to all of you. definitely the first political ad in history that has the words castration in it, that it has been mentioned on steve kornacki. congratulations. you re all a part of history. thank you for having us. jimmy, talking about castration, help yourself to some food. bacon. right. where s the bacon? jimmy, that ad from iowa, that illustrates to me what i think is the challenge of political advertising these days. so many americans, so many voters have drvs, they don t actually watch commercials. so the challenge, part of the challenge is make the ad interesting enough that they re going to play it during the broadcast and you ll see it there. is that what they are thinking more and more about? you re right that a lot of people who do these internet viral ads don t win, but that s a little bit misleading because most of the people who do those kind of ads have no name i.td.,
what it didn t win was the election. you can expect to see more and more of these clever political ads as they rely on the varl nature of the internet, exposure that is free and more likely to be seen as more and more americans fast forward through commercials on their dvrs. dvr users skip 50% of commercials. in this world viewers are more and more numb to television commercials where they ve seen so many generic political ads over the years they probably blur together as white noise at this point. in this world is the only way for a candidate to break through, to actually catch the attention of voters, coming up with a demon sheep video and squeal at? to talk about it, i want to welcome joan walsh from salon.com and msnbc contributor josh beier, and our ad man in the group, jimmy siegel, welcome
cracker. for hillary clinton things are looking pretty good right now. breaking through that glass ceiling hasn t been easy because of the resistance she has met along the way including from this man, meet david brock. this week david brock describes himself as part of what hillary clinton once called the vast right-wing conspiracy. he says she was correct about that. that there was a coordinated effort to bring down the ly clintons. people who would stop at nothing to keep bill and hillary from succeeding in the 1990s. at its root i realized clinton hating had nothing to do with what the clinton did or did not do. it had everything to do with fear of the kind of change they represented on the one hand and on the other a newly brutal form of partisan power politic. there used to be a respected intellectual movement in the can country that contributed to a healthy discourse. that movement has been gutted by assorted billionaires and shock jocks who realize they could use
nothing to do with the the george washington bridge, the one no one mentioned in chris christie s 64-minute press conference on friday. it s about the allegations made on this show at this table two months ago by the mayor of hoboken. the lieutenant governor came to hoboken. she pulled me aside in the parking lot, and she said i know it s not right. i nknow this thing should not b connected but they are. and if you tell anyone, i ll deny it the. the bottom like is it s not fair for the governor to hold sandy funds hostage for the city of hoboken because he wants me to give back to one private developer. that was dawn zimmer, hoboken s mayor, claiming on this program back in january that new jersey lieutenant governor kim guadagno had explicitly linked her city s level of sandy aid to her willings this to move forward on a major development project represented by the law firm of david samson, close christie can confidant. guadagno wasn t the only high-ranking christie admi