MEDIABURN MAIN EVENT: Dean For America Vs. Club For Growth
Dean For America enters the ring to face Club For Growth attack ad.
Caricatures, Shmaricatures. You've heard about the new Club for Growth ad -- the one that calls you and the campaign you've built a
tax-hiking,
government-expanding,
latte-drinking,
sushi-eating,
Volvo-driving,
New York Times-reading,
body-piercing,
Hollywood-loving,
left-wing freak show A lot of folks have commented in the threads that the campaign ought to respond to this ad -- and they're right. But we at HQ are not "the campaign" -- you're the campaign.
Many of you have responded by contributing to the bat. But can you respond in other ways? Can you use photos, audio, or video to make your statement?
I know it's always risky to ask for an on-topic thread here, but what's your response?
Post in the comments below, or email media files to blog@deanforamerica.com. Be creative -- make a response ad, write an ad script, make a flyer, record a song.
Take their ridiculous ad and have some fun with it. Show that there's simply no way to pigeonhole or caricature the largest grassroots movement presidential politics has ever seen.
For instance, Volvo has only sold about 245,000 vehicles in the United States in the last two years. With more than 560,000 Dean supporters out there, we must be driving a lot of used Volvos (full disclosure: I drive a 1994 Chevy Corsica, borrowed from my brother).
Or what about those lattes? A report by the Christian Science Monitor (not the New York Times, mind you) notes that Michael Gerson, the president's speechwriter, does his writing in Starbucks. The words coming out of George Bush's mouth at any moment may have been written over a latte!
(Howard Dean's speechwriter and my next-desk neighbor at HQ, Joe Drymala, doesn't have time for lattes these days -- he decided to take off for Iowa this week to bang on doors and help get out the vote.)
And Hollywood-loving? Dean supporters love a good movie, to be sure (anything by Rob Reiner, chair of the California campaign, will do) but the Club for Growth's beloved Republican Party was the one that ran the Last Action Hero on its ticket last year.
We've known from day one that the corporate-backed special interests -- who represent a tiny minority of Americans -- would use their money to try to define us, because only be dividing and misrepresenting us can they defeat us.
With its clumsy stereotypes, the Club for Growth would have you believe that there is no common ground between an Iowa farmer and an urban dot-commer. But that's the miracle of this campaign -- it's based on the premise that we're all in this together.
Show the diversity of the coalition you've built. Show who you are. And have some fun, because really -- it's just hilarious that they're spending all their special interest money on this stuff. [Blog for America]
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