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10.21.2008

 

Adding ads

A couple of new TV ads have surfaced in the gubernatorial race.

Independent Anthony Pollina has his first - a 30-second ad that is minimal on the camera action. Pollina stands in front of a building, telling viewers:


"I’m Anthony Pollina, independent for governor, founder of Rural
Vermont, adviser to Bernie Sanders."

He has not chosen to characterize himself as a founding director of the foundering Vermont Milk Co. or that Sanders does not feel passionate enough to back him - financially or spiritually.

Pollina goes on:


"A lot of folks are telling me nobody's listening to them in
Montpelier. I’ve been working with Vermonters for 30 years and I'm listening.
Like you, I believe that every Vermonter deserves a good job, affordable home
and health care no matter what, and we need to support our family farms.
These are tough times. Time for a governor who stands up for you."



Meanwhile, Republican Gov. Jim Douglas is airing an ad with testimonials proclaiming support from Democrats. He does not mention that Vermonters don't register by party, so you have to wonder under what definition some of these people are Democrats.


Holly Pembroke: "I support Jim Douglas because he understands the
needs of our growing family."

Harold Howrigan: "He’s been good for farmers, good for consumers, good
for business."

Frank Cioffi: "Vermont needs the common sense, bipartisan leadership of Jim
Douglas."

Bev Mayo: "You can count on Jim Douglas."

Mitch Montagne: "He tries to understand, I think he does. That’s why I’m
voting for Jim Douglas."



He has a heavy Franklin County presence in the ad with Horwigan, Cioffi and Montagne.

Democrat Gaye Symington will be on the air through the election. "Expect to see something new," spokesman Michael Carrese said.

- Terri Hallenbeck

Comments:
More Rovian tactics by Douglas's campaign hacks. Be interesting if the press followed up with the people featured in the Douglas ad and asked each to explain their declaration of support. Especially the guy who says "Jim Douglas listens." To whom? You personally?

It's kind of a simpleton ad if you ask me.
 
It had to be a simpleton ad so you could follow it.
 
All of the commentors on the ad are actually closet Republicans.
Some cavort with Democrats from time to time, but none are truly Democrats. What a disgrace! Real Democrats really do no like people claiming a stake in their party. Let's hope for a landslide for Obama and long coat tails.
 
Praying for long coat tails!!!!!
 
Pathetic!
 
Mr. Carrese should be told that Democrats have been looking for something new since his candidate announced she was running.
 
ALL Vermont Dimocrats and progs are total idiots; scratch a Symington and you come up with a Scudder;scratch a Scudder and you've got Shumlin;progs are simply smelly, radical dims without jobs. Jezum crow, how long before someone with at least half a brain realizes that it's the Republicans that create what "wealth" is LEFT in Vermont to distribute to all of the flatlander slackers (jw immediately comes to mind) and as soon as Douglas and company are gone...oh, that's too complicated...just think about daddy being gone and there's no allowance.
 
Ms. Hallenbeck really out to do a story about what the Vermont Milk Company is and about the fact it is something really good. You won't get an argument from anyone about that. It's a start up, Terri. You expected the farmers to be millionaires after one year? Get off your butt and do a story about it. Maybe you could amount to something yourself.
 
ouch! terri is rad. maybe you babies should make your own blog if you don't like this one.
 
Jim Douglas likes to throw around the words "I proposed" a lot. Someone should call him on it and ask how many of his proposals have been enacted. He puffs his little chest out and gives you that Wilfred Brimley snicker while he ticks off a long list of "here is what I proposed but was unwilling to yield anything to a much larger majority to actually get passed proposals."

. How about actually doing something?
 
All that footage of the Democrats for Douglas ad is from 2004. I personally feel it's a weak ad. No one down in southern Vermont even knows who half of those people are.

Pollina's ads were a joke. Glad you noted, Terri, that he didn't mention Vermont Milk Co., and that Bernie isn't supporting anyone in the race.

Can't wait to see Pollina fail on Election Day after which he'll fall into the political abyss and never be seen again.
 
Doogie's a fraud.
 
bubba said...

"ALL Vermont Dimocrats and progs are..." a helluva lot smarter than bubbakis and the scum vote.

Bubbakis, take your ignorant trash where the climate suits your sheet and tell your story walkin'.

Disappear.
 
Always nice to hear from my fans in the ignorant anonymous trash community, little fraudulent fella.

Always a pleasure.
 
The little punk was lazy all through school. I was shocked he was even able to get his GED with that attitude.

He could never even get his act together to get me a mothers day card each year. He'd just take the same one back "to frame it" and give it back to me for a few minutes the next year.

If he has enough ambition he could be a speed bump.
 
Jim Douglas is one of the lamest Governors we have ever had!
 
Jim Douglas had a Vt House GOP majority for his first 2 years.

Even they rejected most of his "ideas" for making Vermont stronger.
 
Jim Douglas should do an ad where he's singing "Oh, yes, I'm the great proposer."
 
Gaye Symington really should stay off TV (and I am a Democrat)
 
Tom Costello for Lt. Gov
 
Ooooh. The candidates are going in front of the WPTZ too-dead crew tonight. What folksy zinger will Gus humor them with? How many baubles will Stephanie wear to distract the candidates from her clear lack of issue comprehension? How angry will Stewart become when the camera isn't on him? Stay tuned!
 
This stream has become boring.

So... a couple headlines from today.

1. "ELECTION REJECTION: NETWORK NEWS SLUMPS; VIEWERSHIP FADES
Wed Oct 22 2008 07:25:40 ET

The Obama-McCain match-up is proving to be a lackluster election ticket for the Big 3 network news programs, according to NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH.

All 3 evening news shows experienced audience drops year-to-year for the week of Oct. 13-19, 2008.

CBSNEWS w/ Couric shed a half a million viewers, falling from 6.4 million to 5.9 million; ABCNEWS dropped from 8.1 million to 7.6 million; NBCNEWS slumped from 8.2 million to 7.8 million."

Perhaps it is a direct result of how slanted the mainstream media has been. Can you say in the tank for Obama?

Hannity has it right. 2008 will be viewed as the year the independent media died.


2. "No brain scans in released Biden medical records"

Is this another cover-up by the Obama campaign or is it just proof there may have been nothing significant to scan? Either way if this had have been an omitted report on McCain, that is all you would be hearing from the mainstream.
 
The presidential campaigns are way overexposed - the public can only take so much!
 
Anonymous said...

"Gaye Symington really should stay off TV (and I am a Democrat)"

Sure, ya are, little nameless-nitwit fella. Sure, ya are.

Always a pleasure.
 
Anonymous said...

"Jim Douglas should do an ad where he's singing "Oh, yes, I'm the great proposer."

Yeah, and the latest verse could be him proposing that we listen to the incompetent gopologist entergy shill in the Pavilion and pay no attention the following:

"Accident clears Yankee work area"

October 22, 2008

By Susan Smallheer Rutland Herald

VERNON — Twenty-five workers on the top floor of the reactor building at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant had to be evacuated Monday night after the top of the reactor vessel was placed too close to a fan, which distributed unsafe levels of radiation.

Alarms went off on the refueling floor alerting workers to the rising levels of radiation, and workers were evacuated from the refueling floor for four hours, checked for levels of contamination and later returned to work, according to Entergy Nuclear spokesman Robert Williams...."
 
Douglas still wants to privatize Social Security too. I just don't get why older Vermonters flock to this moron. He'd sell their retirement incomes to Wall Street in a heartbeat.
 
jw - please give us some facts on how many workers have been killed by nuclear reactors in the U.S.

Hint: it's less than the number that have been killed in the back seat of Teddy Kennedy's car.
 
Anonymous said...

"This stream has become boring."

Your psychotic slop always is, little fella. Where's the story?

"So... a couple headlines from today."

In other words, you're still dumb, you're still scum and your ignorant anonymous ass has still got bupkis, so you're gonna try and change the subject and hope nobody notices.

Thanks for clearin' that up, little fella, but given the fact that ya tried to do it drunk, backwards, in the dark with your two left feet tied together and ya knocked everything over, puked and pissed all over yourself before falling down the stairs and breaking your fall with your face, it was kind of hard not to notice your customary ham-handed efforts to conceal your standard bushel baskets of bupkis, bonehead.

"1. "ELECTION REJECTION: NETWORK NEWS SLUMPS; VIEWERSHIP FADES
Wed Oct 22 2008 07:25:40 ET

The Obama-McCain match-up is proving to be a lackluster election ticket for the Big 3 network news programs, according to NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH."

Gee, what did Nielsen have to say about fixed-news's ratings compared to those of everyone else, little factually-challenged/fundamentally-dishonest/fraudulent fella?

I'm sure it was sheer coincidence that your omitted them from your latest heapin' helpin' of delusional dreck, little dude.

If Obama was White, he'd be up by 30, schmuck. If this was a fight, they would have stopped it before anyone ever heard of Sarah Palin.

"Hannity has it right. 2008 will be viewed as the year the independent media died."

Well, given the fact that he can't go to his left and shrub-shillin' slime like inshannity is neither independent nor a member of the media, but gopologist trash, it's more likely that it will be the year that the last person to take fixed-news seriously died.

Inshannity's Amerika is Hitler's Germany, little fella.

I'm gonna miss ya so much that I promise to piss on your grave at least once every year, little fella.

Take your ignorant anonymous ass where the climate suits your sheet, schmuck, and tell your story walkin'.

Always a pleasure.
 
bubba...

"jw - please give us some facts on how many workers have been killed by nuclear reactors in the U.S."

How many do ya need, bubbakis?

"Hint: it's less than the number that have been killed in the back seat of Teddy Kennedy's car."

Or Laura Bush's, too, little bubbakis.

Apart from the local oncologists, hat's TMI done for the local economy and property values?

Hint: It ain't boomin', bubbakis.

Always a pleasure.
 
Anonymous..

"I just don't get why older Vermonters flock to this moron..."

Doogie/Dubie Debacle Dementia.
 
Provide your facts to support your statement Coopy: "If Obama was White, he'd be up by 30, schmuck. "

It is you in fact that is the facist, racist mental midget on this board. Go crawl back under your rock you moron. You are the posterboy of everything wrong with the country today.
 
If Obama was white he'd be losing by 10-20 points with only the brain-dead leftist morons like jw supporting his treasonous and fascist policies. However, since blacks only vote for their own color, and since there are still too many guilty-white fairies that will always vote against their own people that support them both militarily but economically as well it doesn't look good for AMERICA as we knew it.

Of course, if McCain won, there would be looting, rape, and destruction in the streets; but if Obama wins, there will be looting, rape, and destruction in the streets!
 
Welcome to the 1st step in the dumbing down of America.

If we lower our standards and expectations enough and become enough of a nanny state we will start to look like the rest of the underachievers around the world and they won't be so jealous.

Its pitiful that the left feels the need to apologize for the success we have achieved through our commitment to capitalism. It is that success that has allowed us the unending willingness to support our friends around the world whether or not they can pay us back and whether or not they like us all that much.

That is what great countries do, or at least did.

How does that void get filled in the socialist model where success is defined as oneness and discourages personal success.

Captain America
 
Anonymous...

"Welcome to the 1st step in the dumbing down of America..."

Nein, Frau Hatespeech. Your nameless, neo-nazi nitwit ass is at least 5 or 6 steps down that road, auntie amerika.

"If we lower our standards and expectations enough and become enough of a nanny state we will start to look like the rest of the underachievers around the world and they won't be so jealous."

Ah, so the rest of the world are nanny state underachievers, eh, crazy lady? That must be why their standard of living and the value of their currency continues to rise as rapidly as ours declines.

Get yourself a case and a clue, crazy lady, or it's back in the attic with your anonymous allies and invisible evidence with ya.

"Its pitiful that the left feels the need to apologize for the success we have achieved through our commitment to capitalism."

Is it your clueless-cretin contention that we're the only prosperous nation on the face of the earth with a "commitment to capitalism", crazy lady?

How's the DOW doin' today, auntie amerika? Is it currently higher or lower than the day the idiot king was installed upon the throne Will it be higher or lower after eight years of criminally-clueless, gop-slime incompetence which has this Country poised on the brink of yet another brain-dead bush recession slipping into a brain-dead, gop-slime bush Depression that could eclipse the Crash of '29 and the resultant Great Depression that were a product of the disastrous, gop-slime policies in effect the last time the gops controlled all three branches of the Federal Government?

Gee, another bushel-basket of bupkis from auntie amerika. I'm shocked

What's pathetic, auntie amerika, is that you and the rest of the coalition of the clueless cretins comprising the ignorant, anonymous-trash, scum-vote society keep spewin' the same factually-challenged psychotic-slop in the hopes that sheer repetition will make it a reality.

You lunatic-fringe, scum-vote swine couldn't see reality from your attic window any more than psycho sarah can see Russia from hers if ya blew her entire clothing allowance on state-of-art binoculars and optical equipment.

"It is that success that has allowed us the unending willingness to support our friends around the world whether or not they can pay us back and whether or not they like us all that much."

Well, crazy lady, if they don't "like us all that much", there's a good chance that they're not "our friends", they don't want "our help" and an even better chance that you're still dumb, you're still scum and ya still got bupkis.

"That is what great countries do, or at least did."

This just in, crazy lady. The Third Reich fell. The 43rd is well on its way. Hopefully, there won't be a need for a "Merkel Plan" to rebuild our economy and save us from the clutches of totalitarian tyranny the way the Marshall Plan saved Germany after WWII.

Reality, crazy lady. You should visit some time. I'll get ya a rate on a room.

"How does that void get filled in the socialist model where success is defined as oneness and discourages personal success."

Ask Bush, Paulson, AIG, Lehman and the Bull. We're bailin' their sorry, incompetent, criminally-clueless, gop-slime butts out, crazy lady.

Now take it where the climate suits your sheet, schmuck, and tell your story walkin'.
 
Anonymous...

"Some of you (especially recent commenters) are racist, and this JW guy is blatantly anti-semitic."

Actually, little nameless-nitwit fella, the word "Semitic" should be capitalized in the context you've presented, putz.

In fact, not capitalizing it is an expression of anti-Semitic sentiment, schmuck.

So, that said, your ignorant anonymous ass is at least half right, little factually-challenged fella.

Tell me. Just how am I, a Jew, "blatantly anti-semitic" as your ignorant anonymous ass put it, little nameless-nitwit fella?

Do tell, ya meshuggah mutt, ya.

"I guess hate is not an "R" or "D" thing, all you morons are apparently in the same hate club."

Evidently, ignorant anonymous trash is ignorant anonymous trash no matter what the nature of the professed ideology spewed is, shmendrik.

Gai tren zich.

Shalom, schmuck.

You can show yourself out. The kitchen staff will show you the way.
 
AWWWWWWWW!!!

Isn’t that cute!!!! Droopy Coopy is playin’ his little game again postin’ both sides of the argument.

Way to go dud. No one will ever catch you cuz you are just the smartest boy in the whole wide world. Even if they do all you have to do is trot out your demands for proof and everyone in puppet land will know just what a big deal you are!

Go Jeff yourself Coop-wad.
 
Coopy said "Ah, so the rest of the world are nanny state underachievers, eh, crazy lady? That must be why their standard of living and the value of their currency continues to rise as rapidly as ours declines."

Coopy...when was the last time you left your little basement bunker and traveled around the world? Strangely when you do, you hear a very different opinion of America from those in other countries.

The hatred and contempt is centered here with the jaundice views of the left. Those I have met while traveling actually think pretty highly of us.

But then again, they probably haven't had the benefit of reading your postings on this blog so they can understand what their opinion should be.

Captain America
 
Anonymous has left a new comment on the post "Adding ads":

Coopy said "Ah, so the rest of the world are nanny state underachievers, eh, crazy lady? That must be why their standard of living and the value of their currency continues to rise as rapidly as ours declines."

"Coopy...when was the last time you left your little basement bunker and traveled around the world? Strangely when you do, you hear a very different opinion of America from those in other countries."

In other words, crazy lady, you're still dumb, you're still scum and your ignorant, anonymous, auntie-amerikan ass has got bupkis.

Thanks for clearin' that up, crazy lady.

Even before they locked your ignorant anonymous ass in the attic, I doubt you've been down the road more than 10 miles in any direction from the day you first slithered out from under the family starter rock, auntie amerika.

Is it really your clueless-cretin contention that American Prestige, along with the DOW, middle class wages and benefits, purchasing power and the value of the US Dollar in relation to the Euro, British Pound, Chinese Yuan, etc, has increased over the past eight years of brain-dead, bush-league, gop-slime incompetence, crazy lady?

And you're basing this on.....?

"The hatred and contempt is centered here with the jaundice views of the left. Those I have met while traveling actually think pretty highly of us."

Well, crazy lady, while it may take a bit for President Obama and and increased Dem Majorities in Congress and State Houses from Coast to Coast to dig us out of the lunatic-fringe latrine bush has plunged us into, US Prestige is about to go up considerably in a bit less than two weeks, so, think how much the folks in Winooski and the North End are gonna love your ignorant anonymous ass now, crazy lady.

Assuming, of course, the family lets ya outta the attic.

Always a pleasure.
 
bubba...

"If Obama was white he'd be losing by 10-20 points with only the brain-dead leftist morons like jw supporting his treasonous and fascist policies."

But, he's not, he isn't, nice try and your ignorant anonymous ass has got bupkis, bubbakis. Again. Still.

"However, since blacks only vote for their own color, and since there are still too many guilty-white fairies that will always vote against their own people that support them both militarily but economically as well it doesn't look good for AMERICA as we knew it."

No, but it doesn't look good for amerika, as we've known it for the past eight years.

Gee, that's a shame.

Moreover, with respect to your since Blacks have never had the chance "to vote for one of their own color" before in a Presidential Election, bubbakis, you're saying that Blacks have never voted before in a Presidential Election.

Beyond the wishful thinking of your rich and active fascist fantasy life, just what evidence do have that Blacks have never voted in a Presidential Election before, since there's no other way to interpret your latest heapin' helpin' of brain-dead, bigoted-trash, neo-nazi nitwit-nonsense, little fraudulent fella?

What percentage of the clueless-cretin/kukluxkrishtin klan vote do ya think Obama's gonna get, bubbakis?

He'll just have to win big without your ignorant, anonymous, brain-dead, bigoted-trash ass, bubbakis.

Barring a plane crash or some clueless-cracker, ricky-bubba with a rifle, bubbakis, that's as close to a sure thing as you're gonna get in this life, little fella.

"Of course, if McCain won, there would be looting, rape, and destruction in the streets; but if Obama wins, there will be looting, rape, and destruction in the streets!"

Well, then you and your coalition of the clueless-cretin comrades are just gonna have to do a better job of behavin' yourselves, grow up and learn to exercise some self control, little fella.

Especially, now that shrub has gone back on his word, lied again and refused to close gitmo.

Always a pleasure.
 
Looks like Coop is doing his best to might the Right look good by playing the insane moon-bat.

Keep it up koop and maybe Rush will give you a t-shirt.
 
Thanks, as always, for that ignorant anonymous-trash perspective, little nameless-nitwit fella.

As you continue to be my eyes and ears in the scum-vote side of town, your ignorant anonymous-trash assistance remains invaluable and your efforts are much appreciated as is your continuing ability to screw up anything and everything but my name address and phone, little fraudulent fella.

Lastly, I want to thank you, again, for confining your ignorant anonymous threats and clueless-cretin calls to between 8-10pm.

As a clueless cretins utterly devoid of any and all capacity for rational thought goes, you can be very thoughtful that way, and Mo and I appreciate your ignorant-trash efforts, little fraudulent fella.

Always a pleasure.
 
Well at least you came up with a new lie Jiffy.

Sorry pal but I don't make crank calls to cranks.

What's the next lie going to be. I'm from Mars ans here to eat Howard Dean's pea brain?

Go Jeff yourself Cooper.
 
If you want to see a funny ad about Symington, go to www.fcevt.com
 
I pull ignorant anonymous trash with bupkis boners...

"Well at least you came up with a new lie Jiffy."

Nah, I leave that stuff to your ignorant anonymous ass, little factually-challenged fella. Too bad ya can't do that to save your sorry scum-vote life, either.

"Sorry pal but I don't make crank calls to cranks."

Sure, and ya don't anonymously post my name, address and phone and threaten my wife on a regular basis, either, little nameless-nitwit, fraudulent fella.

"What's the next lie going to be. I'm from Mars ans here to eat Howard Dean's pea brain?"

Ya mean the "pea brain" that had him save Vermont only to have doogie run it into the ground over the past six years, regain control of Congress and poised to recapture the White House, increase Dem Majorities in Congress, increase Dem Control of State Houses from Coast to Coast and save Vermont, The US and the World from gop-scum incompetence, cluelessness and corruption under his leadership of the DNC, little keep runnin' headfirst into brick walls, nameless-nitwit fella?

Well, you've produced as much evidence in support of that delusional dreck as any of the other utterly-psychotic, ignorant, anonymous, scum-vote slop you've spewed, so that wouldn't surprise me a bit to hear ya cough up that nameless-nitwit nonsense, little fella.

That's your whole ignorant anonymous trash raison d'etre.

It's who you are. It's what you do.

Say goodnight, greasy.

Always a pleasure.
 
Well, well, right on cue.

It's little miss ignorant-anonymous, all-yak-and-no-sack herself, issuin' anonymous threats and spewin' psychotic slop without the stones to put her name behind it.

You always did manage to show even less stones than smarts, little miss meshuggah meishkeit, so, all in all, it's probably for the best that ya stick to anonymously postin' my name, address and phone and threatenin' my wife while offerin' google map directions to our place since it's still the only thing you've been able to substantiate and spell with any degree of skill.

Good clueless-cretin career move, little lady.

Always a pleasure.
 
Hey Jiffy here's the number for the Montpelier cops:

223-3445

Call em up and tell em you lies wingnut.

Show us all what a big man you are.
 
Please leave JW alone. He has lost his internet privileges and is grounded for using such potty talk in his postings(again). He is such a handful!

He is a special child, easily upset and prone to irrational outbursts. Please don't encourage him. It breaks my heart to punish him like this making him stay in his basement bedroom with no computer.

Mrs. Coop10
 
We are approaching 2 Coop-free days thanks to Mrs. Coop10. Just sit back an envision the rage building up inside JW's short, fat, little body. Coopy's bald little head must be ready to explode.
 
He is still in a catatonic state of delirium ever since he heard his hero Barry Obama talk about "spreading the wealth" (i.e., steal from the producers and give to the wards of society).
 
Typical Anthony Pollina - can't quite wrap his words around the truth.
 
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