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The Email Lies Keep Pouring in About Obama

Sat Jul 19, 2008 at 08:49:20 AM PDT

I am not sure how I received this email or why.  It could have been forwarded by my mother who lost her enlightened hippie status when she started listening to Rush Limbaugh in the 1980's.  Anyway, it is a compilation of the greatest hit-jobs by the right wingers.  I am wondering who Floyd Brown is?  

I am wondering what the National Campaign Fund is? And if this is considered a 527?  The address is only a few blocks from the White House, who could it be? Here is a Floyd Brown.  Maybe this guy.  Oh he's the one that made the Willie Horton ad.  I think this is the one.  
Update:
the website with "all of the Evidence"  
expose obama website

Ready to Attack Obama if Some Money Arrives????

Sat Jun 21, 2008 at 01:23:52 AM PDT

Good morning... I have just read an article about this man who has put up an Obama attack site... Expose Obama Demagogue Site

"Ready to Attack Obama, if Some Money Arrives
By Michael Luo
New York Times

UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. — A Bible verse taped to a whiteboard in Floyd Brown’s office that he uses to track his efforts to attack Senator Barack Obama reads, “That is why for Christ’s sake I delight in weakness, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties.”

Mr. Brown, 47, a 6-foot-6 bear of a man is perhaps best known for his involvement with the Willie Horton television advertisement that helped sink Michael S. Dukakis’s candidacy in 1988..."

Full article on NYTimes: Floyd Brown Ready to Attack Obama - Send Money

The Smears Begin: GOP Operative Releases Obama-Muslim Ad

Wed Jun 11, 2008 at 09:20:09 AM PDT

h/t to HuffPo on this one.

We knew it'd come sooner or later. The man has a funny name. He was personally related to several Muslims. He spent time in a Muslim country. But why, dare I ask, one week into the general election, do you release the ad seen below? You'd have to ask Floyd Brown, the same guy that brought us the Willie Horton commercial.

Public Humiliation & Bankrupt Souls

Wed Jun 11, 2008 at 09:02:06 AM PDT

Floyd Brown, of "Willie Horton" fame, is at it again.  He has produced a web "ad" suggesting that Obama is a Muslim and can not be trusted.  I won't post a link to it because we can all imagine what it's like, and I refuse to give it publicity or page views.

Violent Rhetoric Watch: ABC Duped by Right-Wing Smear

Fri Apr 25, 2008 at 11:52:19 AM PDT

ABC has become the first major network to be duped into treating a right-wing smear of  Sen. Barack Obama as a non-political news story.

Despite his own prior reporting in an Aug 2000 Salon.com piece--in which he deftly exposed the very same right-wing smear merchants behind the "Expose Obama" ad--ABC Senior National Correspondent Jake Tapper has just published a piece on ABC.com that gives legitimacy to the blatant political agenda in the ad.

Republican 527 Fires Salvo of Blanks at Obama

Thu Apr 24, 2008 at 06:24:31 PM PDT

It is the same old game; the Okie-Doke.  Yes, Republican 527s are now attacking Obama.  If this latest example is any indication of what they have, well, we are going to enjoy this November!

To see an example of the same old game, follow me below the fold:

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Is this ad at all effective

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Clinton's new 'friends' from Whitewater now pushing Obama attacks

Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 03:44:13 PM PDT

(Cross-posted at The Jed Report.)

During the 1990s, ultra-conservative Pennsylvania billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife funded what Hillary Clinton called a "vast right-wing conspiracy" to destroy her husband’s presidency.

Now, one decade after Scaife’s operation nearly removed her husband from office, Hillary Clinton has reached a rapprochement with the reclusive owner of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

Last weekend Hillary Clinton accepted Scaife’s endorsement in the Pennsylvania primary, offered in the pages of the Tribune-Review. She had pursued the endorsement since last month, earning it after sitting down with Scaife and publicly attacking Barack Obama for attending Trinity United Church of Christ.

Violent Rhetoric Watch: "Willie Horton" Ad Launched on Obama [UPDATED]

Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 07:59:08 AM PDT

(DEVELOPING STORY: I will update this post as more information comes in...JF)

The Republican marketing man behind the "Willie Horton" television ad that helped to end the presidential bid of Michael Dukakis has resurfaced in a new ad that uses World War II style propaganda techniques to create the false impression that Sen. Barack Obama supporets inner city gang violence and "urban terrorism."

The ad, sponsored by a political group called ExposeObama.com, is the latest effort by well-funded right-wing pundits and political groups to define a Democratic candidate for president as a violent threat to the American people.  Violent rhetoric from the right is an ongoing problem in American democracy that remains unchallenged by the media and by government oversight.  

The new ad signifies a huge step into the center of the 2008 election for right-wing pundits and political groups pushing violent rhetoric.

This is what I was always was worried would happen to Obama

Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 12:12:43 AM PDT

In 1988 for Dukakis it was Willie Horton.

In 2000 it was the "I invented the internet"

In 2004 it was SBVFT

I knew there would be something that the RWSM would come up with to trash Obama and bring him down.  The RWSM game plan is all the same...figure out your weakness(es) in terms of the areas that the people are most worried about your leadership capabilities.  Then find a situation that fits that issue and will resonate with swing voters...

Poll

What do you think the effect of this type of attack ad will be?

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