Republican Senators and the Worst. Ad. Ever.
By bluegal Thursday Jul 16, 2009 4:00pm
The Caucus Blog [New York Times]
A leading conservative legal advocacy group that has a played a prominent role in the debate over the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor has created a new ad accusing her of supporting violent terrorists and comparing her to former Weatherman Bill Ayers.
At one point, the ad ...shows a picture of Judge Sotomayor alongside the text: “SUPPORTED VIOLENT TERRORISTS.”
Mr. Levey said the ad was written by Chris LaCivita, who also helped create the Swift Boat Vets for Truth ads against Senator John F. Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee. The Swift Boat ads were riddled with unsubstantiated charges and led to a new political term for smearing a political opponent with lies: “swift-boating.”
Ben LaBolt, a White House spokesman, called the Sotomayor ad “an uniquely implausible act in wingnuttery.” Right Wing Watch, a division of the liberal People for the American Way, called it “over-the-top and nonsensical.”
Mr. Levey acknowledged that the ad presented a “caricature,” but it defended it as “factually true.”
In fairness, when I first saw this ad I was so sure it was a hoax, I asked the gang at Relaxed Politics to do a little digging for me. It's real.
And now Think Progress reports that Orrin Hatch has distanced himself from the ad, even though he's attended fundraisers for the group that produced it. Hatch claims this is "not the kind of ad he would run."
But did you help pay for it, Senator?
The Republicans on the Judiciary Committee should start a big fat file labeled "With Friends Like These..."
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Do you suppose Orrin Hatch did help pay for it, at least in a way? If so will there be any way to confirm he did?
The Federalist Society
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Adviser, Pro Bono
Mr. Curt A. Levey
Executive Director
The Committee for Justice
1920 L Street, NW
Suite 200
Washington, DC 20036
Ph: 202-270-7748
Email: cal89us@yahoo.com
http://www.fed-soc.org/publications/id.347/de...
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glad to see their web site doesn't load right, but it's probably my browser
What if they gave an ad and everyone laughed?
Or a war and no one showed up.
yep.every day.every God damned day it gets a little more outrageous.
There is simply no bar so low they won't slither under it.
yet. That's usually the last stop.
Republicans are just a bunch of big dummies.
They are going SO far over the top that they can not possibly appeal to more than the usual 24% (the crazies) that have ANY RESPECT (and I use the term VERY loosely) for them.
...until I listened to Republican attack ads.
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cowbellfear.Last night he had this, I believe. And said something about how it didn't yet have a "buy". So I guess that the big money at the RNC isn't supporting it. I may be wrong, of course.
... I'd have to check with someone in sales, but I think this means no one has sold them airtime yet.
I saw it Tuesday here in Northeast Ohio. Someone decided to air it.
BUTLER, Mo. -- If deep discounts aren't enough to get you to the car lot, maybe a gun will.
Max Motors in Butler, Mo. is offering a voucher for a free AK-47 with the purchase of each new truck. So far, the dealership owner says the gun offer has been a big success.
For shoppers who don’t want or need an AK-47, they can get a gas voucher instead.
http://www.max71.com/wpress/index.php
from Bowling for Columbine I'll bet
Do they get a free Gadsden flag license plate with it, too?
I'll bet their advertisement boosts the "fertilizer bomb carrying capacity" of the truck's flat bed.
(I'm also guessing this sales pitch only works with the pickup trucks, but is falling pretty flat with the gas/electric hybrids?)
...isn't it's only problem, obviously.
What the ad's producers and financial sponsors forget is that the whole Bill Ayers "he-pals-around-with-terrorists" B.S. completely flopped with the public when it was trotted out to smear Obama.
In short, wingnuts have cried "Wolf!" so many times that no one believes this shit anymore. The only ones listening are the already fervently converted.
The ONLY ones? If that small group of people, who are crazy to begin with, but are deliberately being driven HOMICIDALLY crazy by these types of adds were actually harmless it wouldn't be an issue. Only problem is, they're not harmless.
I'm guessing that the reason this ad is not being picked up by anybody (including Fox, apparently) is because they're afraid some wingnut zombie in a tractor cap will pull a "Tiller" on Sotomayor, and his defense attourney will plead "innocent on the grounds of Swiftboat-induced insanity" at the trial.
are literally adding fuel to the fire. They truly want to drive more people over the edge and into violence.
Truth? Who the hell needs truth?
No sir, I'd rather not listen to another Fetal Alcohol Syndrome hillbilly in an orange jump suit claiming to be a hero during his bail hearing statement, thank you very much.
It's good that nobody's willing to air the add, but the damage has already been done. They're succeeded in starting a WHISPER CAMPAIGN, which is all they're really interested in.
Nevermind the text. Is it my imagination or did the VOICE OVER say she "LEAD a group supporting violent, Puerto Rican terrorists?"
If so, I think a quick law suit might be in order.
Yep, they did say that she "Lead a group supporting violent Puerto Rican terrorists". The wingnuts are pulling out all the stops, luckily for the sane people it just goes to show how unhinged they are.
sounded desperate. She had that "Please believe me!" voice. They just called Sotomayor a terrorist! Can't she sue these idiots? They have no facts to base their bullsh*t. It's nothing but insults now.
Okay, so Nelson Mandela visited New York back in 1990 to attend a ceremony honoring him and three Puerto Rican seperatists who were pardoned by Jimmy Carter for a 1954 attack on the House of Representatives appear alongside him. Mayor Dinkens condones the seperatists prompting Ruben Franco of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund to condone Dinkens for being insensitive. And Sonia Sotomayor happened to serve on the board of the Legal Defense and Education Fund with Franco from 1980 to 1992.
So my question is: How does Kevin Bacon fit into all this?
6 (or so) degrees of Kevin Bacon, wing-nut addition
Kevin Bacon was in "Footloose"
"Metal Health" was on the "Footloose" soundtrack
Two of the guys that wrote "Metal Health" were named Cavazo
Cavazo sounds foreign so it must be Mexican (this step DOES require wingnuttia)
Mexicans are called "hispanic" by those damned liberals
Puerto Ricans are also called "hispanic" by those damned liberals, SO
it's the same thing
and Sonia Sotomayor is Puerto Rican
So, see, it works....
Do they honestly think that this time people will buy their bullshit despite it already failing?
As the supposed "terrorist" Bill Ayers never killed anyone or vouched for killing someone.
Remember the unrepentant terrorist Dick Cheney who bombed a nation on false pretenses resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians and 4500 Americans soldiers all for Exxon/Mobil and so his former company Halliburton could get no bid government contracts at tax payer expense and in so doing helped wreck the US economy as well as America's reputation and moral authority in the world? Call your US congressman now and demand Dick Cheney the terrorist be tried for war crimes, war profiteering and crimes against humatiy as well as for treason for outing a CIA agent who was working to uncover the real WMDs.
Do it today.
is an ad.
That's exactly what the NAZIs did to portray the Jews in the 1930s. It's despicable.
that are planned for Obama and his cabinet and appointees. So much hate and we're just 6 months in. What will happen to this country?
this shit is coming. Even if it is only 24% of the loons that believe the lies coming from the right wing nut jobs, and only another small portion of them that would actually take up arms against the citizenry who don't agree with them, that is still a lot of nuts to deal with. When Obama went to throw out the first pitch at the All-Star game the other night, I just held my breath, because I fear for his life when he goes out in large crowds like that. I hope and pray that he finishes his first term without an assassination attempt or being assassinated. The wingers even talk about these scenarios on various sites that have both dems and repugs. They are seriously deranged with their blind hatred of Obama. They want him gone -either by proving he is not a US citizen or by any means possible. These are scary times indeed.
and everyone in his cabinet. When Bush and Cheney was destroying this country, the loons and sheep were drinking, singing and cheering "USA! USA!" as people lost their jobs, homes and lives.
Now somebody stepped up to try and fix this mess, and here come the aforementioned loons and sheep armed up and geared for battle.
I hope the FBI is watching.
the more often they repeat it. They are really going after those short attention spanners.
Justice is right. Just-us bigots.
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