HATCHET-MEN ARE NOT WITHOUT A SENSE OF HUMOR…. In Nevada’s U.S. Senate race, a new ad from the Karl Rove-affiliated group Crossroads GPS asks voters, “Are you tired of all these negative political ads?”
The ad pretends to be a positive spot, complete with a squealing-brakes sound effect and a rhetorical “Are you tired of all these negative political ads?” Of course, Crossroads GPS is an anonymous money mill, and there’s no sense in “wasting” undisclosed funds on a positive spot. So the ad quickly pivots back to the same old misinformation about Democratic policies. It’s a rare beast: a negative attack ad that decries negative attack ads.
I’d go just a little further still — a group that specializes in running almost nothing but deceptive and negative attack ads, created in part by a GOP hatchet-man who specializes in crafting nothing but deceptive and negative attack ads, is running a spot that’s deceptive and negative, asking voters, “Are you tired of all these negative political ads?”
Down the rabbit hole we go.
