The RNC is crying over the very accurate ad that the DNC is running about John McCain. You remember his ‘I’ll stay in Iraq for 100 years,” statement? Well, they are trying to force MSNBC and CNN to stop running the ad. Marc Ambinder reports this: (his link is broken so I’m posting it)
The Republican National Committee wants CNN and MSNBC to stop airing the DNC’s new national television advertisement, calling it “false and defamatory” and illegally coordinated.
“This is a complaint about the facts that are being misrepresented in the ad, and this being a deliberate falsehood, that we are saying, stations have an obligation to protect the public from airing a deliberate falsehood,” said Sean Cairncross, an RNC lawyer.
The RNC provided no evidence to support their change that the communication was illegally coordinated, aside for a few newspaper articles pointing out that some Democrats work for both a candidate and the committee, like pollster Cornell Belcher. DNC chairman Howard Dean said this morning that neither campaign saw or heard the ad before the put it out.
The RNC is ginning up the threat of legal action to give weight to their criticism of the ad’s content. Cairncross would not say whether the party will sue CNN or MSNBC, the two cable networks airing the ad, if they refuse to kill it.
I noticed that FOX News wasn’t included in Marc’s story so my question to Howard Dean was if the DNC had already submitted the ad to FOX News and if so—did they approve or decline to run the ad?
The DNC said they did send it to FOX News, but so far have not been given a response on it. Maybe they are waiting for the RNC’s blessing. Either way, no answer is an answer.
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They can run ads on Rev. Wright and then they can complain about something that was said by McCain himself, and even keep a straight face. I think.
Too bad they didn’t feel this way in 2006 when the swiftboaters attack ads were playing. We’d probably have a real president right now!
Yes indeed the fight to the end is now beginning.
This means the ad is having its intended effect. Good job, Dr. Dean! Let’s keep these types of ads coming!
RNC doesn’t want the truth to start showing up on TV. Bad for the party.
Bunch of duplicitous hypocrites.
The first time I saw the ad I knew the rnc would go apeshit. And yeah ’swiftboat’ was the first word that came to my mind upon reading this article. The reslug nambla committee needs to clean that lump out of their panties and stop whining. They’re evil black hearted bastards and they seem to think that’s ok so long as no one points that out to the public. And that’s what’s really wrong with the ad… too much truth.
Yep, the GOP can dish out the bullshit, but can’t handle the truth.
So is the GOP going to demand that congress condemn the DNC ads, ala MoveOn?
LOL, can’t handle the truth, but will allow anything the swiftboaters and others lie about to circulate at random with no objections, even repeating those type of allegations.
“This is a complaint about the facts that are being misrepresented in the ad, and this being a deliberate falsehood, that we are saying, stations have an obligation to protect the public from airing a deliberate falsehood,” said Sean Cairncross, an RNC lawyer.
Man, i just can not wait until they start complying!
I’m very proud to say I helped fund that ad. And the RNC can suck my big one.
Sucks to be getting p4wned by your own stumbling moron. Stumbling morons. McCain for all his media darlingness is Old, Old, Old, Old, Old, and doesn’t know when to shut his trap. The fatal love affair he’s having with the sound of his own voice will destroy him in the GE. Obama won’t need to do much aside from run a clean, straight campaign and tell it like it is. McCain will deconstruct himself.
Man those RNC thugs are a bunch of whiners. We should send them some pacifiers. They’d show Obama’s middle school yearbook information if they thought it would win the election.
How is it misleading when they use the words that came out of his mouth?
What’s misleading is this idea that you can put a occupation force in the middle of Arabia and at some point they will be at peace with it for 100 years or more. If Sunnis and Shites have had a blood feud for 1,000 years, why in the hell will they let a invader off the hook in 10 years or 100 years?
Hubris, your name is RNC.
Gall, your name is Republican.
Barbarian, your name is McCain.
What I like a lot about this ad is that it does a double whammy-shows McCain as the creepy warmonger that he is, and shows him as looking old and frail by being filmed from his left side, the one where he had a big piece of surgery and the one he studiously avoids showing in scripted appearances. You cannot call him old and frail by name, but the camera of whoever filmed this does the work for us.
Now, let’s get 30 second ads up with `Bomb, Bomb, Bomb… Iran’ and `I don’t know much about economics.’!!!!!
If the information in the ad is false i hope the RNC wins. Then any of us can sue to stop the flood of lies and misinformation that comes spewing out of the corporate media. That will shut down a lot of bullshit.
I am not clear on there being falsehoods when they are McCain’s own words. Perhaps they should take legal action against McCain for saying something so stupid.
This is pretty much what I expect from them.
And I expect the media to parrot the RNC’s words. “We do have a responsibility to make sure the ad is factual, right?” They’ll say that. They won’t actually do anything. They’ll just talk about how they have that responsibility.
Then the issue will morph in the public discourse from whether the ad actually is factual to whether the Republicans are correct to suggest that the media should be factual. And it’ll be implied that the Democrats are against facts.
We’ve been operating through the looking glass like this for some time.
I’m sick of living in this country.
slippy hussein toad @ 12:
I heard somebody say you will need an archeologist to dig up dirt on McCain. :)
xoites (Bitter before Country was Cool) defends Constitution @ 17:
Ha ha ha ha ha! You’re a funny guy, xoites. But the RNC would never EVER voluntarily turn off the bovine fecal spigots. Without self-serving bullshit, what would Republicans have to do, or talk about?
xoites (Bitter before Country was Cool) defends Constitution @ 17:
No, only Democratic “falsehoods” will be actionable.
This is too rich. RNC can’t stop the Wright Ads which are totally dishonest and despicable but the truth has to be hidden. Just desserts for the Republicans. Corporate media needs to run this ad on a continuous loop like they did the Wright tape.
It is very inconvenient to the RNC that their candidate says the things that he says.
xoites (Bitter before Country was Cool) defends Constitution @ 20:
Speaking of which, I am looking forward to the 4th Indiana Jones movie. Maybe they’ll find McCain’s mummy in a crypt. Scary as hell!
slippy hussein toad @ 21:
Nothing. Then we could get down to the business of creating a working society.
xoites (Bitter before Country was Cool) defends Constitution @ 20:
LOL - I heard the skeletons in his closet has already dissolved into oil and is being pumped from the oil fields of Kuwait
xoites (Bitter before Country was Cool) defends Constitution @ 20:
Just scratch the surface and it comes flooding out.
Please waste your money trying to sue. You will lose.
This tactic and many more of the slimy repugs trud tactics won’t be tolerated by the sane majority.
And Rev. Wright can say what the hell he wants. It’s just like the repugs to have the audcity to try take away freedom of religion from a African-American. Rev Wright is living in an area where his words hold true. To the repugs I say go pick you spiritual leader to pieces.
Go Obama!
Go USA!
Go Rev. Wright!
Ron @ 28:
Yes, but use a brush (not a shovel) to preserve the history.
Imagine how long a list you could compile of “deliberate falsehoods” that have been put forth by the repuliscum in the last 8 years!!!! Reading about this kind of hypocrisy makes me so fucking irate! It wasn’t long ago that el chimpo’s minions were putting out falsehoods about mclame themselves when it served their purpose. Fucking Hypocrites!
Funny how the Repugs complain about frivolous lawsuits…
Otay @ 8:
They are the worst bullshitters on earth.
We need to counter sue then. The ad they want to run in Indiana is a lie and McCain wanted to stop it before he was for it. Where have I heard that before? Anyway THEIR ad says that any superdelegates that support Obama must be Rev Wright believers.
Chris F. @ 32:
There are not enough people to do the job. Just take a look at this list and compare that to the number of lies that allowed it to happen.
I would just like some journalist or civilian in a town meeting ask John McCain, ” How long will you keep U.S. forces in Iraq while they are receiving casualties?”.
The excuse that he uses is that he only meant for a hundred years without casualties. Well, how long with ongoing casualties?
Well, folks, reality is on our side. Let’s hope our side does not cave in to the keep-your-head-in-the-sand GOP goons.
Janet @ 35:
Enough lawsuits could shut down the corporate media.
I can dream, can’t i?
Gosh, I seem to recall a FOX affiliate in Florida who claimed not too long ago that it was their *right* to air deliberate falsehoods (to claim justification for firing an anchor who refused to play along). But in this case, the ad is completely accurate.
You know, modern Republicans make a lot more sense if you think of them in terms of aliens from Bizarro World, where everything is the opposite of what it is here. Seriously. Everything they do is the opposite of the words that come out of their mouths. It’s freaky.
If the Corporate Media were really “fair and balanced” they’d be playing this ad over and over again in its entirety just as they did the NC Republican attack as against Obama. But of course, the Republican party is the Corporate Media’s darling baby that they fawn over in the interest of keeping control of the FCC.
Snowball @ 41:
FCC (Fuck the Common Citizen)
xoites (Bitter before Country was Cool) defends Constitution @ 36:
Wow that is long list. Thanks for the link.
Oh please, please, please RNC, sue, sue, sue! That would keep this ad in the network rotation indefinitely. Please, please, please!
Ron @ 10:
Using their logic we are winning chimpy’s war. Their logic print more money. Their yee-haw logic. Serious inbreeding.
How and why they show their faces is beyond ignorance.
A while back I saw a cartoon about the Statue of Liberty (100% babe) kicking the shit out of Uncle Sam. This is what has to happen. Uncle Sam is too corrupt for his red, white and blue britches.
CantankerousDave @ 40:
They make perfect sense when you realize they are scam artists with a double standard.
Otay @ 38:
Unfortunately Otay, reality is not on our side. We live in a bizarro world were the powers that be feel they can create their own version of it. I hate to say it but “our side” has already caved in, and will sadly continue to do so.
WWWHHHAAAAAAA………. All these losers know how to do is whine….oh, and lie.
It’s time the TRUTH came to light and these LYING FOOLS take the heat….
WWWHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA…
Republicans are actually people who are so terrified that their way of life will be destroyed by anything new or different that they are willing to lie, cheat, steal and even kill (if need be) to protect it. In the process they are destroying it. Seven year olds have more common sense.