Blackwell sells anti-Obama film

Posted by Mark Naymik July 23, 2008 17:10PM Trailer from "HYPE-The Obama Effect" Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, the state's best known conservative, is featured prominently in a new documentary critical of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. But you don't have to wait until the film is released Aug. 24 - on the eve of the Democratic National Convention - to see and hear Blackwell, who lost his bid for governor in 2006. Blackwell is featured both in the trailer ( see above and below) and television ads for the film, titled "HYPE-The Obama Effect." "It's only when you begin to peel back the layers that you begin to see a disturbing pattern," Blackwell says at the start of the advertisment. The film is co-produced by David Bossie, a conservative and critic of all-things-Clinton. The ad is expected to... [read full story]