I woke up Saturday with about 100 emails telling me to view this ad & get it on television. Well, thank you for the message! I've been in touch with the author, Chris McKinley, an independent filmmaker in Los Angeles and with a good word from cartwrightdale as well he is giving it to us for airing in battleground states. We're working now to edit it back 5 seconds in order to make room for the disclaimer & bring it up to broadcast ready. In the mean time, we're raising funds to wide airing.
And here's the ad:
On another note, I posted a diary a few days ago relating a story of how DKos saved our Ohio buy for the 'Judgment' ad. It dropped off quickly, so I want to share that story again:
I want to send a special thank you to this community. As I've noted before, I read every email, although I cannot respond to them all. I also read the entire threads of these diaries & when I posted our Ohio buy report diary Pakalolo noted that Dayton was having power outages due to Hurricane Ike. I was not aware of this, so I contacted the agency we've used for the buy. They in turn contacted the stations who denied this was the case. Well, I've been in contact with someone from DKos via email (not sure if it's the same person) who lives in Dayton & they confirmed the power was indeed down. I was asked to provide proof, and she forwarded me news reports detailing how widespread, how long & what areas were hit with power outages. They didn't budge easily & it was still a fight over the last 2 days, but with that evidence we have been granted 4 days of "make goods" and thus will be on the air in Dayton through Thursday instead of Monday. This saved us a great deal of money down the drain, thanks to this community!
On another note: We're also working on new material, including the Palin/Rape Kit television spot everyone has been asking for. I have a radio ad to go with this already done, which hits the McCain Palin ticket on the Rape Kit issue, as well as Palin's extreme view that choice should be denied in cases of Rape & Incest as well as McCain's being against the Equal Pay for Women bill introduced into the Senate. Our approach is to create a companion site which will validate the claims the ads make, so instead of ending with vote for Barack Obama, it will direct people to visit www.mywomensrights.com for more information, because I think most people will be shocked at the ad's assertions, but will wonder how they can be true. I need help with gathering the relevant links, both print & particularly in video so we can create a dynamic site that moves these issues into the national conversation. Please let me know if you can help with that or send material to eugene (at) truthandhope.org.
But that's to come, for now we're focused on airing 'Thank John McCain.' Please share this video & link, it received over 170,000 views within 24 hours of first posting here. Let's recreate that, but now with the intention of taking it from the web & into people's living rooms.
Also please DIGG this diary.
Please note, this came together in the last couple hours & the website is not updated yet. Any contributions from these links will be tagged to air 'Thank John McCain'
There are 3 ways to contribute to the airing of this ad: Donate at our website where you will also find our mailing address for checks on step 2, after we've collected FEC reporting data and through our ActBlue Account.
Also, join & share our Facebook group and Myspace Group too!
I'm naturally very excited to put this ad on the air with your help & grateful for those Saturday AM messages!
Thank you for all that you do.