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What's With The Advertising? Anti-Bush ads on local radio. There are two talk radio stations in Jacksonville - WOKV, starring Boortz, Limbaugh and Hannity, and WJGR starring Bennett, Prager, Medved and Hewitt. The only local show is hosted by David Allen on WJGR following Hewitt. Both stations, obviously, are rather conservative, and I would think, have a conservative audience. For the past 30-days or so, there has been a lot of advertising from candidates. For the past 10-days or so, there has been even more advertising from liberal 527 groups. In particular The Media Fund, run by Harold Ickes, has been running anti-Bush ads complaining about his ties to the Saudi royal family. There is another complaining the "the Bush White House" let Usama bin Laden's family fly out of the country. Of course, the person who allowed the bin Laden family to leave was Richard Clark, the Clinton administration holdover, who turned against the Bush Administration before the 911 commission and in his book. What does The Media Fund think it's doing. The people I know who have heard these commercials are angered by them. The folks hearing these ads on these stations are, I believe, largely Bush supporters. The ones I know certainly are. The commercials have helped insure that they will turn out to vote - for Mr. Bush. I don't think that's what Mr. Ickes intended.
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