
The RNC is ginning up the threat of legal action to give weight to their criticism of the ad's content. Cairncross would not say whether the party will sue CNN or MSNBC, the two cable networks airing the ad, if they refuse to kill it.
I noticed that FOX News wasn't included in Marc's story so my question to Howard Dean was if the DNC had already submitted the ad to FOX News and if so---did they approve or decline to run the ad?
The DNC said they did send it to FOX News, but so far have not been given a response on it. Maybe they are waiting for the RNC's blessing. Either way, no answer is an answer.
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They can run ads on Rev. Wright and then they can complain about something that was said by McCain himself, and even keep a straight face. I think.
Too bad they didn't feel this way in 2006 when the swiftboaters attack ads were playing. We'd probably have a real president right now!
Yes indeed the fight to the end is now beginning.
This means the ad is having its intended effect. Good job, Dr. Dean! Let's keep these types of ads coming!
RNC doesn't want the truth to start showing up on TV. Bad for the party.
Bunch of duplicitous hypocrites.
The first time I saw the ad I knew the rnc would go apeshit. And yeah 'swiftboat' was the first word that came to my mind upon reading this article. The reslug nambla committee needs to clean that lump out of their panties and stop whining. They're evil black hearted bastards and they seem to think that's ok so long as no one points that out to the public. And that's what's really wrong with the ad... too much truth.
Yep, the GOP can dish out the bullshit, but can't handle the truth.
So is the GOP going to demand that congress condemn the DNC ads, ala MoveOn?
LOL, can't handle the truth, but will allow anything the swiftboaters and others lie about to circulate at random with no objections, even repeating those type of allegations.
“This is a complaint about the facts that are being misrepresented in the ad, and this being a deliberate falsehood, that we are saying, stations have an obligation to protect the public from airing a deliberate falsehood,” said Sean Cairncross, an RNC lawyer.
Man, i just can not wait until they start complying!
I'm very proud to say I helped fund that ad. And the RNC can suck my big one.
Sucks to be getting p4wned by your own stumbling moron. Stumbling morons. McCain for all his media darlingness is Old, Old, Old, Old, Old, and doesn't know when to shut his trap. The fatal love affair he's having with the sound of his own voice will destroy him in the GE. Obama won't need to do much aside from run a clean, straight campaign and tell it like it is. McCain will deconstruct himself.
Man those RNC thugs are a bunch of whiners. We should send them some pacifiers. They'd show Obama's middle school yearbook information if they thought it would win the election.
How is it misleading when they use the words that came out of his mouth?
What's misleading is this idea that you can put a occupation force in the middle of Arabia and at some point they will be at peace with it for 100 years or more. If Sunnis and Shites have had a blood feud for 1,000 years, why in the hell will they let a invader off the hook in 10 years or 100 years?
Hubris, your name is RNC.
Gall, your name is Republican.
Barbarian, your name is McCain.
What I like a lot about this ad is that it does a double whammy-shows McCain as the creepy warmonger that he is, and shows him as looking old and frail by being filmed from his left side, the one where he had a big piece of surgery and the one he studiously avoids showing in scripted appearances. You cannot call him old and frail by name, but the camera of whoever filmed this does the work for us.
Now, let's get 30 second ads up with `Bomb, Bomb, Bomb... Iran' and `I don't know much about economics.'!!!!!
If the information in the ad is false i hope the RNC wins. Then any of us can sue to stop the flood of lies and misinformation that comes spewing out of the corporate media. That will shut down a lot of bullshit.
I am not clear on there being falsehoods when they are McCain's own words. Perhaps they should take legal action against McCain for saying something so stupid.
This is pretty much what I expect from them.
And I expect the media to parrot the RNC's words. "We do have a responsibility to make sure the ad is factual, right?" They'll say that. They won't actually do anything. They'll just talk about how they have that responsibility.
Then the issue will morph in the public discourse from whether the ad actually is factual to whether the Republicans are correct to suggest that the media should be factual. And it'll be implied that the Democrats are against facts.
We've been operating through the looking glass like this for some time.
I'm sick of living in this country.
slippy hussein toad @ 12:
I heard somebody say you will need an archeologist to dig up dirt on McCain. :)
xoites (Bitter before Country was Cool) defends Constitution @ 17:
Ha ha ha ha ha! You're a funny guy, xoites. But the RNC would never EVER voluntarily turn off the bovine fecal spigots. Without self-serving bullshit, what would Republicans have to do, or talk about?
xoites (Bitter before Country was Cool) defends Constitution @ 17:
No, only Democratic "falsehoods" will be actionable.
This is too rich. RNC can't stop the Wright Ads which are totally dishonest and despicable but the truth has to be hidden. Just desserts for the Republicans. Corporate media needs to run this ad on a continuous loop like they did the Wright tape.
It is very inconvenient to the RNC that their candidate says the things that he says.
xoites (Bitter before Country was Cool) defends Constitution @ 20:
Speaking of which, I am looking forward to the 4th Indiana Jones movie. Maybe they'll find McCain's mummy in a crypt. Scary as hell!
slippy hussein toad @ 21:
Nothing. Then we could get down to the business of creating a working society.
xoites (Bitter before Country was Cool) defends Constitution @ 20:
LOL - I heard the skeletons in his closet has already dissolved into oil and is being pumped from the oil fields of Kuwait
xoites (Bitter before Country was Cool) defends Constitution @ 20:
Just scratch the surface and it comes flooding out.
Please waste your money trying to sue. You will lose.
This tactic and many more of the slimy repugs trud tactics won't be tolerated by the sane majority.
And Rev. Wright can say what the hell he wants. It's just like the repugs to have the audcity to try take away freedom of religion from a African-American. Rev Wright is living in an area where his words hold true. To the repugs I say go pick you spiritual leader to pieces.
Go Obama!
Go USA!
Go Rev. Wright!
Ron @ 28:
Yes, but use a brush (not a shovel) to preserve the history.
Imagine how long a list you could compile of "deliberate falsehoods" that have been put forth by the repuliscum in the last 8 years!!!! Reading about this kind of hypocrisy makes me so fucking irate! It wasn't long ago that el chimpo's minions were putting out falsehoods about mclame themselves when it served their purpose. Fucking Hypocrites!
Funny how the Repugs complain about frivolous lawsuits...
Otay @ 8:
They are the worst bullshitters on earth.
We need to counter sue then. The ad they want to run in Indiana is a lie and McCain wanted to stop it before he was for it. Where have I heard that before? Anyway THEIR ad says that any superdelegates that support Obama must be Rev Wright believers.
Chris F. @ 32:
There are not enough people to do the job. Just take a look at this list and compare that to the number of lies that allowed it to happen.
I would just like some journalist or civilian in a town meeting ask John McCain, " How long will you keep U.S. forces in Iraq while they are receiving casualties?".
The excuse that he uses is that he only meant for a hundred years without casualties. Well, how long with ongoing casualties?
Well, folks, reality is on our side. Let's hope our side does not cave in to the keep-your-head-in-the-sand GOP goons.
Janet @ 35:
Enough lawsuits could shut down the corporate media.
I can dream, can't i?
Gosh, I seem to recall a FOX affiliate in Florida who claimed not too long ago that it was their *right* to air deliberate falsehoods (to claim justification for firing an anchor who refused to play along). But in this case, the ad is completely accurate.
You know, modern Republicans make a lot more sense if you think of them in terms of aliens from Bizarro World, where everything is the opposite of what it is here. Seriously. Everything they do is the opposite of the words that come out of their mouths. It's freaky.
If the Corporate Media were really "fair and balanced" they'd be playing this ad over and over again in its entirety just as they did the NC Republican attack as against Obama. But of course, the Republican party is the Corporate Media's darling baby that they fawn over in the interest of keeping control of the FCC.
Snowball @ 41:
FCC (Fuck the Common Citizen)
xoites (Bitter before Country was Cool) defends Constitution @ 36:
Wow that is long list. Thanks for the link.
Oh please, please, please RNC, sue, sue, sue! That would keep this ad in the network rotation indefinitely. Please, please, please!
Ron @ 10:
Using their logic we are winning chimpy's war. Their logic print more money. Their yee-haw logic. Serious inbreeding.
How and why they show their faces is beyond ignorance.
A while back I saw a cartoon about the Statue of Liberty (100% babe) kicking the shit out of Uncle Sam. This is what has to happen. Uncle Sam is too corrupt for his red, white and blue britches.
CantankerousDave @ 40:
They make perfect sense when you realize they are scam artists with a double standard.
Otay @ 38:
Unfortunately Otay, reality is not on our side. We live in a bizarro world were the powers that be feel they can create their own version of it. I hate to say it but "our side" has already caved in, and will sadly continue to do so.
WWWHHHAAAAAAA.......... All these losers know how to do is whine....oh, and lie.
It's time the TRUTH came to light and these LYING FOOLS take the heat....
WWWHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...
Republicans are actually people who are so terrified that their way of life will be destroyed by anything new or different that they are willing to lie, cheat, steal and even kill (if need be) to protect it. In the process they are destroying it. Seven year olds have more common sense.
odanny @ 1:
I was watching The Beard today and he played a little clip of the add just when McBush mentions about staying for a hundred year. Anyway, he went on to kiss ass and somehow bent over and said that he should play the whole clip so that people should know the whole content and not take McBush out of content. I wonder how many times they did that with Rev Wright? I don't know. I saw the Rev Wright clip for the first time on CNN and they played only the "god damn" part, and they actually bleeped the word!
They dare to call this a liberal media.
Otay @ 46:
I don't think they make perfect sense. Hell, they vote against their own best interests, unless of course, they are the millionaires and billionaires themselves.
hood @ 50:
They bleeped "God damn?" I wonder if anyone thought he said something worse? Or was that their intent?
I was watching The Beard today and he played a little clip of the add just when McBush mentions about staying for a hundred year. Anyway, he went on to kiss ass and somehow bent over and said that he should play the whole clip so that people should know the whole content and not take McBush out of content. I wonder how many times they did that with Rev Wright? I don’t know. I saw the Rev Wright clip for the first time on CNN and they played only the “god damn” part, and they actually bleeped the word!
They dare to call this a liberal media
*context
"RNC" - "Really Nasty Crooks"
Gee, if McKKKain can't take THIS kind of heat, how in the world could he possibly handle those Eyeranians over thar in Eyerania?
What a Crocker Shiite!
Ron @ 51:
I meant the GOP party elite. But you are absolutely correct that the party rabble are the scammed, not the scammers. That's where social conservativism comes in.
"stations have an obligation to protect the public from airing a deliberate falsehood,"
Didn't Fox win a court case that said it was fine to do this?
xoites (Bitter before Country was Cool) defends Constitution @ 52:
Of course people did! I did! When I hear a bleep I hear fuck.
xoites (Bitter before Country was Cool) defends Constitution @ 49:
Gays, immigrants, tara-ists, lee-bruls, Islamics, non-Christians, atheists, brown people, black people environmentalists, France....is there anything conservative bedwetters aren't afraid of?
Frankie Says Impeach T-shirts @ 56:
Yep, I think that was down in Florida and went all the way to the Supreme Court.
xoites (Bitter before Country was Cool) defends Constitution @ 42:
That depends on who controls it. The Corporate Media have a vested financial interest in keeping Republican Kevin Martin at the helm. It makes perfect sense that the giant corporate conglomerates that own the media want someone hell bent on deregulating their industry in control of the agency responsible for regulating them.
Ruthless People @ 58:
Dirty money and bloody money.
Why do these ads not make it clear that "the war" is against voters own interest?
The DNC should focus on words as "occupation" and "civil war".
There are plenty of people who see no problem of going on like this for a 100 years, because they think it is something as WWII.
Ruthless People @ 58:
Turning the country into a one-party police state?
Snowball @ 60:
Since the fairness doctrin was repealed the FCC has been on a role. Remember Michael Powell?
“This is a complaint about the facts that are being misrepresented in the ad, and this being a deliberate falsehood, that we are saying, stations have an obligation to protect the public from airing a deliberate falsehood,” said Sean Cairncross, an RNC lawyer.
You mean like the GOP swiftboating of John Kerry?
Frankie Says Impeach T-shirts @ 56:
I think so. They're going to have to CHOKE TO DEATH on their own words. How perfectly mahvelous.
The truth hurts, doesn't it?
The ad says 4,000 dead.... what about all the iraqi nationals who have died/ All the non-combatants that have died? Why are they never counted in the death toll?
Quoted from another post by C&L below it is plain to see that the laws are flexible when it comes to Rebulican interests:
The Justice Department has told Congress that American intelligence operatives attempting to thwart terrorist attacks can legally use interrogation methods that might otherwise be prohibited under international law.
The legal interpretation, outlined in recent letters, sheds new light on the still-secret rules for interrogations by the Central Intelligence Agency. It shows that the administration is arguing that the boundaries for interrogations should be subject to some latitude, even under an executive order issued last summer that President Bush said meant that the C.I.A. would comply with international strictures against harsh treatment of detainees.
While the Geneva Conventions prohibit “outrages upon personal dignity,” a letter sent by the Justice Department to Congress on March 5 makes clear that the administration has not drawn a precise line in deciding which interrogation methods would violate that standard, and is reserving the right to make case-by-case judgments.
Otay @ 63:
They wouldn't be afraid of that because they don't think they will ever be caught doing anything wrong. Like the people that think it's okay for the DOJ to listen in on phone calls because they don't think anything they say or do can be interpreted as a threat.
marz @ 68:
Hehe. That gave me an idea. Dr. Dean should say: "You are right, there are inaccuracies in the ad". And then redo the commercial stating that 100's of thousands of Iraqis have died. And of course add "Bomb bomb Iran".
".....DNC’s new national television advertisement, calling it “false and defamatory” ...."
“T.... is a complaint about the facts that are being misrepresented in the ad, and this being a deliberate falsehood, that we are saying, stations have an obligation to protect the public from airing a deliberate falsehood,......."
What a crock of crap. These are the people who have taken outright lying to levels never seen in this Country. I realize this has been stated here, in various forms, already. So, I will not beat it to death any more.
It is unlikely to happen, but Brand X could be walking into a trap of their own making. If this did end up in court, I think it would open them up to scrutiny over their own practices. That is a war they have zero chance of winning.
I saw the ad as a news story on a Fox affiliate in the West Palm Beach market. To my amazement, there was no comment positive or negative: they simply showed it in its entirety.
xoites (Bitter before Country was Cool) defends Constitution @ 64:
Sure do, I follow the FCC pretty closely. The two Democrats on the FCC board are the only things standing in the way of complete consolidation of all forms of electronic communications in this country, including the internet. We need to oust Republican control of that agency.
This is great! Another area of attack is the sad excuse of a health care plan Sen. McSame is putting forth that excludes people with pre-existing conditions. Couple that with his non-answer to Mrs. Edwards challenge question about why gov't heath care plans Sen. McSame has had almost his entire life is not good enough for everyone else. Sweet!
Snowball @ 74:
That agency, the White House, the Senate, the House and the Supreme Court.
An Average Joe @ 73:
You mean "a former Fox affiliate"? ;)
An Average Joe @ 73:
Thats because this ad sucks.
It is actually helping the GOP.
Dean was not wilting from the RNC attacks...They are actually helping the Dems now. This was a bad mistake fro McCain...
The RNC cannot really afford to have Johnny MCcain explain his comments. Otherwise they will have to either calm the dude down with valium, tell em to think happy thoughts (like all that beer his wife sits on) and probably snap em awake and tell him in his ear,, psst,, dude this is a real WAR! congress delcared it,, remember?´´
John Amato @ 79:
I appreciate you trying to make me look good by commiting more typographical errors than i do. :)
McToast
Friar Tuck @ 80:
I really have to take issue with your statement.
That is not beer!
And the swiftboat ads in 2004 were paragons of truthiness.
LibertyLover @ 84:
You nailed it! In fact i think they inspired the word.
John Amato @ 79:
My concern is that the stations will cave and pull the commercial. Isn't there a law requiring them to show it? A fairness doctrine type of thing...oh, yeah, um never mind.
StirFry @ 82:
Are you sure? Isn't he the guy who will never surrender? Not in a 100 years?
McChurchill?
I'm afraid they are going for that meme.
I like Kos's take on the ad:
Comedy From The RNC
by BarbinMD
Mon Apr 28, 2008 at 02:20:06 PM PDT
Now this is funny:
The Republican National Committee wants CNN and MSNBC to stop airing the DNC's new national television advertisement, calling it "false and defamatory" and illegally coordinated.
"This is a complaint about the facts that are being misrepresented in the ad, and this being a deliberate falsehood, that we are saying, stations have an obligation to protect the public from airing a deliberate falsehood," said Sean Cairncross, an RNC lawyer.
Yes, the RNC wants to protect America from misrepresentations and falsehoods. So, what are they objecting to? The DNC ad that uses John McCain's own words against him.
What they are pissed about is the very obvious edit between, "...maybe a hundred years" and, "that's fine with me." Everything in the ad is McCain's own words and thoughts, but they DID edit it to try and make it look like one sentence, which it was not. A 6 year old can see the edit.
bob dobbs @ 89:
I don't think anyone mentioned Bush.
bob dobbs @ 89:
Maybe the ad sucks. Maybe it misleads. I don't know. What i do know is that this Administration and through an unquestioning (at best) and compliant corporate media fills the air ways with lies on a daily basis. If this lawsuit goes through and wins the lawsuits to follow should confine the corporate media to reporting on when Brittney Spears is going into or getting out of jail and whether or Lindsey Lohan remembered to put on her underwear today.
I would love to see that,
What is also great about this ad is that it is not about personality and it is not about associations, it is about policy. McCain himself tells us what he will do as president.
Dean Booth @ 92:
I hope you are wrong. I hope it only tells us what he would do if he ever became President.
Cas @ 87:
I'm sure he can fight it until the end, but he won't win. This fake, neocon redux has an enough gaffes, flip flops, and blunders to provide an epic 4 hour anti-McCain mini-series. And there's more to come. Any honorable Republican will stay home on election day. .....honorable...hehehehe
Frankie Says Impeach T-shirts Says:
“stations have an obligation to protect the public from airing a deliberate falsehood,”
Didn’t Fox win a court case that said it was fine to do this?
Frankie,
You are not applying the Reality Not Coming principle.
It is the NEWS that has been allowed to lie by the activist judges, the ADVERTISEMENTS have to be true.
See in bizzaro world, what is supposedly the truth (News) can be a lie, and what is supposedly a paid for opinion spot (advertisement) has to be truth according to them.
Up is down, black is white. So, if they do not sue the stations, WE should sue the stations to make the case even go further. See, Anti-logic...not ILLOGICAL "ANTI-logic"©
StirFry @ 94:
But I hope the dems hire some skilled ad makers, who don't assume to much of viewers conclusion making process. At least they should be more to the point, and play on other emotions then in this ad.
Fox? Heck, DNC, save your money and run it more often on CNN....(or a regular network).
I'm confused. Isn't this mcAncient making the comment? Did someone do some fancy manipulation on the puters to make words come out of his ass hole mouth that actually DIDN'T come out of his asshole mouth?
What are they upset about? This is what the air head, senile, old fart idiot said. Suck it up RNC. If the jerk off makes a statement, it's "fair and balanced" to use it.
Actually, I wasn't all that impressed with the Ad (the one where he talks about the economic situation of the country is much better). I think a stronger one can be made using McCain
and his numerous remarks about "wars". Incorporated into one or two Ads. I also think there's a
lot of untapped mileage from the 3 times McCain (4 counting his commitee's missive) linked Al-Qaeda to Iran....Feb. 28, Mar. 17, Mar 18, Mar. 19....with the cream on the pie being old Joe whispering in his ear. It's important to be focused in the Ads, to be going after a particular aspect of McCain's supposed "strength', by showing they're either weaknesses or flipflops, etc. But I'm sure there's plenty of good ideas in the freezer, waiting.....here's one to add:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/28/mccain-strongly-rejected_n_9908...
I, personally, have had to deal with similar attitudes.
I had published a link to information that was on my local counties website, that contained the public court schedule. It shows the name of those involved, the case#, and the date and time of the next court appearance.
About 4 months after publishing this information, I received a letter from an attorney who was representing a client who was listed on this schedule. In this letter, it was DEMANDED that I remove this information that was described as ' knowingly libelous', violating copyright and tracemark. Oh, I was also threatened with criminal charges if I did not comply. For what criminal code was being violated, it was never said.
Should anyone wish to view this letter, it is posted online at http://www.demystify.info/legal/CandD/jarglaw.html
The company who hired this lawyer to send this letter was Caton Commercial, a real estate company in Illinois. The sites mentioned contained no commercial activities at all, and the response this real estate company felt was appropriate was to have this letter crafted.
TheRevolutionWillNotBeTelevised @ 100:
I hope you did not comply.
If that's the basis , they need get us out of Iraq , 1st ....................
Otay @ 101:
It depends - if by not complying, you mean linking that company name all over the internet so that a search for them brings up in the top 3 results in google the courthouse link showing the direct schedule?
As of right now, its the only page in the schedule with a 'google ranking' :)
feel free to help out the ranking by linking the text phrase 'Caton Commercial", to the courthouse link at http://willcountycircuitcourt.com/schedule/PUBLIC/C.txt
Howard Dean, in a conference call, concerning the RNC's threat to sue:
Different Anonymous @ 44:
Actually, the RNC will probably seek an injunction on the ad until the "case" is resolved....so perhaps the DNC needs to get a similiar ad up and ready to run. Let 'em waste their money. Well,... our tax money is probably being siphoned off for the lawyers at the RNC....it's misused for everything else.
I'm confused. Goopers think the war is just dandy and so does John McCain. And the ad is like free media for McCain, so what is their problem? /s
Otay @ 104:
God, I love Howard Dean.
slippy hussein toad @ 21:
I'm curious as to the quality of the meat McBSE serves to his MSM minions at the royal cook ins.
Its amazing how people cut corners and go economy when catering for crowds,
sometimes its the caters making a quick buck at the expense of quality and safety.
I wonder how many 'journalists' have eaten some yummy stuff !
e coli burger goodness
MRM wiener (cheeks and lips) goodness
Salmonella chicken goodness
CWD deer meat goodness
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) might explain the wow factor of his coverage in the MSM...
Almost makes me want to go vegetarian ;)
This DNC ad is so accurate it made my head spin. Give it up RNC, here is a taste of whats coming!
This is choice.
From The Hill
My italics. Really? Repeating someone's own words is now a character attack. And 100 more years would be successful? I guess if you're not in the military any more, it's ok. Goopers really don't know what truth sounds like any more, nor do they want to know.
Once a whiner, always a whiner. Call the ...um. waaaaaambulance.
I remewmber in 2004 when John Kerry was too pussy whipped to fight back with ads like this. He deserved to be swiftboated if he was too dumb to fight properly.
wonder if the NRCC has found their missing money yet, thats going be a crimper on their 08,
been very quiet on that front, do they endorse stealing from their own by their own now ?
100 years of 'war' would allow for a lot more Iraq style 9 billions (lost into pockets) and domestic thieving to happily continue.
Paul @ 112:
Was it some arcane 'skull and bones' etiquette thing to not fight back against a higher status member !
dosido @ 110:
The amount of psychological projection coming from these pond scum (Wright ads, anyone?) simply astounds.
Check out Yahoo news.
"Voters Trust McCain More than Either Democratic Candidate on Key Issues"
"....However, when it comes to the War in Iraq, McCain is trusted by more than either Democrat. Fifty percent (50%) trust McCain over Clinton while 40% hold the opposite view. Forty-eight percent (48%) trust McCain over Obama while 39% prefer Obama."
Wake up!
This kind of ad is not working!!
People don't care about the 100 year thing.
There is no draft.
TheRevolutionWillNotBeTelevised @ 100:
I got one of these once for a website I own. I told them to take it and shove it. If they wish to discuss purchasing the domain name from me, make an offer, otherwise, have a good day, and don't let the door hit you on the way out.
They sound very desperate to remain hidden from view. Keep up the good fight.
FU(K the Corporations.
Cas @ 116:
So, troll why is the RNC in such a panty twist then?
ferrofluid @ 113:
Of course they do. Scumbags suck upward.
99Lufballons @ 118:
That is irrelevant.
These people have no record on logic and reality.
And don't troll me.
You must be a troll to say this stupid shit.
If someone from the DNC is reading, a great ad would be mccain saying he doesn't understand the economy or where he says poor people can work extra jobs or skip a vacation, then show the clip of mccain saying the 100 year line, then a voice saying hmmm, then show the bomb bomb bomb Iran clip followed by mccain agreeing with dildo o'reily about needing to protect the white christian male power structure, ending the ad with a voice saying do you see any connections? Vote Dem.
Yes the facts that are being misrepresented in the ad, because it doesn't embrace the 50 or 100 years properly and this being a deliberate truth, that we are saying, stations have an obligation to protect the public from airing a deliberate truth.
Wow...is the RNC dumb or what?
Remember the saying "when there's smoke, there's fire"?
There must be a LOT of smoke with this ad because the RNC is screaming foul.
Where were they when Bill Cunningham was smearing Obama?
Sorry RNC, you came to play the game, you can't cry when you lose.
No they are not dumb.
The statements were edited. They know, people will say, yeah.. he didn't mean it like that.
It doesn't matter what is happening now.
The DNC should make better ads. If not, the dems will loose again.
"...that we are saying, stations have an obligation to protect the public from airing a deliberate falsehood,” said Sean Cairncross, an RNC lawyer.
SAY WHAT!?!
I'm pretty sure that the courts ruled that the stations have NO obligation to present the truth and can in fact submit 100% unadulterated bullshit and call it news. Just saying.
The wah? The RNC claiming stations have an obligation to protect the public from deliberate falsehoods? Oh my god, that's comedy gold.
Only a republican could claim character assassination after being quoted.
Stop it!!
Stop it now!!
Stop it right now!!
STOP IT!!
Poor GOP...don't Democrats know only GOP can do this?
Uhmmm...GOP...parity of strategy is concept that when you come up with weapons like the 'swiftboater attack' the other side can and may respond in kind.
Early machine guns for instance were quite the advantage in war until otherside and then everyone got them. Atomic weapons now going through this phase.
As for crap attack politics did the GOP really think they were only ones who get to do it?
GOP perhaps would like to play by Robert Mugabe rules?
All I can say is it is about time. I am donating my money to Mr. Dean today! Now add about 10 more of these and I will say Mission Complete!
Let the Repugnican dickhead try to block the ad. It'll turn up on YouTube and get more play than on TV, and show the RNC what fucking fascistas they are.
Payback is a bitch!
And the DNC doesn't need to lie or distort McCain's words and actions one little bit.
Tell the Truth and watch the RNC run for cover. LOVE IT!
DON'T STOP NOW! KEEP THE AD RUNNING AND BRING ON MORE..............
“This is a complaint about the facts that are being misrepresented in the ad, and this being a deliberate falsehood, that we are saying, stations have an obligation to protect the public from airing a deliberate falsehood,” said Sean Cairncross, an RNC lawyer.
Thats not what the Supreme Court told FOX when they were sued for blatantly lying on air. The Supreme Idiots said they could say whatever they wanted. At least thats how I remember it. Anyone else remember this?
hood @ 50:
I turned to CNN (corporate nonsense network) and their "breaking story" was Rev. Wright speaking. Nevermind the tornado in VA that killed one and injured over 200 people. Un-friggin-believable. Liberal media indeed!
odanny @ 1:
You wouldn't want republicans saying it with a gay face would you?
They can make their own ad that includes the next few sentences from McCain. That'll clear things up.
If I were working on the McCain campaign I would suggest the slogan:
McCain is Able.
Mike @ 136:
I doubt it.
Polls show Iraq ranks 4 or 5 of voters concerns.
A high 60% think the war was a mistake
And rank concerns about the economy highest
And McCain admits the economy is not his thang
So they need to make a commercial quoting that too.
I've seen the commercial and I fail to see how it is false and defamatory when it is using direct video footage of McSame's comments.
Good work DNC... Make them work to steal this election, K?
The problem with this quote is that it is a lie….
When john “the republican” mccain said 100 years…. He though they were asking about his age
E in MD @ 139:
Because facts and reality have a liberal bias.
ysbaddaden @ 137:
Hey, I see some nice bumper stickers: "McCain is not Able".
The RNC's complaint will appeal to the 28%-ers who still think Bush is the best ever and that war is peace. It will appeal to O'Reilly's dull witted audience who cluck like hens in heat when he calls Bill Moyers "that far Left guy." It will appeal to slobbering fools and unthinking morons who do not want to see a "great American hero" hoist on a petard of his own words, the same fools who prefer truthiness to truth.
Many Republicans will not be persuaded by the RNC's whining, however; and many Independents who might otherwise have leaned Right in November may (I hope) be put off by it.
And no Lefty Independent, and no Democrat (Zell Miller clones notwithstanding) will be persuaded that the RNC's whining is anything but, well, whining.
No net loss, here, people; and maybe a small gain for the good guys running against McCain in November.
Otay Says, I want that bumper sticker!
You know, the RNC seems really scared of this ad.
And I think It's possible that threatening legal action could be a huge tactical error by the Republicans. Making an issue might insure it gets played (for free) by the pundits as they debate the legitimacy of the ad.
Many will spin it in a negative light (if the networks don't just capitulate and refuse to play it) but there it will be, over and over John McCain saying, lets spend a hundred years in Iraq.
At the very least we all should email this ad to everyone we know. make sure as many people see it as possible.
Where is the third, fourth and other political parties please.
The house of cards is collapsing. It will be quite the year for the Republicans as more and more truth comes spilling out of the airwaves and the MSM cannot stop it.
Like rats scurrying out of the light, Republicans cannot handle any truth that they can't warp into their own versions of reality.
To quote a great Reverend: The chickens are coming home to roost.
Boy, they sure don't like it when their own poo flies up and smacks them in the face. Gramps better start watchin' what he says - once the dem candidate is set, the gloves come off and reality will set in real quick. I can't wait to see Obama embarrass the ignorant old coot in a debate - particularly on the economy and his woefully deficient health care plan. He's going to look like a bigger bumbling grump than he does now.
F*CK REPUBLICANS, F*CK BUSH and f*ck you if you voted for Bush twice.
Jesus wept.
So, if the ad is supposedly a lie, then by his own words is McCain lying? If so, why would they sue for showing the ad when they should sue McCain for lying since the ad is showing him saying what he is saying.
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