Obama's 'Gas Pump TV' ads pre-empted

[babylonsister]

Obama's 'Gas Pump TV' ads pre-empted
Normally well-oiled Obama camp says it had a deal. Gas Station TV: No deal.
Posted August 6, 2008 6:45 PM
The Swamp

by Mark Silva



Barack Obama's campaign was all excited today about campaign ads that it planned to show on gas pump-top TV screens in Florida, big swing state.

Not any more.

The campaign revealed this evening that Gas Station TV is pre-empting the campaign ads that take Republican John McCain to task for supporting policies which, the way Camp Obama sees it, are making life more painful for motorists at the pump.

Obama's folks are attempting to redirect the embarrassment, suggesting that, Ah, ha, McCain and his buddies at Big Oil are putting up a roadblock to the campaign message the Democrat wants to deliver.

But Gas Station TV is telling the press that there was no final agreement to run these ads - that the firm had been approached by a few campaigns but has made "a conscious decision not to run political ads.'' And at least one newspaper in swing-state Florida is writing off the saga as "a major gaffe'' by the normally well-oiled Obama campaign machinery.

"Once again, the oil companies and their friends are standing with Sen. McCain, the candidate for president who is proposing to offer them a $4 billion tax cut," said Mark Bubriski, communications director for the Obama campaign in Florida. "It looks like Gas Station TV doesn't want the American people to know about Sen. Obama's plan to offer working families a $1,000 energy rebate that would be funded by a tax on oil company profits.

more...

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/08/obamas_gas_pump_tv_ads_preempt.html#more

Related:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6595687&mesg_id=6595687

[TwilightGardener]

1. How is that a "gaffe"? The station backed out of the deal.

[KittyWampus]

3. like the Pentagon rescinded permission in Germany

[TwilightGardener]

5. Yep. McShithead's got friends in high places.

[babylonsister]

8. Yes. They've invested a lot of money in him. nt

[high density]

9. Good question

It sounds like the "gaffe" was on the part of the ad placement agency who confirmed ad space that they weren't willing to sell after all.

[KittyWampus]

2. sure, and Obama dissed the troops in Germany. Another set-up.

[islandmkl]

4. or....maybe Obama's people banked on the ads not being shown...

let's see...the big oil boys don't want BHO's message about them pumping out with the gas??

only an asshat couldn't see that coming, imho....seems like a setup by Obama's crew....

but, i may just have had too much koolaid...

we'll see, won't we?

[tuvor]

6. That's some mighty tasty lemonade.

[avaistheone1]

7. How about our own guerrilla campaign

That stinks. How about our own guerrilla campaign - We could put stickers on the pumps linking to Obama's gas pump-top video on the Internet. Or would this backfire on Obama's campaign?