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DemsForHealey in the Herald

October 23, 2006 By Pablo

Don’t look now, but Kimberly Atkins has pointed her readership to the latest from DemsForHealey.

So what if Washington Post blogger Chris Cillizza called Healey’s parking garage ad “as vicious as we’ve seen this cycle”? The folks at DemsForHealey.com posted the following announcement on Saturday, seemingly with a straight face:
  “After a series of relentless attack ads launched by Deval Patrick, Kerry Healey has announced that she is finally ready to go negative. We know that it is with great regret that she has made this decision, but Deval has forced her hand.”

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  1. ed-prisby says

    October 23, 2006 at 9:20 am

    “Relentless” Patrick ads?  Healey is “finally” ready to go negative?  Which campaign are they watching, anyway?

    • kathy says

      October 23, 2006 at 9:31 am

      • tim-little says

        October 23, 2006 at 10:57 am

        They are.

        • ed-prisby says

          October 23, 2006 at 12:23 pm

          I never pick up on internet sarcasm.  My bad.

          • sabutai says

            October 23, 2006 at 6:14 pm

            When did that start?  Thursday?

  2. massmarrier says

    October 23, 2006 at 9:23 am

    …and these DINOs for Kerry Healey come from where, Remulak?

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    Here on Earth, we have, in fact, seen relentless attack ads. Muck, thy name is Healey.

    • metrowest-dem says

      October 23, 2006 at 9:44 am

      Yeah, I got sucked in too, at first. Read the posts at the web site closely.

  3. tom-m says

    October 23, 2006 at 9:33 am

    Has anyone here actually read the Dems for Healey site?

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    It’s a parody, written by one of our own and it’s obviously sucking a few people in.

  4. peter-porcupine says

    October 23, 2006 at 9:34 am

    …when Kim wrote about Gloria Larson starting Republicans for Deval?

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    This happens EVERY election.  Candidates all have BUMPER STICKER for it.

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    Really, a ‘wtf’ reaction?  Are you really naive, or do you just play it on TV?

    • rickterp says

      October 23, 2006 at 10:25 am

      I don’t like how people here have been making fun of Dems for Healey.  We may disagree with them, but is that a reason for us to ridicule them and say they’re just satire?

      • rickterp says

        October 23, 2006 at 8:25 pm

        Based on the ratings I received for this post, two out of three people understand that my tongue was in my cheek with this post.  Thank you, redandgray, for my first 3 rating.

  5. theopensociety says

    October 23, 2006 at 10:31 am

    I hate to quibble, but shouldn’t it be “Courageous Inaction” or “Courageously Inactive”?  I love the Demsforhealey stuff, btw… makes me lol everytime. 

  6. massmarrier says

    October 23, 2006 at 10:33 am

    It’s a good joke too. I like to do double and triple takes.

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    Alas, I stumble into letters to the editors in which alleged Dems hold out for her. They are from Remulak!

  7. lightiris says

    October 23, 2006 at 10:35 am

    someone has to do it. I just can’t take it anymore: 

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    sat‧ire  /ˈsætaɪər/ Pronunciation Key – Show Spelled Pronunciation[sat-ahyuhr] Pronunciation Key – Show IPA Pronunciation
    –noun
    1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
    2. a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.
    3. a literary genre comprising such compositions.
    [Origin: 1500–10; < L satira, var. of satura medley, perh. fem. deriv. of satur sated (see saturate)]

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    —Synonyms 1. See irony1. 2, 3. burlesque, caricature, parody, travesty. Satire, lampoon refer to literary forms in which vices or follies are ridiculed. Satire, the general term, often emphasizes the weakness more than the weak person, and usually implies moral judgment and corrective purpose: Swift’s satire of human pettiness and bestiality. Lampoon refers to a form of satire, often political or personal, characterized by the malice or virulence of its attack: lampoons of the leading political figures.

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    • tim-little says

      October 23, 2006 at 11:15 am

      It’s one thing when a few people don’t “get it,” but something else again entirely when the joke takes on a life of its own. (I get a bit nervous when I see something like this mentioned in the MSM. Face it; some readers are dense.)

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      I think Jim’s done a good job ratcheting up the hyperbole to Onion or “Billionaires for Bush” (or Healey) levels; it was perhaps a little too subtle at the beginning.

      • danseidman says

        October 23, 2006 at 11:40 am

        A few years ago Christian fundamentalists were using an Onion article to bolster their claims that Harry Potter was drawing kids to Satanism.  The Herald seems to be equally gullible.  Of course there’s a pretty fine line these days between the real Healey campaign and any parody of it.

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        • lynne says

          October 23, 2006 at 12:23 pm

          Putting a clip of Colbert “lambasting” (who was it again? Some liberal).

        • tom-m says

          October 23, 2006 at 12:47 pm

          Of course there’s a pretty fine line these days between the real Healey campaign and any parody of it.

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          It isn’t because Dems For Healey are too subtle.  It’s because the Healey campaign has become a caricature.

          • tim-little says

            October 23, 2006 at 3:51 pm

            Darth Vader and Pinky and the Brain, for cryin’ out loud?

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            (Sorry, Lynne.)

  8. mags says

    October 23, 2006 at 11:56 am

    Peeps!

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    Bad people (who shall remain nameless, faceless, reprobates) are emailing stories from the Globe so that they linger (or climb) on the Boston.com list (that block on the right side of the page of “most emailed” stories).

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    You can check the “rising – falling” numbers to see who’s sending what.  You can’t fool me bad people, that peeps are all of a sudden mass emailing an article about Deval/LaGuer from October 4th.

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    May I recommend a similar strategy?  I’m very fond of this article: “Healey races to bottom” (currently with 205 forwards) or my recent favorite: “Criminologists group takes on Healey” (currently holding with a lowly 2 forwards).

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    Does it make me bad to act like them?  (Except I have no venom.)

    • pmegan says

      October 23, 2006 at 12:26 pm

    • danseidman says

      October 23, 2006 at 1:05 pm

      Any idea how much the Healey campaign pays for each clickthrough on a Google ad?  Not that I would recommend anything — you would have to look at her face for a moment before closing the window.

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      • jaybooth says

        October 23, 2006 at 5:10 pm

        Words like “massachusetts election” are probably pretty cheap because the only people buying the clicks are campaigns, but on the other hand they’ve bid their way to the top of the pile  for those clicks because they’re always there above my gmail.

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        I give it a click every time, I love giving other people’s money away.

  9. mags says

    October 23, 2006 at 1:30 pm

    I wouldn’t do anything that would cost them money, but I would use the Globe to spank them.

  10. madameblue says

    October 23, 2006 at 2:55 pm

    I had never seen demsforhealey.com, so yes–when I clicked through I was like “‘Courageousness Inaction”…shouldn’t that be two words?’ Pretty funny, but yes–subtle! I love it. And yes–good Globe column this morning.I will be happy to forward…many, many times.

  11. jimcaralis says

    October 23, 2006 at 6:52 pm

    and don’t forget who inspired DemsForHealey

    • charley-on-the-mta says

      October 23, 2006 at 7:48 pm

      No one gets it! High fives all around! 😉

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