Apparently it's beyond the pale to advertise during a hurricane

Leaving people to die in Benghazi is fine, and jeopardizing national security with a schlock, homebrew e-mail server is A-OK. But this! We are shocked!

, --October 7, 2016

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The things that upset people anymore. I don't know. Far be it from me to disagree with anything you have against Hillary Clinton, and there's no doubt in my mind that she'd slap an ad on the casket of a five-year-old shooting victim if she thought it would do her good. But really? Of all the things she's done? Benghazi? The e-mail server? The Clinton Foundation pay-for-play nonsense? Cattle futures? The travel office? Threatening Juanita Broaddrick? Calling Kathleen Willey and Monica Lewinsky bimbos? Cackling over the way she got that child rapist off? After all that, the thing that bothers you is this?
The Hillary Clinton campaign has delayed a planned Florida ad buy on the Weather Channel after facing criticism for targeting voters in the path of Hurricane Matthew. “We have requested that stations in Florida delay any of those ads on the Weather Channel until after the storm passes,” spokesman Jesse Ferguson said in a statement Thursday. Politico first reported that the Clinton campaign had planned to spend $63,000 on Weather Channel ads in Florida over a five-day stretch starting Thursday, just as the storm nears the coast. Politico noted that Donald Trump and other candidates have advertised on the same channel this year. But the bid to capture support from anxious Florida residents in the path of a deadly storm that has triggered mass evacuation orders and is expected to strengthen soon into a destructive Category 4 created a bit of an optics problem. “If they’re out being too political at a time when the country has its prayers with the people affected, I think it could backfire,” Rep. Greg Walden, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, told Fox News earlier Thursday, before the delay was announced. Walden called the ad buy “risky.”
Rob and I discussed it yesterday and we actually thought it was a fairly savvy, if #, move. TV ad buying is often a hit-and-miss proposition of trying to get your message in front of people when they're watching in the largest numbers. If you know a lot more people in Florida are going to be watching the Weather Channel during the coming week, that sounds like being on the ball to me. Not that I'd want to watch Hillary ads when my house is being blown down (or under any other circumstance), but if it's not that, it's going to be erectile disfunction ads or something else. The Weather Channel doesn't broadcast for free, you know. My only question about it strategically is whether it would make more sense to buy the local stations. The reason people watch the Weather Channel is that they want to see weather all the time, and that's where you can see that under normal circumstances. But when you're in Florida and a hurricane is hitting, my guess is that you'll get a lot more real-time reporting on local stations, not only of the hurricane forecast but also of the damage that's being done and where people should stay away from if they want to be safe. A hurricane hitting your town might be the one time a weather junkie doesn't have to watch the Weather Channel to get his fix. But apparently we've found the one thing Hillary can do that will actually upset people. I'm sure the family of Christopher Stevens will be glad to know where the public draws the line with this woman.

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