October 10, 2008
Obama Pulls A Perot
Reaching into Ross Perot's playbook, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama has purchased a half-hour primetime television spot from CBS and is currently negotiating with other networks to purchase the same time slot. Obama will air an election infomercial during the time slot, scheduled for Wednesday, October 29. Officials at CBS said, "We will, of course, make an equivalent opportunity available to Senator McCain and other legally qualified candidates upon request." Perot's spot in '92 drew in 16.5 million viewers. As long as Barack brings the pie charts and doesn't go up against America's Next Top Model, we're guessing he'll do okay, too.
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Pie charts, sure but how about some lazers and shit?
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thank god he picked Wednesday. i can't have any more shows taking viewership away from the Sarah Connor Chronicles!
seriously, i'ma watch this shit. ..but then if i watch it, i'll probably be compelled to watch a McCain special out of fairness... hrm.
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McCain will probably devote his "infomercial" to driving home the point that Obama is friends with Ayers and then he'll go on to say that he isn't Bush and that he isn't popular with his party or even the country, but who really cares about that ... then he'll wander around, say Regan a couple of times and fall asleep.
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What's ol' perot boy up to nowadays?