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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Worse than the lies have been the smears. McCain ran a television ad claiming that Obama favored "comprehensive" sex education for kindergartners. (Obama favored a bill that would have warned kindergartners about sexual predators and improper touching.) The accusation that Obama was referring to Sarah Palin when he said McCain's effort to remarket his economic policies was putting "lipstick on a pig" was another clearly misleading attack - an obnoxious attempt to divert attention from Palin's lack of fitness for the job and the recklessness with which McCain chose her. McCain's assault on the "élite media...
...racial put-down; that seems hypersensitive to the point of paranoia. Obama was a community organizer, and his opponents should be able to criticize him without being accused of race baiting. But it's tricky when the attacks wander into the neighborhood of racial stereotypes, like the McCain "Celebrity" ad linking Obama to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, which had a whiff of lock-up-your-women alarmism about the sexual power of black men. The usually somnolent David Gergen lashed out at McCain's ad portraying Obama as the Messiah, calling it a subtle but intentional effort to paint...
...McCain camp - before its recent forays into the politics of umbrage and grievance - dismissed the ad furor as political correctness run amok. "Have a sense of humor," spokeswoman Nicole Wallace told me. For his part, Obama never accused McCain (or Biden, for that matter) of playing the race card. He wrote eloquently about race in his books, and he spoke eloquently about race during the Wright flap, but he's avoided the subject ever since the McCain campaign accused him of playing the race card, after he suggested that Republicans would try to remind voters that he doesn't look...
...fantasy, but as two detectives in New York City." Overture is hoping to lure men, older women and the urban and Latino audiences who have helped make Scarface an enduring cult hit. To do so, they're marketing with a campaign that emphasizes the actors' histories. In one TV ad McGurk refers to as the "prestige spot," De Niro and Pacino's '70s and '80s films are listed off. McGurk says: "It's meant to remind audiences who they were...
...Given the major impact that the obesity epidemic has had on American society as a whole, it’s not surprising that some efforts have been made to combat the plague of excess pounds. Public education campaigns, including a very noticeable series of Internet ads depicting the average American’s stomach as an inflatable beach ball, have been a cornerstone of efforts by various government agencies and the Ad Council to increase awareness of the problem...