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A Letter From Charles Taylor's Mother

Submitted by syntax on Sat, 10/21/2006 - 9:00pm.

Thousands of senior citizens throughout WNC have been getting this letter in the mail from none other than a campaign worker posing as Charles Taylor's own MOTHER!

Taylor's "I Heart Veterans" Ad: A Possible VFW Bylaw Violation?

Submitted by syntax on Mon, 10/09/2006 - 9:11pm.

To follow up on an earlier post about Charles Taylor's recent "friend to the Veterans" campaign ad - on Saturday night (10/7/06) a commenter @ BlueNC (take a bow, Dan Siler!) pointed something out that I found very interesting. Click on the pic below for the full-sized version:

Another New Taylor Ad: "His Bo-ah Was Ovah They-ah!"

Submitted by syntax on Fri, 10/06/2006 - 6:15am.

I'm not entirely sure where to start with this:

Was I the only one who was completely surprised that a choir didn't walk into the frame singing "NIIIIIIINE Eee-Levv-EN!!! NIIIIIIINE Eee-Levv-EN!!!" to the tune of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus?

Anyway, let's just see how much Charles Taylor loves veterans... (below the jump)

Fair and Balanced Campaign Advertising in NC-11?

Submitted by syntax on Tue, 10/03/2006 - 4:23pm.

I just encoded and uploaded another Taylor ad (more on that later - Google Video is still processing it. They must be busy right now) that I grabbed from a two-hour chunk of programming from our local BushCo-approved Sinclair Broadcast Group mouthpiece, WLOS, that I TiVo'd last night. (Actually, I TiVo'd four hours of it, but it's all infomercials after Kimmel...)

While I was skimming through it, I decided to keep score as far as the number of campaign ads that were being shown...