Executive director of group that produced Rev. Wright TV ads worked on the infamous 'Clinton Chronicles'
By John Amato Monday Nov 03, 2008 1:00pmSo who put together that last minute national television buy of those advertisements featuring the Rev. Jeremiah Wright?
As it turns out, Scott Wheeler, the executive director of the National Republican Trust PAC, the group which paid for and produced the ad buy– worked on the infamous Clinton Chronicles– the discredited documentary that accused Bill Clinton of murdering his political opponents, engaging in drug running, and all kinds of other nefarious things that were largely either imaginary or fabricated. For those who don’t recall, or are too young to know, with the backing of the late Rev. Jerry Falwell, more than 400,000 copies of the video were distributed and although the film’s allegations were rightfully marginalized in the mainstream, the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page amplified– sometimes as legitimate– many of the film’s most lurid allegations.
Here is an article I did way back in 1998 about how the Falwell backed Citizens for Honest Government often paid “witnesses” who had lurid stories to tell about Clinton to compensate them for appearing in the Clinton Chronicles and other conspiratorial films about Clinton which they produced. Many of the false allegations made by the “witnesses”– sometimes influenced by payments arranged by the group– were repeated as gospel on the Wall Street Journal editorial page, on the pages of the American Spectator, and on talk radio...read on
Murray has the Rev. Wright ad up on his blog. This is pretty despicable stuff, but McCain has sold his soul for a chance at the White House. You have to believe that Rick Davis and McCain knew this was coming.
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Seems to me we have two choices here: continue to complain, or get out the vote & win ! The 18-25 year old demographic needs to put down the bong , beer, & guitar hero and actually vote, and African - Americans must all make this their election to turn out and vote in record numbers. Then nothing, smears, Diebold, or talk radio, can prevent a new beginning...
"The 18-25 year old demographic needs to put down the bong , beer, & guitar hero and actually vote...."
Nice stereotyping. I'm sure the 18-25 year old demographic appreciates that.
Gee, there's a shock.
That mental midget is a typical right wing bomb thrower. He has no credibility outside of the GOP.
Just another right wing loon.
Today on James Dobson's radio show, he featured a guest sermon by a man named Lawrence White who said, and I quote, "God SHOULD destroy America". In context, that is pretty damning. Take it out of context and it is appalling.
So where are the ads that say that Sarah Palin (who was on Dobson's show last week) pals around with people who think America should be destroyed?
Where are ads that say that James Dobson, a man who featured and promoted a man who believes America should be destroyed, is a "spiritual mentor" to Palin (and Bush, though he doesn't matter anymore)?
More here
If so, this should be on all the progressive blogs.
Link here
Let me know if it works
At the 20 minute 40 second mark
Yeah, it works.
Down here in Fla. we are seeing two different ones but both are about Wright and both are put out by this guy. In my opinion they are going back to square one. They beat this Wright thing to death a long time ago and it only hit home with people who would have never voted for Obama no matter what. Do they think our memories are that short?
Too bad McCain is helpless to make him stop this shit. Oh wait, McCain isn't helpless, he could try to stop it at least. I guess if Obama had held ten town hall meetings with the Mac is Back, all this garbage would have never happened.
I keep hearing about the huge early voting numbers in states that everyone is watching election night (FL, GA, NC, CO). I was wondering if anyone has an idea when watching exit polling numbers on Tuesday night how those numbers may be largely skewed if so many people vote early and specifically a larger majority towards the democrats. Are there algorithms or something that take this into account? Any help would be great!
Are there algorithms or something that take this into account? Any help would be great
Isn't Al Gore a Baptist, so they don't dance?
I would like to see the number of stump speeches the cable news shows have shown of McCain/Palin compared with the number they have shown of Obama/Biden.
and Grandpa and his peons can dwell on bullshit.
It's worked so well for the Repukes this far.
CNN is reporting that Madelyn Dunham has just passed away in Hawaii. My deepest sympathies to the extended Obama-Dunham family. She seems to have been a remarkable person, a Rosie the Riveter during World War II who later helped raise him. How sad, too, that this loss comes on the eve of (we all hope and pray) his election. A reminder that in the midst of great accomplishment can also come great loss.
why it's illegal to beat the shit out of any Con you see. Sometimes it seems like it would be our patriotic duty. Or at least very stress-relieving.
doing just fine on their own,doncha think?
Cross-stressing?
and when obama is elected tomorrow,
these fuckers need to be removed from
the American continent and put in the
darkest cells of gitmo or wherever
rendition will make them disappear
as enemy combatants of America.
we can't say we didn't see it coming. They are getting more desparate by the day.
Make sure your vote counts.
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/466.html
MSNBC just ran one of these ads. The ad maker likes to use the word "Risky" when talking about Obama. Why don't they just come out and say he's a radical dangerous black man, because that is basically what the ad says and implies.
Who the fu*k will change their vote due to that ad? It's just stirring up shit to see if anyone can smell it.
why it's illegal to beat the shit out of any Con you see
No hitting!
I thought it was The Martian Chronicles.
Obama's grandmother has passed away.
Now I know life's unfair.
My prayer is on it's way
Say it isn't so.
My regards to President Obama. Rally everyone.
Just read the news :(
I feel just horrible for Senator Obama and his family :(
May she rest in peace. And my sincerest condolences to the Senator and His entire family.
I was wondering about her this morning, thinking how frail she must have been for him to take time out of the campaign to visit her.
Sad news, no Mum or Grandmother to see him win tomorrow. We'll have to stand in for them.
Just wait until his victory speech tomorrow.
Just you wait.
It's gonna be spectacular.
My opinion is that Rev. Wright is a typical preacher who uses charisma to capture an audience but also that there is certainly truth in the statement that imperial actions by the U.S. government do create terrorist repercussions. It's called karma. Jesus called it "As you sew, so ye reap."
The hostility which Wright emits isn't healthy but it too is a product of centuries of oppression and control that is being fought against in the inner cities of the U.S.
It's no different than these right wing hacks going to their industrial sized churches in the suburbs. It's just that their preacher's beat up on homosexuality and communism which is more acceptable than calling out the U.S. military for their atrocities.
at my church - small, white and fundamentalist. I've heard my pastor say God certainly isn't blessing America for the things we've done. How is this different from Rev. Wright?
Oh, wait. My pastor is white.
I wanted so much for his grandmother to live to see her grandson elected president of the United States. Maybe she knew it was going to happen and felt he didn't need her anymore. Damn, I'm sitting here crying like I did when my own grandmother died.
are flowing like a river.
I'm sure McShme will say it's Obama's fault.
I was hoping beyond hope that his "Tooty" would have hung on just long enough to see her grandson create history. Really sad. RIP Mrs. Dunham.
He's already changed history.
Obama also has a distant cousin who conspired with other home grown terrorists to start an unnecessary, mass murderous, National treasure losing, reputation destroying war that he and his buddies handsomely profited from. Now that's a fucking story Obama needs to explain!
Yeah that distant cousin also shot a man in the face.
The good thing is Obama gets to keep all the lessons she taught him, all the memories he shared with her and all the love she gave him.
"You have to believe that Rick Davis and McCain knew this was coming."
It's always best to be enveloped in flames in advance of your plane's fiery explosion.
One more day. Just one more day. My condolences to the Senator.
Maybe it's an omen. Perhaps she passed so she could confront the evil directly, and put it right in its place.
Yeah that distant cousin also shot a man in the face.
Yeah...and got a blow job in the restroom at the Chicago state house.
Scott Wheeler loves America. He just loves a different America than the one we live in. He loves the one in the parallel universe where Hitler and Nazi Germany won WWII and took over the whole world. In his "Amerika," the Big Lie is considered the Ultimate Truth and he is one of the heroic truth tellers about whom epic poems will some day be written.
Thank you Mrs.Dunham,
For your great personal sacrifice and contributions to our Nation.
RIP
Sad news, no Mum or Grandmother to see him win tomorrow. We'll have to stand in for them.
The Senator has a whole bunch of new friends, and we're all gonna watch his back.
In Lakewood Ohio today, Palin insinuated that Obama has this thing for San Franscisco, when she said, "Something about San Francisco'' with this candidate, said Palin, without filling in her suggestion.
She also introduced her husband as "first dude" and not only repeated the stale, "We'll drill, baby, drill, but added "mine, baby, mine,'' she said. "You betcha, we will.''
Does this sound like a diplomat or a high school valley girl?
I thought the Story of O was S/M.
That's where I found it.
One of the first things Obama ought to do is force political advertising (not political speech, but ADVERTISING) to comply to the same rigorous standards to which corporate advertising must comply.
In car advertising, you can't make unsubstantiated claims, like the car goes from 0-60 in 4 seconds, without having the backup and a disclaimer saying so.
Why, then, can you claim ANYTHING in political advertising? Because political speech is the single most protected speech in America.
My argument is, there's a big difference between a candidate's freedom of speech being protected and a PAC's ability to create deceptive advertising. If a candidate lies, the media will hold him accountable. If a political ad lies, a) the media has a conflict of interest and b) the lies have been spread to a mass market, so it's too late to correct the damage.
In other words, the same millionaire capitalists who'd certainly lie through their teeth to gain market share if they weren't regulated are lying through their teeth to sell the elected officials they want in office.
.....hope Limbaugh feels better now in coming closer to the realization, maybe Obama was telling the truth about why he returned to Hawaii
Obama conspired to have his grandmother killed to gain the sympathy vote.
See, it's easy to think like them. You just have to be crass and bat-shit crazy.
I'd shoot myself.
he now speaks for the jewish community
he was saying how he cant understand how any jew or supporter of israel could vote for obama
im gonna tell a joke now
i would love to bash that fat fucks brains in
now wasnt that funny?
i just learned how one can get away with threatening another human being
and I think you can safely say we're pretty much in support of Israel, within reason. We're both voting for Obama. Maybe I'll email him to let him know. If enough of us do, will the contradiction to his narrow thinking be enough to make his head explode?
The tears fill the gutter and flood the sea!
Prognosticating what tomorrow may hold:
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when mcfuckhead loses on tues.
he and that whore cindy and crawl
back where they came from and take that
slut palin with them.
abstinence my ass.
Doing it anally is one way to prevent pregnancy.
I've lost my taste for RePug bashing. The time has come for healing and Hope.
...unless you acquiesce to all of their rotten bullshit. Let them hit rock bottom first.
But I need time to reflect on Obama's loss and the pain he is feeling. Believe Me I'll hate RePug pondscum forever. I just need a break for a little while. I don't know if you have ever lost a loved one-it leaves a hole in your heart and the wind blows through it.
I'm not sure if it's MSNBC or the local Cox Communications provider but this ad is being run between/instead of network-based regular advertising in the Orange County Ca. area - A LOT - and it's REALLY starting to piss me off..
Hate speech is one thing but outright, intentional LIES for profit is another.
Anyone have a clue who can be called to stop this garbage??
even though McCain pulled out the PACs have pulled out all of the stops. This one and two others have been running constantly and I've never before heard such vile, awful lies. They're sickening. One news channel reported that, supposedly, McCain asked one PAC to pull the nastiest ad and they refused. Supposedly.
I can't see him asking anything of the kind.
These commercials are running in TX. Deep in the heart of red country.
BTW, I have only seen a few McCain/Palin signs here (could be hurricane related or whatever...I have only seen one Obama sign), but since there are numerous election signs up, I am surprised not to see a zillion McPalin signs.
I don't see as many McCain signs here either, even though the county republican office is in our town and the dems have their headquarters 20 miles from here. A lot of houses that are always filled with republican signs are mysteriously empty this year. That or they have signs for repubs running for state office yet none for McCain.
I'm assuming a lot of these people are going to cross over and vote Obama but aren't about to let their republican friends in on their dirty secret. At least thats my hope.
I have seen 4 commercials linking Obama to Rev. Wright during Hardball tonight. Of course they are 527 funded but that doesn't mean they are any less sleezy. You are entitled to your own opinions not your own facts.
Can't wait for McBain to lose and go home, so he can get off my TV...and he can take that Caribou Barbie lady with him.
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