Who is this Thomas Peterffy guy running these tiresome socialism ads?

[IVoteDFL]

if you haven't seen it (dislike please)


All of a sudden this guy is on my TV constantly talking about how President Obama is turning America into Socialist Hungary. Who is he and why is a Hungarian spending so much of his own money on our elections?

[KatyAnn]

1. His bio is in Wikipedia.

He is a billionaire and a cookie cutter Republican douche bag.

[IVoteDFL]

11. Interesting things found there...

According to his bio it says he left Hungary to escape Communism before the age of 18 and as far as I can tell has had nothing to with it since then. I would hardly call him an expert on Socialism.

[KT2000]

2. good question

misleading ad to say the least.
Aimed directly at the tea party rabbits.

[Got WMD]

3. Peterffy?

Just another old white dude that "WANTS HIS COUNTRY BACK!!!!!"... and has the $$$ to finance his own commercial.

[caraher]

4. A 1%er who is playing on the fantasy that Obama is a socialist

I'm pretty sure he's an American citizen; he just grew up in Hungary. He made his money on introducing electronic stock trading, evidently.

[Care Acutely]

5. I don't know, but I'm sick of the little *&^%$ too.

[JI7]

6. some fucking rich idiot who can't see how he is allowed to run these fucking stupid ignorant ads

which is a huge difference from some communist totalitarian state.

[IVoteDFL]

14. ha! Excellent point

[TDale313]

7. I'm in CA,

And I've been seeing the a lot as well. I have to hit mute when they come on.

[IVoteDFL]

19. Another solid blue state. What exactly is the point?

MN and CA will never swing for Romney.

[reformist2]

8. I'm finding his annoying/laughable ads all over YouTube as well.

They seem to pop up before new music videos. Very annoying! There are millions of young people out there who are very annoyed with Mr. Peterffy, I can promise you that! LOL

[IVoteDFL]

15. Youtube it too busy showing me Michele Bachmann ads

Thankfully the only place I've seen this douche is on TV, and that is easier for me to turn off than the internet. I do seem to see a disproportionate amount of other Republican ads online though. I wonder why they spend so much on the internet knowing the youth vote is lost on them.

[Bigmack]

9. Plays right into the "Socialism is the same as Communism" meme....

... that fucker grew up in Communist Hungary, not socialist Norway, Sweden, or Germany.

He's a fucking lying rightwingnut, and I've called him that on several FB pages and newspaper blogs.

Won't do any good, I know. Beck and the other assholes have the suckers convinced that Socialism, Communism, and Nazism are all the same.

Even if Obama wins... this country is well and truly fucked.

Stupid R US...

[IVoteDFL]

18. I'm reading more about this now

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Hungarian_Republic

Super interesting things there.



By the summer of 1948, the Communists had dropped all pretense of democracy. The Social Democratic Party effectively ceased to exist as an independent organization, and Social Democratic leader Béla Kovács was arrested and sent to Siberia. Other opposition leaders such as Anna Kéthly, Ferenc Nagy and István Szabó were imprisoned or sent into exile


This guy is a lying sack of shit!

[ornotna]

10. Another billionaire trying to influence the outcome of the election.

Because being a billionaire just isn't good enough any more.

[JI7]

12. Weren't the WEalthy in America paying more in Taxes during much of the cold War ?

was america communist then ? when top tax rates were in the 90 percent, 70 percent etc ?

was america communist during the cold war when our govt put so much towards Govt programs to build the roads, highways etc.

[Lex]

13. He actually says in the ad something about the rich getting poorer

or some such crap. Ummm, the rich have made out like bandits lately in this country. SO tired of rich folks complaining they STILL don't own enough of our country's wealth.

[IVoteDFL]

16. The way he says it sounds like we all just want the rich to be poor

Just for the fuck of it.

[BainsBane]

17. usually people who actually lived under communism know better

and this guy must as well. His ad is pure bullshit, and it pisses me off. I see it all the time too. "When people badmouth success": like talking changes anything,
He is probably just too cheap to pay taxes.

[EC]

20. Isn't he the guy that is afraid

Obama will stop on line trading or slow it down?

On edit: The more rich people complain, I think more people will start to say, "Oh, just F**k-off." It gets tiresome to hear people who shouldn't have a care in the world whine.

[moondust]

25. Financial transaction tax?

Might cost him a few dollars.

[limpyhobbler]

21. This ad makes me want to throw pop cans at the TV

pop=soda

I've seen this ad about 20 times and I really don't like it.

As if Obama is even remotely close to socialism. And as if cold war Hungary was even socialism(depends how you define it).

We should start referring to election season as capitalist propaganda season.

[B Calm]

22. Where is this socialism that Obama

is throwing on America?

[ashling]

23. I was wondering the same thing

I am sick of his crap!

[Utah_liberal]

24. He shows up on nearly every youtube ad.

I must have seen this assholes ad hundreds of times. Like the original poster, I too wanted to find out if everyone else is getting flooded by this Dick head's ads.

[CreekDog]

26. the anti gov't ads that run between CNN disaster coverage are really ironic

i hope that fool spends all his money on ads that make him look like the idiot he is.

[quinnox]

27. lol, had no idea this guy was a super rich

dude. The way his commercial comes across, its as if he was some common guy they found walking down the street and asked him to do a political ad. Its a deceptive ad for sure. No wonder he is spending his money on this, he knows Romney will take care of him as a fellow rich dude and not raise his taxes. What a greedy little jerk.

[VOX]

28. The ads feature bleak footage of raggedy Europeans looking hopeless...

Possibly lifted from photos taken during the Hungarian revolt against the USSR in the 1950s. Guess that's the ad's implication, that all Americans under Obama will soon be in rags, rich and poor alike. As if Soviet-bloc communism had anything to do with socialism.

All cons, this Peterffy bozo included, want to frame this manufactured issue as an attack on "being successful," which is pure horseflop. All sane people are asking is that the mega-wealthy give just a little bit more back to the very country that enabled them to amass such vast wealth -- like they paid under Eisenhower, Nixon and even Saint Reagan.

And meanwhile, teabagger-types are still grinding on about welfare and food stamps. What blind cattle they are.

[Lex]

29. Agree 100%.

The very rich are doing VERY well in this country, and yet they want more tax breaks and whine that they still don't have enough.

They are having a feast and want to make sure the poor don't dare even have a crumb that falls from the table.

[JI7]

30. oh no, there is some heavy socialism, communism going on in dealing with hUrricane Sandy

[mainer]

31. The ad equates wartorn Communist country with socialism

as if you could compare post-war Eastern Germany with current day Sweden.

[JI7]

32. according to him the United States was Communist during the cold war

considering the wealthy had to pay more and we had huge govt programs on things like highways and other infrastructure.