A blog about television by TIME’s TV critic James Poniewozik.

Obama/McCain Addendum

Further to that Obama-is-a-celebrity ad, a "prominent Republican strategist" e-mails the Atlantic's Marc Ambinder with a thought that I wish had occurred to me: watch the spot with the sound off, and it's basically a pro-Obama ad.

"Hell, I can't stand Obama at this point and I find those images uplifting," he writes. "Yet McCain uses them in his own ad. Has anybody asked them about the wisdom of that?"

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