A couple of months ago, I told you about the billboard that an anonymous group of businessmen put up in the Oshkosh area that was calling for the impeachment of President Obama for not fixing Bush's recession fast enough.
It now appears that this might have been part of bigger movement:
Achieving an unlikely harmony between old and new media, an anonymous group of Atlanta business owners is using a website to crowdsource the funding of an anti-Obama billboard campaign.
The group -- Billboards Against Obama -- was formed several weeks ago, and has already put up several billboards in the Atlanta metro area, according to local news reports.
While the group plans to remain anonymous, they have asked life coach, motivational speaker, and New York Times bestselling author Tommy Newberry to act as their spokesman. Newberry told TPM that the group was united by a common frustration against Obama and a desire to do something with that feeling.
I'm sure this is just another "grassroots" movement, like the Koch Industries-sponsored TEA Parties.
In my previous post, I reminded the gentle reader about the billboards with the meme "I blame Scott Walker," which ran in the last county executive race two years ago.
As I had mentioned in that post, these billboards had Walker and his supporters besides themselves in anger and frustration.
It wasn't until they learned to embrace and ridicule the billboards did they lose their effectiveness. That is much like the way Green Bay Packer fans embraced the intended slur of "cheeshead," turning it into a badge of honor instead.
Perhaps Team Barrett could do the same thing. Here's a couple, three things to get them started:
Has Scott Walker or anyone on his campaign staff ever had an original thought? He does the same one trick pony show of pretending to stop taxes year after year, even though he's raised tax by millions of dollars over his time as Milwaukee County Executive.
Then he brought out a rehashed version of the brown bag gimmick that he borrowed from a governor's race in Ohio.
Now he is dredging up another old campaign gimmick, this time one that was used against him.
Not having anything that is both positive and factual to say for himself or his track record, Walker is still trying to milk the Zoo Interchange construction for all its worth.
Today, his campaign announced that he had put up two billboards regarding the interchange. I have no idea what they look like. Even though his press release on it says that a photo is included, there is no photo. There is nothing on any of his or his campaign staff tweets that I could see. And at the time of this writing, there is no photos of them on his facebook page. (Although there are some crude pictures dealing with President Obama - what that has to do with his campaign is anyone's guess. At least they removed the porno spam pictures.)
His personal press release amplifier, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, has a story on it, with a link on the word "billboards," but the link only takes you to his campaign site that also fails to have a picture of the billboards.
In fact, the closest I found was his campaign's new website, which they call Barrett's Bypass, which has a photoshopped picture of a construction sign that reads "Blame Barrett."
According to the MJS story, one of the billboards reads "Tired of Traffic? Blame Barrett."
This is more than slightly reminiscent of the beginning of the county executive race from two years ago, when Walker was challenged by State Senator Lena Taylor.
In that race, some "shadow group" posted a series of billboards around the county. The billboards each pointed out to an area where Walker was failing in his leadership and added the tag line, "I blame Walker." Here is a video of said billboards, which I might add, are even more true than they were then:
These billboards got Team Walker in a real snit over them. So much so that he had his pet attack dog, Charlie Sykes, snarling about it on his show for days and on his blog. Walker and his echo chamber of sycophants attacked the ads as sleazy and as a sign of how desperate Taylor was supposed to be.
So what does Walker's blame billboards say about him?
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