{"id":1087,"date":"2009-09-29T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/09\/29\/the-ad-war-heats-up-in-the-23rd-district-going-negative-early\/"},"modified":"2009-09-29T08:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T12:17:00","slug":"the-ad-war-heats-up-in-the-23rd-district-going-negative-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/09\/29\/the-ad-war-heats-up-in-the-23rd-district-going-negative-early\/","title":{"rendered":"The ad war heats up in the 23rd district, going negative early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, Martha and I talked about the good, the bad, and the ugly of the first wave of TV spots in the special election campaign.  Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news.php#14433\">here<\/a> to check that out.<\/p>\n<p>The big take-away is that the campaigns are all going negative early, in some cases before they&#8217;ve even taken time to introduce their own candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Also worth noting that Conservative Doug Hoffman tees off with a mention of a big social issue &#8212; gay marriage &#8212; instead of leading with the fiscal conservative stuff that he said would be central to his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Here are links to all the spots that we discuss:<\/p>\n<p>From Conservative Doug Hoffman, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xlIpWNFFwkQ\">a mocking attack<\/a> on Dede Scozzafava.<\/p>\n<p>From Republican Dede Scozzafava, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dedeforcongress.com\/news\/read.aspx?id=34\">a rather muddled self-introduction<\/a>.  (Is she saying special interests are a good thing?)<\/p>\n<p>From the Republican National Congressional Committee, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gUgjJAuLeDs\">a clumsy attack<\/a> that links Bill Owens to Nancy Pelosi.<\/p>\n<p>From Democrat Bill Owens, two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TlQtZSnmwbM\">soft<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jPdKYT9zIZ8\">fuzzy<\/a> messages about the candidate.<\/p>\n<p>And from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GEWKCpjb3ks\">an attack ad<\/a> on Scozzafava that the Watertown Daily Times panned as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20090927\/NEWS03\/309279951\">&#8220;false.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, Martha and I talked about the good, the bad, and the ugly of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[874],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}