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What do you think of the video?
Edit: This is a real campaign video. No ****.
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Turn Right USA is a Federal Non-connected, Expenditure Only Political Action Committee (SuperPAC) organized to execute Independent Expenditure campaigns by a group of American citizens who are:
1.unrepresented by the political class of this Country;
2.nauseated by the laughable stupidity of professional politicians;
3.outraged by their liberal benefactors like George Soros, and
4.angered that their opposition is too cowardly to fight back!
Turn Right USA’s mission is to expose and lampoon the typical politico’s microscopic brain through cutting-edge viral videos with guts and humor!
Actually - it's not a real campaign video.
It's says "Paid for my Turn Right USA . . . Definitely NOT authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee . . . so suck it McCain-Feingold"
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So - no candidate came up with this, it's not endorse by any party - rather, it's endorsed by a superpac . . .which just donates money around. . . at their website this is their 'mission' statement:
I use the term "campaign video" to refer to a video that campaigns for or against a candidate. By that definition, it is a campaign video. By "real" I meant that it was not done as a joke.
Turn Right USA’s mission is to expose and lampoon the typical politico’s microscopic brain through cutting-edge viral videos with guts and humor!
Of course it was a joke. Read their mission statement...
Define Lampoon: A light, good-humored satire.
Therefore, by your own definition of 'real'... it wasn't.
It's about a real person and a real issue with the intent to influence the election. It was not done as a parody of an add, but as a real add.
Apparently about a real person who did a real stupid thing with real peoples tax dollars. The commercial may be juvenile, but reading some of the people that got paid by the ho and their crimes, it might just be a commercial that needed to be made, yo.
It's about a real person and a real issue with the intent to influence the election. It was not done as a parody of an add, but as a real add.
Actually the add is factually incorrect and misleading on that issue as well. PolitiFact | Video accuses Janice Hahn of hiring gang members with taxpayer money as 'gang-intervention specialists'
So... their mission statement lied?
Interesting that in the Politifact article you cite Hahn herself defends the position and actions. Later it is stated that the government unequivocally does NOT hire gang members. Absolutely not. No way. They hire Connie Rice, who then pays gang members. So if the add were more accurate, Ms Hahn would be a trench coat/fedora wearing smoke and shadows type, filtering the money to Ms Rice, who would then be doin the stripper act. Not a DIRECT payment, but obviously she knew what time it was.
"When we contacted Hahn's campaign, spokesman Dave Jacobson reiterated the point that Hahn did not "directly" fund gang-intervention specialists.
But that doesn't mean city money doesn't filter to them.
"She (Hahn) did not hire any gangsters," said civil rights lawyer and gang expert Connie Rice. "The city doesn’t pay the intervention specialists directly."
Rather, Rice said, city funds go to agencies like hers, the Advancement Project in Los Angeles, which then go out and hire intervention specialists. And, she said, it works: violence is down. That's why city and county law enforcement agencies routinely work with organizations that hire former gang members to "interface" with the gang community, she said.
"We have to engage with the people doing the damage," said Rice.
"Do we talk to actual gangsters, yes," Rice said. "We ask them not to shoot kids. This is the reality. We're trying to save lives, not score political points. It's smart policy."
Is it controversial? Sure, Rice said. And sometimes some of the people hired for gang-intervention work "mess up." Those found to be abusing the system are cut off, she said. That doesn't mean the program isn't working, she said. "You can throw stones at that," Rice said, but the reality is "when you go into gang-controlled hot spots, you have to deal with the gangs. People don't understand what we're facing out here. In our hots spots, we still have the OK Corral."
The only evidence that Hahn got any one out of jail is the word of one person, who thought that was how he got released but did not know it. City funding did go to the program, but as it is represented in the video is entirely inaccurate.
I dont know about entirely inaccurate...but like I said earleir...not unlike the Move-On adds. Special interest campaigns can do pretty much whatever they want.
"One of the ads that was submitted that they considered viable for airing – with $7 million, by the way, in funds that we don't know where it comes from, but we know they've said they'd spend $7 million to air the ad that they've settled on – one of them morphed President Bush into Adolf Hitler," explained Gillespie. "Those are the kind of tactics we're seeing on the left today in support of these Democratic presidential candidates."
The first ad shows a series of pictures of Hitler speaking in German. Text on the screen reads as follows: "We have taken new measures to protect our homeland ... I believe I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator ... God told me to strike at al-Qaida and I struck them ... and then He instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did."
"Sound familiar?" asks the text, to the sound of cheering Germans.
Saying he believed the White House was guided by a "supremacist ideology," Soros complained: "America, under Bush, is a danger to the world ... When I hear Bush say, 'You're either with us or against us,' it reminds me of the Germans ... My experiences under Nazi and Soviet rule have sensitized me."
Absolutely like Move On adds. Is there a point to your comments other than that other people can do vile things too as some sort of excuse?
I use the term "campaign video" to refer to a video that campaigns for or against a candidate. By that definition, it is a campaign video. By "real" I meant that it was not done as a joke.
Maybe the bigger discussion should be if these types of ads should be allowed at all. Wouldnt it be interesting if a fourth rate ad company in LA was responsible for bringing down the Soros machine.