TPM Muckraker has more on the sleazy PR firm, DCI Group, discussed earlier this morning.
TPMmuckraker August 3, 2006 02:36 PM
The Wall Street Journal article today fingering dirty-tricks firm DCI Group did not evade our notice.
The PR firm's colorful history includes a fake grassroots movement using the personae of dead people, paying $4,000 a head for seniors who would say nice things about the disastrous Medicare discount drug card, and a disingenuous attack on Eric Schlosser's burger-bashing “Fast Food Nation.” (They also enjoy the assistance of Swift Boat Veterans' Chris LaCivitas.) Oh, and it's the former dirty-tricks HQ for James Tobin, convicted New Hampshire Phone Jammer.
parenthetical note: those DCI chaps are nothing if not tech savvy. Glancing at my site traffic today, I see at least 8 visits from the DCI domain. And I watched the video - if you don't watch it, you aren't missing much. Al Gore is really too tall to be mistaken for The Penguin, and the whole point seems to be that only a hypnotized few are bothering to watch Al Gore's movie. Everyone else is going to watch the latest X-Men movie (?????)
Tags: Al_Gore, /global_warming, /Humor, or lack of
This is outrageous, but also a smart way for the republicans to market deceit (well it would have been if they didn't get caught) Those on the left ought to be publishing this sort of material to get the real facts out - I know I'm a lot more likely to watch and forward a video than I am a lame text email...
more at stowserge.com
yes, you are right. Video is effective as propaganda - there were several pieces made in 2004, just wasn't a YouTube distribution network at the time. And the DCI video was in response to this video.