And, yes, I DO take it personally: Karl Rove and negative campaign advertising

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And, yes, I DO take it personally

Friday, October 27, 2006

Karl Rove and negative campaign advertising

in a previous post, in what i considered almost an aside, i offered the thought that it was karl rove's "slime and filth-encrusted template" that was guiding the tenor of the vicious negative campaign advertising we're seeing slither across our tv screens and being highlighted in today's wapo... well, not more than 30 minutes later, i read this...

[Scott Howell, the former political director for Rove's consulting firm in Texas] produced the controversial Republican National Committee ad targeting Tennessee Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Harold Ford Jr., that some have called racist...

oh, goodness gracious... associated with karl rove...? what a STUNNING revelation...! TELL ME it's not true...

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