February 22, 2004
Blog Ads of a Different Kind
By Karl-Thomas Musselman
Bush may be gearing up to release some if his $143 million in the first blast of ads on television but it seems the RNC has started their part on the web.
Yesterday I checking out the statistics for Burnt Orange Report traffic, which had exploded because of Byron's latest posting about the Rick Perry Rumors. There on top of the Site Meter Report was the latest banner ad from the Rublican National Committee which I managed to capture.
Interesting that they were using Edwards for their picture if they are so sure that John Kerry will be their opposition. Though I have wondered if it may be their intention to start attacking Kerry this next week in the lead up to Super Tuesday voting so that Kerry has to defend from two sides and give Edwards a chance of slipping in some wins. (Conspiracy: Hurt Kerry now so that Edwards becomes the nominee because they would rather run against him and have the money to afford this even if it doesn't work and Kerry just gets damaged?)
Either way, I went ahead and clicked on the ad to see where it went to. It was just the usual front page for getting people to find out more about Bush. But it did have the following interesting piece which I captured as well and I bracketed the quote I will refer to.
Now that the total National Debt is over $7,000,000,000,000 (seven trillion dollars) and the year's shortfall is a mere half a Trillion dollars, I'm having trouble seeing where and how we are not denying, ignoring, or passing along a problem to future generations.
UPDATE: A reader by the name of Benjamin L. has sent me a screenshot of his own by e-mail. He had this to say..."The RNC has been running their ads for several weeks now. I took this screencap two weeks ago, and I think you'll agree they aren't doing the best job of targetting them. Feel free to post it." So I am. It's in the extended entry because it's kinda big.
UPDATE 2: Kudos to 100 Monkeys Typing for yet another great example. Click here and then click on the ad. It's interesting.
Posted by Karl-Thomas Musselman at February 22, 2004 05:39 AM
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It's like the cover of the recent TIME magazine which asks, "Does Bush Have A Credibility Gap?"
Hell no!
He's a LIAR. Call it for what it is.
I have a copy of the 2003 State of the Union address, which I saved for personal reasons, and I've reread it several times over the past few months. I'm struck by the enormity and number of the whoppers he told, no matter that I've practically memorized key portions. It always slays me.
We can only hope that Shrubya continues to open his mouth in front of the cameras, like he did in response to reporters' questions about the "2.6 million new jobs" forecast for this year. Every time he talks, his approval rating slips.
Keep on ly...I mean, talking. :)
I wonder if these ads are paid for on the basis of the number of click-throughs? Do we have an opportunity to drain - ever so slightly - the Republican coffers here?
They had one up attacking Dean for weeks and weeks.
A friendly tip: keep Deficit and Debt straight. The national debt, the total amount of money owed by the Federal Gov't, just topped 7 trillion. The deficit is the amount of money the Fed has to borrow in a year to cover its expenses. The deficit is estimated to be about $521 billion dollars for FY2005. There's some evidence that the administration has overestimated the deficit number for next year, though why they would, I can't imagine. In any case, it'll be bad. GWB is a miserable fiscal manager. Come to think of it, it's hard to think of anything he's managed well.
Fixed. Thanks. With numbers that large, it's getting to the point where it all starts to seem the same. Sad indeed.
