Claim: Ad Attacking Obama For Canceled Troop Visit Mainly Intended For (Lapdog) Media

[jefferson_dem]

Claim: Ad Attacking Obama For Canceled Troop Visit Mainly Intended For Media
from TPM Election Central by Greg Sargent

Okay, this is interesting: It looks as if the new McCain ad falsely attacking Obama over his canceled troop visit may not really have a lot of money behind it, suggesting that its real purpose isn't getting it before voters directly.

Rather, the real target audience may be the media -- meaning that the McCain camp's goal is largely to get the ad debated in the press and to drive the conversation that way.

Evan Tracey, who tracks media buys at the Campaign Media Intelligence Group, took a look at the McCain buys and discovered that an earlier McCain foreign policy attack ad, as well as the troop visit attack spot launched this weekend, are running in almost no battleground-state markets, with the new spot only running in Denver and Washington, D.C.:

"They're probably one part ads and one part press release," he said of the two spots. "I don't think these are in any part cornerstones to his message these days -- I think they're really designed to get in the press."

So, the bogus troop-visit attack ad's primary goal is to get reporters and pundits to talk about it. The McCain campaign is counting on the media to amplify the message for them.

Maybe that alone could persuade media folks to gear up those fact-checking skills and start calling out the ad as false?

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/07/ad_attacking_obama_for_cancele.php

[AndyTiedye]

1. The Media Will Jump At the Excuse to Bash Obama Some More

The MSM effectively gave the Bush campaign a 5 BILLION dollar campaign contribution in 2004 with all the free airtime they gave them.
They will do even more for McAin't.

[AtomicKitten]

2. Look for KO to rip McBush a new one today on this.

[ErinBerin84]

3. I never thought I'd be saying this.

But thank you Andrea Mitchell. She was interviewing someone today, and warned the guy "The ad is literally not true. I was there, I know what happened." Someone posted video on the thread below.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x162523

[pdxmom]

4. It's clearly a swiftboating attempt by McSame, himself. Obama's team was

almost correct when they said he was an honorable man running a dishonorable campaign. McSame is anything but honorable.