And So It Begins...

[TrollBuster9090]

Saw this ad on Faux Noise today, and can't decide whether it's a genuine attack ad designed to paint Hillary as dishonest, or a faux attack ad designed to raise sympathy for Hillary. Given that it was on Fox News, and the Fox News audience is conditioned to salivate like Pavlovian dogs over this kind of stuff, I'd say it's probably a genuine attack ad. Not likely to see this one on other networks...

[tomm2thumbs]

1. my guess: these are the kinds of ads that get 'posted' online and talked about on news shows

they cost little to produce, probably have almost-no network buys, but generate free ad-time by being talked about on prime time & other shows on FoxNews, Sunday panels, and Morning Joe-type formats, and I'm guessing the more outrageous ones are on the way.

The weirder they are, the more attention they get.

I'm sure they've only just begun.

remember this crapstorm smoking-ad from Herman Cain? Got talked about everywhere because it was nutty coo-coo. (skip 30 seconds in)

[TrollBuster9090]

3. Yeah, except that this one was actually on a Fox commercial break.

So, it was a legitimate network ad buy. ($$$)

But yeah, I agree, making cheap youtube attack ads that then 'mysteriously' transit into discussion segments on the regular networks is a clever way for a campaign to punch above its weight.

[Bucky]

10. I see your "puff piece" and raise you one rock

Gravel Rock

(shit gets real at about 1:10)

[tomm2thumbs]

14. omg

I'm wondering how big the pile of 'big rocks' off camera was, or if he was a one-take wonder

[JimDandy]

2. Ah, yes, here comes the baggage on carousel 1. And now Dems are stuck with the baggage claim ticket

[RoccoR5955]

7. Absolutely! n/t

[Nitram]

8. You sound so cheerfully excited when you anticipate the deluge of attacks on Clinton.

Absolutely!

[RoccoR5955]

13. I don't have to anticipate them

They have already started.
BTW- I am more cheerfully excited with the attacks against Drumpf!

I don't like either one of them. To me, they are equal.

[Nitram]

15. Equal? Very sad.

I hope over the next four years you will be able to change your mind.

[RoccoR5955]

16. It is very sad

that our country has stooped so low.
I am working on getting my EU passport, and become a dual citizen. I have plans to move to Utrecht in the Netherlands come 2018. I am retiring in a year, and it will take a year to sell all my crap here, then move there.
Then I can be done with all the crap here, maybe.

[Nitram]

18. Godspeed.

[RoccoR5955]

20. Sorry, I'm an athiest. No god for me. Thanks any way! n/t

[Nitram]

21. OK, "best of luck."

Or if, as an atheist, you don't believe in luck, "may the random patterns you encounter in life be predominantly of the pleasant varriety."

[PoliticAverse]

4. "Rebuilding America Now" is a new pro-Trump super PAC...

See: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/06/02/donald-trump-ally-secures-32-million-new-super-pac/85320288/

[mdbl]

5. On Faux Noise, who can tell the ads from the content?

It just looks like junk they would run on any of their talking bauble head shows.

[freedom fighter jh]

6. Democrats are going to need to be able to answer this sort of thing.

It's slimy to bring Bill's indiscretions into the conversation.

And when Hillary says she did not send or receive material marked or designated classified (presumably she was talking about her private e-mail and server, but the clip cuts that part out), she is telling the truth technically -- but she did send and receive information that was indeed classified (including 22 messages containing top secret information), even if it was not marked as such, and part of her job as secretary of state was to recognize classified material that had not been through the system to be designated classified. See http://thompsontimeline.com/The_Clinton_Email_Scandal_-_Long_Version_-_Part_1 , the entry for January 21, 2009 - February 1, 2013 (second entry for that date).

"Marked or designated" is weak defense. We need a better response than to point out how slimy this ad is.

[Bucky]

9. Well, we knew all along they were keeping their power dry for this moment

I'm surprised they're starting off so slow. I expect harder hits in the near future.

You're rubbing me raw, Republicans

[jalan48]

11. Get ready for years of Republican hearings and impeachment attempts against Hillary.

Meanwhile big trade agreements will be passed by the Republicans and Democrats while the public waits breathlessly for the next tidbit of scandal.

[zebonaut]

12. Well we tried and tried to nominate someone Baggage Free; except for the S word. Missed your chance

[RoccoR5955]

17. You got dat right!

They blew it!

[Tarc]

19. This is the problem with Republicans, they are the Party of Yesterday

Good luck with running 1994-era attack ads.