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NRSC RELEASES NEW TV AD ABOUT FRANKEN’S BUSINESS PROBLEMS
By Michael B. Brodkorb | October 14, 2008
The NRSC has released another television ad highliting Al Franken’s business problems. As noted before, I like these ads because they subtly connect Franken’s business problems with the current problems on Wall Steet.
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October 14th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
HAHA.
You lasted all of 2 hours on the Coleman campaign is riding the high horse because it is going positive until you say “you like these ads” that are personal attacks?
October 14th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Why make negative attack ads when you can get someone else to make them for you?
October 14th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Where did they get the footage–from a Franken anecdote about Paul Wellstone? You people are the biggest frauds in town.
October 14th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
These ads are not personal attacks. These ads are focused on the issues and on Al Frankens record juxtaposed to those issues.
You can’t just go around calling every ad an attack ad, Mouth.
October 14th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
“Where did they get the footage–from a Franken anecdote about Paul Wellstone? You people are the biggest frauds in town.”
That’s a different ad, dip shit.
Moreover, that clip of him impersonating Paul Wellstone is just one of the many clips used to show Al Franken exploding and acting like an out of control asshole.
October 14th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
“These ads are not personal attacks. These ads are focused on the issues and on Al Frankens record juxtaposed to those issues.”
Yeah, calling someone a “deadbeat” is really sticking to the issues.
October 14th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
“These ads are not personal attacks.”
Calling Franken a DEADBEAT isn’t “personal”??!?
Maybe on your shortbus that’s true, but once you get into the grownup world, Chestnut, you’ll find out calling someone a DEADBEAT is, in fact, personal.
And I hope someone fires for effect at ol’ Smokescreen’s RentGate, UtilityCheat, and SuitCase too.
Remember that disgusting ad the ‘Cons ran against Harold Ford?
I’d like to see some waitress with a phone saying: “Hi, Norm! Call me, will ya?”
Team Smokescreen’s pals want to go negative, I say bring it on.
October 14th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
At the :19 second mark, of this ad Michael thinks is “subtle”:
“…deadbeat”
Norm Coleman is a fraud.
October 14th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Fantastic post!
October 14th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Tommy:
A deadbeat is somebody who doesn’t pay his bills. Or are you saying that somebody if they don’t pay their bills are okay?
Plymouth:
No offense I wouldn’t call this a negative ad. It said the taxes that Al Franken supports increasing and points that this is a man who doesn’t pay his own taxes.
That’s an issue ad. It didn’t raise one of Frankens bad jokes, his ties to SNL, etc.
The problem is unlike the Franken and DSCC committee ads this one told the truth.
And for those people who lecture Coleman is allowing this negative ad since the RSCC isn’t allowed to make commercials saying vote for Norm Coleman they have to attack Franken. But this was a positive commercial since it talked about issues just like Norm wants!
Walter Hanson
October 14th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
[...] starting last Friday to stop negativity. Yet, he can’t even get his own supporters to come together. How is he supposed to bring people that disagree together if he can’t even get [...]
October 14th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Walter, by your definition, “A deadbeat is somebody who doesn’t pay his bills” – Norm Coleman is a deadbeat.
Coleman didn’t pay his rent on time; he paid his electric bills late; and it sure looks like someone paid for his clothes.
By your definition, Walter, Coleman is a deadbeat.
October 14th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
“Yeah, calling someone a “deadbeat” is really sticking to the issues.”
The ad is just quoting the news.
October 14th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
“And for those people who lecture Coleman is allowing this negative ad since the RSCC isn’t allowed to make commercials saying vote for Norm Coleman they have to attack Franken. But this was a positive commercial since it talked about issues just like Norm wants!”
Walter,
You are such a tool, and, a hypocrite.
Whether or not Franken is a deadbeat has nothing to do with issues. At best, it’s an attack on Franken’s qualification as a senator. That’s no less an attack than saying Franken is too ugly to be a senator. When you go after the persona or qualifications of an individual candidate, that’s a negative ad. If you go after their position on the issues, it may still be a negative ad (since it isn’t about the quality of the candidate running the ad) but at least it’s not a PERSONAL attack ad like the NRSC ad is (or Paulsen’s newest ad is).
Face it, the same day Coleman and MDE are railing on negative ads, Team Coleman releases a negative ad. They are hypocrites. Just admit it.
Note, I say Team Coleman since it has continuously been the position of MDE that Team includes all of the third parties that support them. One only has to go back as far as the attacks against Madia related to what the DCCC was doing.
No one in Minnesota (except for some of the individuals on this board) are going to buy for a second Norm’s sudden change of heart on negative ads, especially when people are running negative ads despite what he says.
October 14th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Neither the ad, nor the Coleman campaign called Franken a deadbeat. The term was used to descibe Franken in a news article.
Cute that Tommy is still making clinging to that faux utility bill thing. That sure had legs, didn’t it. LOL!
And what ad are you upset about against Harold Ford? Are you pissed off because it told the truth about him?
October 14th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Besides, Al Franken is a deadbeat. He’s also a liar, an asshole and a thief.
October 14th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
“Neither the ad, nor the Coleman campaign called Franken a deadbeat. The term was used to descibe Franken in a news article.”
HAHAHA.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Chestnut, it’s not surprising that Coleman can be bought; it’s that he can be bought so cheaply.
“Well, I forgot to pay my rent for a few months, so I gave my landord some furniture.”
ROFLMAO!!!!
Coleman is a deadbeat, by Walter’s definition.
October 15th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Coleman, according to reports, is actively seeking the NCRS chair. Yet, when he calls on them to pull negative commercials, they continue to release new negative commercials. Is Coleman ready to lead this group? Is he incompetent or insincere?