[TomGuy]

On Cain, I'm not aware that the bizarre smoking guy ad is mean for TV instead of just having been shot for the internet. That would be very odd and poor use of media dollars.

Luntz on FoxNews showed a brief audience reaction graph to it. They didn't like it and liked it even less when the narrator took a drag on the cig.

Maybe it was made for the Internet, but it is getting air time on the cable news -- with negative commentaries.

[justsaynomore]

This was never meant to be a TV ad. It was a video message sent from Block to supporters. It came to me via email, and it was a private link to the video (it is public now, obviously) Block explained all of this himself talking to Megan Kelly.

The media took it and ran with it and turned it into a TV ad.

Either way, the reaction to it has been pretty neutral - some love it, some hate it, most don’t care. It is a non issue