Digby is right to highlight this. Here's Ed Schultz with the Beat Boehner ad, two days in a row, along with post-ad commentary by Joan Walsh:
Digby adds (my emphasis):
Blue America and our partners at Americans for America are on our own with this. The DCCC had no intention of helping Justin Coussoule run a campaign against John Boehner and as far as I can tell no intention of taking any message national. So, if we want to keep this ad on the air we're going to have to pay for it ourselves.I don't know independently that the bolded assertions are true, but they sound right. In any case:
If you'd like to contribute to the effort you can click here. I can tell you one thing --- Boehner hates it and the local press loves it.Action opportunity — I strongly suggest funding this ad to take it national. Strongly. Handing a pink slip to "Eye of Tiger Woods" Boehner would not only put the ball on offense (for a change!) but it would send a stunning message about how serious progressives are about this generations-long battle we're in.
Ex-Representative Boehner. Has a nice aggressive ring to it, doesn't it?
Bonus point — When I went to the MSNBC site to see the Ed vid in situ, I was given 30 seconds of agitprop on the theme "Verizon loves you and your mobile device; look at these nice shiny pictures." It's starting, folks. Watch both Google and Verizon pour millions into making you disbelieve your eyes.
What can you do? Ditch Verizon — and tell them why. Then ditch Google Chrome and do the same. Google feeds on its ads — it's their Achilles heel — and Chrome lives to show them to you.
Proactively yours,
GP
