Unions’ New Ad Boosts Congressional Dems, Bashes GOP “Party Of No”
The White House’s allies on the left are going up with a new ad that bashes the GOP as the “party of No,” using the GOP as a foil in order to tout Congressional Dems and their work in getting Obama’s agenda through.
The spot is paid for by AFSCME and the liberal group Americans United For Change:
The ad, which will run on national cable for a week, runs through the legislation passed by Congressional Dems this year — health care for children, the budget, the stimulus package. It hammers the GOP for having said “No” to all of them.
The focus on Congressional Dems reflects a sense among groups on the left that public support for Obama’s agenda hasn’t given enough of lift to Dem leaders in Congress. The spot awards them credit for helping realize Obama’s accomplishments, and keeps boxing in the GOP as relentlessly obstructionist, laying the messaging groundwork for Dems to attempt a series of hugely ambitious initiatives that will require some of the heaviest Congressional lifting yet.
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This attack ad is not a good idea because the truth is some Republicans voted for SCHIP as well as Lilly Ledbetter. Thats going to hurt their credibility.
Good Morning Greg,
Just wanted to share this with you… not sure if you have seen it yet. Jed Lewison put together a video debunking the claim that Rove and Fox news and he used Bush’s words against them. Jed has made some pretty hard hitting videos, but I think this one takes the cake.
http://www.dailykostv.com/w/001220/
Goodmorning Jenn D
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This is off topic but an op ed this morning from a FBI official debunks much of the stories about the effectiveness of torture and what was supposedly revealed by it.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/opinion/23soufan.html?_r=2&ref=opinion
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Re the ad Greg posted above… I think you are forgetting the marketing lessons of the last eight years and beyond. A compelling narrative, simple in design, that speaks to fundamentals in the human psyche and to perceived contemporary realities, is much more effective than a dry elucidation of fact. As The Onion famously put it, the contrasting Democrat and Republican message strategies can be narrowed down to: “Let’s talk better mileage” versus “Kill all the ********!”
Though the ad above might be “false” in the sense that it omits exceptions, those exceptions are relatively miniscule. The thrust or truth-claim the ad puts forward is far more true than it is false.
I truly cannot imagine an ad such as this having any measurable negative consequence.