The back story of the DVD offers the latest example of how secretive forces outside the presidential campaigns can sweep into battleground states days before the election.Here's my item on the hateful film that is focus of article--created by a Bob Dylan freak. See trailer:
This summer, a group of well-financed conservative activists had an idea for what they hoped would be a last-minute game changer in the presidential race. They would put out a DVD that made a compelling case against Mr. Obama in battleground states, sending it to voters through a carefully targeted direct mail campaign or as an insert in Sunday newspapers in the weeks before Election Day. They went to the unusual length of arranging a focus group to test anti-Obama films. Conducted by Frank Luntz....
Greg Mitchell on media, politics, film, music, TV, comedy and more. "Not here, not here the darkness, in this twittering world." -- T.S. Eliot
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Obama Hate Peaking
NYT tonight looks at the "strident" anti-Obama messages rising in certain states. Just one example: "And a new anti-Obama DVD is dropping into
voters’ mailboxes, claiming that the president is the love child of an
illicit relationship between his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, and Frank
Marshall Davis, a Communist Party loyalist.
is author of a dozen books (click on covers at right), ;He was the longtime editor of Editor & Publisher. Email: gregmitch34@gmail.com Twitter: @GregMitch
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