Taylor's "I Heart Veterans" Ad: A Possible VFW Bylaw Violation?

To follow up on an earlier post about Charles Taylor's recent "friend to the Veterans" campaign ad - on Saturday night (10/7/06) a commenter @ BlueNC (take a bow, Dan Siler!) pointed something out that I found very interesting. Click on the pic below for the full-sized version:

IT'S PEANUT BUTTER CHARLIE TIME!!!

So I've been sitting on this video footage from an interview that the Asheville Citizen-Times conducted with Charles Taylor earlier this year, and I've been threatening to do something with this for months. So this morning I woke up, threw on a pot of coffee, fired up the video editing software and decided to do something with this stuff.

So here it is.

Dear all - you need to click the Google video link and go give this a 5-stars. That will increase the exposure it gets. - RP

Charles Taylor Honored By Pro-CAFTA Lobbyists

Via the Asheville USA Today Jr.:

The National Association of Manufacturers will present its Award for Manufacturing Legislative Excellence to U.S. Rep. Charles Taylor during a ceremony from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. today at the manufacturing facility of Volvo Construction Equipment on Hendersonville Road in Skyland.

The award is presented to members of Congress who vote in the best interest of the manufacturing economy at least 70 percent of the time on key votes, as determined by a committee of the association’s member companies.

Another New Taylor Ad: "His Bo-ah Was Ovah They-ah!"

I'm not entirely sure where to start with this:

Was I the only one who was completely surprised that a choir didn't walk into the frame singing "NIIIIIIINE Eee-Levv-EN!!! NIIIIIIINE Eee-Levv-EN!!!" to the tune of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus?

Anyway, let's just see how much Charles Taylor loves veterans... (below the jump)

Charles Taylor Running His Campaign In the Wrong District!!!

The dirty campaign ads on tv and radio weren't enough, I guess, so here come the dirty campaign fliers!!!

I'm sure at least fifty-thousand of these have already been sent out all over WNC, so if anyone has seen this already I apologize for the redundancy. Someone sent this to me earlier this morning, and I had to share (click the thumbnails to enlarge):

More below the jump...

Reuters: Shuler Ahead In Polls By 11 Points!!!

Surely this is unprecedented:

NORTH CAROLINA 11 - Democrat Heath Shuler, a former pro football player, leads Republican Rep. Charles Taylor 51-40 percent.

Of course, this doesn't mean by any means that we should rest...

Asheville Drinking Liberally: And Now, Some REAL October Surprises!

Well, they're not really surprises, as a good deal of you already know about these, but here at Asheville Drinking Liberally HQ we have a few very special events brewing for the run-up to Election Day! More details below the jump...

What the GOP Really Stands For

Fair and Balanced Campaign Advertising in NC-11?

I just encoded and uploaded another Taylor ad (more on that later - Google Video is still processing it. They must be busy right now) that I grabbed from a two-hour chunk of programming from our local BushCo-approved Sinclair Broadcast Group mouthpiece, WLOS, that I TiVo'd last night. (Actually, I TiVo'd four hours of it, but it's all infomercials after Kimmel...)

While I was skimming through it, I decided to keep score as far as the number of campaign ads that were being shown...

New Charles Taylor Ad: "Soshacurity"

I caught this in the middle of last night's episode of Vanished: