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434 - Project for a New American Lincoln (7/6/20)

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4.69.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

We take a look at The Lincoln Project, a new political ad PAC founded by never-Trumpers taking aim at Donald Trump by bringing their conservativism into the open willing arms of the Democrats.

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0:30.0

Hello, hello, it's Chappo. The gang is back with you. Once again, friends, we are here. It's

0:39.9

Rematin' Felix coming to you this Monday. And this week, I think it's time to talk about

0:48.2

the hottest new outfit in American politics. I'm referring, of course, to the Lincoln project. I

0:55.5

don't know, maybe you've seen their ads. And if there's one thing, the entire political media can

1:00.1

agree on, it's how scathing, witty, and effective this new group's ads being run against Donald Trump

1:07.6

are and how devastating they're going to be for this fall. So I think it would be who

1:12.2

of us to take a closer look at who is the Lincoln project and for the purposes of this episode,

1:18.8

I'm going to be referring to them as the project for the new American Lincoln.

1:22.8

Yeah, you guys, if you watch TV, if you watch the shows on MSNBC, if you're constantly clicking on

1:33.1

news stories about how Propecia gives you dementia or whatever, you're getting ads to the Lincoln

1:40.0

project. You're seeing them while you scroll. And we all love the ads. We all think the ads are

1:44.6

funny and poignant. We've seen the one ad gay president where it superimposes the word gay guy

1:52.1

over Donald Trump giving speeches. Devastate. And then just like flashes a picture of Osama bin Laden

1:59.1

and then plays a clip of Donald Trump 2007 saying, I would never be a gay guy. And then it goes,

2:06.2

who's the gay guy now? And that's been retweeted 300 million times.

2:13.1

These are really good ads. These are good ads and it sort of vines that like took down

2:19.5

guys like Max Cleeland. And they're being put to a good use now. But unfortunately,

2:28.0

creators are kind of yikes as we say. Hey, you remember how effective that ad against Max

2:33.7

Cleeland was and they were like, this pussy lost three limbs by accident in Vietnam or loser.

2:42.2

Yeah, no, it's the mines behind projects like that. But they're working on our side now.

2:48.8

They're on team. They're on team anti-Trump team Biden. And you know, the pod-safe guys were

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