The White House Does Not Like Ford’s Ad. Did It Apply Pressure to Get the Ad Yanked?

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  September 27th at 01:19 PM  | 

UPDATE: Ford is now out saying it was not “coerced” into pulling the ad and that the ad campaign will continue. Wonder whatever gave the Michigan news media a contrary impression? ——————————————- I told you a week ago that the White House and General Motors coordinated on GM’s ad campaign it rolled out before the 2010 general election designed to highlight the government auto bailout | Read More »

Let’s Party Like It’s 1917

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  September 20th at 04:45 AM  | 

The DNC’s logo for the 2012 convention struck me, when it first came out, as “Soviet chic”, a trendy style that’s been making its way around leftist protests from Wisconsin to Washington. With Barack Obama’s class warfare speech yesterday, it seems the President’s 2012 campaign theme will be to party like its 1917. In a speech right out of a European socialist’s playbook, Barack Obama | Read More »