FOX 6 ran an ad for Tom Barrett during its 9:00 PM newscast last night. I don't mean during a commercial break. Mike Lowe, FOX 6, did a story that served as a campaign ad for Barrett.
The report criticizes a TV commercial by the Republican Governors Association and features the political rhetoric of Phil Walzak, a Barrett spokesman.
Watch the story as it ran on FOX 6:
Blue Point beer? The smoking gun! This is an outrage!
Good grief.
Why didn't Lowe do a story about the "authenticity" of Barrett's ads or Feingold's ads?
While FOX 6 did give Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Rience Priebus the chance to comment, the focus of the segment was clearly pro-Barrett and anti-Republican.
MIKE LOWE: The Barrett campaign says the ad raises some serious questions. If the ad is about creating jobs in Wisconsin, then why pay East coast actors -- bartender is also a pitchman for CarMax -- instead of Wisconsinites in a real Milwaukee bar?
PHIL WALZAK: I think what it goes to say is that these guys have put together a phony, false ad. And while we kind of joke about catching them in a fib, if they're willing to lie about being in a Wisconsin bar then maybe they'll lie about other things. And I think that if this ad is a phony, if the production of this ad is phony, then certainly the claims in the ad are phony.
That's ridiculous.
Tom Barrett has spent the week whining about ads.
Is that the best he's got?
Barrett has to offer Wisconsinites something of substance, reasons to choose him to be governor, reasons why we would want, in effect, a third term of Jim Doyle.
It's not going to be Blue Point beer.
Nonetheless, Lowe does his best to cheerlead for Barrett:
MIKE LOWE: Still, UWM political science professor Mordecai Lee says the bar argument ad may resonate with some Wisconsin voters.
You'd have to be an idiot to cast your vote based on something as lame as the setting of this commercial.
It was produced by the Republican Governors Association, not Scott Walker's campaign or Mark Neumann's campaign. The Republican Governors Association isn't charged with creating jobs in Wisconsin. The organization isn't a Wisconsin group.
It's not an ad made by the campaigns of the Wisconsin Republican candidates. Sorry, Walzak. Walker and Neumann aren't lying or being phony.
2 comments:
Somehow they forgot to mention that all of Barrett's ads are being produced by a company in Phillie...
Not that hypocrisy matters.
Exactly!
Good work, FOX 6!
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