Defense of Democracy ad: the remix

Over at Ron Amundson's Political Blog, the recovering Republican provides a script for a suggested remix of the  pro-telecom ad in An aggravating commercial, but it is free speech:

• (Music ramps up)
• Midnight.
• February 16th.
• The law that lets the phone companies off the hook expires….
• Senate Democrats and Republicans vote overwhelmingly to protect the phone co.
• But the House refuses to vote on H.R.3773 (as amended by the Senate) and instead….
• want to protect the lives of American citizens AND their civil liberties.
• So the phone company looses
• Tell the House of Representatives to do its job and continue to block the Senate’s Terror Surveillance Bill. FISA must be updated based upon todays technology, AND it must also protect the civil liberties of American Citizens.

Nice work!  Head on over to Ron's blog and check out the rest of the post, looking at Obama and the Senate FISA bill.  Stop by the comments, too, and tell him Ollie sent you.

Those who haven't seen the ad can check out the DD's generic version here. Sorry, we can't post it directly as DD has disabled the embed feature.  They've also disabled the ratings and the comments; guess the group doesn't want anyone to know what the reaction is to the ad.

[Afternoon update]: Amundson has discovered that the FDD has challenged Walz to a duel debate.  The district blogger observes about the FDD's response:

What I find odd though, is that certainly Tim Walz is aware of this, citizenry who follow such arena’s in legislation are aware of this…. and yet the [FDD's blog  author left it out. Sure, its spin, but to what audience. Certainly not to those who he is likely to dialog with, nor those who have been following such legislation. It likely will serve just to aggravate them, rather than to engage…. And I think wide scale engagement and discussion of the rather complex issues is the key to resolving how best to move forward. Few will sacrifice liberty for safety. Many will be outraged to sacrifice safety for the phone company, or for a 30 year old law. Thus, all parties have very much the same goal in mind, the problem is how to get there. Spin may work forsome, but not very well for the concerned and informed citizen. Tim Walz was right, congress and the executive branch had time to work this out. There is no reason to let things slide. The end goal is too important. [end afternoon update]

Update: We're starting to find more posts about the ad. Looks like the first one up at bat was a Pittsburgh-area diarist at DailyKos ( Jason Altmire-D). My Left Nutmeg's Fear Ad on TV must be Countered (Joe Courtney- D-CT) has a remix.  Help me Obi Wan Pelosi, indeed!

See our earlier posts on the ad itself here, here, here and here.

Comments

[Bill W]

Running in KS

"Defense of Democracies" Attack Ad Against Rep Nancy Boyda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-juyCoTDUM

Boyda's response:

Boyda's FISA Op-Ed: "Wiretap program needs oversight"
http://boydabloc.blogspot.com/2008/02/boydas-fisa-op-ed-wiretap-program-needs.html

Also, why are (or were?) Democrats incl, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), Rep. Jim Marshall (D-GA), Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) etc (and Donna Brazile) affiliated with a group that would be running these ads?
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Foundation_for_the_Defense_of_Democracies