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February 13, 2004
Bush | CBS Pulls Medicare Ad Pending Review

This is interesting, and I actually saw this ad in Chicago earlier this week. It was notable to me only for its terrible acting. The report comes via RockyMountTelegram:

CBS has stopped running the Bush administration’s publicly funded ad for the new Medicare prescription drug law, pending a review of its content by congressional investigators.

The 30-second ad, titled “Same Medicare. More Benefits,” has prompted strong criticism from Democratic lawmakers and a range of interest groups who say it is a barely disguised commercial for President Bush’s re-election campaign.

Democrats asked the General Accounting Office, Congress’ investigative arm, to examine whether the administration should be using taxpayer money to air the commercial. And several lawmakers have been lobbying network executives to get them to yank the ad, pending the GAO review.



Posted by Alan at February 13, 2004 07:01 PM | TrackBack
Comments

I thought Karl Rove was supposed to be some kind of poilitical genius. From the bevy of misteps by the White House this week, it appears he may have become so enamored with his own genius that he thinks these blatant tranpericies will be missed. Interesting strategy.

Posted by: Todd at February 13, 2004 07:59 PM

Todd: Vintage Karl. He gets mileage doing something he shouldn’t and has a strategy to recover from any controversy while we are busy looking elsewhere. You are underestimating him.

Posted by: Anthony at February 13, 2004 08:44 PM

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