1984 Redux

by **snowlion2** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 11:27 pm

If Winston Smith were walking along a sidewalk, not in some distant, fictional, to-be-avoided-at-all-costs society, but right here in frigid Minnesota (which last time I checked, was still a part of a democratic republic) in 2006, and to get warm, wandered into the closest Best Buy or Target, he might see this on television: <a href="http://www.midwestheroes.com/docs/video/">At the producers site</a> No wonder I have a headache. While I'm fortunate to have a local and pretty well-read outlet for my rants, I'm afraid the one regarding the above may fall on deaf (or if not deaf, well plugged) ears. The local response regarding the ad has been negative...but only to the one TV station who refused to run it. Minnesota is supposedly only a test market...but watch for it soon on a television near you. Good luck to us all. Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=snowlion2>snowlion2</A> at: 2/19/06 8:41 pm

by **BajaSur** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 12:58 am

Looks like it was made with Cindy Sheehan in mind. The guy who claims that his dead son would do it all over again is sickening, but I am sure he knew him better than most..... so who knows? All Iraq war propaganda must now include still photos of Iraqis with purple fingers, its a must.

by **Dreams End** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:26 am

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>The PFA Voter Fund began operations in the offices of Tony Feather, who was political director of the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign. According to The Washington Post , it has raised $14 million of which more than two-thirds has come from Alex Spanos and Dawn Arnall, who are major Bush and GOP fundraisers from California.<hr></blockquote> Oh yeah, and in case you didn't guess...these guys brought us the Willie Horton ads. These are the guys who are putting this on. What the hell is Target doing airing campaign ads...nevermind the morality of the message itself. If I see it on my local target it will a) cause me not to shop there again (AFTER I use m 15 dollar gift card, of course) and to write a letter to...Mr. Target or whoever the hell. In fact, who does own target and Best Buy? Well, this is interesting: <blockquote>Quote:<hr> Mark B. Dayton (born January 26, 1947) is a Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party US Senator from Minnesota who took office in 2001. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dayton graduated cum laude Yale University, 1969, where he excelled both academically and athletically, starting in goal for Yale's varsity hockey team. He worked as a teacher in New York City. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate in 1982. Dayton had served as a legislative assistant to Senator Walter Mondale. He was Minnesota state auditor, 1991–1995 and elected to the United States Senate in 2000. He defeated Republican incumbent Rod Grams. Dayton's ex-wife, Alida Rockefeller Messinger, is the sister of fellow US Senator Jay Rockefeller making them brothers-in-law. Dayton, an heir to the Dayton's Department Store fortune, financed his 2000 Senate campaign with $12 million of his own money, but stated he would not do the same for future campaigns. In October 2004, Dayton closed his Washington office until the November elections, citing reports of a possible terrorist attack. Every other senator chose to keep their office open, and Dayton received national scrutiny, as well as some criticism, for his move. Already considered a vulnerable incumbent, by the next year his approval ratings had declined by double digits. On February 9, 2005 he announced that he would not run for reelection, stating, "Everything I've worked for, and everything I believe in, depends upon this Senate seat remaining in the Democratic caucus in 2007. I do not believe that I am the best candidate to lead the DFL Party to victory next year." Since his decision to not run for reelection, Dayton's approval ratings have risen significantly. On September 22, 2005, the forty-fourth anniversary of the day President John F. Kennedy signed the Peace Corps into law, Dayton became the first U.S. senator to introduce legislation creating a Department of Peace. At the same time, similar legislation was introduced in the House by Congressman Dennis Kucinich and sixty co-sponsors. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Dayton">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Dayton</a><hr></blockquote> Hmmm...supposedly liberal guy...maybe he isn't directly involved in decision making...or maybe Jay Rockefeller's sister is calling the shots! Couldn't find anything too amusing about Best Buy. I guess the founder is a Minnesotan like SL here.

by **snowlion2** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:33 am

Just to be clear....and DE, I especially apologize for any confusion...I used Target and Best Buy as examples only of retailers who might have TV's on sale and turned on to local channels. The spot itself is airing on two network affiliated channels and the only one to turn it down was KSTP, a family owned ABC affiliate known for many years for being extremely conservative and exclusively Republican. This really is a game with no rules, and trying to guess who the good guys are is increasingly, it seems, a fools errand.

by **Dreams End** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:50 am

Hah... But you STILL can't deny the Target/Rockefeller C0nN3xxi0n! Sorry..been a weird week.

by **chiggerbit** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:12 am

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61932-2004Jun22.html">www.washingtonpost.com/wp...Jun22.html</a> <blockquote>Quote:<hr>Among the more than 300 people who attended all or part of the March ceremony was Sen. Mark Dayton (D-Minn.), who now says he simply was honoring a constituent receiving a peace award and did not know Moon would be there. "We fell victim to it; we were duped," Dayton spokeswoman Chris Lisi said yesterday<hr></blockquote>

by **BajaSur** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:14 am

---------------------------------------------------------------------- In October 2004, Dayton closed his Washington office until the November elections, citing reports of a possible terrorist attack. Every other senator chose to keep their office open, and Dayton received national scrutiny, as well as some criticism, for his move. Already considered a vulnerable incumbent, by the next year his approval ratings had declined by double digits. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This seems quite bizarre. Heres an article about it from CBS <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/10/12/politics/main648878.shtml">Dayton closes office</a> D.C. Mayor Pans Terror-fied Sen. <snip> "I take this step out of extreme, but necessary, precaution to protect the lives and safety of my Senate staff and my Minnesota constituents, who might otherwise be visiting my Senate office in the next three weeks," said Dayton, whose office in the Russell Senate Office Building is across the street from the Capitol. Dayton said he could not give details of the classified intelligence report, which he said Frist, a Tennessee Republican, presented to senators at a briefing two weeks ago. <end snip> <snipAdded Capitol police spokesman Michael Lauer: "There's been no specific threats against the Capitol complex. We continue to be on guard now, all the way up to the election and all the way through the inauguration." Nonetheless, Dayton said he would advise people from his home state to avoid Capitol Hill until after the Nov. 2 election. "I would not bring my two sons to the Capitol between now and the election," he added. <end snip> Well........... either he is the biggest coward in Washington(quite the feat BTW), or he was in on the repubs election scare tactics. Very interesting. <edit> I guess Minnesota is a target state for the republicans this year. Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=bajasur>BajaSur</A> at: 2/20/06 12:26 am

by **snowlion2** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:58 am

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>Poor Mark Dayton. An unquestionably decent and principled guy, he always comes off as skittish and improperly medicated. Is it the halting oratorical style? The hundred-yard stare? The lost-boy cluelessness about the dark art of public relations? Whatever the cause, Dayton always seems inclined to paint a giant target on his forehead. So it was this past October, when the senator abruptly announced he would evacuate his D.C. offices. The reason? Suspicion of an impending terrorist attack. Ethically, this may have been the right call. We are not privy to whatever information so alarmed Dayton. The fact that none of Dayton's colleagues followed suit is meaningless. From a clinical perspective, the majority of U.S. senators are either narcissists or sociopaths or something in between; thus their behavior cannot be cited as a moral barometer. But politically speaking, Dayton's premature withdrawal--which occurred during the height of an insanely rabid election cycle--sealed his fate as a one-term senator. In this sense, Dayton can be seen as the classic tragic victim, ruined by both his own high principles and peculiar myopia. But he was also the victim of the high-octane GOP slime machine. With the thuggish churchman James Dobson issuing the first anti-Dayton fatwa last summer and local reactionaries working themselves into scalping mode after the office evacuation fiasco, Dayton was presented with a horrid reality. To win reelection--or even to mount a credible campaign--he would have been forced to spend every waking moment from here to Election Day raising money. So in the end, he lay on his sword and announced he wouldn't run again. Regardless of political stripes, you've got to feel for the guy. Here he spent a huge chunk of his personal fortune getting elected to what he thought would be an exciting new job. Then he comes to find out the only way he can keep it is to whore himself out seven days a week. Sad.<hr></blockquote> <pre> <a href="http://www.citypages.com/bestof2005/citygritty/summary.asp">www.citypages.com/bestof2...ummary.asp</a></pre>

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