YouTube temporarily shuts down rabbit-shooting Herman Cain ad - video

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http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-youtube-temporarily-shuts-down-rabbitshooting-herman-cain-ad-video-20120326,0,5430897.story

By Morgan Little

March 26, 2012, 1:31 p.m.
Reporting from Washington—

Herman Cain, who at one point was in the lead of the Republican presidential primary, has been trying to land back in the spotlight since dropping out of the race in December. His latest venture, Sick of Stimulus, intended to bring attention to the alleged wasteful excess of President Obama's stimulus packages. Instead, by showing a rabbit being shot out of the air, it ended up attracting the attention ofYouTube's moderators.

Sick of Stimulus' ad, simply titled "Rabbit," puts America's small businesses in the titular role, right before a girl places the rabbit into a catapult and launches it into the air, where it's soon shot to bits. The whole process is supposed to be representative of America's tax code, but soon after it was posted Monday morning, it was flagged and taken down for review for allegedly violating YouTube's "policy against spam, scams and commercially deceptive content."

[Thegonagle]

1. That's awful.

At least it appears to be fake. But it's still disturbing.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Yet another hare brained idea from the poster child for hare brained ideas. nt

[lies and propaganda]

3. the kid should have been smoking, just for extra shock value ;p

[Go Vols]

4. .

It aired during the local news earlier here.I was,WTF

[BanTheGOP]

5. This sex offender needs to have his reputation destroyed. n/t

[xocet]

6. If Cain had ever been sick of stimulus, his campaign would not have been suspended. n/t