North Carolina GOP Targets Dems with Obama/Wright Attack Ad

The Barack Obama campaign and its supporters would like to believe the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy is "settled" but unfortunately the Republicans and right-wing attack machine are just getting started. Above is a YouTube of a television commercial for the North Carolina Republican Party that replays Rev. Wright's greatest hits "God damn America!") and saturates the airwaves in the Tarheel State. It paints Obama as "too extreme" and Democratic gubernatorial candidates Richard Moore and Beverly Perdue as "too extreme" because they endorsed Obama.

"Take the logic or what you will," deadpans Obama blogger Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic, who is shocked! shocked! to find the Republicans would produce a "misleading" spot connecting any Obama-supporting Democrat to Rev. Wright. Dush, that';s exactly what they will do.

Ambinder also links to an email from presumptive Republican nominee Sen John McCain who denounces and rejects the attack ad. "Interesting to see if they respond, especially since the target is also local Democratic leaders," notes Taylor Marsh. "Considering Clinton and Obama are facing off in North Carolina soon, this ad does the negative work so Hillary doesn't have to."

Oh, and the ad is all over FOX, MSNBC and CNN, Even if the spot is pulled, mission accomplished. It's a familiar pattern: Ugly advertising, lots of media exposure. McCain quickly rejects and denounces, the media fawns over his "principles" ...

Ads Hit Obama Hard [Taylor Marsh]
McCain, GOP Unhappy With N.C. GOP AD [Ambinder]

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Some Background ...
Obama and the Turban Non-Story [R20]
PA Debate: Meltdown and Morning After [R20]
"Bitter" Billionaire Fundraiser" [R20]
Obama Camp Provides Photo of Wright and Bill Clinton [R20]
Obama to Make "Major" Speech on Race [R20]
Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Black LGBTs [R20]
McCain Aide Suspended, Circulating Wright Video [R20]
McCain Targets Romney with Anti-Gay Robo-calls [R20]
NH Voters Targeted by Anti-Mormon "Push Polls" [R20]
Romney, McCain Offer More Anti-Gay Rhetoric [R20]
McCain Flip-Flops on Gay Rights [R20]
McCain Promotes Abstinence [R20]
McCain Hires Producer of Racist Ads [R20]
McCain Flip-Flops on Gay Rights [R20]
Yes But No—But Yes [R20]
McCain: Not "Catering" to Far Right [R20]
McCain Promotes Abstinence [R20]
McCain's MLK Day: "Pandering" to Racists [R20]
McCain Wins Republican Nomination [R20]
McCain Camp Enlists Racist Shock Jock [R20]

Comments

[Derrick from Philly]

Show Reverend Wright's sermon intermixed with famous photographs of black men being lynched--especially the "Waco Horror". Then ask, "might you not feel the same...if you had these memories?"

[Lang B.]

Is "damn" a swear word?

I just noticed in the video damn is bleeped out. Could it be to further smear Rev Wright as if he is swearing in church? Just an observation.

I am so done with this election already.

[IsleZeus]

Derrick I like your pitch.