CNN just aired the new Kucinich ad w/Danny Glover

On good ol' Judy Woodfluff- damn- I mean Woodruff's "Inside Politics"!

Thanks CNN! You are now mentioning Kucinich...finally!

Go Dennis!!!
:yourock:

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DR

for those of us who threw their TV out the window...

I think I have a link...try this and you should be able to see it..

Dennis and Danny totally rock!!!
This is from the campaign.....

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NEW TV AD CAMPAIGN

Ads by George Lois Include Voice Over by Danny Glover

The Kucinich campaign is launching nine new television ads created by the legendary George Lois <http://www.kucinich.us/endorsements/endorsements/george-lois.php> , widely regarded as one of the most creative and successful advertising communicators of our time. Lois has also produced new print advertisements and campaign posters for the campaign. Lois created the winning ad campaigns for Senators Jacob Javits, Robert Kennedy, Hugh Scott, and Warren Magnuson, and ran the "celebrity" ad campaign that helped free the innocent Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. The nine TV ads include the voice of movie star, film producer, activist, and United Nations Peace Messenger Danny Glover <http://www.kucinich.us/endorsements/endorsements/danny-glover.php> .

Watch video of one of the TV ads. 
Real Player Windows Media Modem <http://resources.kucinich.us/video/video/listen_up/listen_up_real_56k.ram> Broadband <http://resources.kucinich.us/video/video/listen_up/listen_up_real_broadband.ram> Modem <http://resources.kucinich.us/video/video/listen_up/listen_up_win_56k.wmv> Broadband <http://resources.kucinich.us/video/video/listen_up/listen_up_win_broadband.wmv>

All nine ads will be screened, copies will be made available, and Dennis Kucinich and George Lois will be available to answer questions at 12:00 noon Central Time on January 4, 2003, at the Press Room of the 2 p.m. presidential candidates debate in Johnston, Iowa. The ads will begin airing in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Washington, D.C., on January 4. Lois has also produced print ads based on the posters below.

Help us to air these ads extensively. Contribute!

I wish I could see the other 8. :(

sa-WEET!

It's about time he got some notice.

Too bad more of his world view didn't rub off on Mel Gibson. :evilgrin:

Haven't seen the ad, but will keep an eye out for it! :hi:

ZombySon

Is this the same Glover who did all the lethal weapon movies? didn't realize he was hip to the politics that much.

would love to see Kucinich get the nod. I really like his rhetoric and think he would actually do as he says.

Google his name...he has been doing AIDS awareness work among other things.

how do the freepers cope with the Lethal Weapon movies. They worship Mel Gibson, but Danny Glover is on their boycott list. There must be alot of cognitive dissonance there for the already cognitively impaired.:P

:toast:

I'll have to turn on the tv, and hope I can catch it.

www.kucinich.us

can't miss it.

I just wanted to see it on real live tv where the rest of america would see it too!

I was watching the show.

The ad talks about the possibility of the draft due to stretching our volunteer forces, focus is on Iraq, ends with Glover saying Kucinich has the eyes that see through the lies.

A DEMOCRAT mentions about the draft. No excuse, media, to say that Democrats said nothing.

Meanwhile, other candidates are saying we gotta keep lotsa troops in Iraq.AAAARRRRGGGHHH.

:hi: revcarol! :hug:

:kick:
Go Dennis!
:yourock:

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DR

Missed you too. Just got reconnected to the web, after move and movers messed up computer, and ISP drove me crazy. Glad to be back.

Hi, everyone.:pals: Ya miss me?

Dennis Kucinich is another.

Hm, wonder if Ted Koppel will now tell Danny Glover to
drop out of showbiz...

but who is gonna listen to Ted Koppel anymore anyhow??
:evilgrin:
anyone who has a brain to think with at any rate....


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I heard DK really went after him for making everything about money and a horse race, but had an abcessed tooth and no TV
besides ...Inform me, pls.

Koppel was trying to get DK, CMB, and Sharpton to drop out. DK pointed out how the media attempts to orchestrate elections. BTW I love how the ad ended:).

Here's some background on the artwork: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2003/11/30/magazine/20031130POSTERS.SLIDESHOW_1.html

Quotes taken from an article here- http://www.progressive.org/
Kucinich Bests Koppel by Matthew Rothschild

Koppel said- "You're not doing terribly well with money; you're doing even worse in
the polls. When do you pull out?"

"Kucinich responded by saying, "I want the American people to see where the media
takes politics in this country. We started talking about endorsements, now we're
talking about polls, and then we're talking about money. Well, you know, when
you do that, you don't have to talk about what's important to the American
people." He added, "I may be inconvenient for some of those in the media, but
you know, I'm sorry about that."

That riposte got some of the most sustained applause of the night."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50859-2003Dec9.html

Original question by Koppel:

And if you will forgive me, or at least bear with me for just one second, I'm going to ask you to do something physical, and then I promise I will give you an opportunity to elaborate at greater length orally.

This has been an extraordinary day for Governor Dean. As we all know, he got the endorsement of former Vice President Al Gore.

Things are going very well for him in the polls. Things are going very well for him in terms of raising money.

So I would like all of you up here, including you, Governor Dean, to raise your hand if you believe that Governor Dean can beat George W. Bush.

When he got to Dennis:

KOPPEL: Congressman Kucinich, I remember you when you were the boy mayor of Cleveland. You've been at this for a very long time.

I'd like to hear your thoughts on what endorsements like this mean or don't mean.

When you hear some of your colleagues here -- you know, I get a little bit of a sense of sour grapes here, that if anyone else on this stage had gotten Al Gore's endorsement, he would have been happy to have it. What do you think?

KUCINICH: Well, I can't say I was really counting on it.

(LAUGHTER)

But let me say, Ted, let me say -- let me say that some of the best talent in American politics is on this stage right now.

(APPLAUSE)

And with all due respect to you, Ted Koppel, who I've admired over the years greatly...

KOPPEL: There's a zinger coming now, isn't there?

KUCINICH: Yes.

LAUGHTER)

To begin this kind of a forum with a question about an endorsement, no matter by who, I think actually trivializes the issues that are before us.

(APPLAUSE)

For example, at this moment there are 130,000 troops in Iraq. I mean, I would like to hear you ask during this event what's the plan for getting out. This war is not over. I have a plan, which is on my Web site at kucinich.us, to get the United States out of Iraq.

KUCINICH: I want to talk about that tonight, and I hope we have a substantive discussion tonight and that we're not going to spend the night talking about endorsements.

(APPLAUSE)


And later on in the debate, Koppel zings back:

KOPPEL: This is a question to Ambassador Braun, Reverend Sharpton, Congressman Kucinich. You don't have any money, or at least not much. Reverend Sharpton has almost none. You don't have very much, Ambassador Braun.

KUCINICH: We've raised $4.5 million. I mean, that's not nothing.

(LAUGHTER)

KOPPEL: You've got about $750,000 in the bank right now, and that's close to nothing when you're coming up against this kind of opposition. But let me finish the question.

The question is, will there come a point when polls, money and then ultimately the actual votes that will take place here in places like New Hampshire, the caucuses in Iowa, will there come a point when we can expect one or more of the three of you to drop out? Or are you in this as sort of a vanity candidacy?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

KOPPEL: We're talking about two things. We're talking about money and we're talking about ultimately standing in the polls. There are only a couple of ways that you can measure how someone is doing at this stage in the election process, money and polls. You're not doing terribly well with money; you're doing even worse in the polls.

KOPPEL: When do you pull out?

KUCINICH: After I -- when I take the oath of office, when you're there to cover it...

(LAUGHTER)

(APPLAUSE)

... and I can tell you, Ted, you know, we started at the beginning of this evening, talking about an endorsement. Well, I want the American people to see where the media takes politics in this country.

To start with endorsements...

(APPLAUSE)

We start talking about endorsements, now we're talking about polls, and then we're talking about money. Well, you know, when you do that, you don't have to talk about what's important to the American people.

Ted, I'm the only one up here that actually...

(APPLAUSE)

... I'm the only up here on the stage that actually voted against the PATRIOT Act and voted against the war -- the only one on this stage.

I'm also...

(APPLAUSE)

... I'm also one of the few candidates up here who's talking about taking our health-care system from this for-profit system to a not-for-profit, single-payer universal health care for all.

(APPLAUSE)

I'm also the only one who has talked about getting out of NAFTA and the WTO and going back to bilateral trade...

(APPLAUSE)

... conditioned on workers' rights, human rights and the environment.

Now...

KOPPEL: Congressman?

KUCINICH: ... I may be inconvenient for some of those in the media, but, you know, I'm sorry about that.

(APPLAUSE)

but he's trying to scare people into voting for him by saying that there may be a draft. As a Kucinich supporter I dislike the ad. I think it will come off as hypocritical to the average person.

But in the ad, he's talking about REALITY, the reality that our troops are stretched too thin and the repugs are going to have to have a draft. Hardly fear tactics to talk about reality.

GIVE PEACE A CHANCE.

just sounds like he's trying to scare people. I do agree that he is the best candidate, but I do not like the ad. I don't think it will go over well with the apathetic general population. If I would have saw the ad a few years ago before I really paid attention I would have laughed at it for being hypocritical. He's talking about ending the "fear" yet trying to scare people with a draft. No one really believes there will be a draft, it comes off as fearmongering.

But here's a different perspective: When Kucinich is elected, we will need not fear our government... But while Bush is president, a draft is possible.

Fear Ends.
Hope Begins.
Kucinich 2004.

maybe I'm dreaming. Any way, good for DK!