If you clicked over to Cleveland.com today (or Facebook, or the ABJ), you probably saw this image: Josh Mandel with his back to the camera and his arms out. The tagline for the political ad — paid for by Workers’ Voice, a super PAC “affiliated with the AFL-CIO” — has the word witness in it. Where have we seen this before? Oh yeah, that’s right.
Workers’ Voice is spending $100,000 to plaster the ad online in the hopes that… that… uh, the LeBron hatred is transferable to Mandel? What’s the connection again?
The ads will also be targeted toward people searching on Google and Bing for information on Game 4 and/or Lebron James who, like Josh Mandel, has been accused of being unable to do the job he was hired for in Ohio, and wanted to take his “talents” elsewhere.
Ah, gotcha.
This isn’t the first time a politician has dipped into the well of LeBron imagery for a campaign. Marcy Kaptur compared Dennis! Kucinich to LeBron (and Art Modell) in an ad that worked about as well as this one.
This article appears in Jun 13-19, 2012.
Let’s say Josh Mandel beats Sherod Brown and Mitt Romney beats Obama and the republicans wind up with control of three branches. Well maybe four with the Supreme Court being 5-4 conservative. So the entire government could be controlled by the republican party. Will that be good for jobs? I hope so because it doesn’t seem like it would be much good for our unity of the people of the country. People pretty much hate each other in the USA as much as ever, so I guess it can’t get much worse unless there is a violent revolution or civil war. Anger and fear are the same thing. When you see someone pissed, they are afraid even if they are kicking someones ass. Fear, hate and anger are all pretty much the same. And forgiveness and gentleness and love are pretty much the same. We can choose but one emotion: Fear or Love; anger or forgiveness; violence or peace.
Romney and Joshboy are dirtbags, and your heart appears to be in the right place, which is cool…but you really, really need to put down that pipe, know whadda mean? Or are you just trying to type the rest of us into a coma?
Chuckles the Clown
Chuckles….I publish via news bloggs and many other methods now open to us via the social media. I am a writer and I write every day and put many into comas all over the country and perhaps the world. The power of the ‘pen’ has never been more powerful. Because most like the twitter or quick messages which became standard communication many years ago, others still hold fast to verbal and written communication as an art and a gift. Some call it verbosity and worthless and that is why they all have the freedom to read it or not…like a newspaper or a novel or a magazine. Communication in any form is better than non-communication. People cut off the communication they don’t want to deal with and it has now become a giant group of short attention spans and loss of good communication skills. The thing I like about scene is that I can tell people to get fucked and they can tell me the same thing in the same vulgar language which we use often around Cleveland. 062012–1105pm
Chuckes I’ve told Kenny that MANY times…
And you are SO RIGHT…Mandel especially is a Doosh….
That’s a lot of verbiage just to tell me to go fornicate myself, doncha know.
Fascinating bio, Kenny…betcha you grow your own in the basement, too…
Kenny, don’t lose that number…
Kwitcher bogarting…and pass that doobie over to me.
Why can’t weed be friends?
Chuckles the Clown
Huh?