Corporate Sponsored Character Assassination
by digby
Think Progress reports that ABC and Fox stations around the country are running a half hour anti-Democratic “infomercial” that you just won’t believe:
The National Republican Trust PAC, run by conservative conspiracy theorist Scott Wheeler, has purchased airtime in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Wisconsin, and North Carolina to broadcast its 25-minute “Breaking Point” political attack ad, starting last Friday. Using clips from Townhall.com, World Net Daily, Fox Business, CNSNews.com, and Glenn Beck, narrator E. W. Jackson invokes the boogeymen of ACORN, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the New Black Panther Party, Hamas, and Mao Tse-Tung to paint President Obama and the Democratic Party as “extreme,” “treacherous,” “socialist,” and “with hostility” towards America:
“The mainstream media… should have demanded how exactly he intended to govern outside the bounds of the Constitution.” “The phrases ‘spread the wealth around’ may sound harmless to some. To others it was a clear invitation to adopt the destructive ideology of leftist revolutionaries. Among the public and the media, it should have ignited debate over Obama’s intentions, like: Whose wealth is to be spread around? Who would be the beneficiaries of the money Obama planned to confiscate? It wasn’t the only time that Obama displayed tendencies that some labeled socialist.” “President Obama’s words and actions seem clear: He does not view America with an America-centric perspective, but with an outsider’s point of view, often with hostility.” “The goodwill Obama and other Democrats always shower on those hostile towards America never seems to extend to fellow countrymen here at home.” “During his presidential election, he wound up with a record-shattering $750 million in his campaign. To this day he refuses to report from whence it came. One reason might be that some of it originated from the terrorist group Hamas, which also endorsed Obama.” “Obama’s science czar, John Holdren, has publicly advocated that trees be allowed to sue us in court, that we should engage in drastic population control by implementing forced abortions and sterilization, and that we should design a global regime to redistribute wealth.” “During the 2008 campaign, President Obama pretended to turn his back on some extremists from his past. ‘You want freedom? You’re gonna have to kill some crackers! You gonna have to kill some of those babies!’” “Van Jones, self-avowed and unabashed Communist, was appointed to the position of green jobs czar. He held that position until his controversial views led to his resignation. Jones believed the September 11 attacks were staged by the U.S. government.” “By circumnavigating confirmation hearings, and instead appointing these people to powerful positions within our government, Obama and the Democrats are admitting their views are far too extreme for Americans to accept, so they do it by fiat.”
(EW Jackson is the grifter whose email I featured over the week-end.)
Think Progress has more — the least surprising revelation being the Big Money connection.
This is the essence of the Citizen’s United decision (although I don’t think it applies directly because the film isn’t about a particular candidate.) But the case was all about a lying, right wing corporate sponsored hit job like and I would guess 2012 will have some major Cecil B DeMille epics on tap. Unless television stations are inclined to fact check and reject them on journalistic grounds — something both Fox and ABC are obviously none too concerned about — then they’ll run.
Welcome to Corporateworld. Have a nice stay.
.