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Expert Witness: Mac McCaughan
Open Salon interview.
2006 political ads: Santorum’s dud
A struggling Santorum resorts to the nuclear button.
A struggling Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Penn., went nuclear Wednesday, with an ad that tries to ally challenger Bob Casey with North Korea and China. Ah, the acrid smell of desperation in the weeks before a congressional election! Be prepared for even more of these terror-filled spots in these glorious final days of Campaign 2006, all of which carry a little DNA from the mother of all scare ads: The 1964 Lyndon Johnson “Daisy Girl” ad against Barry Goldwater (bottom ad, below).
2006 political ads: Harold Ford gets smeared
A Ford/Playboy connection gets big play.
From Michael Scherer’s piece today: “The GOP seems to believe that Ford’s appeal to its most reliable voters is working. In recent days, the Republican National Committee has attempted to reverse the troubling polls in Tennessee with a television ad that both attacks Ford’s religious credentials and invokes that old standby of American politics, racial fear.”
2006 political ads: Harold Ford — the “Playboy”
An early attack ad against Harold Ford.
This National Republican Senatorial Committee ad against Harold Ford sports an early mention of a Playboy connection that the party hopes will rile Christians against Ford.
2006 political ads: Harold Ford goes to church
Rep. Harold Ford preaches to the choir.
Salon’s piece on Rep. Harold Ford Jr.’s senate campaign spotlights his appeal to churchgoers, as in the TV spot below.
2006 political ads: The star(?)-studded response to Michael J. Fox
The conservative response to the Michael J. Fox ad -- in Aramaic?
We’re a little baffled by this Republican response to the Michael J. Fox ad in support of stem-cell research. Is quarterback Kurt Warner interviewed from jail? Is Patricia Heaton in church? And is a stoned JIm Caviezel, at the very beginning of this ad, speaking in Aramaic? Seriously: What the hell is he saying? Translators, please post in the Comments.
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