Posted on 10/25/2011 11:03:45 AM PDT by mandaladon
On Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom” on Tuesday, network senior political analyst Brit Hume attempted to make sense of recent “odd” decisions by GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, including accusing GOP campaign strategist Karl Rove of picking on him and releasing a web ad of his chief of staff touting Cain’s accomplishments while smoking a cigarette.
The unconventional web ad is “sort of a metaphor for the Cain campaign,” Hume said. “You can never quite figure out what the guy is quite up to. You know, if he were a conventional candidate he would be campaigning in Iowa and New Hampshire and working feverishly to raise money to do so. Instead, he keeps to a travel schedule which seems at times more designed to help him sell his book than it does to help him get nominated for president. The ad, I don’t know what they think they can accomplish — it’s only a web ad. You know, it may not see the light of day many places except that its sheer oddness means it is getting played right here on Fox. And what you get out of having some miscellaneous middle-aged guy smoking a cigarette and saying you’re the right candidate is mystery to me.”
As for the back-and-forth Cain has had with Rove, Hume said that was ill-advised and cautioned against giving too much credence to a recent CBS News/New York Times poll that gave Cain a four-point edge over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and a 15-point edge over former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.
“That’s another odd thing to say,” Hume said. “Look, if you’re running for president you don’t want to get into a fight with Karl Rove. That makes no sense.
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Karl Rove doesn’t like black presidential candidates. There, I said it!
You are absolutely right!!!
Britt, you’ve historically been a reasonable icon of sense in the on-air lie-fests with your fellow liberal conspirators. You have a chance here to redeem yourself with a higher Deity. You’d better take it and get right with yourself, son. Don’t trade your ideals for exposure and acquaintanceship with tools of the devil....
Clinton outspent Bush in 1992 and Bush outspent Kerry in 2004.
I disagree. The ad was great...up until the time the dude lit a cig. I mean...what was the point of that? Granted we have become PC...but this isn't 1950's and that dude ins't the Marlboro man.
It really wasn't necessary to the content of the ad and in the end...was a distraction to the message. Whoever thought of it should be fired. Cain should have been politically SAVEY enough to know this is dumb...even if its a small interenet ad.
That said...he still gets my primary vote and I'm in Texas.
Had it been a typical, conventional ad it would have never been noticed. Actually it was a stroke of brilliance. What could have been less expensive and more effective than a puff of on a cigarette at the very end – look at the attention its received. “I don’t care what you call me, just spell the name right” is at work here.
Probably been to one too many DC cocktail parties.
>>It really wasn’t necessary to the content of the ad and in the end...was a distraction to the message. <<
With all due respect, it was indeed necessary to the content of the ad. First, without the cigarette, none of us would have seen the ad at all. It wouldn’t have drawn the required interest to get it passed around by word of mouth.
Second, the cigarette was very much an “in your face” notice to the PC crowd, and also a not-so-subtle message to the conservatives who’ve been cowed by political correctness.
For example, I’m convinced that George Bush signed on to global warming in his second term because he finally figured it was just “the thing to do”, i.e., don’t fight the PC crowd.
And I’m just as convinced, and this ad is evidence of it, that if Herman Cain says global warming is a scam (and he did say that), then he’s not going to be buffaloed into changing his mind to accommodate the PC crowd a few years from now (in his second term, that is.)
Hume is in the tank for Romney (RINO). Just like in ‘08 Sean Hannity was a Giuliani (RINO) guy. And old, tough guy Bill O’Reilly peed his pants with glee when Obama (MARXIST) came to FOX and graced the set of The O’Reilly Factor. And, I’ll never forget the night when the Immigration debate was going full-force here in the U.S. A. and Geraldo Rivera called the Illegal Mexicans “America’s honored guests”.
MEAT HEADS!
I’m still trying to figure out why Cain’s chief campaign dude smoked in the ad. He’ll either get a lot of smoker votes or lose a whole heck of a lot of non-smoker votes........... NOT!!! It’s still about the Economy.
Your Post #51: Excellent!
Agree with all your right-on points, Norseman.
That one ad told me everything I thought about Herman Cain. He is not going to run with the pack, much less the PC crowd.
Like he has said, over and over, America has got to get a sense of humor - which PC has murdered in the crib.
The ad says even more. Mark Block, Cain’s campaign manager, believes in his guy so much that he is willing to get lung cancer for him.
Agree with all your right-on points, Norseman.
That one ad told me everything I thought about Herman Cain. He is not going to run with the pack, much less the PC crowd.
Like he has said, over and over, America has got to get a sense of humor - which PC has murdered in the crib.
The ad says even more. Mark Block, Cain’s campaign manager, believes in his guy so much that he is willing to get lung cancer for him.
By the way, has Rush commented on this ad.
I would think he would be smoked by it and loving it.
Hume's an idiot. Does he have any idea how many white-middle aged guy who smoke cigarettes vote?
Agreed. Rove and Bush did huge damage to the Conservatives in governorships and US Senate and Congressional offices, as they surreptitiously pushed their "center-right" creepy RINOS. They constantly attacked the true conservatives and displaced them...misusing the power and influence of the White House.
I still remember Rove coming into our Midwest Leadership Conference and ducking and covering and blatantly lying about the "no child left behind" scam. Nobody took him on directly, and called him out on it, because we were all supposed to be 'civil.'
While he and his boss destroyed our philosophy of limited government and fiscal integrity.
He committed suicide.
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