I do know who Alex Castellanos is, and the bureaucRATS thing is a proof of how desperate you are to find something. Because, of course, that whole thing was made up - a fictional tempest in a teapot over a non-existent event created by a media desperate to find something or anything to attack the campaign with. Everyone knows it. Democratic Party professionals who are friends of mine still laugh about it.
This was what was being said at the time (NY Times):
"Almost every advertising professional interviewed said that given the technology by which commercials are assembled frame by frame, it was virtually impossible for a producer not to know the word was there.
"There is no way that anything Alex Castellanos does is an accident," said Greg Stevens, a veteran Republican advertising consultant here."
Your contention also might be true if it were an isolated incedent. But Castellanos is famous for this kind of thing. The Washington Post says he "is best known for his scathing attack ads"
Here's an article,
ttp://tinyurl.com/2fmxf
"These sophisticated ads were no home-grown effort: they came from the workshop of a national master of the attack ad, Alex Castellanos, the Virginia-based Republican adman who has produced two decadesâ worth of innovative, no-holds-barred commercials for conservatives.
Castellanos created such controversial spots as the one that flashed the word âratsâ during an attack on Al Gore in 2000 â the ad was later withdrawn â and in 1990 an ad that experts consider perhaps the most racially inflammatory commercial ever produced.
The ad depicted white hands crumpling a job rejection letter, while attacking a black challenger to former North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms, for supporting racial quotas.
Six years later, Castellanosâ ads for Bob Dole were considered so harsh, Doleâs presidential campaign canceled them."
These articles tend to back up this one on Salon:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/03/15/castellanos/index.html
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