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How Disturbing (McCaskill/Talent Race turns nasty - thank you Michael J. Fox)
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| 10/23/06
| Erick Posted
Posted on 10/23/2006 7:04:24 AM PDT by teddyballgame
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To: KC_Conspirator
I was born in St Louis and I hate when people do that or call St Louis, St Louie. If you are from there, it seems rather condescending. If you are from there, it just seems dumb.
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posted on
10/23/2006 10:33:52 AM PDT
by
dpa5923
(Small minds talk about people, normal minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Just in case any FReeper needs to be reminded, the debate over the use of Embryonic Stem Cells is a 'ginned up controversy, created by the Pro-Choicers who were getting tired of having their butts kicked over Partial Birth Abortion. They accurately concluded that they would benefit greatly if they could move the debate to the opposite end of the gestational spectrum. But nobody actually gives a damn about Embryonic Stem Cells. It's all about Abortion, and always has been.
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posted on
10/23/2006 10:47:59 AM PDT
by
gridlock
(The 'Pubbies will pick up at least TWO seats in the Senate and FOUR seats in the House in 2006)
To: gridlock
You're exactly right. This has always been about trying to destroy the pro-life movement.
83
posted on
10/23/2006 10:50:56 AM PDT
by
B Knotts
(Newt '08!)
To: Dave S
Unless you have a family member with Parkinsons. Lighten up, Francis!
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posted on
10/23/2006 10:51:20 AM PDT
by
gridlock
(The 'Pubbies will pick up at least TWO seats in the Senate and FOUR seats in the House in 2006)
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
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posted on
10/23/2006 11:17:15 AM PDT
by
isthisnickcool
(The City Council of Houston Texas is made mostly of retards.)
To: Watershed; All
He was great on Spin City.
Not since then.
Still, my heart goes out to him...I can't imagine what he is going through, and it is hard to get mad at him.
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posted on
10/23/2006 11:24:07 AM PDT
by
rwfromkansas
(http://xanga.com/rwfromkansas)
To: TexasCajun
I'm sure Mikey can get a job mixing paint at the local Home Depot.
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posted on
10/23/2006 11:29:21 AM PDT
by
LetsRok
To: Jadge
He's an opportunist who uses his nationality when it suits him. In this case, he's forsaken his nationality for the sake of influence, pure and simple. He's a good actor, an actor remember, who is using his skills and dialogue which may or may not be accurate to sway an election with which he has absolutely no 'dog in that hunt' (the particular election he's advertising for). I used to like him, but I don't any more.
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posted on
10/23/2006 12:12:27 PM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: TexasCajun
"Hey Mickey, just take a bunch of your money and go buy you some spare parts and embryos over in China!
...they'll gladly take your money and not have one moral objection." Good point.
To: teddyballgame
In the St. Louis market during the World Series, Michael J. Fox shot an ad on behalf of Claire McCaskill on the sole issue of stem cells. I didn't watch the game but if it's the one I recently saw of him, I had a real problem with it. Fox was shaking like crazy, and I think he over did it. I believe he added to the shakes. I recently saw him on a TV program and he wasn't shaking at all. I think he's just doing it to gain sympathy so people will vote for Claire McCaskill. He is; after all, a Hollyweirdo actor, and that's what Hollyweirdos do.....they act!
To: TommyDale
I got dizzy watching Michael J. Fox bouncing all over the screen. It's weird, he didn't do that on "Boston Legal". I'm so glad you posted this. I saw him on "Boston Legal" too and I didn't notice him shaking. He added to the shakes to make people feel sorry for him, but it was obvious to me that it was phony. I honestly think he did it with the sole purpose, and that was to help McCaskill. He should be ashamed of himself, but of course being a Hollyweirdo actor, he has no shame.
To: RegulatorCountry
Do you think he deliberately played up the palsy for this ad?Yes, I do! I saw him on "Boston Legal" too, and he wasn't shaking. I know you didn't ask me, but I just wanted to confirm what the other poster said. :)
To: sokit2mebb
Disgusting campaign ad for Crazy Claire.
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posted on
10/23/2006 1:16:07 PM PDT
by
TYVets
(God so loved the world he didn't send a committee)
To: Dave S
MJF is working to find cures for Parkinson's wherever that takes him Good for him. He can search for cures without resorting to strawman arguments & ad-hominem attacks that masks the real agenda.
To: TYVets; teddyballgame; demsux; truthandlife; Watershed; RegulatorCountry; shankbear; ...
---"Disgusting campaign ad for Crazy Claire"---
Yes, but my concern is: did it work?
Outside of RedState, I have not heard anyone suggest the ad will backfire. Most of what I have heard is that the ad is/was effective.
We can all yell, "shame, shame!" until the cows come home. But we'd better be prepared for the fact that Freeper and RedState folks aren't exactly unbiased pollsters. If it swayed even 1%, it may be another lost seat.
And the GOP's ad blitz during the Super Bowl is what, exactly?
Likely lame, recycled ads already used 1000 times.
That's what worries me.
Hearing a bunch of Freepers and RedStaters tell me "oooooh, this will make Conservatives come out even more" after every Democrat dirty trick and advertisement is hardly comforting.
Right now, the GOP is doing nothing creative. Every ad is the same and reprinted with a different candidate's name:
-Democrat X supports amnesty.
-Democrat X will raise your taxes.
-The stakes are high, and Democrats will plant the white flag of surreneder on the soils of Iraq in the first 100 days.
Meanwhile, with everyone in Missouri watching, Michael J. Fox tells a flat-out and uncontested lie about Jim Talent in an heart-tugging ad for Crazy Claire. Any takers on my bet that the GOP simply doesn't respond? How about Charlton Heston coming on in a brief ad explaining the truths of SCR and talking about his disease?
No, expect more recycled ads. I'm surprised they haven't accidentally run ads for the wrong Republican in some of these races, mixing them up because they are so similar except for the names.
But I suppose we're all supposed to be counting on the "this'll really, really, really, really, really, really, really bring back the cut-and-run Conservatives" memes. Yeah, right. They were just one Democrat ad away from changing their ENTIRE minds about this election.
Here's an idea: how about some effective ads?
Oh, but I ask too much.............
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posted on
10/23/2006 2:22:37 PM PDT
by
TitansAFC
("Life is just one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead.")
To: TitansAFC
I would like to see JUST ONE AD in Missouri, where Heston (or someone from the NRA) tells Missourians that...
MCCASKILL WILL TAKE YOUR GUNS!!!
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posted on
10/23/2006 2:35:28 PM PDT
by
demsux
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
He can search for cures without resorting to strawman arguments & ad-hominem attacks that masks the real agenda What is the REAL agenda MR. Extremist? And you know this how because Rush told you or because someone that you were channelling from Alpha Zeta told you? MJF agenda is Parkinsons pure and simple. He has devoted this part of his life to his foundation. You may not like him trying to work the system but I dont see you objecting to doing the same for tax breaks or social security reform or any of a number of conservative agenda items. Face it, you're just pissed that McCaskill got an effective spokesperson for an issue to which she is aligned. Talent better quit bitching about nursing home audits and get to discussing important issues in this campaign or he's going to lose it.
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posted on
10/23/2006 2:38:37 PM PDT
by
Dave S
To: onedoug
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To: teddyballgame
Let me get this straight:
the author believes that this ad will make GOP voters who were "protesting" against the GOP, now go to the polls and vote against the Democratic candidate, thereby giving Talent their vote against their will?
Whose crazier? Michael J. Fox, or this author?
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