I'm the LAST person to complain that there are ads on DKos since I don't currently subscribe....Kos gotta make money to keep things running and feed his and his employee's families.
This isn't about that they're there, or that some pro-teabagger content can make it's way through since they're all based on Google ad algorithms...baggers gonna bag and all that.
But man, sometimes, the claims are SO outrageous, you just have to say...WTF? Sometimes they're so bad, you even write a blog post about an attack on Mitt Romney (though it's about more than that). Feast your eyes on THIS:
That's a capture of one of the box ads that ran on my screen when I was looking at The Jed Report's latest entry. In case you don't "get it", being an advertising professional, I'll help you out:
The ad implies that Romney & Crist have sexual relations.
There have been rumors of Crist's sexual orientation since before he was governor of Florida; rumors that, were he aligned with the non-neanderthal political party in the US, wouldn't exist because the topic wouldn't matter. However, Crist was a Republican...so why else would there be an issue with being "close" to Crist?
So, I ventured into enemy territory, to the sponsor of the ad. I haven't visited Newsmax since probably 2009, and besides the standard crappy site construction that is a characteristic of most right-wing "news" sites, I wasn't surprised to see all of the "news" either Pro-Gingrich or anti-Romney....they REALLY hate that Mormon guy over there!
"Shockingly" though, I didn't see one front page news article about Romney and Crist having relations. So, I searched for "romney crist" in the search function...and voila, a few articles from days and weeks ago, noting that Romney has hired some of Crist's former staffers onto his campaign's workforce.
So, that's clearly enough to justify putting an ad on Google for the entire world to see, that implies Romney and Crist are gay and are having relations, which would obviously be the kiss of death to Romney's political career. Amirite?
These people are who we're dealing with. These people, like those at Newsmax, have no scruples, no ethics, no morals, no goodness...only selfishness, corruption, deceitfulness, and evil. Both parties are the same? Methinks not.