Jodi Jacobson is the editor-in-chief of Rewire.News. She has some advice for the Democratic Party. Message to @HouseDemocrats & @SenateDems: Please get a competent communications strategist. You have before you the SIMPLEST to explain of innumerable crimes committed by this president & this administration and yet STILL you are screwing it up. It is astounding. Some tips: — Jodi Jacobson …
This Is Definitive Lipstick on the Pig
Yesterday, I published an article on LinkedIn called, "The Pursuit of Brand Truth Is The Real Work of Advertising Professionals." This is how the article starts: Advertisers want to place their products and services in the best possible light. It's a natural desire and a legitimate business concept. The problems start when brand managers think that "the best possible light" has anything at all to do with …
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Playing the Plame Game in Northern New Mexico
Lady driving backwards through the desert in a Camaro. That's American. Lady intelligence officer dangerously outed in a political hit. Not American. https://youtu.be/ICW-dGD1M18 Valeria Plame, the former undercover CIA agent, is now a candidate for Congress in New Mexico's third district. The incumbent Congressman, Ben Ray Luján, is running for U.S. Senate. Plame was operations chief at the Joint …
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Not Just Another Acronym (ICYMI)
Political advertising isn't like other advertising. In many cases, it's not nearly as good. There are copious reasons for this, ranging from minuscule budgets to the client's hatred of marketing, and a widely held belief in political circles that a candidate's positions and policies matter most. Thankfully, there are a few rays of sunshine bursting through the dark clouds. OZY introduces us to one such ray of …
Conservative Democrats Will Be Primaried
Jessica Cisneros is running for Congress in south Texas. To win, she must first beat the Democratic Party incumbent, Rep. Henry Cuellar, in the primary election. Cuellar has been called "Trump's favorite Democrat," and he has an A-rating from the NRA. The Democrat in-name-only voted with Trump 67 percent of the time in the 115th Congress, the second-highest score for a House Democrat, according to CQ Vote …
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Cornyn The Divider Has A Mountain of Cash, But No Clue
For the past 40 or more years, "Liberal" has been a bad word in Texas. Senator John Cornyn still lives in that throwback era, although time is now catching up to him and his kind. Let's look at the last gasps of a desperate GOP, and the tired arguments they continue to rely on. Since Cornyn isn't running against a name-brand Democrat, his team decided to place Wendy Davis, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, and …
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Some Republicans Want To Clean Up the GOP’s Mess
We keep hearing how the United States is a nation of laws. And how we're better than this. Those are talking points. Facts point in another direction. Facts say we are a lawless society where terror reigns. Facts say we are not better than this. Here is one fact: no other nation on Earth has anywhere near the gun violence that citizens of the United States must endure each and every day. And why is that? …
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No More Games: This Is A National Emergency
What if you lived in a nation where the president incited racial violence on a daily basis? What if you lived in a nation where feeble-minded recipients of this twisted messaging were all too willing to spray the place with bullets from an automated weapon? What if...? The fact is the current president of the United States warned us how it would be: "You know what else they say about my people? The polls, they …
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