NYTimes: Storyboard for Hit Piece on Obama Leaked From Joe Ricketts' Super PAC

[Bolo Boffin]

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Hitting Jeremiah Wright AGAIN (and again and again), Obama bowing to foreign leaders AGAIN, and more of the same silly stuff we've heard before again and again. Here's the storyboard:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/05/17/us/politics/super-pac-storyboard.html

There's a link to the related article. I just ran into the 10-article-per-month limit or I'd post an excerpt.

ETA: I just saw a Chuck Todd tweet that the Ricketts family and consultants are not just walking, but running away from the Jeremiah Wright thing.

[aquart]

1. Obama got Osama and Bush didn't.

[Bolo Boffin]

2. Unreal, no?

They're still harping on Wright's "chickens come home to roost" and yet Barack Obama sat there for 30 years or whatever soaking up all the God Damn America "hate talk" and then drew a bead on bin Laden anyway!

[tibbiit]

8. I heard on the radio yesterday

That the new hit book on Obama by someone named Klien reveals the Obama campaign paid, or tried to pay Wright 150,000.00 in hush money to "go away." Wright was supposed to have tolod this Klien all about it because he is so "butt hurt" by obama's rejection. We are about to hear this hammered. They want congress to call all kinds of investigations. This radio host was salivating at having a gotcha on Obama. Sickening but get ready to hear this all the time.
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[Atman]

3. It's terrible.

Unfocused, jumps all over the place, full of the same iStock photos used in every other political ad. And who gives a fuck about Reverend Wright anymore? And I can't believe the go there with the WTC -- happened on GOP watch, and Obama got Bin Laden. The ad sucks.

[malaise]

4. Let them go after Rev Wright

It will make going after the Mormon cult real easy

[bigtree]

5. right

. . . as far as I can see it, it's already fair game with the crap this creep and the supporters he's been praising have been saying so far.

[malaise]

6. Indeed

[KurtNYC]

11. and it's 5 minutes long

Character matters? They are going with that and running Romney Scissorhands against a guy who has been in office 4 years now and is a known quantity ?!

Here is a 15 second rebuttal:

(All stock clips of Romney plus graphics of newspaper articles with pull quotes like "He can't look like that!" etc.) "Je m'appelle Mitt Romney", "Listen to my words!", "Corporations are people my friend", "I have never been to Washington", "Let Detroit go bankrupt", (pic of OBL) "We shouldn't move heaven and earth to catch one person" (back to Romney) "Bon jour"

Graphic: Character matters.

Perhaps no decent ad agency wants to be part of the Romney fail.

[Bluenorthwest]

7. Yes, they want us to lay off the Mormonism so they can attack Wright some more....

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[NC_Nurse]

9. This guy started TD Ameritrade. I closed my account there last year.

Just thought others might want to know so they could do the same. I will not do business with these RW a'holes.

[KurtNYC]

10. well, they admit that Obama's budget is for good things: "..end his spending for good"

[aquart]

13. GOP reveals plan to spend only for evil.

[Bolo Boffin]

14. +1

[KurtNYC]

16. Ding !

[hedgehog]

12. Notice the words "slick and cocky" "that grin"

Code for what's that black man doing in our White House?


BTW -Pg 9? you pour syrup on pancakes, you pore over your books!

[Raven]

15. Interesting that this got leaked... someone

there must have a conscience.

[UTUSN]

17. Ameritrade; the Chicago Cubs; a daughter who is an OBAMA fundraiser. But a wingnut.

He might be a tiny bit of a mixed bag, more than the KOCH brothers - used to support Dems, has broken with some wingnuts, and backs down a bit - but a wingnut is a wingnut is a wingnut.


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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_RICKETTS_PROFILED?SITE-MAHYC&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

[font size=5]Billionaire tied to Wright ad blitz a rising force[/font]

By STEPHEN BRAUN
Associated Press

.... J. Joseph Ricketts, 70, a politically conservative Nebraskan known as "Joe," built the TD Ameritrade brokerage firm into a billion-dollar empire that backed the purchase of the Cubs as well as interests in film, media, resorts and bison meat products. As the man reportedly behind a planned $10 million anti-Obama ad blitz - a spokesman on Thursday blamed the proposal on consultants and said it was being shelved - Ricketts is a new force in GOP and conservative politics.
It doesn't run in the family: Ricketts' daughter, Laura, is a prominent lesbian activist who is a volunteer fundraiser for Obama.

Joe Ricketts was identified by a Republican strategist Wednesday as the financier behind plans being drawn up for a $10 million campaign that would have targeted Obama's relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the Chicago pastor with a history of racially incendiary sermons. Wright's relationship with Obama, his former parishioner, was a hot-button issue in the 2008 presidential race. ....


Ricketts' family in 2009 purchased 95 percent ownership of the Chicago Cubs for a reported $900 million. The main investor was Ricketts' son, Tom, who is the team's chairman, but Ricketts' other three children, Laura, Pete and Todd, also have interests and are on the team's board. Joe Ricketts also has an interest. Despite his limited government philosophy, the ball club is pressing for $200 million in state-backed bonds to renovate Wrigley Field, the Cubs stadium also owned by the family. ....

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