October 20, 2006, 7:42 pm
More Men in Hoods: They’re Everywhere
By Kate Phillips
On the Republicans’ web ad, Men in Hoods (see earlier post), Phil Singer, communications director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, released this nyah-nyah:
The R.N.C. is very proud of its new web video highlighting the Bush administration’s failure to catch bin Laden and has decided to broadcast the video on national cable stations this weekend.
Since the R.N.C. declined to provide specific details about the scope of its media buy, we checked and found that – as we suspected – it’s a phantom buy.
According to publicly available information, the party is spending a paltry $20,000 on national cable, meaning that the ad will appear less than five times on Sunday and Monday. In fact, the paid ad will air just once on FOX News....
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/?p=414