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A new ad by the McCain-Palin campaign accuses Senator Barack Obama of "blind ambition" and lying about his association with William Ayers.
"When convenient, he worked with terrorist Bill Ayers," the female narrator of the ad says. "When discovered, he lied. Obama. Blind ambition. Bad judgment," the narrator continues.
The ad also blames Democrats for the economic crisis. "Congressional liberals fought for risky sub-prime loans. Congressional liberals fought against more regulation. Then, the housing market collapsed costing you billions," the ad says, while images of Senator Chris Dodd and Rep. Charles Rangel appear on the screen.
"In crisis, we need leadership, not bad judgment," the narrator concludes, as the words "Change is coming" appear on the screen at the end.
Howard Kurtz, the media critic for the Washington Post, disputes the veracity of the ad. "To say that Obama 'lied' about his contacts with Ayers, whose Weathermen group conducted bombings when the senator from Illinois was 8 years old, is simply untrue," Kurtz wrote on Friday.
Kurtz calls the tactic "guilt by association" and reasons that "the Ayers attack may have less resonance at a time when the sinking economy is dominating the news."
New York Times reporter Jim Rutenberg describes the ad as part of McCain's "increasingly slashing campaign against Senator Barack Obama." The Times story also questions how widely the ad is being played. "The campaign says the commercial will air nationally. So far this morning, using the television monitoring service ShadowTV, we have found that it has only been shown by news programs -- once on MSNBC and once on WINK-TV in Florida - and has not run yet as a paid commercial," the Times reported.
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