Why Steve McMahon Is An Asshat
It is kind of hard to turn on MSNBC and not see Steve McMahon, Democratic consultant telling me as a liberal what I should be thinking about this or that. I could never put my finger on it, but the dude always seem like a total asshole. Now I know why I always felt that way.
[BP] declined to say how much it is spending on the [advertising] effort. It has suspended all of its regular corporate advertising, and is using its ad budget to address the oil spill and the resulting environmental crisis. Last year, BP shelled out almost $100 million on ad time and space in the U.S., according to an ad-tracking unit of WPP PLC.
BP bypassed its longtime ad agency, WPP’s Ogilvy & Mather, to create the new television ads, enlisting Purple Strategies, a Washington public-affairs firm that is owned by Republican strategist Alex Castellanos and Democratic consultant Steve McMahon, according to a person familiar with the matter.
In Crashing the Gates one of the core questions asked by Markos Moulitsas is why so many high-profile Democrats running for elected office hire political consultants that have a track record of losing more often than winning. I don’t think we really know. But one thing is clear, folks like Steve McMahon will work for just about anybody or any cause if the check is large enough.
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