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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDemocrats: Breitbart Ad Depicting Nancy Pelosi As Miley Cyrus Is 'Disgusting' (PHOTO)
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The chair of the Democratic National Committee on Monday called a Breitbart News ad portraying House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) "disgusting" and urged Republican leaders to condemn the conservative outlet.
Breitbart News launched a new vertical focused on California politics with an ad campaign that included a Miley Cyrus-referencing image of Pelosi in a nude bikini with her tongue lolling out. Pelosi-as-Cyrus is pictured on all fours below an image of Gov. Jerry Brown's (D) head photoshopped onto his predecessor Arnold Schwarzenegger's body.
To say the least, the Breitbart News ad is foul, offensive, and disrespectful to all women," Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) said in a statement. "It is a disgusting new low and would be reprehensible against any woman regardless of party. Its no wonder the Republicans are having problems appealing to women."
Invoking Republican efforts to change the way the party messages to women, Wasserman Schultz challenged GOP leaders to condemn the ad as well as stop publishing on Brietbart News. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) wrote one of the pieces inaugurating the new Breitbart California vertical.
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Democrats: Breitbart Ad Depicting Nancy Pelosi As Miley Cyrus Is 'Disgusting' (PHOTO) (Original Post)
demmiblue
Apr 2014
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BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)1. Isn't Britebart dead yet? How long does it take for that guy to go away?
JHB
(37,157 posts)5. Mortals die but Wingnut Welfare lasts forever
As long as someone can milk the cash cow he set up, it will keep producing manure.
Warpy
(111,174 posts)2. Oh, they want women to flock back to their party
but they have absolutely no interest in being anything other than woman hating pigs.
We're supposed to be ordered to vote for them by the men in our lives, you know.
demmiblue
(36,824 posts)7. They really can't help themselves, can they?
Their inability to suppress their true nature(s) = more votes for us!
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)3. Osama and Breitbart are dead, only the most horrible people miss them.
Feral Child
(2,086 posts)4. Trash.
Misogynist trash.
Berlum
(7,044 posts)6. The Republicans so-called family values are disgusting
Republicans have undermined the moral values of America and taken them to a new low