Brian Brown, Executive Director of the National Organization for Marriage, says that "Gathering Storm" is already a huge success:
In less than a week our new television commercial has been seen by millions on national television as the ad was replayed over and over again in segments on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, and CBS. As of today, nearly 350,000 viewers have watched it on YouTube, making it one of the top 30 most watched YouTube videos of the past week.
More importantly, hundreds of thousands of Americans have been alerted, most for the first time, to the threat that same-sex marriage poses to the religious liberties of individuals and faith groups.
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Last week, our president, Maggie Gallagher, went head-to-head with HRC’s president, Joe Solmonese on Hardball and she utterly devastated Joe’s baseless claims.
Those of us familiar with the marriage debate know that every single story on the ad is real. But many Americans did not know before this past week. Now they do.
He also notes:
HRC has distributed supposedly “secret” audition tapes of the commercial. They’re not secret, but they were never distributed or released so however HRC got them, they did so unethically. Further, having done ads of their own in the past, HRC knows that (a) such materials are copyrighted and (b) the actors in the audition tapes did not sign consent forms. HRC is violating both their rights and our own through the publication of the audition tapes . . . and they can be sure we will take appropriate action.
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Wow! Maggie just pulverized Solmonese. All he could do was maintain his fake smile and throw out mindless insults. The diatribes and distortions of fact that might work to persuade the ignorant were repeatedly rebuffed and refuted. McCain should have asked Maggie to be his vice-presidential candidate. She's dynamite. Much more powerful live and in person than on her blog, where she is of course also very sharp. No shilly-shallying in Maggie's presentation.
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