Bad News Obama: MTV Rejects Obama Campaign to Use the Network to Reach Young Voters

New post on Scotty Starnes's Blog Bad News Obama: MTV Rejects Obama Campaign to Use the Network to Reach Young Voters by Scotty Starnes The young and ill-informed are the idiots who helped Obama get elected in 2008. Now after three years of "hope and change," all they have is higher unemployment, poverty and debt. Team Obama wants to use MTV to reach these same idiots again, except MTV rejected their plans. From TheBlaze: In what seems an unthinkable move, MTV — the network that hosted a youth town hall last October called "A Conversation With President Obama" and made "Rock the Vote" famous — has reportedly declined a request by President Barack Obama's re-election campaign to help the president connect with young Americans. What's more, the network allegedly did so on the grounds that it does not get involved with political campaigns. MTV helped sell the fraud that is Obama to the weak-minded youths of America. Now that three years of hope and change have failed, MTV decides it doesn't want to get involved. It's hard to defend Obama's terrible record. According to the New York Post, Obama's Get Out the Vote campaign, run by Buffy Wicks, feared that the high unemployment rate among millennials will turn young voters off to the president. The Post adds that the campaign called MTV's internal ad agency, MTV Scratch in mid-August: MTV Scratch, run by Ross Martin, former MTVU boss, and Anne Hubert, who was a policy adviser to Jon Corzine when he was a US senator from New Jersey, works across all the MTV Networks and helps marketers such as General Motors and Dr. Pepper understand the mind-set of young people. The re-election effort wants to reconnect with youth, which were among its most fervent supporters in 2008. "The youth initiative is having trouble with big donors and youth votes," said a person familiar with the discussions."They asked, 'Can you tell us how we should be talking to them?' " one source noted. Continue reading>>> Scotty Starnes | September 28, 2011 at 7:30 AM | Tags: Buffy Wick, Get Out the Vsote, MTV, President Obama, Rock the Vote, youth vote | Categories: Political Issues | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-5Uv Comment    See all comments Unsubscribe or change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/bad-news-obama-mtv-rejects-obama-campaign-to-use-the-network-to-reach-young-voters/

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