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Compare and contrast.

1. Television ad against Howard Dean from the conservative Club For Growth, aired in August 2006:

Transcript:

ANNOUNCER: What do you think of Howard Dean’s plan to raise taxes on families by $1900 a year?

MAN: What do I think? Well, I think Howard Dean should take his tax-hiking, government-expanding, latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading…

WOMAN: …body-piercing, Hollywood-loving, left-wing freakshow back to Vermont. Where it belongs.

MAN: Got it?

ANNOUNCER: Club for Growth PAC is responsible for the content of this advertising.

2. Hillary’s supporter R. Thomas Buffenbarger, the president of the International Association of Machinests and Aerospace workers introducing her at an official event:

Transcript:

BUFFENBARGER: I’ve got news for all of the latte-drinking, Prius-driving, birkenstock-wearing, trust-fund babies crowding in to hear him speak…So now we have a decision to make. will we rely on the Harvard Law Review editor, the silver-tongued orator from Kansas, Hawaii and Illinois? The man in love with the microphone?

Similar to how she reacted (or didn’t react) when Bob Johnson was introducing her and slamming Obama for his past drug use, Clinton did not distance herself from his remarks and did not even awknowledge what he had said in his introduction for her. Apparently the crowd didn’t appreciate it either:

The crowd grew increasingly hostile toward Buffenbarger, so much so that AFSCME president Gerald McEntee took the stage in hopes of moving Buffenbarger along, who at this point was well into his attacks on Obama. It is unclear whether the crowd’s boos were in response to his negative comments toward Obama or the length of his speech.

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