$18,000 For A Single Ad, Shown Once

[Alan Grayson]

It’s difficult to describe how crazy the Presidential race has made TV ad prices in Orlando. But let me try.

In Orlando, it now costs $18,000 to run a 30-second ad, once, on the CBS show “Two and a Half Men.”
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Now I recognize that “Two and a Half Men” is a magnificent tour de force, a beautifully-wroughtchef d’oeuvre putting a magnifying glass to contemporary society, a pitch-perfect analysis by our greatest living prose stylists, an ambitious and poignant masterwork that establishes itself as one of the most profound artistic accomplishments in American history, a gritty and gripping and darkly funny achievement that will inspire countless millions for generations to come.

And that’s even without Charlie Sheen.

But $18,000 for one ad? Come on! That’s more than what I paid for my car.
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Yet whether we like it or not, that’s what it costs to put our message -- for all of 30 seconds -- in front of fewer than 200,000 pairs of eyeballs in Orlando. Roughly 40,000 of whom live in our district. And fewer than 5,000 of whom are undecided voters in our district.

Here are some other pungent, acrid examples:

“Mike and Molly” - $18,000. An unheard show, at an unheard-of cost.

“Hawaii Five-0” - $14,000. And that’s minus Jack Lord.

“How I Met Your Mother” - $14,000. At that price, Dad can keep it to himself.

But what are we supposed to do – just let Karl Rove and the Koch Brothers shout us all down?

So there you have it. In order to convey to our voters what we would do for them, and what the other side will do to them, we have to pay staggering sums, in order to dart in and out of the crevasses of what passes for entertainment these days. What a strange, strange world.
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But you understand what is at stake. We have to win. So we need your help.
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Tomorrow, we need campaign finance reform. But today, we have to win. So we need your help.
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Courage,

Alan Grayson

[sabrina 1]

1. Rooting for you from the West Coast.

I will help as much as I can, we need you back in Congress!

[baldguy]

2. And people wonder why thecoporate media keeps saying the Pres ace is a "tie"