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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
The Good, the Ad, and the Ugly
Whistleblower Senior National Political Affairs Analyst Britt Humus says you wouldn’t believe all the reaction to the first “Real E-Mail from Real Subscribers” in Tuesday’s “Super Bowl Post Game” E-dition. All it said was:
When a Republican like me appeared in that “Halftime in America” Super Bowl ad for bailed-out Chrysler (on which U.S. over-taxed payers only lost 1.3 Billion), do you think Obama will use it when he campaigns this year? —Clint Eastwood
Now Clint says, “I’m certainly not affiliated with Mr. Obama,” and a Chrysler spokesman says Eastwood was critic of the auto bailout. Chrysler also claims the ad had “zero political content.”
“I was, frankly, offended by it,” said Karl Rove on Fox News Monday. “I’m a huge fan of Clint Eastwood, I thought it was an extremely well-done ad, but it is a sign of what happens when you have Chicago-style politics, and the president of the United States and his political minions are, in essence, using our tax dollars to buy corporate advertising.”
The advertising agency that created the commercial — Wieden + Kennedy — has members who have designed Obama campaign items or who have worked on behalf of DemocRAT causes. Is that a coincidence or what!
No wonder Obama’s campaign manager David Axelrod and White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer tweeted praise for the spot.
And The Blower says this online comment was spot on: I don’t understand how anyone could possibly watch that ad, or read the script for it in the case of Mr. Eastwood, and NOT see that it was a clear commercial for 4 more years of Obama. “Half-time” in an Obama eight-year reign. When I saw it I wondered if the Obama campaign fund had paid for it. Only two choices here: either Mr. Eastwood is lying, or he has gone around the bend and completely lost it, a clueless old man.
Meanwhile, Republican 2012 Presidential First Runner-Up Newt Gingrich and his third wife Callista spoke to an overflow crowd in a small room at Price Hill Chili Tuesday morning, in what can only be described as another Great Moment in Advance Work by the Gingrich Campaign and the Hamilton County RINO Party.
Some people wonder, given reports of The Newtster’s requests for an “open marriage,” if choosing a restaurant that featured “Three Ways” was sending the right message. At least they didn’t show him “corn-holing” in Covedale.
At the same time, Award Winning Photo Illustrator Artis Conception says we forgot to use his picture of Donald Trump taking credit for Romney’s big win in Nevada, soon to be included in the Artis Conception Gallery on the all new and improved Whistleblower Web Page. [SEE IT HERE]
- At the same time in Cincinnati, where Girly Mayor Mark Mallory’s New Extreme Liberal City Clown-cil says “Four year terms might not be long enough, maybe it ought to be six.” The Fishwrap published a letter from Pleasant Ridge resident Tracey Gragston, saying “Columbia Township, Anderson Township, and the western most townships should consider merging with the city of Cincinnati. It would expand the city’s tax base and ability to deliver more services.”
There are 296,482 stories in the Queen City. This has been one of them.
But is that woman insane? Why do you think the “White, God-Fearing Citizens of Rock Ridge” live in the townships? Many are former residents of the city and the rest are those want no part of a city run by a Council of Clowns.
- Meanwhile, CH Snitch at 1000 Main Street says talk around the court house is that Determined DemocRAT County Recorder Wayne Coates is asking employees to sign a document saying that they will not work for Republican Wayne Lippert’s campaign. Is that legal?
- Now for today’s Racial Healing Moment during Black History Month, our Compassionate Conservative suggests says White People from the Suburbs should forget the Empty Uppity Oprah Winfrey Campaigning for Obama, Under-funded, Ugly-ass Poorly-Planned Unnagraown Rayroe Museum Not-so-Free-dom Center. Just go down to the Jobs and Family Services Building, because that’s where all the Black people hang out since the start of the Obama Administration.
- Speaking of Soreheads in the Suburbs, everybody in Anderson is waiting for this week’s edition of the Forest Hills Urinal to be delivered, to see the latest propaganda for the Forrest Gump School District’s humongous Tax Hike on the March 6 ballot, so township property owners of $200,000 houses can pay $2,000-a-year to support the greedy teachers and administrators. Last week’s urinal featured a front-page puff piece for the schools, two pro-levy guest columns on the Readers Views page, along with four pro-levy letters to the editor (and nary a word of opposition). No wonder WLW Hate Radio’s Darryl Parks (an Angry Andersonian to be sure) says, “If you vote for the Humongous Forrest Gump Tax Levy, you’re stupid.”
Hurley the Historian says on this date in 1587, Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded, but many Whistleblower subscribers remember that time when we showed the picture of “TaxKiller Tom” cutting That Corrupt Evicted Lying Plagiarizing Meddling Overblown Bought-and-paid-For Tax-and-Spend RINO Bitch-in-a-Ditch Mean Jean Schmidt’s head off that cake.- In a related item, Republicans for Higher Taxes have endorsed Peter Stautberg for State Rep-tile, stating that his support for higher taxes coupled with the $1,000 he received from Bungles Owner Mike Brown easily makes him the best candidate. Not surprisingly, those tax hikers declared Tax Killer Tom Brinkman to be completely unacceptable for their movement. Click the link to read a more in-depth analysis of their big endorsement.
In Clermont County, the Cronies want to know the latest gossip about Resigned-in-Disgrace Former Commissioner Archie “The Pipe-Layer” Wilson’s scandal in Northern Kentucky. Do you think they they caught him celebrating BB&BJ Day a little early this year? And what will the Cronies think when they find out Tim Rudd and some of their own knew the scandalous details and have been covering them up ever since?- Also in Clermont County, we have a classic example of politicians outright lying to the public and trying to change history in order to suit whatever they want to do today. Consider the following from Clermont County Commissioner Bob Proud on the sudden appointment of Tom Blust as interim county commissioner: The Fishwrap reported that “Proud said it was the county’s practice to appoint someone to the acting post who was not interested in running for the position.”
Oh really, the last time the commissioners appointed someone to fill a vacancy in office, it was to the person who had already been anointed in a back room deal to take the office permanently. After Nico Capurro resigned as coroner in disgrace, the county commissioners (of which Proud was one at the time) appointed Brian Treon to the post. And guess who is the coroner — Brian Treon. So much for Proud having any clue as to what has gone on while he was a commissioner.
As the commissioners’ own press released indicated at the time “Treon will serve as interim coroner until the Clermont County Republican Central Committee certifies the individual that will serve as coroner until the November 5, 2002 election.” Guess who the Crooked Cronies appointed and who ran (and was elected) in November — Treon. So what exactly is the county’s practice?
- Finally, with only 27 more days until the GOP Primary Elections on March 6, Political Insiders at today’s meeting of the Conservative Agenda were asking Beloved Whistleblower Publisher Charles Foster Kane what he thought about Monday Night’s big Tea Party event in Newtown, sponsored by a trio of local Tea Party groups. Unfortunately for our friends at the Anderson Tea Party, the duo of heavily scripted un-debates was being run by one of the other groups, which featured predictable questions by an eight-foot tall moderator, no confrontation whatsoever, and some really boring unchallenged self-serving statements by the candidates.
Who won? The winner of the Ohio Second Congressional District un-debate was the incumbent, “Mean Jean” Schmidt. Of course, she didn’t even show up at this event, just like she blew off the Anderson Township Republican Club Candidate Forum last month. Let’s face it. Any time an incumbent can encourage more than one candidate to get into the race to split the opposition vote, the incumbent wins.
Maybe that’s why our Quote for Today Committee chose Ross Perot’s favorite saying: “It’s just that simple.”
The un-debate between “Taxkiller Tom” Brinkman and the Best State Rep-tile that Money Can Buy was even worse. Brinkman had all this great ammunition, but he forgot to use it. Don’t candidates believe in debate preparation these days? At least he was the only one who remembered Monday was Ronald Reagan’s 101st Birthday.
Maybe analysis of this hideous event is the sort of thing our Beloved Whistleblower Publisher should be presenting on upcoming public access TV show on Anderson Community Television.
- Meanwhile in Northern Kentucky, Bluegrass Bureau Chief Ken CamBoo says the reason he doesn’t have a full report for his readers this morning is because he’s been sitting outside Kenton County Attorney Scarry Garry Edmondson’s office waiting for a public statement on Clermont County Commissioner Archie Wilson’s Scandal in Kenton County. No wonder The Fishwrap’s attorneys trying to convince Scarry Garry such things as a “summons” and a video would be public documents.
News pickings were kind of slim in Northern Kentucky yesterday anyway, especially when Ludlow’s first grocery in 14 years was the number one story.
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