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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.
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Ads of A Feather Schlock Together

By Marc Ambinder

Mar 19 2010, 9:44 AM ET Comment

Here is a tale of two television advertisements, political in theme, created six years apart on two different issues by the same media company, National Media. Notice the imagery and the voice of the narrator and the theme and the manipulation of the amygdala. 

Ad one: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on health care:

Ad two: "Wolves" -- the Bush-Cheney Campaign 

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