GOP goes after US Senate Dem nominee in raunchy Internet ad, implying Dem was masturbating

[Emit]

OH: What is it with the GOP and sex? Ad implies Dem is spanking the monkey
by: Pam Spaulding
Sat May 08, 2010

I seriously think that some conservatives are so hung up on sex, other people's sex lives and have compulsive thoughts about sex that it's really consuming their ability to think straight.

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In the political realm, take a look at this photo at right. It's Ohio Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher in an ad by the National Republican Senatorial Committee. WTF kind of image is this?

... The video uses a bare-chested photo of the 58-year-old Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate set to provocative music and filled with sexual double-entendres, with Fisher's image sometimes undulating across the screen.

At the end of the Republican ad, the final image of Fisher, with one hand on his bare stomach and the other below his waist, dissolves to these words: "Dare to See More?" That is followed by an invitation to go to a GOP-sponsored web site that attacks Fisher.

...The image of the shirtless Fisher came from a documentary about the 2006 race for governor by Fisher's son, Jason, and his friend, John Intrater. They sneaked into Fisher's study late one night, where a tired and shirtless candidate was hunched over his computer. Fisher wanted them to leave, and later tried to have the shirtless scene cut, embarrassed by it. But the filmmakers refused, and won out...

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http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/16077/oh-what-is-it-with-the-gop-and-sex-ad-implies-dem-is-spanking-the-monkey


From the embedded link above:

GOP goes after Fisher in raunchy Internet ad
Thursday, May 6, 2010
By Jonathan Riskind

The Columbus Dispatch

WASHINGTON The National Republican Senatorial Committee launched a raunchy Internet attack ad against Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, showing him shirtless and implying that he was masturbating.

The NRSC said it stands by the ad, denying any sexual connotation.

But the video quickly went viral, even eliciting a tweet from film critic Roger Ebert: "Vile! GOP ad manipulates still photo to make Dem candidate appear to be masturbating."

A bipartisan sampling of students and faculty at the University of Akron concurred that the video exceeded the bounds of good taste.

Political scientist John Green said he showed the web ad to students and staff and there was a rare consensus among Democrats, Republicans and independents alike.

"They all said, 'Wow, that was uncalled for,' " Green said.

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Green said he has viewed thousands of political spots during his long tenure as a political scientist but doesn't recall seeing anything quite like this one.

"It just struck me as very odd," Green said. "Right when I think I can't see anything new, I see something new. My immediate reaction was that if this is not over the line, it is pretty close to the line from the point of view of Ohio politics. The implication is that there is something not appropriate about the lieutenant governor."

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http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/05/06/GOP-ad-Lee-Fisher.html?sid=101

[rucky]

1. that didn't take long. n/t

[blm]

2. Actually, it's a common theme for Republicans...no one THINKS more about sex in a deviant context th

than Republican legislatures... and their 'staff', of course.

[TwilightGardener]

3. What assholes.

[Botany]

4. contact phone #

[phone]

[karynnj]

5. The irony is that new hero was the centerfold

This really is pretty low.

[IndianaJoe]

6. Hmm...and the subtext of this is:

Vote for the Republican, he doesn't masturbate? Who's the freakish one?

[Heywood J]

7. I'll take the masturbating Democrat over the child-fucking Republican any day...

How many sex scandals do they have now?