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...safe campaign that turned ugly. Anonymous, racially charged attacks on his primary opponent led to a bitter rift within the city's Democratic establishment, as black and Latino leaders sat on their hands to punish Green--who denied responsibility. The day before the general election, he unleashed a vile ad accusing Bloomberg of pressuring a woman to get an abortion. "Kill it! Kill it" the ad alleged Bloomberg had said. It helped kill Green...
...mattresses with a picture of "Mike Ziegler, Area Fire Fighter" and the tag line "This is Mike. He can't afford a bad night's sleep." Maureen Wilkinson, owner of Acorn Travel in River Forest, Ill., sharpened her sales pitch. "Are you uncomfortable leaving your family behind?" asked the ad. "Take them with you! Family reunions are great fun on an Alaskan Cruise...
When it comes to demagoguery, graphics are paramount, as some current covers of Islamic Jihad magazines from Pakistan's Markaz Ad-Da'wah Wal Irshad (Center for Preaching) demonstrate. The Voice of Islam, left, is helpfully published in English, but even those not fluent in Urdu could get the gist of the magazines' tone from the 1950s B-movie graphics and the copious use of shadowy typefaces. Just in case, we have provided some translation as well...
Across the country, candidates decorated their ads with stars and stripes and brave rhetoric about "these challenging times," but the elections proved that Sept. 11 changed politics less than those trappings might suggest. Viciousness took a two-week break after the attacks but returned in full force before Election Day (even in New York City, where loser Mark Green set the low mark with an ad alleging Michael Bloomberg had pressured a woman to have an abortion). The candidates with the most talent and money tended to win, and Tip O'Neill's old line about all politics being local...
...their best to milk the situation. By one estimate, campaigns across the country spent more than $10 million on commercials about terrorism. Setting the standard for tawdry was Lieutenant Governor Corinne Wood of Illinois, who tried to get a jump on next year's Governor's race with an ad that juxtaposed an image of the burning World Trade Center with one of the Sears Tower in Chicago. (Her campaign later said the spot, which ran several times in Springfield, was never meant to air.) Others were more successful at catching the moment. Running for chief executive of Nassau County...