New PAC ad depicts Congressman Allen West punching white women, stealing from families
Last edited Sat Aug 11, 2012, 03:41 PM - Edit history (1)
Source: WPTV
A new political advertisement that made its debut Friday night is causing a storm of controversy in the race the U.S. House of Representatives seat for District 18.
Current congressman Allen West called the ad disgusting, racially insensitive and degrading to women.
The ad shows a caricature of West punching female seniors who happen to be white and show him taking money from a family. It is an apparent shot at West's record on Medicare, women's health and tax cuts.
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The ad was paid for by political action committee "American Sunrise PAC," not West's opponent Patrick Murphy.
FEC fillings indicate Murphy's father, Thomas Murphy, has donated $250,000 to the PAC.
Read more: http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_martin_county/stuart/new-pac-ad-depicts-congressman-allen-west-punching-white-women-stealing-from-families
I discovered this ad via this blog. Conveniently, this report omits the race of the family that gets punched by the West caricature. Go to the 0:14-0:17 spot of the ad, and lo and behold, the family is...black! Unfortunately, the right wing blogs are going to focus on how the boxer with the West head punched white women and thus will spend the weekend calling liberals racist hypocrites. Had I not watched the ad, I would have compared this ad with Reagan's "states' rights" speech in Mississippi. (ETA: Before the StopAllenWest channel disabled comments and ratings, this video had 18 likes and 276 dislikes, showing that the right wing sites like The Blaze were embedding this ad.)
Think about this ad like the ad that depicted a Paul Ryan look-a-like pushing an elderly woman off a cliff:
(on edit) TYT has now picked up the story
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