Gay conservatives target Democrats in ad campaign

What I liked most about this article, is that It kinda goes along with some of the articles from last week, where people discussed about attack ads. This week though, the attackers are attacking much differently. The article, by Evan Glass, discusses how GOProud, a group of gay conservatives, is attacking democratic candidates, including an openly gay candidate, Congressman Barney Frank. The group has also purchased $50,000 worth of airtime to air commercials attack other candidates such as Nancy Pelosi. The attack commercials will air on Lifetime and Bravo, who caters mostly to women and the LGBT community. What I don't like about this article, is that it plays so much on the fact that Frank, and the attack group is gay. In reality, once you read the article, the orientation of any of the parties really plays little effect in the success of the article. Constantly stating that Frank is a gay man isn't necessary to the article, because it's about conservatives going after democrats, who just happen to be gay. Finally, this relates to our class because this is an example of free media. The group, GOProud, is getting their name out there because of the controversy. I'd never heard of them before, but I'm aware of them now thanks to their free media

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/10/25/gay.conservative.ad/index.html