High Tech Lynching web ad launched hitting Cain’s coverage by political media-will media strike back?

Cain’s Train 11/3

Rolling into what’s bound to be a hot bed of media coverage this weekend Sunday 11/6, on all the major morning TV Talk shows, where sexual harassment accusations, the Herman Cain campaign and the state of the GOP primary elections are bound to be among the hot issues of the conversations and debates on TV Talk, an independent political advocacy PAC launched a hot political ad on 11/3: “HIGH TECH LYNCHING” on YouTube featuring, of course, Herman Cain!

Train’s Moving Target: It hits the coverage Cain got from the mainstream political media.

Our Reaction: It’s smokin’!

And, It’s No Denying:  “If It’s Sunday [i.e., 11/6], It’s [Herman Cain]“

Likely Impact:  A surge of media covergage may roll into next week too!

Read Also:  Jim Geraghty, New TV Ad for Cain: ‘A High-Tech Lynching’  posted on nationalreviewonline.con who writes (11/4):

[T]he plan is to get on TV in Iowa next week with it [and] drop about a million calls into Iowa and Nevada starting tomorrow with the same message.

This is from Americans for Herman Cain, which has “established a non-connected political committee that is established and registered with the Federal Election Commission. * * *

Other Articles on Point

• Herman Cain, sexual harasser, plays the ‘high-tech lynching’ card (dailykos.com)
• CBS News: ignore the polls-Cain’s hardly leading, and he’s gonna lose anyway (marcjan.wordpress.com)
• An Online Ad Defends Herman Cain, Invoking Clarence Thomas (thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com)
• Herman Cain Plays The Race Card (outsidethebeltway.com)

Hotter Than Hot!!

• Goldie Taylor: If Herman Cain Did What He Purportedly Did In The 1950s, He Would’ve Been Lynched (mediaite.com)

Our Double Take: Think the ad is hot, click the link for the article on the comments made by MCNBC contributor Goldie Taylor.

WOW!

Do you get the sense that the lid could blow next week in the intensity and sheer meanness in coverage of Herman Cain and the GOP contest by mainstream political media as surely everything media will hit back?

 

Lighten up on Huntsman

Ok, let’s give a round of applause to Jon Huntsman’s daughters on the launch of their “Smoking Ad”  parody for their dad. 

Shucks, if it works for Herman Cain, to the tune of over one million viewers, it should work for their dad too! Why not? At least it’s worth a try! Or, at least that may have been the thinking.

Here’s the YouTube link for: “Jon2012girls Smokin’ Ad,”

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iOYVB2hc0HA

The L. A. Times writes:

If policy speeches and retail campaigning don’t work, there are always fake mustaches and bubbles.

Eager to find its way into any story line, the Jon Huntsman campaign is up with a new Web video parodying the viral Herman Cain spot featuring his smoke-blowing campaign manager.

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The former Utah governor entered the race with great fanfare, but has resorted to such attention-seeking tactics of late as he stands mired in the low single digits.

Source: Michael A. Memoli, “Can the Huntsman girls burst Cain’s bubble? [Video],”

POLITICS NOW Blog on latimes.com

Blog Link: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-huntsman-girls-20111028,0,5590241.story?track=rss

I’m not  quick to criticize.

After all the daughters seem sincere. They could have thought that the ad was a neat way of helping their dad.

The ad is funny. Let’s see if it goes viral!

If it does, it may become something to talk about.

 

Are Herman Cain’s Campaign Ads Seriously Real As Conceptual Art?

Herman Cain’s campaign video ads on YouTube have drawn a lot of interest and a lot of coverage.

There is the smoking ad and the Western short film yellow flowers ad.  Commentaries run the table on whether the ads are Presidential campaign level material,  and even whether Cain himself  is a Presidential candidate to be taken seriously.

John Presnall is a serious writer. He edits the Postmodern Conservative Blog on FirstThings.com, the online edition of First Things, a respected and influential journal about religion and society.

On his Blog, Presnall has published a very interesting article entitled: “Herman Cain Gets Seriously Real with Lighthearted Conceptual Art,” in which he talks about the ads, and describes them in a serious context. I will not spoil the fun of reading Presnall’s article  by excerpting from it. Read the article yourself, and draw your own conclusions.

But after reading it, you may feel inspired to comment on these questions.

1.  Are the ads  ”Lighthearted Conceptual Art?”

2.  Is it your sense that “Cain Gets Seriously Real” in those ads, and that they convey serious political messages?

3.  Are the ads “Presidential?”

4.  Will the ads help or hurt Cain’s campaign?

Source Link

John Presnall, “Herman Cain Gets Seriously Real with Lighthearted Conceptual Art,” on FirstThings.com Blog: POSTMODERN CONSERVATIVE

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