McCain Counts on Public Ignorance with New Global Warming Ads
June 22, 2008 · Print This Article
One thing about this election season has been made very clear: McCain thinks that we’re all a bunch of idiots. And, maybe a lot of us are (namely, the people who are already planning to vote for him), but he’d better hope that the independents he’s targeting with his new global warming ads are totally uneducated on environment-related topics.
From Salon’s War Room:
The commercial, titled “Global,” starts out like an attack ad aimed at smog, traffic and all things hazardous for the environment, with alarming images flashing on the screen before a sun sets in heavy haze. Then soft, comforting Muzak comes up behind a woman’s voice, reading a script that makes clear what the answer to all those problems is: McCain.
“John McCain stood up to the president and sounded the alarm on global warming, five years ago,” the narrator says. “Today, he has a realistic plan that will curb greenhouse gas emissions. A plan that will help grow our economy and protect our environment.” Those black-and-white shots of clogged highways and polluting factories from the opening are gone, replaced by nice color images of windmills, blue sky, water flowing over a dam, a worker assembling a truck (could it be a hybrid?) and, finally, McCain himself, standing on a windy bluff, looking like Mark Trail as he surveys the wilderness around him.
“Reform. Prosperity. Peace,” the narrator purrs. “John McCain.”
“John McCain stood up to the president and sounded the alarm on global warming, five years ago” is the stupidest sentence I’ve ever heard. McCain’s record speaks louder than words. His past voting shows that his views on environmental policy don’t vary much from those of the Bush administration. McCain has lobbyist connections to Big Oil and foreign dictators of oil-rich countries. Plus, he supports offshore drilling. Need I say more?
Watch the video at Salon, I’ve OD’ed on John McCain ads after all the ones that were plastered all over EarthFirst for a while there.
Link [Salon]
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I am not a fan of either candidates, but I think it should be known that John McCain voted for removing consideration of Alaska’s ANWR from budget bill and voted against drilling in ANWR in 2005. He also helped to put 3.5B acres under wildlife protection in 1995 and plans on putting 1.5 billion more acres under protection. Also supports ending commercial whaling. You can check out the past voting record of all candidates at ontheissues.org
It is absolutely clear that we need radical change to stop the planet for dying. McCain is just putting around the edges, trying to get independent votes. Seriously, 4 more years of this mess?
he he he, I noticed that
What’s funny is the more you talk about McCain, the more relevant the context ads…
I think someone in the other thread had a good idea with the competition filter…
Heh. It’s difficult to tell McCain parodies from the real thing nowadays.