Needlenose » MoveOn http://needlenose.com/wp We Needle. You Decide. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:14:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 From the Department of Sauce Not Meant for Ganders http://needlenose.com/wp/2008/06/18/from-the-department-of-sauce-not-meant-for-ganders/ http://needlenose.com/wp/2008/06/18/from-the-department-of-sauce-not-meant-for-ganders/#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:35:24 +0000 Swopa http://www.needlenose.com/wp/?p=84 As you may have heard, MoveOn.org has a new ad about John McCain’s desire to keep troops in Iraq for 100 years or more:

As Digby sums up, the conventional-wisdom machine is gearing up to denounce this ad specifically because it’s so effective at reaching for viewers’ emotions — led by the Washington Post‘s Chris Cilizza and MSNBC’s Chuck Todd, the cry is that it’s not fair for liberals to be persuasive to use children to make a political point.

Because, as we all know, conservatives would never stoop so low:

I don’t know if there’s any record of Cilizza, Todd, or any other corporate media types objecting to the manipulation of emotions in this infamous 2004 ad. Â I’m sure they must have, right?

Update: Turns out I inadvertently channeled a nearly identical post by Matt Stoller yesterday. I guess my Technorati search chops aren’t what I thought they were…

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