More Political Ads Like This, Please!

They quietly declared class war on us years ago, and now I’m hoping that the smackdown of America’s most egregious Bircher billionaires continues straight up until Election Day:

Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) is out with the first TV ad of his reelection campaign, taking aim at the conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch, who have come under increasing criticism from national Democrats in recent days for their influence in the political process.

Begich’s new ad comes after American for Prosperity, the conservative group backed by the Koch brothers, ran two negative ads against the senator.

The first AFP spot featured a woman looking into the camera and saying, “Senator Begich didn’t listen. How can I ever trust him again? It just isn’t fair. Alaska deserves better.”

The woman, however, turned out to be an actress from Maryland, rather than an actual Alaska voter.

By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.