Attytood reports:
Have any other Philadelphians seen a brand new anti-Obama attack ad that seems to have been literally dropped on Pennsylvania in the very final hours of the campaign? I saw it late last night on ESPN as I was falling asleep (like any true 49-year-old guy!) and it just aired again on the 10 a.m. rerun of "The Daily Show."
It's man-on-the-street type interviews with young voters in an urban, Philly-looking, setting. "Can you tell us your favorite Obama policy?," an off-screen narrator asks a couple of befuddled young voters, while a third young adult babbles something about "hope and vision." Then words are stamped on the screen: "You don't know Bama"...at least that what it looked like, I didn't see an "O" -- weird.
It says the ad is paid for by Morgan Warstler.
This 2000 article from Los Angeles magazine identifies him as a young "junk mail mogul":
This high-school-with-money model became the norm at Web shops like LOADtv, cofounded by a 29-year-old junk-mail mogul named Morgan Warstler. Flush with venture capital, Warstler rented an old bank building on the Sunset Strip and filled it with staff from his native Canton, Ohio. Former and current employees say they logged 75-hour workweeks producing Web programming targeted at what current CEO Jack Kennedy calls "low-hanging fruit" -- Gen Y computer nerds and skate punks.
I can't find any news about this ad, and oddly I couldn't find it on YouTube. Can anyone help with this one?
UPDATE: A March 2007 Vanity Fair article identified Warstler as "a thirtysomething entrepreneur who dabbles as a conservative operative" and says he's a close friend of Andrew Breitbart, longtime contributor to the Drudge Report.
UPDATE II: Hey, crowdsourcing works -- an alert reader helped track the ad down to its source.
You can watch it here.
It's a product of something that the above-mentioned Warstler is involved in called Saysme.tv, and here is a description of the venture:
Beginning with the highly polarized 2008 elections, SaysMe.tv allows you to participate in politics in a brand new way. For the first time ever, you will be able to use your campaign dollars to broadcast the messages you care about on TV. This begins in the form of sponsoring ads with your name at the end and will quickly grow into ways for you to create increasingly personalized messages by adding your own text, graphics and voice to commercials.
So....it seems to be something of a profit deal, when you go to the Web site you can see there are pro-Obama ads as well, and ads on other issues and candidates. As a business scheme, it may be a clever way for enthusiatic partisans to bypass the whole federal campaign finance system, by simply buying political commercials and airing them on local cable channels without coordinating with campaigns or affecting the spending limit.
It's just coincidence that the only two times I've seen their work are anti-Obama ads airing on Primary Day, right?
"while a third young adult babbles something about "hope and vision." "....That befuddled voter, sounds just like the guy who posts here under a tag suspiciously like mine, Talking point sleuth— Talking Point Slueth
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- It won't work!!!— diana
- It's so funny how supposedly only Hillary makes the "attack ads." Excuse me, but I've seen plenty of attack ads against Hillary from the Obama camp. When are people going to reject the Obama cult and think for themselves? There are attack ads on BOTH SIDES, regardless of how much Obama's people chant HOPE and CHANGE.— chrissmith
- yes ...and there is another ad .. with obama admitting smoking CRack in his youth.... if hillary did, she would be gone a long time ago.... Hillary fired her campaign manager in NHampshire for talking about it.... though ..the republicans are going to grind him ito soup meat, if he wins ... a vote for barack is a vote for mccain.— dousmellthat
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- NO body said it was from Hillary relax— EagleNation1961
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- Want some befuddlement? Hey b, how is McCain gonna fund the war AND keep the current tax cuts AND give us a gas tax holiday?— RG
- Ran into a Hillary stumper yesterday on the street. She kept calling Obama "Hopey." Like Hillary, this women was an arrogant member of the "Shoulder pad" feminist lot. She intimated that white, male, educated Obama supporters were misogynist (a logic that I guess makes her a racist). Her vitriol against Obama was disgusting. I don't think these folks are going to help the party win in the good chance Obama wins the nomination. So, the Clinton's will have been personally responsible for 12 years (or more) or repub control (after their failure to support Gore).— bobcitydoc
- What ever— EagleNation1961
- IT was done my an independent GROUP. Do your homework!!!!!!!— stev
- Seems appropriate. A junk ad by a junk mail guy. Just one of the many big operators terrified that a decent idealistic young candidate may rain on their greedy parades. No such concern with Hillary, owned in toto by lobbyists, corporations and special interests. Pennsylvanians have a chance to make history by supporting the first true candidate of the people to come along since Kennedy. The hate-spewed rhetoric and ads from the Clinton camp have certainly eliminated her from any serious consideration by any voter of integrity who recognizes her presidency would be a mere extension of the corporate dictatorship currently controlling the country. For the McCain camp, his opponent must be Hillary. Obama wins by double-digits.— inditer
- Of all the comments here, not ONE person has responded to the claims that Obama has no clear-cut policy on ANYTHING, except that he wants to abandon Iraq immediately, and let them fend for themselves. Tell me what you love about Obama, people! (Hope and Change are not acceptable answers). Every election year, politicians go on and on about how they are going to change everything...why should we believe that this guy is any different? He has been in the US Senate for LESS THAN THREE YEARS!!! He doesn't take a stand on any issue so he can just sit on the fence, and wait to see which positions are best for him. He hardly collaborates with any Republicans in Congress, yet he says he'll get people to work together?? Not to mention he is the most liberal member of Congress— Fuzzy Dunlop
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