Month: October 2014

Maybe Republicans Really AREN’T People, Too

Buck Banks
It is a newspaper, but it ain't the Times.
It is a newspaper, but it ain’t the Times.

In its new “Republicans Are People, Too” advertising campaign, the GOP is going to some lengths to show that party members are, variously, guys with beards and tattoos, young black women, Prius drivers and young dudes who read the New York Times.

But according to TPM, the images used in the ads are all stock photos that have been used in other campaigns or, more egregiously, show a young man holding the Wall Street Journal who is, the ad alleges, reading the New York Times. Whoops!

The Republican Party’s ad agency really is clueless, too. Really.

Kind of reminds me of a little limerick I wrote.

Craig’s ’07 Arrest in Sex Sting Continues to Cost Him

Buck Banks

$242,535

Amount a federal judge in the District of Columbia has ordered former Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) to pay to the Department of the Treasury in relation to his 2007 arrest in a Minnesota airport bathroom sex sting, Roll Call reports. The Federal Election Commission filed the complaint against Craig in 2012, alleging he illegally converted campaign money for personal use because the legal expenditures were not “made in connection with Mr. Craig’s campaign for federal office.”