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New Ad Stars Fellow McCain POW Suggesting He's Unfit To Be President
Robert Greenwald's Brave New PAC goes up on national cable with a new 30-second spot starring fellow McCain POW Phillip Butler, who says he knows from personal experience that a POW background is not desirable in a commander-in-chief.
"John McCain is not somebody that I would like to see with his finger near the red button," Butler says in the spot.
The spot is notable because it's the first paid advertising that directly takes on McCain's war service while suggesting that McCain is temperamentally unfit to be president:
The ad is a shortened version of an earlier Brave New PAC video quoting Butler at length that didn't have any money behind it.
As for the buy itself, it's a modest one. The spot is running on national cable today (and ran yesterday, too). It's funded by Brave New Films and Democracy For America, the independent group run by Jim Dean, who's Howard Dean's brother.
The ad is really a flare -- an effort to see if this controversial line of attack catches the attention of the national media.
"If it takes off and this storyline gets some pickup, then that'll give us some incentive to go raise more money for it," Brave New PAC spokesperson Leighton Woodhouse tells me.
It seems like a media-friendly line of criticism, though presumably not one that the Obama campaign wants out there.
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