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Dirty campaign ads 2012

Puppycow

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Let's start with this low blow from Rom Paul supporters:

Huntsman outraged at ad targeting adopted daughters

An online ad authored by "NHLiberty4Paul" shows footage of Huntsman with daughters Gracie, who was adopted from China, and Asha, adopted from India, when they were infants.

"American values. Or Chinese," the ad asks to a soundtrack of Chinese music. It calls Huntsman "the Manchurian Candidate" and ends with an image of Huntsman dressed as China's former communist leader Mao Zedong, and the words "Vote Ron Paul."
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Wow. Just wow. :boggled:
 
It sounds disgraceful but if Ron Paul genuinely didn't put it out then it can't really be used to discredit him.


ETA: Here's the ad. In fact, it has lots of video of Huntsman speaking Chinese and photoshops of him wearing Maoist clothing and one image of him holding his adopted baby and both of them have bindis. It's just out and out xenophobic.

 
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As long as none of the other candidates or their supporters had anything to do with it then it actually does put a bad light on Ron Paul, even if that light is simply from the reflection off of his supporters. He has gone to places that cater to that kind of crowd (The Alex Jones show for example) so I have no sympathy for him when they show their true colors. He's the one who put himself in front of them in the first place. That alone shows enough poor judgement to take him out of the running as far as I'm concerned.

If it was a dirty trick being played by one of his opponents or their supporters to make it look like Ron Pauls supporters did it then that's a completely different story altogether but I haven't seen anything to indicate that that's the case here.
 
angrysoba said:
ETA: Here's the ad. In fact, it has lots of video of Huntsman speaking Chinese and photoshops of him wearing Maoist clothing and one image of him holding his adopted baby and both of them have bindis. It's just out and out xenophobic.

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Man, that's even worse than I imagined from the description.
 
So, here's another one in the works. This one is not a 30-second or 1-minute spot but a long form hatchet job on Mitt Romney by a Gingrich-backing SuperPAC.

Newt’s Friend Antes Up

Last night I saw a link on Twitter to the news that Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino mogul had given $5 million to a Gingrich-backing SuperPAC to run a brutal series of ads against Mitt Romney in South Carolina. (The ad campaign will be based on snippets from a half-hour swift-boat style ‘documentary’ about Mitt’s time at Bain Capital.) I knew this was big if for no other reason than the fact that $5 million thrown at a relatively small state like South Carolina over little more than a week is enough to totally change the calculus of a race. After all, the whole story of Iowa is that Romney’s backers had enough money to crush Gingrich with a massive bombardment of negative ads. Gingrich simply had no money to respond.

But there’s much more afoot here.

The first part of the equation is that Sheldon Adelson is not just some rich guy. He’s one of the richest men in the country. (The best general backgrounder I’ve seen so far on this news is this piece in the Times. Here’s a lengthy piece from a few year’s ago in The New Yorker on Adelson himself.) For all practical purposes, his funds are unlimited. Giving another $5 million or $10 million would be just as easy as the first. And he’s in the habit of giving lots of money — political money, issue money, lots of money to Jewish causes and causes tied to the Israeli right. So check off the boxes for both the ability and the propensity to give and keep giving if he and Gingrich decide they want to keep this going.
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And here's what part of that $5 million bought:
The Boffo Awfulness
In the preceding post I referenced this swift-boat-style ‘documentary’ on Mitt Romney and Bain Capital which the Gingrich-backing SuperPAC (Winning Our Future) has bought and will use as the battering ram against Romney in South Carolina. They’ve put up a trailer for it now which you can see after the jump. It really is right out of the Swift Boat witch’s brew, the camp lighting, rumbling black clouds, the cinematography of 30 second hit ads expanded out longform.

Just watch …
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(Normal link here). This is just a trailer for it, but you get the idea.
 
More on this from the NY Times:
PAC Ads to Attack Romney as Predatory Capitalist

“His business success comes from raiding and destroying businesses — putting people out of work, stealing their health care,” said Rick Tyler, a senior adviser to the pro-Gingrich super PAC, Winning Our Future, which recently bought the film, “King of Bain: When Mitt Romney Came to Town,” after groups backing two other Republican candidates passed up opportunities to use it.

The movie scenes and the influx of money that enable the pro-Gingrich group to run the advertising campaign have “all the makings of a game-changer,” Mr. Tyler said.
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Of course, Gingrich will claim, with some justification, that Romney started it:
Mr. Gingrich, who held the lead in the polls in South Carolina last month before falling back, attributes his fade there and earlier in Iowa, where he finished fourth in the caucuses last week, to a deluge of attack advertisements from a super PAC supporting Mr. Romney, Restore Our Future.
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It's funny how similar the names of these SuperPACs are: Winning Our Future and Restore Our Future.
 
Dude, this is not a slime job. Mittens is a vulture. I hope that the Democrats buy those ads and run them after the rich thug gets the nimination.

If it's true it aint libel.
 
Puppycow said:
So, here's another one in the works. This one is not a 30-second or 1-minute spot but a long form hatchet job on Mitt Romney by a Gingrich-backing SuperPAC.

Newt’s Friend Antes Up



And here's what part of that $5 million bought:
The Boffo Awfulness


(Normal link here). This is just a trailer for it, but you get the idea.
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From the "trailer" what I get is that capitalism, innovation and hard work is what made the USA strong apart from when it's Romney does it, then it is bad.
 
Darat said:
From the "trailer" what I get is that capitalism, innovation and hard work is what made the USA strong apart from when it's Romney does it, then it is bad.
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Well, actually, thepoint is that what Mittens does is not venture capitalism. More like ship-breaking. Close the factory and sell the equipment to a slave-labor sweat shop in China or Vietnam
or Saipan.

Big profit to the shareholders and Mittens, devastating loss to the American working class.
 
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