{"id":1855,"date":"2008-08-05T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2008-08-05T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T02:15:00","slug":"ad-wars-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1855","title":{"rendered":"Ad Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things are heating up down south as John McCain&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.macleans.ca\/2008\/08\/05\/mccains-new-ad\/\">latest ad<\/a> brands him as &#8220;the original maverick&#8221; (and here I thought that was James Garner) and proclaims &#8220;<em>we&#8217;re worse off now than we were four years ago<\/em>.&#8221; Serves Americans right for electing a Democrat to the White House in 2004!<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ylJkmMR8Fek&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ylJkmMR8Fek&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This, of course, comes hot on the heels of McCain&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oHXYsw_ZDXg\">everybody loves my opponent<\/a>&#8221; ad, which has generated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20080805.WBwblogolitics20080805190742\/WBStory\/WBwblogolitics\/\">this response<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"464\" height=\"388\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www2.funnyordie.com\/public\/flash\/fodplayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"key=64ad536a6d\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"464\" height=\"388\" flashvars=\"key=64ad536a6d\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" quality=\"high\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.funnyordie.com\/public\/flash\/fodplayer.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/embed><\/object><noscript>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/videos\/64ad536a6d\">Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad<\/a> and more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\">funny videos<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\">FunnyOrDie.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;width:464px;\">See more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\">funny videos<\/a> at Funny or Die<\/div>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/articles\/1592229\/20080805\/id_0.jhtml\">here&#8217;s <\/a>the McCain response to Paris&#8217; response:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Hilton&#8217;s video is a good-humored attempt at spoofing the first ad, but representatives for McCain&#8217;s campaign nevertheless immediately responded to the clip on <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">TMZ<\/span>.com.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Sounds like Paris is taking the &#8216;All of the Above&#8217; energy approach that John McCain has advocated<\/strong> \u2014 both alternatives and drilling,&#8221; spokesman Tucker Bounds told the gossip site. &#8220;Perhaps the reality is that Paris has a more substantive energy plan than <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Barack<\/span> <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">Obama<\/span>.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are two things I love about this quote by Tucker Bounds (three if you include the name &#8220;Tucker Bounds&#8221;):<\/p>\n<p>1. The McCain campaign is spinning for a gossip site.<\/p>\n<p>2. They are spinning that Paris and John advocate the same position on energy policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things are heating up down south as John McCain&#8217;s latest ad brands him as &#8220;the original maverick&#8221; (and here I thought that was James Garner) and proclaims &#8220;we&#8217;re worse off now than we were four years ago.&#8221; Serves Americans right for electing a Democrat to the White House in 2004! 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