Seen the oily (and, admit it, funny) ad about North Carolina’s Sen. Richard Burr and his coffer-filling corporate buds?
Well, Sen. Bur calls the current ad — paid for by the League of Conservation Voters, VoteVets.org Action Fund, the Sierra Club and the Service Employees International Union — “gutter politics” and claims their attempts at “character assassination” won’t work.
Of course, he’s not denying the truth: He did accept nearly half a million dollars from oil companies. But, I guess that’s non-gutter politics in his book. Suppose that depends on who you ask.
Here’s the latest oily ad, and a couple more for good measure:
This article appears in Jul 6-12, 2010.
Where’s your proof, bobblehead?
What?
Here is some proof of Obama taking money from oil companies. This is from 2008 – http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/obamas_oil_spill.html
To criticize Burr for taking money from legitimate corporations is asinine. We all use oil. Hell, we GIVE money to oil companies.
This is ad hominem gutter politics. I agree with Burr.