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Slick Conoco Phillips commercial is leading us away from renewable energy

Wow, what a fabulously misleading commercial. I saw this commercial for the first time about three or four weeks ago. I was struck by its look and feel. Then, I saw it a couple more times. I guess the initial polling on this commercial did extremely well. I’ve seen it so often now as to feel the need to break this commercial down little by little. [display_podcast] First of all, we see a classroom with five people in it. We are to assume that there are three students, one teacher and one janitor/maintenance man. No one identifies himself/herself, but these are

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MoveOn.org ad – Alex

Is this commercial out of bounds? Personally, I think not. I think that this is a great commercial. Republicans are crying foul. MoveOn keep doing what you are doing. (BTW, what you doing about this FISA compromise?)

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Gingrich's anti-immigration commercial lies and distorts

One of my biggest problems is that I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. I have tried that with Newt Gingrich. Every time that I cut him some slack, he proves that the slack wasn’t warranted. So, Newt has a new commercial. The commercial starts off with Newt saying, “Muhamed Atta and several of the 9/11 hijackers entered the United States illegally.” Wow. Really? Man, I figured I would of known that. I read that book by Senator Bob Graham, Intelligence Matters. I don’t remember reading that in there. I also read, well, to be honest, I skimmed

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