Letters to the Editor
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Christopher Michael Neill/FISA
Representative Dan Lungren (R-CA) is on TV spouting the tired pony of FISA right now (C-SPAN).
Steny Hoyer and some of his Blue Dog friends are trying hard to get a "deal" (i.e., a full-scale capitulation) done this week. We've been working every day to get the Chris Carney ad campaign finished and running.
It's almost ready and I hope to unveil and write about it tomorrow -- it's a major ad tsunami that includes lots of TV ads, full-page ads in every newspaper in his district, tons of radio ads, and huge billboards all over his district - all aimed at him and his behavior on FISA and telecom amnesty.
Given the size of the ad campaign and how focused it is just on him and his district -- and it's catered specially for those voters -- it's going to be heard, and the intent is that it's just the first of its kind. So we'll see if that can sway things some.
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Carney/FISA ads
Here's a little bonus preview for comment section readers -- the full-page newspaper ad:
http://tinyurl.com/5tz5vg
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Does Carney know this is coming?
Or he is going to drop a deuce when he flips on the tube?
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@"Will Democrats ever back a non-interventionist foreign policy?"
Probably not. There is too much money to be made. War is a Racket, no?
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re: Carney/FISA ads
Here's a little bonus preview for comment section readers -- the full-page newspaper ad:
http://tinyurl.com/5tz5vg
-- GlennGreenwald
Very nice! This is a great political ad. Thanks for the sneak peak.
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Carney FISA Ad
Nice. Bold/apocalyptic, clear white text on black back, a little heavy on text but not too much. I like it.
Is there going to be a catch-page relevant to Carney at BlueAmerica.Firedoglake.com, or just the donations page that's there now?
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War is a Racket, no?
My wife is going to vote straight Democratic this year, even if a dead dog is on the ballot. However, she often says that the difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is who they choose to invade.
I can not disagree.
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Chris Sinnard
Does Carney know this is coming?
Or he is going to drop a deuce when he flips on the tube?
We know he knows about the campaign we did because he was sending people to ask us not to do it. But I doubt he knows about how massive a multi-media tidal wave is about to be unleashed.
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re: Since letters are being deleted now
I think that any unsubstantiated smear against anyone posted here in UT should be taken down... Why allow it here?
Why indeed.
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quickstrategy
a little heavy on text but not too much. I like it.
It was all designed to fit together. The TV ad and billboard are very thematic and simple -- the TV ad is focused on how un-American these spying powers and amnesty are (just like they have in Russia and Communist China!).
The radio ad (because it's longer - 60 seconds) is more elaborate. And the newspaper ad is designed to supplement all that with more information.
Is there going to be a catch-page relevant to Carney at BlueAmerica.Firedoglake.com, or just the donations page that's there now?
That's a good question/point. The law requires you to list a website, as I understand it, which is why that's there. But it probably should be made use of.
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re:re: Since letters are being deleted now
"Why indeed. -- quickstrategy"
And one hopes the standard is enforced in a totally impartial manner as I know Glenn would favor.
I hope Paul Dirks took the job as I suggested a while back. (but I am afraid he is too smart to do that)
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Glenn
The integrated campaign makes sense, and it sounds good. I figured the print piece was the run-in, i.e. the piece where all questions would be answered. It's a little heavy on text by conventional print ad wisdom, but not too much.
If you were paying me as a consultant, I wouldn't advise you to cut it any, either; in the mid-90s there was a trend toward shorter and shorter ad copy, but later studies showed that ads with more copy (up to slightly less than this) held readers' attention longer (duh) and got similar responses, slightly better.
Catch-page: I know this drops tomorrow, but I think it would be good to have one.
Your call to action is plainly to phone Carney at the number in bold letters ... but those who want more information are going to go to the donations page and get confused (two messages = no messages) and neither call nor donate.
The easiest thing might just be an interstitial ad, or a want-to-know-more page with a repeat of call-to-action (call carney@) at the top and links to more articles about FISA/PAA/telecom immunity underneath(I guess we know where to get those).
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PBS. Hillary, McCain, and poor B. Obama ask : `Why all those course politico's voices, wrinkled heads, and wrinkled fore-skin on politico's forehead?
okay. Do a King Lorenz stomp, a 'ole GG gig hoopla,
Why trace deep wrinkles 'conspirito' on a snake cobra.
A chemist launders his socks, or tries to impress peers.
Aggressive/ Adjusting the saddle, spurs, and bridle stirrups?
Search for respect. Balance. No try to fax web-foot lame ducks.
A old fashion mule saddlebag, may yet have a utilitarian usage.
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Deleted?
I've read several complaints here in the past week about comments being deleted, and in at least one commenter's case, Glenn's denial that he'd done any deleting. I haven't noticed any comments disappearing myself, but then I suppose I wouldn't necessarily, unless my own were being deleted, and maybe not even then, if they were more than a couple of pages back.
I sort of got the idea that Glenn would warn us publicly before taking any action if he felt our comments were inappropriate. Am I missing something?
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Deleted
Glenn repeatedly deletes posts where I point out his many deficiencies.
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@siempre
Is it so frightening to Liberals that one of their own-The NYT-should have an espoused conservative on staff? Even a conservative who is 2nd tier? The NYT picked a 2nd string conservative so he would be less a threat and Salon still feels it must have a column condemning the very idea of opposing views. The irony of Liberalism is its need to not hear disagreement.
1) Kristol is a neoconservative. Most conservatives are now in the Democratic party. Lord only knows who is left in the Republican party. Ron Paul and a few other people that have nothing in common with conservatism.
The irony is that democracy is all about disagreement. It sounds like you are the one afraid of disagreement because you are in the minority. Maybe you should rethink your position or learn to live with it. That majority was mostly illusory and fleeting.
Are you opposed to democracy? That might make you an authoritarian or a totalitarian.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- George Orwell
You have that right. So does Kristol. We have the right to disagree. We even have the right to shout you down, just like the minority did in Florida in 2000, shout the majority down, and another minority did in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, shout the majority down.