The North Carolina Republican party has produced a television ad that's well on it's way to becoming a GOP pariah. The party's own presidential nominee has objected to it along with RNC officials. And to further complicate matters, two N.C. stations say they won't run it.
The ad, slated to begin airing next week during 6 p.m. newscasts, begins with a fundraising pitch followed immediately by the narrated lines, "For twenty years Barack Obama sat in his pew listening to his pastor." Lest we have forgotten about Reverend Jeremiah Wright and the ten seconds of sermon that had brought down upon a Obama a little fire and brimstone, the ad quickly reminds us. We get a split screen with Reverend Wright on one side giving his sermon and a photo of Obama with his arm around the Reverend on the other—in case you didn't get it, they know eachother. The ad's stated purpose is to voice opposition to N.C. gubernatorial candidates Bev Perdue and Richard Moore. So how do you get from the Wright scandal to an attack on these two candidates? Well, they both endorsed Obama and according to the ad, Obama is, "Too extreme for North Carolina." Thus, drawing on the transitive property of "endorse", if Obama is too extreme for North Carolina, and Bev Perdue and Richard Moore endorsed Obama, then they must be too extreme for North Carolina. Q.E.D.
Based on 1,032 ratings on YouTube, this video has an average of two out of five stars. If that were a letter grade, it would be a solid F. Also, if you look at the RCP average of head-to-head polling pitting Obama against McCain in N.C., Obama holds a slight advantage. So if North Carolinians really think Obama is too extreme then, in their eyes, McCain is a fanatic.
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