Richard Tafoya
Sep 10th, 2008, 11:56 AM
TPM:
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/dncs_chief_researcher_we_sent.php
As noted below, the McCain campaign has a new ad (http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/new_mccain_ad_obama_a_wolf_pre.php) out designed to portray Obama as a predator and Sarah Palin as prey by pointing to 30 opposition researchers that the Obama team allegedly sent to Alaska to savage her.
Of course, the article that the ad references doesn't say Obama sent them -- it actually says Democrats sent them.
But the Democratic National Committee's chief of research, Mike Gehrke, tells me that the DNC hasn't sent a single researcher to Alaska. "Zero," Gehrke says.
Gehrke also offered this little gem:
"If I had 30 researchers, they'd be busy trying to keep track of McCain's houses."
On the ad:
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/new_mccain_ad_obama_a_wolf_pre.php
McCain is up with a new ad that depicts Obama's oppo-researchers as hungry wolves in the hunt for Sarah Palin -- an effort to depict Palin as victim and Obama as predator.
The ad, as usual, is full of distortions and falsehoods. The narrator's claim of "completely false" attacks on Palin comes from a FactCheck.org examination (http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/sliming_palin.html) of Internet rumors about Palin, having absolutely nothing to do with Obama. And the Wall St. Journal report of opposition researches headed to Alaska -- as if researching your opponent were wrong -- was a reference to Democratic operatives, not the Obama campaign specifically.
Separately, those with extremely long memories will recall that four years ago, the Bush-Cheney campaign -- including current McCain adviser Steve Schmidt -- also used images of wolves in an ad sliming John Kerry (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU4t9O_yFsY). In that case, the wolves represented terrorists.
This time, however, the goal is not to portray Obama as weak a la Kerry, but as threatening. So the wolves are Obama's oppo-folks, out to savage Palin.
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/dncs_chief_researcher_we_sent.php
As noted below, the McCain campaign has a new ad (http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/new_mccain_ad_obama_a_wolf_pre.php) out designed to portray Obama as a predator and Sarah Palin as prey by pointing to 30 opposition researchers that the Obama team allegedly sent to Alaska to savage her.
Of course, the article that the ad references doesn't say Obama sent them -- it actually says Democrats sent them.
But the Democratic National Committee's chief of research, Mike Gehrke, tells me that the DNC hasn't sent a single researcher to Alaska. "Zero," Gehrke says.
Gehrke also offered this little gem:
"If I had 30 researchers, they'd be busy trying to keep track of McCain's houses."
On the ad:
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/new_mccain_ad_obama_a_wolf_pre.php
McCain is up with a new ad that depicts Obama's oppo-researchers as hungry wolves in the hunt for Sarah Palin -- an effort to depict Palin as victim and Obama as predator.
The ad, as usual, is full of distortions and falsehoods. The narrator's claim of "completely false" attacks on Palin comes from a FactCheck.org examination (http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/sliming_palin.html) of Internet rumors about Palin, having absolutely nothing to do with Obama. And the Wall St. Journal report of opposition researches headed to Alaska -- as if researching your opponent were wrong -- was a reference to Democratic operatives, not the Obama campaign specifically.
Separately, those with extremely long memories will recall that four years ago, the Bush-Cheney campaign -- including current McCain adviser Steve Schmidt -- also used images of wolves in an ad sliming John Kerry (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU4t9O_yFsY). In that case, the wolves represented terrorists.
This time, however, the goal is not to portray Obama as weak a la Kerry, but as threatening. So the wolves are Obama's oppo-folks, out to savage Palin.