Mouldy Oldies return to the local airwaves

The long slow death-spiral of local right wing talker stations like Eau Claire's WAYY now includes a return to the oldies tunes that once made AM radio this country's dominant media force... half a century ago.  You know, before FM, stereo, compact discs, surround sound, satellite radio, iPods, build-your-own Internet radio sites like Pandora... everything else that has rendered stations like WAYY less relevant than your Grandma's ringer washer or (Rush's favorite trope for antique technology) the buggy whip industry.

Now, they're playing another Mouldy Oldie: the old man himself, struggling to be relevant again in politics by running ads desperately early in his campaign to win the 23rd Senate District.

Give Terry Moulton credit, unlike a lot of jobs whose outsourcing he's supported, he does (some of) his own dirty work in this ad... attacking Pat Kreitlow as some kind of job killer, using the same discredited lines the GOP trots out every election season that are as old, stale and relevant as the B-side of a Herman's Hermits 45. 

Harley Davidson moving jobs because of WI tax changes?  Nope - just ask the company.  They even told the GOP to stop using them for political gain. 

Taxing farmers "off their land?"  Guess what? Wrong again - the proposed changes to "use value assessment" were taken out of the budget because Kreitlow and another senator (Kathleen Vinehout) said the proposal by Sen. Russ Decker, however well-intentioned, would hurt too many farmers compared to the commercial millionaires who are still taking advantage of the loophole... and bankrolling campaigns like Moulton's.

Best line of the ad: when Terry says "Pat Kreitlow's been in Madison too long."  Really? It's been one term! One!!  This Terry Moulton's 5th consecutive run for legislature over the last decade!!!

Basically, he and the other angry "businessmen" have become like those old, broken vinyl records that skip, repeating the same lyric over and over again... annoying every listener who's wondering why no one at the radio station is paying attention... and losing even more listeners in the process.