Tom Steyer’s ads test the boundaries of the ‘bizarre’

Politico/Playbook ^ | 8/15/14 | DARREN GOODE

[Baynative]

Liberal billionaire Tom Steyer is trying to sway national climate policy and the midterm elections with an ad campaign that is raising eyebrows among independent fact-checkers, some television stations, his political opponents and even a few allies — using an approach that strikes observers as anywhere from groundbreaking to downright bizarre.

[Baynative]

The dems and their media have now completely settled in to the fact that we have so many low information voters the truth no longer matters.

Even liberal liberal Politifact calls the ads fictitious:

"In Iowa, Steyer’s super PAC is attacking Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst with 60-second TV ads featuring a pair of cigar-chomping executives cackling in a darkened room, gleeful that an anti-tax pledge she signed will send jobs overseas. The fact-checking website PolitiFact labeled that ad “false,” and fact-checkers have also found holes in Steyer-backed ads that accuse Florida Gov. Rick Scott of benefiting from oil drilling near the Everglades and letting a power company “fleece” its customers. Ernst and Scott have threatened legal action."

(There is video of the ads at the link, but no way to hyper link it here)

[Steely Tom]

In the same way that physicists try to accelerate particles to ever-higher energies to unlock the secrets of the universe, liberals explore ever more extreme methods to lie to the public in order to expand their power.

[The Great RJ]

While the vilified Koch brothers are running their businesses and putting people to work, Steyer goes around the country peddling nonsense and policies that will cause unemployment like electric rates to skyrocket.

[Still Thinking]

Steyer’s super PAC is attacking Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst with 60-second TV ads featuring a pair of cigar-chomping executives cackling in a darkened room, gleeful that an anti-tax pledge she signed will send jobs overseas.

Yes, companies always flee low tax environments by going overseas. Even if it were some provision that did encourage offshoring, it's unlikely that the stogie-chomping execs would be gleeful. Offshoring is a pain in the ass they'd rather not have to deal with if the government weren't making the local environment inhospitable. Most of them (30-day MBAs aside) are only doing it as a last resort. Plus, execs are just like anyone else; all things being equal, if they can provide jobs to their own communities they'd rather do that than deal with a vendor 10,000 miles away and out of sync by 10 hours or whatever.

[DJ MacWoW]

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