Revised anti-DeLay ad airs today on 2 Houston stations: Spokeswoman for Republican says the TV spots were made by a Democratic group (see the ad here)
Houston TV station to air ads critical of DeLay
“People here already know they can’t trust what this Democrat front group claims, and their latest ad doesn’t say anything new,” said DeLay’s spokeswoman, Shannon Flaherty.
“This is the same fraudulent ad from the same George Soros and labor-union-backed group that is working on behalf of Nancy Pelosi to elect Democrats. We’ve already unveiled the lies in the ad to the local stations, and they all agreed … Any new decision they make is probably based more on their need for cash than maintaining credibility,” she said
Man, how desperate must Tom DeLay’s camp be? Now that they’ve lost the battle to keep the ad from the Campaign for America’s Future and the Public Campaign Action Fund off Houston television stations, they’ve simply changed their talking points to something more shrill and desperate sounding. Clearly, DeLay and his apologists really don’t want people here to know what he’s been up to, do they?
Flaherty may feel perfectly correct in pointing out that they’ve “already unveiled the lies in the ad to the local stations”, but in reality all they did was sic a lawyer on Houston TV stations, and the the stations in turn cowered in fear. DeLay knows full well that all these Liberal interest groups are doing is using the same tool that Conservatives have used for so long with impunity. No one seemed to complain with the Swift Boat Veterans were smearing Sen. John Kerry, but that was OK, because he’s a Liberal, and free speech allows it to happen. Put the shoe on the other foot, though, and suddenly there’s Hell to pay.
Man, the hypocrisy is so thick you’d need a snowblower to cut through it….
The revised ad calling for DeLay to resign his congressional post is set to air on KPRC-NBC (Channel 2) and KRIV-FOX (Channel 26), according to Campaign for America’s Future, one of two liberal public interest groups that joined forces last week to run the ad.
D’Artagnan Bebel, vice president and general manager of KRIV, said Saturday that his station will air the revamped ad, but representatives for KPRC could not be reached to confirm the station would show the ad.
“I’ve accepted the revised spot,” Bebel said Saturday.
The ad, titled “Out of Sight,” is to air during this morning’s news programs.
The 30-second spot by the Campaign for America’s Future and the Public Campaign Action Fund has more detailed information about the connections between DeLay, R-Sugar Land, and Abramoff, who pleaded guilty to corruption charges and is cooperating with a federal investigation of lawmakers and their aides.
The ad says DeLay “received tens of thousands in campaign contributions from indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his associates” and that “he visited cliff-top Caribbean resorts, golf courses designed by PGA champions and four-star restaurants ‚Äö√Ñ√Æ all courtesy of donors who bankrolled his political money empire.”
OK, so perhaps there are some points of contention in the ad, but even Factcheck.org has stated the ad is largely factual, albeit ambiguous. In short, it’s nothing that Conservatives haven’t done to Liberals over the years…and at least this ad is well-researched, which is more than can normally be said for most Conservative attack ads.
DeLay and his apologists don’t like the ad because they know it will put the truth of what he’s been doing before the folks in his stomping grounds. It’s about damn time, don’t you think?
Don McGahn, DeLay’s campaign lawyer, said the ad’s comment about DeLay receiving money from Russians is not true. “This is false, and the sponsors of the ad know it is false” McGahn wrote to the Houston television stations.
Well, gee, Don, while the strict factuality of this point may still be in question, facts have never stood in your way before. Where’s the fire now? No, the reality is that DeLay and his apologists are terrified that people here in the Houston area will finally begin to see Tom DeLay for what he is- a corrupt, power-mad, mean-spirted partisan who will do anything to make a buck for his party and for himself. The only sad aspect of this story is that it has taken people here so long to figure out that Tom DeLay and corruption go together like peanut butter and jelly.
