Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Mitch The Chin McConnell surges ahead
In the release of embarrassing campaign videos that go viral. The latest involved the dishonoring of favorite basketball team U of Kentucky by using pictures of Duke, from North Carolina.
Senator Mitch McConnell’s re-election team is getting very good at making campaign videos that go viral — but for all the wrong reasons.True, an important Senator should have more on his mind than basketball. However, as Mitch and his team have chosen to forsake any effort at governance, is it really too much to get the correct team in your political ad? We can only wonder what Mitch The Chin's next stumble will be.
On Tuesday, the campaign for 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 wasn’t 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 tweet. “Turns out @Team_Mitch has been in DC for so long he can’t tell the difference between UK & Duke basketball,” said another.
The campaign blamed the vendor that produced the video for the error.
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Scrambling, the campaign pulled the ad (not fast enough) and replaced the Duke footage with a clip of a Kentucky player. But, oops again, that version prompted the University of Kentucky to demand that the image be taken down because the McConnell campaign did not have permission to use it.
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