DNC Selling Romney T-Shirt
Some quotes are so dumb they deserve to be preserved forever in the medium of a T-shirt. Get yours here.
Some quotes are so dumb they deserve to be preserved forever in the medium of a T-shirt. Get yours here.
Product placement has become such a subtle art form these days that it’s hard to tell the difference between advertising and the editorial or entertainment content. Case in point, right-leaning Politico.com a reports that the tea party astroturfers, Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks, and the Heritage Foundation, a Reaganite intellectual boneyard, are quietly underwriting the Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck radio shows, at a cost of several millions dollars:
POLITICO: In search of donations and influence, the three prominent conservative groups are paying hefty sponsorship fees to the popular talk show hosts. Those fees buy them a variety of promotional tie-ins, as well as regular on-air plugs – praising or sometimes defending the groups, while urging listeners to donate – often woven seamlessly into programming in ways that do not seem like paid advertising.
Those fees buy them a variety of promotional tie-ins, as well as regular on-air plugs — praising or sometimes defending the groups, while urging listeners to donate — often woven seamlessly into programming in ways that do not seem like paid advertising…
The Heritage Foundation pays about $2 million to sponsor Limbaugh’s show and about $1.3 million to do the same with Hannity’s…
Those millions also buy lies. […]
It seems Mitt Romney’s done it again —
Making “unemployed” jokes to unemployed Floridians.
Now he’s found him a home
In the world’s slimmest tome —
“The Encyclopedia of Mormon Comedians.”