This Week In Attack Ads: Collar Stays and Worm-Ridden Chocolates

It keeps getting better. First we have this ad from Florida, which as Jonathan Martin points out, asks a crucial question for the electorate: Does Florida want to elect a Senator who doesn’t wear collar stays?

But that’s nothing compared to the wormy chocolate, don’t-vote-for-my-dad attack. Oklahoma’s KFOR has the story:

To read about the worm-ridden chocolates, click here.

Related Topics: 2010, attack ads, Florida, meeks, oklahoma, 2012 Election
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  • m0mentom0ri

    How to get a national ad buy for little or no money.
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    Step 1. Make a video – the more sensational the better – and post it on YouTube.
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    Step 2. Get the local media to cover your ‘new ad’ and send links to it to the blogotwittersphere.
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    Step 3. Wait for the 24/7 news media’s Attention Deficit Disorder to kick in (takes about 15 minutes).
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    Step 4. The cable networks and the national media blogs say “OMG! Have you seen the new attack ad from ________!” and air it repeatedly.
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    Congratulations! You’ve now got your national media run with absolutely no money spent on ad buys!
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    Next up: How to use ‘he-said-she-said’ reporting to propagate an obvious falsehood!

  • Paul-no not that one

    Why?

  • nflfoghorn

    If this is all Meek has, he shall not inherit the earth…or the Dem nomination.

  • nflfoghorn

    Crazy after never considering it that I might vote for Crist at this point.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    I’d have to say that there is some, if it is true, value to Meek’s attack on Green.
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    How one makes money is important.
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    As for the father-daughter judge thing…
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    NEXT!

  • nflfoghorn

    Go on Maury for that ;)

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