Under the (somewhat funny) headline "Subtler Entry from Masters of Attack Ads," Peters makes it sound like this is something of a scoop, and certainly a pretty big deal:

When it makes its debut Wednesday in 10 swing states as the centerpiece of a $25 million campaign, it is expected to become one of the most heavily broadcast political commercials of this phase of the general election.

So what do Times readers learn?

We get the inside scoop on the focus-group process that Rove's group used to create the ad.

We learn about how they made a different kind of attack ad, since Obama remains more personally popular than his policies.   Apparently the kind of attack they might normally make wouldn't resonate with middle-of-the-road voters.

We learn that using a "fictional family also allowed for more creative flexibility in creating a rebuttal to the president's message that although things may not be great, the country is moving in the right direction."

And, perhaps most important, we learn that the ad is "a deeply researched, delicately worded story of a struggling family." That's the kind of language Crossroads GPS might consider using the next time they need to pitch their donors for additional funding ("Even the liberal New York Times says our ad was deeply researched…").

But is the ad's content… accurate? Arguably so? Misleading? Who knows. The Times includes one short comment from the Obama campaign, but that's about it. [...] Read more»

At a moment when incumbents around the world are being shunted aside, he is triumphant. With his bullet-proof majority, he has a chance to turn himself into the historic figure he has always yearned to be.

And it traces what it says is Netanyahu's appeal to U.S. audiences:

He appeared regularly on Nightline and became the Israeli-American It boy–confident, handsome, fearsomely articulate in virtually accentless English. Every suburban Jewish mother had a crush on him.

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