{"id":14417,"date":"2008-01-30T16:50:54","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T21:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14417.html"},"modified":"2008-01-30T16:50:54","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T21:50:54","slug":"surprisingly-liberal-and-surprisingly-brutal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/surprisingly-liberal-and-surprisingly-brutal\/","title":{"rendered":"“Surprisingly liberal,” and surprisingly brutal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest anti-McCain attack ad is surprisingly captivating. Kevin Drum noted<\/a> that he loves it because “it’s just so … Republican.”<\/p>\n

It attacks viciously, it smears without compunction, and the production values are first rate. It’s great. The question is, will $20 million worth of airplay (or whatever it’s getting) be enough to save Mitt Romney’s skin?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I kind of doubt it, but it’s a spot that’s worth watching anyway.<\/p>\n

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For those of you who can’t watch videos online, here’s the script:<\/p>\n

(On screen: image of Hillary Clinton) Announcer: “One candidate voted against the Bush tax cuts — both times. And pushed more restrictions on gun owners’ rights. The same candidate joined Ted Kennedy to sponsor amnesty for illegals. And was even mentioned as a running mate for John Kerry.”<\/p>\n

(On screen image of Clinton shifts to the left, revealing image of John McCain.) Announcer: “Hillary Clinton? No<\/i>, John McCain. John McCain, surprisingly liberal.”<\/p>\n

Here’s why I like the ad: it’s accurate<\/i>. It shades some context away, and uses some ridiculous language (“illegals” is not a word), but fundamentally, there’s nothing in this ad that is objectively, factually wrong.<\/p>\n

As right-wing attack ads go, it’s almost honorable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest anti-McCain attack ad is surprisingly captivating. Kevin Drum noted that he loves it because “it’s just so … Republican.” It attacks viciously, it smears without compunction, and the production values are first rate. It’s great. The question is, will $20 million worth of airplay (or whatever it’s getting) be enough to save Mitt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}