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Who knew that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s classic turkey-slaughter TV interview would usher in a golden age of uncomfortable, Thanksgiving-themed television ads featuring conservatives? Two ads that surfaced in the past few days qualify in separate categories for Slaughtered Turkey Awards.
The Slaughtered Turkey Award for Racial Harmony goes to what is either the last TV ad of the presidential campaign or the first Sarah Palin reality-show promo. When last heard from, the Our Country Deserves Better PACwas running a spot that associated now-President-elect Barack Obama with Che Guevara, Palestinians, Hamas and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright (saying, “God damn America”). Now the PAC, the brainchild of former California state Rep. Harold Kaloogia, offers “Thank You, Sarah Palin,”a 30-second spot with brief testimonials from a convincingly amateurish crew of grateful Palin admirers, including a man who may be the first dark-skinned person the PAC has presented who isn’t supposed to be evil.
The Slaughtered Turkey Award for Awkward Editing goes to Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss, who appears to be groping a granddaughter with an exuberant one-handed hug at the end of a TV ad with a family-photo-type setup that should have provided harmless help for Chambliss’ U.S. Senate run-off election today. The false move is so blatant it’s got to be an innocent faux pas — but one that should have found a home on the cutting-room floor after one look.
“Thank you, Sarah Palin” (Our Country Deserves Better PAC)
Saxby Chambliss ad (Chambliss for Senate)
The missing link here is Sarah Palin stumping for Saxby Chambliss over the weekend:
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Comment posted December 2, 2008 @ 4:04 pm
WE HAVE MORE TO DO:
Democrat Jim Martin is in a runoff against Bush Republican Saxby Chambliss for the Senate seat from Georgia. Bush’s Saxby Chambliss voted against spending a few measly dollars to provide health care coverage for Georgia, and Americas needy children. But he supported wasting hundreds of billions of your dollars, and the life BLOOD of Americas finest on an unnecessary war in Iraq.
At a time when 47 million of you have no health insurance coverage, and over 100 million of you with insurance are just one major illness away from complete financial destruction. Bush and Saxby Chambliss voted to make the heart break of bankruptcy relief even harder for all of you to use.
You see, Bush and Saxby Chambliss, and his family don’t have to worry about their health care coverage. They have the finest health care coverage your tax money can buy for them. Courtesy of you. The American Tax payer. In fact, no one but the super rich can afford the health care coverage you the tax payer provide for Saxby Chambliss, and his family for FREE! with your tax dollars.
He supposedly works for you. But he doesn’t think you and your family should have access to the type of taxpayer supported FREE health care that you provide for him, and his loved ones for FREE!. Doesn’t that just make you BURRING MAD!
Vote for JIM MARTIN for US senator from Georgia. Vote for JIM Martin who will be on your side. Vote for JIM MARTIN who will work with President Obama and a majority congress for you. Vote for JIM MARTIN most of all for your-self, your family’s, friends, and loved ones. Vote for JIM MARTIN for a better America, and a better World.
Don’t let Saxby Chambliss make a chump out of you by tricking you into voting against your own best interest. Saxby chambliss is NOT! on your side. He’s not one of you. He is on George Bush’s side. And we all know what a catastrophe the Bush Chambliss administration has been the past 8 years.
Contact all your family and friends and do every thing you can to see to it that JIM MARTIN and GEORGIANS! take that senate seat back for Georgia, and America. No matter where you live in America. This is important to you. President Obama will need all the help, and power you can give him to try and fix this catastrophic mess that the Corrupt Bush Chambliss administration has created.
As I said before you will have to vote in overwhelming numbers to overcome the Bush Chambliss “Let Them Eat Cake” vote fraud machine. Vote early if you can. Then help everyone you can get to the polls and vote for JIM MARTIN. You and your loved ones don’t have to be Saxby Chambliss’s victims anymore.
I know you will get it done. Just like you did for President Obama.
God bless all of you
jacksmith – WORKING CLASS…
Comment posted December 2, 2008 @ 4:34 pm
“it’s got to be an innocent faux pas”
sorry, but i think women see this completely differently .. and i do hope you are never
put on a jury when a pedophile is being tried…….
they make book on ‘innocent faux pas’ .. ask any victim. It’s all about power remember? and what’s more powerful than doing it in a way to get away with it and feign innocence?
Comment posted December 2, 2008 @ 5:59 pm
emily, thanks for the comment. that did cross my mind but i couldn’t quite compute how it then ended up in a campaign ad, and i thought it better to err on the side of disbelief. But the ad shows what it shows.
Comment posted December 2, 2008 @ 6:35 pm
maybe the ad guys are progressives?
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