{"id":16557,"date":"2008-08-12T08:10:29","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T12:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/16523.html"},"modified":"2008-08-12T08:10:29","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T12:10:29","slug":"new-mccain-ad-hot-chicks-dig-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/new-mccain-ad-hot-chicks-dig-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"New McCain ad: ‘Hot chicks dig Obama’"},"content":{"rendered":"

At this point, I’ve lost count of exactly how many ad\/videos the McCain campaign has released mocking Barack Obama’s so-called “celebrity” status. I suspect we’re approaching double digits by now, and the problem with diminishing returns is rather obvious. It’s one thing for a campaign makes a spot or two to make a point, it’s another to go back to the well five or six times, hoping to beat the same foolish point into the ground.<\/p>\n

And yet, there was yet another “celebrity” spot, released yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n

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Remember when McCain vowed to be a candidate of stature, denouncing campaigns that appeal to the lowest common denominator? Well, as of this week, the same McCain has released a video with the words “hot chicks dig Obama” in it. Seriously.<\/p>\n

Eric Kleefeld asks<\/a> <\/p>\n

Compra Ampicillina Online<\/a><\/div>\n

, “How long until ‘Barack, call me’ ends up in a McCain paid TV ad?” Probably another week or so.<\/p>\n

The timing of the spot is especially odd, given that McCain apparently wants to drive the campaign discussion towards the conflict in Georgia, where McCain hopes a Cheney-like attitude will impress voters. And yet, the same day the Russian military marched deeper into Georgia, McCain unveils a spot about “Obama’s fan club,” in which the McCain campaign refers to Obama as “dreamy.”<\/p>\n

I guess we should be thankful there were no tire-gauges in the spot.
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\nSo, why would McCain bother with the video at all? It’s just a hunch, but I suspect it’s a trap of sorts.<\/p>\n

After the infamous Spears\/Hilton ad a couple of weeks ago, the talk immediately moved to race — the McCain gang, the argument went, connected a black candidate with two promiscuous young, white blondes. The racial subtext soon became the central focus of the criticism.<\/p>\n

This new video skips Spears and Hilton, but nevertheless features a series of young white women, and the tagline, “Hot chicks dig Obama.” With that in mind, I wonder if the McCain campaign hopes<\/i> the video draws complaints about racial subtexts, probably because McCain’s gang thought the “race card” discussion worked in their favor.<\/p>\n

As far as I can tell, the Obama campaign is not, however, falling for this, and isn’t pushing back against the latest video much at all. All things considered, that’s probably the right move.<\/p>\n

Obama’s team can afford to focus its attention elsewhere — there’s bound to be another “celebrity” attack in a day or two anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At this point, I’ve lost count of exactly how many ad\/videos the McCain campaign has released mocking Barack Obama’s so-called “celebrity” status. I suspect we’re approaching double digits by now, and the problem with diminishing returns is rather obvious. It’s one thing for a campaign makes a spot or two to make a point, it’s […]<\/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-16557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16557","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=16557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}