If it's October, it must be Osama

[fencesitter]

http://dickpolman.blogspot.com/

From Dick Polman's blog...

....National GOP headquarters announced this morning that it plans to feature bin Laden and some of his henchmen in an ad slated for national cable TV this weekend. Choice excerpts include a bin Laden quote from 1998 (“With God’s permission we call on everyone who believes in God…to comply with His will to kill the Americans”), and a 2004 quote from Ayman Al-Zawahiri, threatening suitcase bombs. The ad concludes with the GOP warning the viewer, “These are the stakes.”

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(commenting on the Tet Offensive)
Snow said that Bush was merely trying to say (although Bush didn’t say this to ABC) that the enemy in 1968 was trying to influence the ’68 elections, just as the enemy in 2006 is trying to influence the ’06 elections. In Snow’s words, “The president was making a point that he's made before, which is that terrorists try to exploit pictures and try to use the media as conduits for influencing public opinion in the United States.”

Well, that’s an interesting complaint...when one considers that the Bush political team is putting Osama bin Laden into a TV ad this weekend, exploiting his picture and trying to use the media as a conduit for influencing public opinion in the United States.

The clear message is that Americans should be worried about Osama and thus vote GOP. Yet, way back on Jan. 22, 2002, Bush said of Osama, "I'm not too worried about him," and on March 13, 2002, Bush said, "I truly am not that concerned about him."

[C_U_L8R]

1. Osamaween?

trick or ... trick

[NanceGreggs]

2. I saw this ad aired on CNN ...

... not as a commercial, but aired for 'discussion purposes'.

I was surprised it only featured Bin Laden, and didn't include shots of the empty space where the Trade Towers used to stand, and the still ravaged streets of New Orleans.

I mean, if you're going to remind voters of your failures, wouldn't it be more effective to include a few of them, instead of just one?

[Demeter]

3. Rimshot!

[justgamma]

4. SOP for the GOP

Make a small commercial buy in a couple of markets. Say something totally outrageous. Wait for all the "news" channels to play it for free on every freakin' broadcast.

[NanceGreggs]

5. So true ...

But the minute I saw THIS ONE, my first thought was: "Please, please, PLEASE play this over, and over, and over again."

Along with being badly-produced (looks like a cheap cut-and-paste job that was literally thrown together in a couple of hours), having the face of Bin Laden on-screen JUST SCREAMS: "THIS is the guy we DIDN'T GET! This is the guy Bush said he 'was no longer concerned about', the guy the RW pundits have constantly called 'irrelevant' to deflect from the fact that he is still at large.

The GOP have had one mis-step after another over the past few weeks - and this one just takes the cake.