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HARRISBURG, Pa. - In a presidential campaign freighted with war, recession and energy woes, a jibe featuring Paris Hilton, of all things, seems to have struck a nerve in Democrat Barack Obama. For the second time in two weeks, he aired a TV ad Monday rebutting Republican John McCain's claim that Obama is little more than a celebrity, like the blonde hotel heiress. The first time, Obama dismissed the assertion as "baloney." On Monday, Obama took a different tack with a commercial that says McCain, not he, is "Washington's biggest celebrity." The back-and-forth may seem as frothy as a boardwalk...

With Barack Obama stepping off the playing field for a week-long Hawaiian vacation, John McCain's campaign released three new attack ads yesterday, signaling that the senator from Arizona would use the void to continue pummeling the character of his rival for the White House. Obama's trip to Hawaii, where he spent much of his youth, comes after a week in which his Republican opponent dominated the news with his negative assault. Obama aides said the senator from Illinois is maintaining his lead in polls and will not be goaded into responding with character attacks of his own. But the assaults...

A national political ad appeared on Comedy Central TV for the first time Wednesday night. Why hasn't that happened before? Because nobody thought voters were watching. But public perception of the channel, the home of such shows as "South Park," has changed as "The Colbert Report" and "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" have become must-stops for major political players and the places where many younger, well-informed voters get their news. GOP candidate Sen. John McCain has made 14 appearances on "The Daily Show," Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, three.With that in mind, the online hub MoveOn sponsored a 30-second pro-Obama...

Here is a new ad put out by The National Campaign Fund which exposes Barack Obama's record on gang murderers in Illinois. Obama voted against expanding the death penalty for gang murderers at the very time there had been a series of gang killings in the Chicago area. The ad ends with a powerful question:"Can a man so weak in the war on gangs be trusted in the War on Terror?"

For a conservative, one of the masochistic delights of living in Massachusetts, the bluest of blue states, is listening to all of the cloying candidate ads – the pungent political fertilizer being shoveled into New Hampshire via Boston TV and radio stations. If I hear of another candidate who “cares” or has “courage” or “vision” or supports “change,” I’ll begin cleaning my guns and listening to the voices again. The other day, I heard a radio spot for the Creature from The Ninth Circle of Hell, sponsored by the American Federation of Teachers. It consisted of a number of women...

Many former Iowa caucus-goes may be returning home today to find a new piece of political mail waiting in their mailbox. The first direct mail piece from the Thompson campaign (.pdf format) should be hitting Iowa mailboxes sometime today, and according to one campaign source it is going out to "a wide universe" of people likely to caucus for a Republican in January. The mailer is called "Believe," and it is seen by the campaign as an introduction to Thompson's record. At the top it says "What if…" there was a candidate who had a 100 percent pro-life voting record,...

Here’s something for the really hardcore, political geeks. Fred’s first Iowa mailer. http://bp1.blogger.com/_5d_fpdUHmxc/R0MC_gjyK1I/AAAAAAAAAhw/ep7W574fYPc/s1600-h/dont+compromise.jpg Much talk is about campaigns’ tv commercials but in Iowa mailers are very important. Disclaimer: I work for Friends of Fred Thompson, Inc.

This advertisement, the first for Fred D. Thompson since he announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, is to begin running today in Iowa and nationally on the Fox News Channel. PRODUCER Revolution Media Group. THE SCRIPT Mr. Thompson says: “I’ve been a conservative my whole life. I grew up in a little hometown just like this. Started the first Young Republican Club in Lawrenceburg, Tenn. “In eight years in the United States Senate, I fought for tax cuts and for conservative judges. And I’m proud to have had a 100 percent pro-life voting record. “Common-sense conservative principles. Free...

TVC Condemns TN Democrat For Distributing Flyer Belittling Special Olympics Kids For Immediate Release October 14, 2004 Washington, DC, -- “Tennessee State Representative Craig Fitzhugh should be ashamed of himself for allowing his campaign office to distribute a flyer belittling Special Olympics children,” said Traditional Values Coalition Chairman Louis P. Sheldon, today. “This disgusting flyer is an insensitive attack against children with disabilities.” Rep. Fitzhugh’s office, which is shared by the Kerry-Edwards campaign, has been distributing a flyer showing a Special Olympics child with President Bush’s face superimposed on the head of the disabled youngster. The headline reads: “Voting...

NEW YORK - In a response to charges by conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, Michael J. Fox defended his appearance in recent political campaign ads, saying he was neither acting nor off his medication for Parkinson's disease. On the contrary, he had been overmedicated, the actor said during an interview aired on Thursday's "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric." "The irony of it is that I was too medicated," Fox told Couric, adding that his jumpy condition as he spoke to her reflected "a dearth of medication — not by design. I just take it, and it kicks in when...

Video: The most insane political ad ever

Ad Showing Troop Coffins Causes Clash of the Parties By ANNE E. KORNBLUT, The New York Times WASHINGTON, July 13 — In an echo of the last election cycle, political operatives are at odds over a Democratic advertisement featuring coffins coming home from war. The advertisement, a short film posted on the Web site of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, is being attacked by Republicans as tasteless and disrespectful of American troops in Iraq. In 2004, President Bush’s campaign released an advertisement showing a flag-draped body being removed from the site of the World Trade Center after the terrorist attack...

(CNSNews.com)- Republicans say Democrats ought to be ashamed of themselves for using the flag-draped coffins of U.S. troops who died in Iraq for political gain. The coffins-- and other depictions of violence in Iraq-- are among the images featured in a new political ad produced by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, a group that raises funds to elect Democrats to Congress. "It makes my stomach turn to see National Democrats so blatantly exploit the sacrafices made by the men and women of our armed forces," National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Reynolds said in a press release.

I hope I'm doing this right. I've only posted one other vanity on this website before. But, I just had to share this with my Freeper brothers and sisters. Check out this TV ad by Vernon Robinson, who is a black Conservative running for Congress in North Carolina. Oh my, if only all Conservatives had this much intestinal fortitude. You can view the ad here: http://www.vernonrobinson.com/twilightzone.shtml

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - With midterm elections for the House and Senate looming in an uncertain political landscape, a new forecast finds that political ad spending in 2006 might beat the record set in 2004. Political ad spending could top $1 billion, according to a Campaign Media Analysis Group forecast released Thursday at the Television Bureau of Advertising's annual marketing conference in New York. The record for political spending came in 2004, when the hotly fought presidential campaign between President Bush and Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry and other races saw $1.7 billion spent on TV ads. Much of...

Don't let your kids watch these cartoons. Schwarzenegger's campaign Web site features a clip of two "union bosses" - with green alien-like skin - driving up to a school and turning a teacher upside down as change falls from her pockets. "All right, boys, time to shake down another one," a gravelly voice mutters. Last week, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights and the California Nurses Association put up its own cartoon with Schwarzenegger groping Minerva in the state seal. With voters yawning over the special election, maybe it'll take outlandish cartoons to wake up the electorate. "How do...

WASHINGTON — Pentagon police on Wednesday turned away family members of troops killed in Iraq who wanted to confront Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on the reasons for the war in Iraq. The group of about 20 was stopped before entering Pentagon property by about a dozen officers, who told the protesters they did not have the proper permission to enter the building. Organizers said they have been petitioning for the meeting for weeks, but department officials are ignoring their requests. “The man who was too busy to personally sign the Killed in Action letters these families received is apparently...

"Junk Food Arnold" First to Reward Political Donors through Ads May 26, 2005 California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger should pull a political commercial off the air that promotes the junk food products of his campaign donors, consumer advocates said. The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) called on Schwarzenegger to return the quarter-million dollars he received from companies featured in the ad, and for the corporations to pay the market value of the advertising to the state because it is improper for the governor to use public office to sell corporate products. The TV ad, released in May, features Schwarzenegger...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ - Just in time for Halloween, Judges Political Action Committee, which promotes constitutionalist nominees to the federal courts, is releasing a television ad this week in key states comparing flip-flopper John Kerry with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The ad will air in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Iowa, starting Friday through Monday. In Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale, Dr. Jekyll hides his hideous alter ego from the world. The ad, Dr Kerry and Mr. Hyde, draws a parallel to Kerry, who works hard to hide his troubling stances on key judicial issues. It shows that while Kerry...

I have been thinking about how the GOP can try to quiet the decidedly partisan media's campaign against the president. At the recent UNITY conference where both candidates appeared, the mediots exposed their preference - that should be used against them in an ad. Ad cover caption, "At a recent gathering of supposedly objective reporters..."Alternating clips of the differing reactions, Kerry vs Bush. Show cheering Kerry support vs tepid, polite Bush applause. Show smiling, happy faces of Kerry supporters vs eye-rolling and snickering during the Bush speech. Use the clips showing the most opposite reactions and then to voiceover... The...

The Media Fund has produced some Bush-bashing ads which they intend to run (or are already running) in several key markets which bash President Bush. This information is displayed on the Chrissy Matthews link to a thread published earlier regarding Chrissy Matthews.

<p>A pair of controversial new campaign ads from Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jim Oberweis has enraged immigrant rights advocates, who contend the message decrying illegal immigration is racist and relies on misleading data.</p> <p>In the spots, which began running on television stations statewide this week, Oberweis warns that the nation is being overrun by illegal immigrants.</p>

Click on the thumbnails for a full-size picture In a shocking display of partisanship on a campus already known for its left-wing bias, Lehigh University has placed an exhibit of 5 full-sized wall photographs depicting President Bush and his cabinet in compromising situations in the home of its History and Political Science departments. One of the photos depicts President Bush in a drunken stupor fondling a woman's breasts, while another depicts a group of whores, one of whom represents Dr. Condoleezza Rice, surrounding a table displaying numerous elephants, the Republican Party symbol. The artist, Larry Fink, draws a connection...

I'm thinking that we should start a movement where..... Thousands of people should take out political ads in their local paper in the last 60 days before an election. These should be called First Amendment Pages or Freedom Pages by your local paper. Specifically set aside pages for political ads by individuals. Mix all viewpoints. After all, whether Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Green Party......we all have a stake in this. Let's tell congress, the president, and the supreme court where they can stick this law.

Attacking” President Bush November 27, 2003 “Some are attacking the president for attacking the terrorists,” says a new Republican TV ad for President Bush. In its verbal sloppiness, this message is fully worthy of the president himself. Of course nobody is “attacking” him in the same sense that he is “attacking the terrorists,” with real bullets and bombs. Various people are criticizing him, some with measured language, some with verbal abuse, but all of them are well within the limits of the “freedom” and “democracy” he says he wants to promote around the world. So why does he allow and...

Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean has been -- and I quote -- "paying `bloggers' or professional Internet surfers to keep the enthusiasm up on his website," according to The Hill, a newspaper which reports on the U.S. Congress. The shocking revelation appeared in an October 8 article titled, "Dem Presidential Rivals Suffer `Growth Pains' Chasing Dean." James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal's online Best of the Web page comments: We're all for free enterprise, but this does point up an advantage of "old media" over bloggers. Professional journalists may have their biases, but those of us who work for...

(MADISON) – Gov. James E. Doyle’s promise-breaking decision to veto the property tax freeze – resulting in a tax hike of $1 billion – is the subject of the newest video available to view at www.bobbleheadjim.com. A new link to the website is also available on the homepage of www.wispolitics.com. Senator Bob Wirch of Kenosha, one of Doyle’s Democrat friends in the state Senate who cast a critical vote that prevented the Senate from successfully overriding Doyle’s veto by one vote, also makes a cameo appearance in the new short movie. Other versions featuring additional senators will be available soon....

Three, maybe four years ago I saw in a car commercial where Germany prohibits "comparative" advertising, i.e., "biggest this", "best that", etc. I assume this also prohibits blatantly negative advertising.Like America, Germany just had an election. Does what I mentioned in the first paragraph mean that the FRG has the kibosh on negative political advertisements, something we see plenty of in the States during every election cycle? Anybody know? Donke schoen (sp) in advance.foreverfree

This morning I saw an RNC sponsored ad blasting Jim Maloney (D-Connecticut) for supporting a Social Security privatization plan. It went on to laud Nancy Johnson (R-Connecticut)for opposingSocial Security privatization. What core beliefs does the RNC have????

Perry campaign will keep up attack ads, too, spokesman says By Ken Herman AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Friday, August 9, 2002 YOUR VIEW Should Tony Sanchez and Rick Perry call a Sept. 11 ad truce? Yes, out of respect 21% 4 No, everything is fair in politics 42% 8 They should stop the attack ads regardless of Sept. 11 37% 7 Total Votes 19 Results are not scientific and reflect the opinions of only those who chose to participate. Tony Sanchez brushed off a request Thursday by Texas police officers for candidates to step away from TV ads for 11 days next...

The New York Times Company said today that its eight TV stations, all network affiliates, will donate airtime to political candidates. The stations will provide at least five minutes of nightly news and 'candidate discourse' in the 30 days leading up to general elections and primaries. The effort will include 'daily reports, debates, forums, town hall meetings, in-depth interviews, candidate issue statements and voter registration PSAs.' The stations will also post a variety of voter info and election-related content on their Web sites. The stations are WREG(TV) Memphis, WTKR-TV Norflok, Va.; WHNT-TV Huntsville,Ala.;KFSM-TV Fort Smith, Ark;KFOR-TV Oklahoma City; WHO-TV Des...