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Posted: Oct 24, 2012

 

 


October 23, 2012

Strident Anti-Obama Messages Flood Key States

 
(Good news for sensible citizens: Wealthy right-wingers seeking to influence the election showed 3 right-wing films, including 2016, to focus groups hoping for a good response, but were disappointed. Those DVDs still hit the mail, though.) 

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. — To turn on the television, open the mail or drive down the highway here is to watch conservatives test the boundaries of how far they can go to disqualify President Obama.

Along the Interstate that connects the beach towns of Florida’s east coast, giant billboards show the president, whom some on the far right have falsely accused of being Muslim, bowing to a Saudi king. Another blares “Stop Obama!” and shows a nuclear warhead with “Iran” painted on it aimed at Israel, a particularly potent message with this area’s many Jewish voters.

In one commercial that started running this month, a wealthy businessman and Hungarian immigrant named Thomas Peterffy laments how socialism shackled his native country. “And that’s what I see happening here,” he says. “That’s why I’m voting Republican and putting this ad on television.”

And a new anti-Obama DVD is dropping into voters’ mailboxes, claiming that the president is the love child of an illicit relationship between his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, and Frank Marshall Davis, a Communist Party loyalist. The back story of the DVD offers the latest example of how secretive forces outside the presidential campaigns can sweep into battleground states days before the election.

This summer, a group of well-financed conservative activists had an idea for what they hoped would be a last-minute game changer in the presidential race. They would put out a DVD that made a compelling case against Mr. Obama in battleground states, sending it to voters through a carefully targeted direct mail campaign or as an insert in Sunday newspapers in the weeks before Election Day.

They went to the unusual length of arranging a focus group to test anti-Obama films. Conducted by Frank Luntz, the well-known Republican research analyst, a 30-person focus group looked at three choices:

1. Dinesh D’Souza’s “2016: Obama’s America,” which theorizes that the president’s political beliefs were shaped by the radical “anticolonial” views of his Kenyan father;

2. “The Hope and the Change,” a softer critique of the president that features interviews with disaffected former Obama supporters; and

3. “Dreams From My Real Father,” which posits the implausible theory that the president’s real father is Mr. Davis, and that Mr. Davis indoctrinated him with Marxist views early on.

Republicans have struggled in this election with two powerful and competing impulses: to hammer a president they dislike intensely with a strong indictment of his record, but to be restrained enough to win over independent voters, who generally like Mr. Obama. Those who commissioned Mr. Luntz’s research, according to people with firsthand knowledge of their motives, wanted to determine whether any of these films would do the trick and be worth backing. Mr. Luntz declined to say who commissioned his research.

The Hope and the Change,” directed by Stephen K. Bannon and produced by Citizens United, the conservative political advocacy group, tested highest with focus groups and is running on local cable stations. It was shown here just before Monday’s debate.

Many conservatives also loved Mr. D’Souza’s film (2016) and wanted it to have wider distribution. It tested poorly, however, and Mr. Luntz warned his clients that it could undermine their cause.

Focus groups were revolted by “Dreams From My Real Father,” with its conspiracy theory paranoia and dubious evidence. It compares photos of the president and Mr. Davis, noting that they have similar noses and freckles. It also purports to have uncovered nude photos of Mr. Obama’s mother in a bondage magazine.

Mr. Luntz’s clients were not surprised. Their thinking was, “I want to know if it’s as bad as I think it is,” Mr. Luntz said.

But even though no major Republican activists stepped forward to finance its distribution, voters in Ohio and Florida have reported receiving the DVD.

The film is the work of Joel Gilbert, whose previous claims include having tracked down Elvis Presley in the witness protection program and discovering that Paul McCartney is in fact dead.

Mr. Gilbert will not say where he received the money to distribute his movie — he claims to have sent out four million copies. “It’s a private company, so we don’t disclose who’s part of it,” he said. He also blamed the mainstream media for not looking deeper into the story he uncovered, telling The New York Times, “I hope you’re not angry or jealous that I beat you to it and might win the Pulitzer Prize.”

His work has already received a lot of attention in corners of the conservative media, including on the radio programs of Monica Crowley and Michael Savage.

One voter from Stuart, Fla., who received the “Dreams From My Real Father” DVD in the mail last week said she was appalled, confirming Republicans’ worst fears about the film.

“I thought, well, I’ll take a look and see what it is,” said the voter, Judy Cindrick. The DVD was addressed to her husband, who was not affiliated with either party on his state voter registration. “But then it got to the part about the president’s mother, and I was like, O.K., I can’t even watch this anymore. This is just something a bunch of crackpots put together.”

 

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What a surprise--2016 tested "poorly" with a 30-person focus group. - Who would have guessed. nm

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Swiftboating Obama -- so many Republicans have no integrity - nm

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Letter to Obama Haters.....see message, pass along - found in Rants &Raves on local craigslist

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It's hard to comprehend the level of hatred that you conservatives have for Obama. Your intense hatred of him began long before he even took office and doesn't seem to stem from anything he's done as president.

From the day he was inaugurated, all over the country you began protesting Obama's tax increases, even though he had only lowered your taxes.

Although he's offered more proof of his origin of birth than any president in history, nearly half of you still say you believe Obama was not born in America, 57% believe he is Muslim, and 24% said he may be the Anti-Christ.

Before Obama took office, congressional Republicans decided that they would oppose every single bill that Obama supported. They used the filibuster to prevent any legislation from being voted on, including bills that Republicans previously supported and some that they even co-sponsored. When President Obama decided to embrace a lot of Republican ideas like Cap and Trade, the individual mandate for health insurance and the Dream Act, these Republican ideas suddenly were denounced by as Socialism and received zero Republican votes.

Even normal routine matters that Congress usually deals with on a bi-partisan basis, like a transportation bill or raising the debt ceiling, were held up by Republicans who didn't want anything to get done during Obama's presidency. By nearly letting America default on its debts, Republicans even managed to lower our country's credit rating, and then blamed Obama for it.

Although the worst recession in nearly 80 years began a year before Obama took office, when the economy began to improve a few months after he took office, conservatives still insisted the recession was entirely his fault.

You conservatives have so totally immersed yourself in anti-Obama hate speech, you can't even state the man's name, calling him O-BUM-a. You just repeat whatever you hear from Glenn Beck and the other right wingers without exercising independent thought: "Obama is a (pick one)

Socialist/Marxist/Muslim/Communist/Nazi/Fascist/Kenyan/Anti-colonialist" or "Obama is trampling the Constitution", "Obama hates America", "Obama wants to control our lives", "Obama has declared war on religion", etc.

These are not facts or even fact-based opinions; they are examples of hate speech.
I know you'll say that Democrats hated Bush just as much, but I disagree.

Back when Bush was president, we said things like "Bush allowed higher levels of arsenic and mercury in our drinking water", "Bush violated the 4th Amendment by illegally authorizing warrantless wiretaps on American citizens", "Bush used false information to start an unnecessary war", "Bush started the two longest wars in our nation's history, presided over two recessions, increasing poverty rates, a collapse of our financial system, and turned a huge budget surplus into a trillion dollar deficit".

These criticisms of Bush were fact-based. They resulted from things he actually said or did. . . not by what we thought about him personally.

Every President of the United States has been loved by some people and hated by others and progressives certainly criticized Bush harshly. But that criticism was not out of a personal hatred of the man, it was about his policies and his actions as president.

But you actually accuse Obama of hating white people, of siding with the terrorists who attacked our country and wanting to euthanize the elderly, even though you have no facts or even a rational argument to support these claims.

You conservatives even go so far as to attack Obama's wife. There is nothing she can say or do that you don't condemn her for. If, God forbid, she suggests children should eat healthy and get exercise, you attack her for trying to "control" our lives. Even her physical appearance inspires vulgar insults from conservatives. I don't recall these kinds of attacks on Laura Bush when her husband was in office.

You don't seem to see the difference between hate-driven opinion and fact-based opinion. For that matter, you don't seem to see a distinction between fact and opinion.

Most of you still worship at the altar of George W. Bush and refuse to acknowledge that he was anything less than God-like in his perfection, while you attack Obama as "un-American" for doing some of the exact same things you praised President Bush for doing.

It's fine to be a conservative who disagrees with Obama politically. He is a fallible human being. Like any politician, he deserves criticism now and then. Progressives criticize him all the time because his policies are more conservative than many thought he would be. If you could simply say "Obama is wrong on this issue and here's why", I could respect that. But it's something else to be a hard-core Glenn Beck parroting, Bush-was-God, Obama-is-Satan, damn-the-facts, anyone-who-disagrees-with-me-is-a-communist, conservative.

I know it would be unfair for me to conclude that all the hatred for Obama is based on race. But Republicans hated Bill Clinton too, yet we didn't see quite this level of revulsion from them. Republicans did not filibuster every single bill to keep it from being voted on. They did not actively work to halt the economic recovery like they are doing now. When Clinton was president, Republicans actually did reach compromises with him. When Obama pleads with Republicans to work out a compromise with him, they outright reject even the use of the word "compromise".

Your hatred of Obama is not an act of patriotism. In fact it's quite the opposite.

By immersing yourself in all your right wing Obama-hating web sites you're unable or unwilling to have any kind of meaningful political discussion. You are preventing this country from making any kind of positive progress by letting your personal hatred of this man allow anything positive to get done in this country. And you are doing your country great harm.
Blame blame blame - yh
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That's all you dems got is blame. You ought to scroll down and read today's discussions. Most, if not all, has already been discussed on the board and shown to be garbage.
It's the truth and you know it. Just wait. It'll back fire on you - just like it did in 2008.
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Try it during his second term and you will get the same result in 2016.
This is really a fantastic piece -- 5 STARS!! - everyone should read- nm
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Save yourself the trouble - -
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It's all about Obama being the victim. It claims the right has hatred for Obama (not so - they only hate his policies, not his person) and the author displays his own hatred throughout.
Truth hurts - sm
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a lot of the hatred for Obama is baseless and unreasoning. Yell all you want, but a great deal of it is good old fashioned racism.
Wonderful letter and so true - mbmt
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Thanks for posting it.
I wondered.... - me
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When the 2016 documentary listed the time line of Obama's mother and father in 1961, I hadn't paid enough attention to the month they "met" until the month he was born - but had mentioned to my husband "How could he have met her and she had a kid within a few months?" And he was already married to another woman and had 2 kids, so how could he have married Obama's mother and she never knew it? He then went on a marrying binge, it appears...but you never hear of any divorces! And the birth - all they say is the hub wanted to move to Hawaii from Kenya - and that Obama was born in Hawaii. You couldn't write a soap opera this amazing! :)
Good grief. Did you love "Dreams of My Real Father" then, - the one that revolted the focus group? nm
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Didn't read it - me
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2016 is from Obama's own autobiography - Dreams From My Father - are you saying he is a liar about his life too?
Obama has already admitted that many of the "characters" in his books are composites - JC
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of people he knew.

By the way, what arrogant person writes two autobiographies before actually accomplishing something? He was not the first mixed race person (remember he had "whitey" mother) to graduate from Harvard. I know he was the first mixed race person to edit the Harvard Review but he never published anything so how did he get to be the editor?
There ya go again, putting all conservatives and/or Republicans - backwards typist
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into the same group. May I remind you that it was the Democrats who started this "war" to begin with "way back when" against the Republicans. Now that the Republicans are fighting back, you group them all as racists, Obama haters, and everything else you can think of to denigrate them. So, you don't think Dubya or the other names that Bush was called bad, do you?

...and I wouldn't put it past a few Democrats; i.e., SEIU, ACORN's group, the New Black Panther Party, and other pro-union groups to be putting out some of the crap the Republicans have to deal with.

I despise all of it and it's time it stopped on both sides. But some people just won't let it go and keep on fanning the flames. As long as that goes on, it will never stop.

...and don't forget, Obama has taken away more freedom by expanding the Patriot Act than GWB ever did. So the finger pointing belongs to Obama and his gang.

IMHO, please stop ranting against one group just because you are in denial, and definitely don't believe, the Democrats don't use underhanded games of hate and prejudice in the game of politics.

Have a nice day.
Puh-lease - what a bunch of selective memory that "author" has - JC
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Bush was personally attacked on a daily basis. Every single day, personally attacked. That person's "facts" can easily be refuted. I will refute one. The Iraq War. Every intelligence agency in the world said there were WMDs. Every one, Hillary voted for it. The declaration of war was signed by every Democrat. Self-righteousnous is not pretty.

Hell yeah I opposed Obama before he got in there. His absolute lack of any experience was obvious to anyone that asked a single question. Most of his votes as a state senator was not "yes" or "no", but "present" - that is a noncommittal vote. About the only thing he fought against or stood for was to stop the born alive act (it was to prevent murdering the babies that are born alive after a botched abortion). After getting elected as a Federal Senator, much of his two years was spent campaigning for president. No, no, no executive experience. No foreign policy experience. None. Zero. Zip. Nada. And in my opinion, almost everything he has done as president shows his lack of executive experience.

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