Shrub's P.R.Attack Dog CASTELLANOS ("RATS" Commercial)

[UTUSN]

He's got access to Shrub's $200 mil campaign budget. He's so vicious Jesse HELMS fired him and DOLE clashed with him.

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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/03/15/castellanos/

.... The son of a Cuban refugee, Castellanos came to Florida in 1961 when he was 6 years old. His father arrived with two kids, one suitcase and $11. Castellanos has said his family's experience living under Fidel Castro's fledgling communist regime helped form his conservative, anti-government politics. "I believe this stuff," he once told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "I have a general dislike for government that tells people what to do." (Castellanos did not return calls for this story.) ....

In 1988, Castellanos was recruited for the Bush/Quayle '88 media team by senior media consultant Roger Ailes, now president of the Fox News Channel. Castellanos' most infamous spot commercial came two years later, the legendary "White Hands" ad he produced in the closing days of Helms' reelection campaign. ....

Now, the Bush campaign will invest more money than ever before in a media onslaught. "We'll test the hypothesis that money matters," says Jamieson.

And that vast amount of money is about to be spun into negative TV ads by the Republicans' most notorious practitioner of the trade. Alex Castellanos is ready for his screen test. ....



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[stopthegop]

1. well...

do you expect Kerry's ads to be done by Girl Scouts? they'll be just as harsh..count on it...

[doubleyoi]

2. by this logic

really, anyone can make major bucks as a political consultant. Castellanos just makes shit up and puts it out there, and when someone says "yeah, but...ummm...uh..that isn't true" he just shrugs and says, "oh, well, it worked didn't it?" and we get these political consultant types who say, "you gotta respect the results...blah blah...just playin' the game.." I say BULLSHIITE! A lie is a lie and this guy should have been run out of the game YEARS ago. It ends now, he's going down just like the Boob Squad he's shilling for.

[UTUSN]

3. Welcome to DU, doubleyoi!

[UTUSN]

4. Kick for Knowing Who the Dirty Rats Are n/t

[mrdmk]

5. Question

I saw the commercial the other day and put a question on this board. Unfortunately I lost the thread. Now I see the a still of the question that I had. Is that Jessica Lynch in this ad?