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- SimonKay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23"The ad starts with illegal immigrants running across the border. It then cuts to images of Osama bin Laden and Zacarias Moussaoui ... The ad ends with the word "liberal" pulsing on the screen as a shadowy figure walks down a long hallway."
It's hard to believe political ads like the one above are effective on adults. The tactics used are unbelievably juvenile. It's so obvious that you would have to be a complete idiot to be manipulated by this crap. - cham44, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18"The ad starts with illegal immigrants running across the border. It then cuts to images of Osama bin Laden and Zacarias Moussaoui ... The ad ends with the word "liberal" pulsing on the screen as a shadowy figure walks down a long hallway."
It's hard to believe political ads like the one above are effective on adults. The tactics used are unbelievably juvenile. It's so obvious that you would have to be a complete idiot to be manipulated by this crap.
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dude, this election is in TN - pintomp3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11great, we will be living in a state of fear for the rest of our lives. who are the terrorists again?
- peritonlogon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9It's a good thing he has proteges, I was really dreading issues-based politics, actual debates and politics responsive to the will of its citizens. Looks like the political world of my 30s will suck as bad as the political world of my 20s, maybe even more! I wonder when we'll have to compare ourselves to Russia to look favorable? Already we've reached to 'yeah well at least we're not in China,' after passing 'at least we're not in Venezuela" since a lot of people would rather be in Venezuela right now.
- nzjrs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9It's hard to believe political ads like the one above are effective on adults.....
helllooo! Red States - recipher, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10This is, by far, the scariest headline I've ever read on Digg.
- livestradamus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8who are the terrorists again?
Everyone who is not with us! - funkpucker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I live in TN too, have for most of my life. Corker was my mayor. He sucked. That Ford guy looks like a straight-shooter. I've also lived in California, Oregon, Massachusetts, and west Africa (Sierra Leone) The stupidest people do live in Tennessee. Corker will prolly win.
- cham44, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Hate to burst their bubble but I'm still voting for Harold Ford Jr. I do live in TN but at least I can say I wasn't born or raised here. The most ignorant and uneducated people I have ever met live right here.
- malfourmed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Just wait for the one called Damien!
- funkpucker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3...and yeah, if you haven't seen the ad yet, the hit-you-over-the-head obviousness of the propganda in the commercial is stupifying. The description by SimonKay is right on. Republicans in TN think that citizens believe the word liberal is akin to satan workshipper. The amazing part is that most people I've talked to, who have seen the commercial around here, don't see the obvious psychological manipulations.
- jellygraph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Disease does what it does best - spreading...
The thing they don't realise is that once it becomes a norm, its effectiveness goes down the drain. Welcome to the republican defeat.
Here I lie.
Managed to pull it off a trend
Too arrogant to spot when it would end.
RIP - neozeed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Poland is still with us right?
Dont forget Poland! - maiku00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3poland is full of terrorists!
- 15charmaxwtf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Makes me sick.
- spinchange, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4favorite quote from article:
"I learned a lot more about spreadsheets under Karl than I ever knew before."
-Terry Nelson, Rove pupil now head of McCain's political action committee - Joe091, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2We are all doomed.
I have a feeling the next election will be more of the same, the Democrats won't take back The House or Senate, and we will be screwed again. I would be cool if we had a Democratic Congress and John McCain as Pres, but not McCain AND a GOP Congress. Maybe a Dem. will win the Presidency... otherwise we might need to brush up on our Newspeak. - ROBERTCAT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"But it's not all bare-knuckled offense; Howell leavens his attack ads with soft-focus spots featuring his candidates' families. One ad for Mike Bouchard, running for the Senate in Michigan, features the candidate wedged between his teenage daughter and her date. "Isn't this fun?" the candidate deadpans to the hapless boyfriend."
See they're not all evil guys!!! - lebaige, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Red state" and "blue state" are terms made up to polarize people. It's a shame some people have come to denegrade entire states now simply based on their political leanings.
As for the ad .. don't fool yourself into thinking this sort of tactic wouldn't work for democratic voters as well. Everyone is vulnerable to emotional ploys. Why do you think you used to see those ads on television all the time with starving somalian children playing in mud water?
As Clinton himself said, an election with a politically divided populace is all about the psychology. Why do you think so many Democrats are running on a platform of "I don't support" Bush instead of a platform issues? - Manhigh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Governmental gridlock > no governmental gridlock.
I always hope the congress and the presidency will belong to opposing parties. Tends to keep the politicians moderate.
Vote for Gridlock in '08 - harumph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2it is sort of like when cockroaches infest your building. they just keep making more cockroaches and you fumigate but it just sends them next door. then they fumigate and they come back to your apartment.
- theapbt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Oh, lawdy lawd. It's not hard to manipulate the rednecks. Those poor souls believed the neocons have their best interest at heart.
- PopcornDave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ever seen a beer commercial?
- portnoy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2It's nice to see some republicans are still winning elections the old fashioned republican way, through deception. Manipulating the election itself seems so cold and impersonal to me.
- NapoleonGold, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nice little info-sheet Im impressed MSNBC
Why does Gates hate our country:P - bendover74, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Provoke fear and intice deception in peoples mind and you will be amazed on how much result you generate.
You can almost say that this is a foolproof way to get the "50/50" voters your way.
A good thing to combine with these tactics is to stop (or decrease) science education in school. Do not create independant thinkers who can make their own mind. - lopla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why train to be a Karl Rove? Here is how to be a Karl Rove in 5 seconds:
1. embrace disinformation, lie about the democrats and convice the simpletons it's the truth
2. keep em scared, keep the voters scared for victory
3. work under a clueless politician who needs a puppet master
4. praise the lord, keep the religious right happy even if you are a serial sinner they'll never know
5. keep em scared. - PopcornDave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Shouldn't that really be "The Next Generation of Lee Atwaters"? I mean let's give credit where credit is due here.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sounds like a hitlist for a Hollywood action flick
- msafi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Who wrote the description for this entry, George Costanza?
- mrJJ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Huffington Post has learned that Terry Nelson, a second producer of the racist Corker ad and a consultant to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Wal-Mart, is to be fired by Wal-Mart for his role in producing the ad.
In the behind-the-scenes hunt for 2008 campaign talent, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has bagged a big one.
Terry Nelson, who served as national political director for President Bush's reelection race in 2004, has signed on as a senior adviser to McCain's Straight Talk America political action committee
Nelson was implicated in the infamous New Hampshire-phone jamming scandal [in 2002] and he was an unindicted coconspirator in the political money-laundering case which ended Tom DeLay's career
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Terry_Nelson
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Texas_redistricting_scandal
In addition, the indictment claims that Ellis and TRMPAC, “did tender, deliver, and cause to be tendered,” a check signed by John Colyandro (but filled out by Ellis) to Terry Nelson, a representative of the Republican National Committee, for $190,000
Affiliations
Named Political Director for Bush-Cheney '04 Inc., July 26, 2003
Named Deputy Chief of Staff of Republican National Committee (RNC), January 17, 2002
Partner at Dawson McCarthy Nelson Media
Political Director and National Field Director for the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC)
Founder and principal, Crosslink Strategy, a firm launched in 2005 to "manufacture 'grassroots' campaigns for corporations and interest groups," according to the Texas Observer [2] [3]
Working Families for Wal-Mart representative, 2006 - deesnutz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Could someone please check their skulls?
I want to actually see a pic of the "666" engraved in their heads.
GOP = Satan's Party in disguise
And I didn't know that Dick "Lucifer" Cheney was still spawning. - PopcornDave, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1But how is this any different than the Democratic ads that scream anybody who isn't a Democrat wants to take away your right to an abortion?
Both sides do it, and obviously it's effective or they'd stop. - chatty82, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's hard to conform to the European standard of excellence where people have fancy degrees in the subject they are employed in. Karl Rove was a baby boomer who lived through the 60s "dropout culture" when Timothy Leary launched the slogan "Tune in, Turn on, and Drop out". He is one of the genuine employees of Bush that has varied experience at several U. S. Colleges and universities where he tried to get rehabilitated after the 60s.
We can't all have "'degrees in international relations at Stanford" like the Hungarian speechwriting department claim Condi has. Even if you did, that isn't the type of people Bush appoints, he seems to prefer uneducated people that the Ukraine can manipulate, write speeches for, and illiterate people where they can write out the fo-net-tiks in the speech to be given. How come the "Russian expert" Condi doesn't speak Russian? Akkadian seems to be her main language, and she speaks a little Rwandan. - DSPGeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0From Donald Segretti to Lee Atwater to Karl Rove to a new generation of scumbags. Where's the Zyklon-B when you really need it?
- deesnutz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Great, just what America needs more law breaking, undercover CIA agent "Leakers"
Everybody knows it. He's a lying, subversive scumbag and always has been. The GOP loves him. We hate him. Let the world know ...
Karl Rove:
Traitor,
Liar,
Republican Bumper Sticker
http://www.democratgiftshop.com/cgi-bin/store/store.cgi/1585028665/anti_bush_gear.26138228/-/8 - neozeed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I say we go down to walmart and start donating money to the communists. The sooner they come here the better.
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