Citizens United's hour-long anti-Obama film to reach 130 million homes

[nichomachus]

http://www.boston.com/politicalintelligence/2012/09/17/citizens-united-reach-million-homes-with-broadcast-anti-obama-film/JxKNWV5kyDchPRyZsHH8rJ/story.html

Citizens United, the group whose lawsuit opened the door to unlimited political spending by individuals, corporations and unions, has reached a deal with a half dozen television networks to air an hour-long film before Election Day about people who have reversed their support of President Obama.

The conservative production studio announced the agreement on Monday, saying “The Hope and The Change,” a play on Obama’s 2008 campaign slogan, will reach 130 million homes.

Thank you, Supreme Court.

[nc4bo]

1. God damn it and them.

This is some crazy stuff here. Unprecedented in its scope.

[EC]

2. A play?

I'm guessing not too many people will watch a play on TV.

[renie408]

3. No, they meant that the title of the...thing...is a play on Obama's 2008 campaign slogan.

[EC]

10. Oh well then,

nevermind.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Oooh I wonder...notebook in hand

I want to contact some of these folks and ask, did you?

[emulatorloo]

22. I bet you a dollar that some of these "Obama voters" work for the RNC

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. I'll take your dollar and raise you ten

Dirty tricks comes to mind.

Though I also will take your buck and raise you 100 that one at least is the real article.

[sufrommich]

5. What channels? Time to start writing to these companies and

their advertisers.

[renie408]

7. Undermine it on Facebook every chance you get.

[renie408]

6. We have to beat the fuck out of this thing before it airs and dilute its message.

I have already started bitching about the Supreme Court selling America to the highest bidder and this being the result. Can we get any details on the contents of this campaign ad? And that's another thing, we have ALL got to get the word out over and over and over that this thing is an infomercial for Romney.

[skeewee08]

8. WOW!!!! Thank you Supreme Court...

we really need something to counter this.....

[WCGreen]

9. Yea, but on HDNet may be in 130 million homes...

But how many people will actually sit and watch this movie when the GOP convention couldn't even beat Honey boo boo or what ever that TLC "phenom..." name is...

[City Lights]

12. That was my first thought.

Reaching 130 million homes isn't the same as having 130 million viewers.

[flamingdem]

11. Ugh. The deluge is going to be hard to refute, last minute

especially .. lots of work to do at the phone banks to counteract the crap

[Avalux]

13. This may not be a bad thing.....what hate will they fling that hasn't already been flung?

I know I am giving the American people the benefit of a doubt, but the GOP has been mercilessly trashing Obama since before he took the oath of office. I fail to see how anything in this movie will be a revelation; will be enough to sway enough voters to Romney. And will they believe it anyway? I think people are realizing that the lies are not true.

I think this display of hubris will backfire.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

15. Maybe it will be that missing "whitey" tape

or proof of Obama's gay marriage?

[Avalux]

18. My point exactly.

The film will be so extreme and woo woo that people are going to be disgusted. At least I hope.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

20. I hope so too

This "2016" movie seems to be getting a lot of publicity/hype for some strange reason though. From what I've heard of it, it's a bunch of BS but it has earned a lot of money. Still, I don't think that a lot of average people are likely to buy into it unless they were already somewhat predisposed to believe that Obama is bad.

The best thing that may happen because of the avalanche of sludge, people might finally be open to reversing Citizens United.

[Chiyo-chichi]

25. The 2016 movie doesn't seem to be helping Romney in the polls, does it?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

28. Doesn't look like it

n/t

[budkin]

14. But "Zero Dark Thirty" cannot be released until after the election?

Because it might influence the outcome?

[SickOfTheOnePct]

21. It could be released before the election

The distributor chose not to.

[budkin]

16. Also WTF: on HDNet Movies? It's owned by Mark Cuban who is a huge liberal

I don't get it.

[Spazito]

17. Reaching 130 million homes doesn't mean in any way there will be 130 million viewers tuning in...

I have many, many channels available to me and I tune in at various time to maybe a third of them, the others may reach multiple millions of homes, including mine, but that means little when it comes to who will actually tune in.

From the article, these are the ones who will show it:

It will premiere Tuesday on HDNet Movies and is licensed to four other cable networks and one broadcast network with stations in Colorado, Indiana, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Hawaii.

I suspect the majority of the few who will actually watch it are the rabid right wing base who only tune in to Fox already.

[sofa king]

19. Let 'em piss their money away.

You know what I think all this crap is doing at this point? Solidifying the resolve of Democrats to make it to the polls and vote them all out.

Republicans don't have anything to vote for, not even lower taxes because it's the Republicans who raised taxes on everyone this year, and voters are figuring that out, too. Acting on mere hate for no material reward is not much of an incentive.

On the other hand, a Republican paying himself by staying home on election day is definitely an incentive. Let's see a movie nobody wants to watch change that.

[Initech]

30. And they're wasting their money on the blandest human being ever to run for office.

Really - I've seen high school janitors lead more exciting lives than Rmoney has.

[LTR]

23. People are sick of political ads

What makes these people think undecided voters will seek out some obscure cable channels to watch this crap?

And David Bossie is a shitheel who's been spreading his own special brand of manure since Clinton ran for his first term.

[LongTomH]

26. Most of the people who watch this tripe will be Republicans who already hate Obama!

[Democrats4All]

27. can you say "change the channel"

Americans are barely able to get through a 30 second political commercial at this point in the campaign. There's no way in hell that they are gonna sit for an hour long republican informercial !

[Initech]

29. Fuck you Citizens United. Worst decision ever.