With Videos, McConnell Finds More Bloopers Than Hits
Source: NY Times
...On Tuesday, the campaign for Mr. McConnell, the Kentucky Republican, released what at first seemed to be a standard spot featuring rapid-fire images of American flags, guns, trains, farmers, horses galloping and, for an eye blink, footage of a college basketball team in white and blue uniforms reveling in victory.
But, oops, it was not the University of Kentucky Wildcats. It was Duke.
Mr. McConnell’s opponent, Alison Lundergan Grimes, quickly seized on the error. “KY, as your next senator, I promise to never glorify a Duke championship in a campaign ad,” she said in one Twitter post. “Turns out @Team_Mitch has been in DC for so long he can’t tell the difference between UK & Duke basketball,” said another.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/27/us/politics/mcconnell-increases-lead-in-embarrassing-viral-videos.html?ref=us
This may cost him some votes.
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NOBODY can be so stupid as to grab video from the wrong school. Well, on second thought
The first one was an intertubes hit and then he did it AGAIN.
The second one was actually from a big projection of the lawn of the WRONG BUILDING.
It was supposed to be Walter Reed Hospital but his staff was so incompetent they snatched a pic of Walter Reed Middle School off the web.