Hussein/Ayers Ad That Has Hussein Livid - “Despicable” He Calls It
A new Republican-leaning group surfaced today as a player in hardball presidential politics.
Officials with the American Issues Project, a nonprofit that describes itself as a champion of conservative values, say the group will spend $2.8 million to air a stinging television ad that ties Democratic Sen. Barack Obama to William Ayers, a former member of the notorious Weather Underground.
What stations the ad would air on was not immediately clear. The Associated Press reported this evening that the group initially sought to air the ad on the Fox News channel, but a Fox spokesman said the network declined to run it.
The Issues Project’s spokesman, Christian Pinkston, said the ad will air in Ohio and Michigan.
American Issues Project has been in existence since last year, but this ad represents the first project it has produced. “We’re doing a series — this is our first — of commercials and other projects that will hit on both political and policy issues that we feel are underreported or glossed over,” Pinkston said. “This happens to be a political one, but there will be policy ones as well.”
Asked if the group plans more ads targeting Obama, Pinkston said, “We’re not announcing exactly what the plan is. I think it’s safe to assume there will be more ads.”
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