GOP tweets altered image of Grimes as 'Obama Girl'

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Source: AP

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The National Republican Senatorial Committee says disciplinary action has been taken against a junior staffer who tweeted an "extremely offensive" photo-shopped image of Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes.

The image shows Grimes' face superimposed on the body of "Obama Girl," a model who made racy videos about her crush on then-Sen. Barack Obama in 2007. The woman is wearing a snug-fitting Obama T-shirt with her midriff showing.

Grimes is the Democratic front-runner for her party's nomination to take on U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. McConnell also faces a GOP primary challenger, Louisville businessman Matt Bevin.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/gop-tweets-altered-image-grimes-obama-girl

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Well, NRSC? If Fox News and right wing talk radio hadn't had such a misogynistic streak, maybe you wouldn't have this problem in the first place!

[Scuba]

1. The "disciplinary action" likely consisted of high-fives and a bonus check.

[davidpdx]

11. Ha, you beat me to it

I was thinking promotion though.

[onehandle]

2. The Party Of Women. nt

[riversedge]

7. #waronwomen

[SalmonChantedEvening]

3. Anonympous Staffer strikes again!

The busiest man in the GOP, since 2000.

[Berlum]

4. Republicon Family Values. As usual.

...and, of course, the ongoing, perpetual Republicon War on Women.

Low, low, low.

[Shrike47]

5. Poor junior staffer. Un-named, unrecognized, unrewarded. Sure.

Or following orders.

[Gothmog]

6. Mitch runs dirty campaigns

This is something that I would expect from McConnell. He is not liked in Kentucky and keeps getting elected by running dirty campaigns

[Botany]

8. 3 things

"We agree; it's extremely offensive," said NRSC spokeswoman Brook Hougesen. "It was a mistake made by a junior staffer and disciplinary action has been taken. We took corrective action as soon as it was brought to our attention and have taken steps to ensure it will never happen again."

Mistake by a Jr. staffer = ... the hell it was


"As I have said, I am proud to wear a dress," Grimes said. "And as Kentucky's more than two million women know, it is not what is in the dress that matters. It is what is in the head, and I will stack my head up against Sen. McConnell's any day."

I some A.L.G. nice answer

Is Mitch McChinless trying to lose all of the female vote?

.... nice photoshop

and come 2014 w/all the new people signing up for health care inKY being linked to Obama might not be a bad thing.

[mwooldri]

9. National Republican Sanatorial Committee???

Yes. I did misread it. On purpose. After all, if they can 'shop an image in an offensive way, I guess I now have artistic license to wonder why the Republicans need to have to have a committee to send their fellow members to go live out the rest of their lives in a sanatorium? Are they really that sick? hmm....

[Cha]

10. They're their own worst enemies.

[maddiemom]

12. If Grimes were a Republican, there would be no end of howls of outrage from her party,

AND demands for an apology.