After Coleman released the first TV negative attack ad of the season, the media responded:
WCCO: “Coleman Ad Takes Personal Swipes At Franken”:
The latest ad from the Norm Coleman campaign doesn’t focus on the issues but takes some more personal swipes at challenger Al Franken.
MPR: “Coleman, Franken turn up the heat in latest campaign ads”:
“They’ve resorted clearly here to misleading smear attacks,” said Franken campaign spokesman Andy Barr. “But I guess that’s predictable. They didn’t have much to say for themselves.”
Barr says it’s not true that Franken didn’t pay his taxes.
“As has been stated many, many, many, many times, Al and Franni paid taxes on every cent of their income,” said Barr. “They overpaid in some states. They underpaid it in others. It’s a mistake that’s been rectified. The idea that there was a nonpayment of taxes is just simply wrong.”
Strib: “Coleman ad addresses Franken’s personal issues”:
Republican Sen. Norm Coleman weighed in Wednesday with a deceptively genial TV ad that offhandedly thrashes Franken…
The ad doesn’t address Franken’s stands on issues, and his campaign Wednesday characterized it as a “misleading smear” attack by Coleman.
MNindy: “Coleman throws a gutter ball in latest bowling alley commercial”:
The Norm Coleman campaign shows its first public sign of fear in a new :30 spot released yesterday. “Why Not” is a shorthand review of the personal gaffes committed by Al Franken in the race to date. There was no question the race would come to this, but it seems telling that the Coleman campaign is justifying the nasty turn by claiming Franken “went negative” first by highlighting Coleman’s close ties to the Bush White House.
In any case, it’s funny to see three men in a bowling alley tutting over “pornography” like octogenarian church ladies.
UPDATE: MinnPost: “Dirty early: Senate campaign goes negative”:
You could say that this ad, and Franken’s current ad, reflects the desire of Franken to make the race about Coleman’s record and Coleman’s desire to make it about Franken’s lack of one.
Despite its humorous tone, the ad represents the first pure attack ad of the year, in the sense that it goes directly after Franken on a personal basis.
The Coleman campaign can’t talk about the issues. What would the ad have been like if they talked about the issues that actually matter to Minnesotans?
UPDATE: Fixed title of Strib story.
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What would the ad have been like if they talked about the issues that actually matter to Minnesotans?
Simple — it would have been a bunch of bowlers thanking God that there was a candidate who finally represented them on the issues.
What a sure sign that somebody is full of crap?
When they claim a large population, say “Minnesotans”, can ever have a candidate that represents “their views”. This is almost always a way of inflating the value of commenter’s own opinions and give them more weight then they really posses. Notice how “their views” always happen to be the same as the commentators. Throwing in “God” is just icing on the cake.
Kerosene Hat, I agree 100%,
I am pretty sure I have never seen this behavior from any Republicans.
If there was, it wouldn’t matter, because all Republicans are 100% correct on every issue. We Republicans pretty much say the same things over and over and over again, because they are true.
We Republicans are allowed to do this. Everybody knows moonbats are not allowed to do this because they hate America and want us to lose in Iraq.
Great Job!
TFRWG,
People of all political persuasions use this technique and all of them are full of crap. Jeff just happened to give the perfect example. If you ever decided to make a positive contribution rather than add to the political white noise as found here and on MDE maybe you wouldn’t have to waste your time flinging BS comments at me Nitro.
And if your going to lie about me at least make it plausible. I’m not now nor have I ever been a Republican. Though I will admit that asshole Democrats like you make it almost appealing. In fact maybe I will vote for Coleman, just to know I am canceling out your vote this next election.
Kerosene Hat, I agree 100%,
Everybody knows Democrats are assholes who are full of crap when they use fallicious arguments here on MN Publius.
It is common knowledge that these moonbats hate America and want us to lose in Iraq. They do not make any positive contributions to this website.
Great Job!!
Sounds to me like Coleman is implying that he’s the only man good enough to handle this Senate seat. Franken is obviously not because he’s a tax cheat and a pronographer as well as someone who is vicious in his dealing with his fellow human beings. Does Coleman really mean to equate Franken with the bowlers three, as well as with all the other average Minnesotans the bowlers are supposed to represent? Are average Minnesotans no better than Al Franken in Coleman’s estimation? I don’t know about my fellow Minnesotans, but I am insulted. I know that Coleman detests Franken and I always supected he detested average Minnesotans. Now I know…
Maybe Franken and Coleman should have a bowl-off. As long as Obama isn’t on our team, we should kick Coleman’s ass.
No TFRWG, unlike you I try not to judge large groups based on one asshole. You, as an individual are a pointless destructive asshole. The fact that you are a Democrat is simply unfortunate for Democrats.
Kerosene Hat, I agree 100%,
These Democrats are pointless destructive assholes. They are 100% wrong on every issue.
Only the Republicans are 100% correct on every issue. They get a free pass because of that fact.
great Job!
Actually TFRWG most of my family including my wife and mother are life long Democrats and I respect their views and agree with them more often than not. So again, if you want to produce proper satire you have to try and make it plausible and not just your standard outright lies.
Kerosene Hat, I agree 100%,
Everybody knows that their friends, families, co-workers and neighbors who disagree with we Republicans are 100% wrong on every issue.
These moonbats need to be taken down. Thank God there are people willing to go to Liberal websites and take them down consistently, Republican leaders like Swiftee, Chris,GOPgal and Michael B. Brodkorb, and many others, (if in fact they are individuals).
Great Job!
TFRWG I thought you might find this interesting. It might be a bit off topic but then I doubt you would care since everything you post is off topic.
“There are two ways of considering society. According to some, the development of human associations is not subject to providential, unchangeable laws. Rather, these associations, having originally been organized in a purely artificial manner by primeval legislators, can later be modified or remade by other legislators, in step with the progress of social science. In this system the government plays a preeminent role, because it is upon it, the custodian of the principle of authority, that the daily task of modifying and remaking society devolves.
According to others, on the contrary, society is a purely natural fact. Like the earth on which it stands, society moves in accordance with general, preexisting laws. In this system, there is no such thing, strictly speaking, as social science; there is only economic science, which studies he natural organism of society and shows how this organism functions.
We propose to examine, within the latter system, the function and natural organization of government.”
From http://praxeology.net/GM-PS.htm
Kerosene Hat, my comment was hyperbole. Without hyperbole, we wouldn’t have a blogosphere!
I’d like to think that at least 98.4% of Minnesotans understood the point behind my comment.
KH,
LOLOLS!!!
I actually enjoyed that very much….but…Typical Frightened Right Wing Guy hates intellectuals.
(Now get that temper in check).
Jeff,
Understanding your point wasn’t the issue. Without the Internet we wouldn’t have a blogosphere, without hyperbole people would have to make an effort to stand by what they say. Don’t blame the venue for the behavior. Crap is crap no matter where it is found.
Nice edit of your post by the way. It seems you must have agreed enough with my assessment to change your post without making note of the edit.
Actually Kerosene we need people like you to piss in the punch bowl… otherwise people might actually have a laugh once in a while. They might make the words dance and find real meaning between the lines. Are you the internet equivalent of John McCain’s “Hey you kids get the hell off my lawn…”?
What is crap is smug pretend intellectuals attempting to swim upstream against the human tide. Life is a messy glorious thing and if Jeff Rosenberg wants to use a little snark or hyperbole, let him.
Just for the record, I didn’t edit that…