UPDATE: Heh, well I might have my enthusiasm get the better of me on this one. It does appear, as EaBo helpfully points out in the comments, that this ad is homemade by the CFP website proprietor, and not purchased by the Brown campaign. Clearly I shouldn’t write these posts at midnight. So, um, never mind. :)
Scott Brown has purchased advertising space on Canada Free Press. And back in 2008, our friendly neighbors to the north at CFP were really excited about the idea that Barack Obama was not a natural-born citizen, and thus was ineligible to serve as president. Here’s a screenshot taken from this article — note the ad running to the right. (Click for larger image.)
Nice.
Oh, and by the way, don’t think Brown gets off the hook because this article is from 2008. This site has an impressive history of craziness that continues to the present. Here, for example, are some excerpts from today’s top story, entitled “Why we must support Israel”:
Some tell us there is more than one god. Others say there is only one God and his name is Allah. Even our schools are teaching that Allah is God. But that is just another preposterous lie and sad to say many Americans are too timid to fight back with the truth.There is only one God and His Name is not Allah
Have you noticed that Muslims always say what they want to say? We have been taught not to answer them. We are supposed to just remain silent and listen. The press and the government spout Muslim lies and we are expected not to refute them. Well, I think it’s time we had some equality and I don’t care in the slightest about political correctness….God had just told Abraham to leave his birthplace, which in today’s terms was Iraq, and make the awesome journey to the Promised Land, Israel. He said that if Abraham would do that God would bless the whole world through his descendents and also bless all who blessed his family….
There are more than 1.4 billion Muslims yet they have won only 9 [Nobel] prizes and most of them were for literature most of which would be of interest only to Muslims.
Muslims outnumber Jews 117 to 1 yet Jews have won the prize 20 to 1. In order to equal the Jews blessing to the world based on the Nobel factor, Muslims would have to have won more than 2000 Nobel prizes. But they won only 9.
So judge for yourself if God’s prediction came true….
I absolutely believe that the current world financial crisis is a direct result of God’s judgment for what the world has done, and is doing, to Israel.
It goes on, and on, and on. And it finishes up thusly:
This is not the end of this article. It will be in four parts. Of course I am anticipating the howls of rage from Muslims and others who do not believe in God and all of their angry comments will be answered.
Well, that should be worth checking back for.
Anyway, it’s not like the crazies were hiding out somewhere on this site. They’re front and center on the main page. Kinda reminds you of the time we caught Brown advertising on a site that was advocating a military takeover of the United States (that was Newsmax). WTF, did Brown’s campaign take out ads on every wingnutty website they could find? Wait, don’t answer that.
Oh, and one more thing. Looking back at the Newsmax story, I was amused to read the ad that Brown was running before they pulled it. It read:
Meet the Republican running for Ted Kennedy’s Seat: State Senator Scott Brown
What? ”Ted Kennedy’s Seat”? Good God, sir, have you at last no decency?? It isn’t “Ted Kennedy’s seat”! It’s the people’s seat! I know because Scott Brown said so! And everything Scott Brown says is true! Oh wait….
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20 Comments . Comments are closed.David is God
'No he isn't$quot; said Nicole
ah the fallicies of David Kravitz
Scott Brown according to CNN Scott Brown has run a model on-line campaign. Those ads are GOOGLE ads. So I don't think the Brown camp took the time to research the millions of sites on the internet and stop the ads from running on all of them.
Nice try though David. sources close to the campaign tell me that Brown's on-line media buy may outdo Pags=Jobs.
I have to agree
This is exactly the same as the Google ad server feeding Scientology ads to Slate. As I type this, I see Brown's smiling face immediately to my right. Did Brown buy ads on Blue Mass Group? No. It's another Google ad.
It's not a Google ad.
As EaBo notes below, the ad on CFP is not a Google ad - it's a homemade ad by the proprietor of the CFP site. I have updated my post accordingly.
Indeed, Dan - it's like the BMG 'ad' on the right, with George Bush's smiling face with Scott Brown's name (doubtless to convince the unwary that Bush is running for Senate here).
Oh, PP.
The CFP thing is not a Google ad, for God's sake. EaBo has explained what it is; I appreciate his correction; I have updated my post. Please try to stay current.
Pfui! to you, Mr. Current!
My comment, like yours and only minutes apart, was addressed to Dan Kennedy's remark that it was like the Salon google feed. I even called him 'Dan'.
I admit, I WAS amused that the ad was the same thing that BMG had done, but was not recognized as such. As you said, midnight is a bad time for indignation.
Ah, but you see,
Rob's comment clarifying that it's not a Google ad went up at 5:52 a.m. I saw it at around 9 a.m. and updated my post as soon as I verified that he was right. So ... you (and Dan, by the way) are at least 3 hours out of date. An eternity in the blogosphere. ;-)
Upon further notice
That Ad is a homemade ad by the CFP person. It is not a Scott Brown Ad. All Scott brown ads have the paid for by. Including the ones that have been up on our site for the past month and a half.
Really nice try though.
Grasping at straws.
Isn't there anything important we can say about Scott Brown?
Seriously, if you'd spent two minutes to think about it you could see that the Brown campaign didn't buy this ad. In addition to not having the "paid for" text, it links directly to the campaign web site with no way to track the click-through so the site gets paid. You guys should certainly understand how this works...
The previous post on the main page is about a mistake the Globe made 28 years ago. It's not even clear that Brown told them that Rugg was his great grandfather and would anyone care now if he did?
All this just leaves the impression that there's nothing wrong with this guy so we have to resort to this ridiculous and, in at least one case, inaccurate nitpicking. Please, let's talk about why Scott Brown shouldn't be our next Senator. There's plenty of material.
Then by all means,
enlighten us! Yeah, I made a mistake on this one. But at least I'm trying. I can't do it all myself.
And I do think the NYT/modeling thing is funny.
The jury will disregard the erroneous and inflammatory remarks of council.
Let's just stop whining about trivial stuff
Looking at the main page, it's not so much a lack of useful content as the prevalence of worthless stuff. The top three posts are useless (and I'd include this post even if it were true)! Charley's "push poll" post isn't much better. I don't think that even qualifies as a push-poll. Imagine someone new to the site or someone who doesn't come here often seeing that because the election piqued their interest. Will they even bother to scroll down?
You should bump your endorsement of Coakley to the top and maybe bump some of the legitimate stuff about Brown, too. One of the reasons I don't come here much anymore is that there's way too many trivial "gotchas" posted (not to sound like Sarah Palin).
Tell you, what. I'll write a post on Scott Brown and health care. Promote it if you like it.
You think that is bad... check out the ad beside this diary for Martha...
Martha is advertising on the crazy BMG site. You would not believe the crazy shit I've read on that site.
On the other hand...
...the crazy shit you've written there is the stuff of legend!
I can't argue with that. Legends start somewhere and BMG is as good a place as any.
I'll give you a 6.
At least Brown doesnt
tell Catholics where they can work and where they cant work - she is one of the worst candidates I have seen since Kerry ran for President - where do they find these people?
How about some disclosure?
What's the big secret about Barry's birth certificate? Why not just release it? Ditto university transcripts...
Done
many times over.
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