Who Concocts These Attack Ads, Anyway?
Always a good question in an election year, and over at the Secret Money Project, our colleague Will Evans traces the couldn't-make-it-up origins of one such ad: the Coalition Against Anti-Christian Rhetoric's spot from last June.
With its suggestions that Obama was a closet Muslim, it was the first truly inflammatory ad of the '08 campaign.
But it wasn't cooked up by high-priced DC consultants. The ad went on the air -- and into the blogosphere -- thanks to a hypnotherapist, a wedding videographer, a felonious fugitive... and an inattentive employee at a TV station.
Will uncovers it all, from missing money to disappearing devil horns. His tale of Weird Politics is here.
-- Peter Overby
12:26 PM ET | 08-28-2008 | permalink



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