Amen! Last night, again, his apology ad was shown over and over again on TV. Just the apology. He made no effort to move that issue off the table and start talking about things that matter, i.e., Obamacare, the economy, jobs, the deficit, the balloning government workforce, etc. His hubris and lack of insight into what he has done is breathtaking.
There is no way I would ever vote for Claire, but I'm very unhappy this guy is my only other choice.
He made no effort to move that issue off the table and start talking about things that matter...
If it was shown during regular commercial breaks you do realize that TV stations sell blocks of air time for advertising on the local and national level and that contracts are signed ensuring that the ads/commercials run, don't you?
Do you have those annoying "ambulance chaser" commercials that get shown over and over and over where you live?
Stations will rarely, if ever, sell only two or three time slots. They sell ad spots in bulk and that's why you see that irritating "ambulance chaser" commercial so many times. He/she got a cut rate by buying so much air time.
If Akin could only buy a "block" of time then there will be "X" number of times the ad is aired no matter what the candidate wants. The most he could do would be to move the time slot in which it is aired.
Once ad space/commercial time is bought the ads are going to run or else the station loses money as they preallocate time in programming for those ads and stations aren't going to lose money by wasting that time space with nothing to fill in on a pulled ad.
See, I know about this stuff because one of my many jobs over the course of my life had me showing those ads and commercials.