Sen. Clinton Beefs Up the Competition

Andy Borowitz / Truthdig Oct 8, 2007 In a sign of confidence befitting her status as front-runner, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has begun airing what her aides call "extremely vicious attack ads about herself." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Gay Republicans vs. Romney

Staff / Truthdig Oct 5, 2007 The Log Cabin Republicans have launched a national ad campaign to draw attention to Romney's less-than-conservative past. The Romney campaign, as one might imagine, isn't too pleased and has fired back. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bill Clinton to the Rescue

Staff / Truthdig Oct 2, 2007 The former president calls BS on the Republicans for their "feigned outrage" over MoveOn's "General Betray Us" ad: "Come on, these Republicans that are all upset about Petraeus these are the people that ran a television ad in Georgia with Max Cleland, who lost half his body in Vietnam, in the same ad with Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein And the person that rode to the Senate on that ad was there voting to condemn the Democrats over the Petraeus ad". Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Let It Be Known That Keith Olbermann’s Not Havin’ It

Staff / Truthdig Sep 21, 2007 President Bush's criticism of MoveOnorg's "General Betray Us" ad and the "Democrat Party" provoked this barrage of verbiage from MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, who slams Bush for "behaving a little bit more than usual like we'd all interrupted him while he was watching his favorite cartoons on the DVR " . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Giuliani’s Three-Pronged Ad Assault

Staff / Truthdig Sep 14, 2007 Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani tried to diss The New York Times, Sen. Hillary Clinton and MoveOn.org all at once by placing his own advertisement in the paper to counter MoveOn.org's critique of Gen. David Petraeus, claiming The Times had played favorites with their ad sales policy. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Ad Agencies Vie for Gore’s Green Campaign

Staff / Truthdig Aug 27, 2007 Signaling a sea change in the advertising business, four top-tier ad agencies are lining up to pitch to former Vice President Al Gore in hopes of landing the account for his Alliance for Climate Protection and helping Gore design a multimedia global warming campaign with a whopping $100-million annual budget. The takeaway, according to AdAge: Global warming is hot on Madison Avenue. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Hillary Clinton vs. the White House

Staff / Truthdig Aug 15, 2007 A new Clinton campaign ad has the White House crying foul, and Clinton crying "Tough!" The commercial features the candidate saying that struggling families and troops are "invisible" to the president. Deputy press secretary Dana Perino said the claim is "outrageous" and that "it is unconscionable that a member of Congress would say such a thing," which prompted this retort from Clinton: "Not only have I said it and am saying it, I will keep saying it because I happen to believe it." Update: video added. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Progressive Coalition Targets Fox Advertisers

Staff / Truthdig Jul 28, 2007 A group of progressive organizations and blogs is planning to hit Fox News where it hurts: the bank account. MoveOn.org, Brave New Films, DailyKos and others are working to compile a list of local advertisers as part of a larger pressure campaign. Fox News may have brought this on itself by successfully pressuring JetBlue to pull out as a major sponsor of the YearlyKos convention. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Pop-Tart Chronicles

Marie Cocco / Truthdig Jun 19, 2007 Food companies that market obesity-inducing products to young children are taking a lesson from big tobacco and getting ahead of the lawsuit curve. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Tobacco Marketing Leaves Women Seeing Red

Marie Cocco / Truthdig Apr 17, 2007 We've come a long way from seeing ourselves as oh-so-sexy holding a slim cigarette -- all the way to seeing red. Red, the color of angry outrage, could be just the thing to blot out Big Tobacco's latest campaign to hook young women on cigarettes by dressing up death in fuchsia and teal. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Obama Laughs It Up With Letterman

Staff / Truthdig Apr 11, 2007 Barack Obama recently sat down with David Letterman and managed to hold his own with the humor. When asked why his campaign needed so much money, the candidate said evenly: "We've got to advertise on the Letterman show." According to Amy Goodman, that's no joke. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Forget Big Tobacco — Big Food Kills

Marie Cocco / Truthdig Mar 29, 2007 If we are what we eat and we eat what is advertised, then American children are facing death by junk food. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )