Dems to Spend $35 million on TV ads
July 12th 2008 16:12
The DNC has reserved TV time worth about $35 million dollars for congressional races this Fall.
Back in April, Obama was spending $2.2 million a day on advertising in PA. For those of us in the state, it made it imposisble to watch TV without seeing an ad for him. If you've ever watched Comedy Central after midnight and seen those Girls Gone Wild commercials...yeah, it was as annoying as that.
At the time, I wondered where else that money could have been going. I remember some time back watching a skit by Steve Carell on Comedy Central's “Night of Too Many Stars” event for autism. He wanted to demonstrate how quickly and uselessly $100 could be spent when it could go to a good cause instead. To show that, he ate a whole cake and 6 gin and tonics with a bottle of cough syrup in about 3 minutes. It was hilarious, but demonstrated a great point. As the heartless libertarian I am, I couldn’t help but wonder how else that $2.2 million a week in ads could have been spent. What if Obama went into Philly and personally started an organization to help the homeless get jobs? What if he gave one week of that ad money to the police department to get some better technology to break down the crime? Wouldn’t those actions mean so much more then some stupid half-truth ads? If you claim to be a humanitarian, show us. But OH! Thats right! Just like all Dems, he would rather spend his money to try to get into office so he can use our tax dollars to do all those great things.
Now there is $35 million on the table from the DNC. That doesn't count ads that the congressmen themselves or their personal constituents will finance. This is a special add-on from the DNC, the party that is supposed to be caring.
$35 million could do good things for all those people that they claim to care about.I have a few suggestions:
*If you buy smart, for about $250 a pop you could buy a new outfit and get haircuts/manicures for 140,000 homeless people, then help them get interviews.
*At $10 a piece, you could buy 3.5 Million underpriviledged children a book.
*At about $4000 a family, you could send 8,750 terminal kids to Disney World with their families.
Anyone have any more ideas?
Doing some actual good with that money would improve their approval ratings quicker than any TV ad can.
Back in April, Obama was spending $2.2 million a day on advertising in PA. For those of us in the state, it made it imposisble to watch TV without seeing an ad for him. If you've ever watched Comedy Central after midnight and seen those Girls Gone Wild commercials...yeah, it was as annoying as that.
At the time, I wondered where else that money could have been going. I remember some time back watching a skit by Steve Carell on Comedy Central's “Night of Too Many Stars” event for autism. He wanted to demonstrate how quickly and uselessly $100 could be spent when it could go to a good cause instead. To show that, he ate a whole cake and 6 gin and tonics with a bottle of cough syrup in about 3 minutes. It was hilarious, but demonstrated a great point. As the heartless libertarian I am, I couldn’t help but wonder how else that $2.2 million a week in ads could have been spent. What if Obama went into Philly and personally started an organization to help the homeless get jobs? What if he gave one week of that ad money to the police department to get some better technology to break down the crime? Wouldn’t those actions mean so much more then some stupid half-truth ads? If you claim to be a humanitarian, show us. But OH! Thats right! Just like all Dems, he would rather spend his money to try to get into office so he can use our tax dollars to do all those great things.
Now there is $35 million on the table from the DNC. That doesn't count ads that the congressmen themselves or their personal constituents will finance. This is a special add-on from the DNC, the party that is supposed to be caring.
$35 million could do good things for all those people that they claim to care about.I have a few suggestions:
*If you buy smart, for about $250 a pop you could buy a new outfit and get haircuts/manicures for 140,000 homeless people, then help them get interviews.
*At $10 a piece, you could buy 3.5 Million underpriviledged children a book.
*At about $4000 a family, you could send 8,750 terminal kids to Disney World with their families.
Anyone have any more ideas?
Doing some actual good with that money would improve their approval ratings quicker than any TV ad can.
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