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McCain now agrees that inflating your tires saves gasoline
John McCain and his campaign have been ribbing Barack Obama for his statement last week that if Americans made sure their tires were properly inflated it could save as much oil as would be found in offshore areas. The McCain team went so far as to hand out tire gauges at the Democratic candidates’s events. […]
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Keith Olbermann on McCain’s campaign
Brutal: [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.1011969&w=425&h=350&fv=launch%3D26045608%26amp%3Bwidth%3D400%26amp%3Bheight%3D320] See also Rachel Maddow’s comments at about 3:25 in here: [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.1011970&w=425&h=350&fv=launch%3D26045709%26amp%3Bwidth%3D400%26amp%3Bheight%3D320]
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Presidential candidates keep the energy ads a-comin’
John McCain put out this new ad yesterday, “Broken,” in which he’s portrayed as the “original maverick” and pledges to “battle Big Oil.” (Someone might want to pass the message along to his donors.) Barack Obama responded with this new ad yesterday, challenging the premise that McCain has been a “maverick” on energy and other […]
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Ads from Sierra Club and MoveOn hit McCain over energy policy
“Big Oil companies have our economy and politics in a choke hold,” says a new TV ad released today by the Sierra Club Political Committee. “They are getting billions from the government, raking in record profits, while we pay more and more for gas.” “John McCain’s answer?” the ad continues. “Another $4 billion giveaway to […]
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New Obama ad responds to McCain’s Britney ad
Barack Obama is hammering back after John McCain ran an ad comparing him to Britney Spears. In a new ad of his own, Obama accuses the Republican candidate of taking “the low road.” “John McCain: Same old politics, same failed policies,” says the ad, before touting Obama’s plans to grant a $1,000 middle-class tax, fight […]
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Grape-Nuts releases global warming ad
I have no idea what this ad means. But I saw it in Newsweek and had to scan it onto the blog:
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Big Oil tries to hide behind an acronym
Ever watch the cable news networks during the afternoon? You're bombarded with issue ad after issue ad. Well, imagine that every TV and radio station was like that 24 hours a day. That's local media here in D.C. And since the climate and energy debate began in earnest on Capitol Hill last summer, it seems like you can't get through one commercial break without hearing GM or Big Oil explain how they don't need big government telling them what to do (unless, of course, big government wants to tell them to drill for more oil).
Every morning over breakfast, WTOP Radio gives me a steady diet of news, traffic, weather, and propaganda. But Monday morning brought a new twist that perked me up even before my organic coffee could kick in. It was an ad I'd heard before featuring actors pretending to be "average Joes" saying we need to drill anywhere Big Oil wants. Previously, it had closed with "paid for by the American Petroleum Institute." But this morning, the ad closed with "paid for by API." (To hear the ad without the tag line, go here and scroll down to "Times are changing.")
Of course, if you look at the American Petroleum Institute's print ads, you won't even find an "API." They're tagged with "the people of America's oil and natural gas industry," which sounds vaguely like employees took up a collection on their own to buy the ad. Is Big Oil afraid of its own shadow?
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Sierra Club ads defend Dems who are ‘standing strong against Big Oil’
The Sierra Club rolled out a new radio ad campaign this weekend that aims to defend Democrats who are being hammered for not supporting efforts to open more areas to oil drilling. Sixty-second ads being aired in six states ask listeners to call and thank these members of Congress for “standing up to the oil […]
