{"id":15056,"date":"2012-08-10T12:41:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T16:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15056"},"modified":"2012-08-10T12:41:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T16:41:37","slug":"the-only-way-to-end-this-type-of-campaign-ad-is-to-vote-for-the-person-being-attacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15056","title":{"rendered":"The Only Way To End This Type Of Campaign Ad Is To Vote For The Person Being Attacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/too-far-new-attack-ad-targeting-allen-west-depicts-him-beating-women\/\">The Blaze<\/a> reported yesterday on a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Video\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Video\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Campaign advertising\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Campaign_advertising\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">campaign ad<\/a> put up by the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667%20%28United%20States%29&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">American<\/a> Sunrise PAC.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The <a href=\"https:\/\/americansunrisepac.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Sunrise PAC<\/a>\u00a0is responsible for the video. \u00a0The group was\u00a0incidentally\u00a0founded by the father of Congressman West\u2019s general election opponent, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Democratic Party (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Democrat<\/a> Patrick Murphy, who<a href=\"http:\/\/query.nictusa.com\/cgi-bin\/dcdev\/forms\/C00509455\/797636\/sa\/ALL\" target=\"_blank\"> has funneled\u00a0$250,000 into the PAC.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>UPDATE: The group responsible for the West advertisement has disabled all comments and ratings on their video page. \u00a0The immense distaste for the ad may have pressured this move. \u00a0As Blaze reporter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/reprehensible-allen-west-responds-to-attack-ad-that-shows-him-beating-women\/\" target=\"_self\">Jason Howerton noted<\/a>:\u00a0The video on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BSke77t5xCw&amp;feature=player_embedded\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>\u00a0currently has more than 12,000 views, with 252 \u201cdislikes\u201d and just 16 \u201clikes.\u201d \u00a0The move is ironic since the group <a href=\"https:\/\/americansunrisepac.org\/about-us\" target=\"_blank\">responsible for the ad<\/a> claims to work for \u201cthoughtful\u201d, \u201cmore open\u201d, \u201cbrighter future\u201d in politics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is the problem with the ad? It shows a caricature of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Allen West (politician)\" href=\"http:\/\/allenwestforcongress.com\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Allen West<\/a> wearing <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Boxing glove\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boxing_glove\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">boxing gloves<\/a> punching an old woman, a young lady and seemingly a family with children. He is then shown taking money from the family and laughing like a gremlin.<\/p>\n<p>The only way to stop this sort of foolishness is to render it ineffective. If you live in Florida, please vote for Allen West.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=5e7d70e1-efc5-4de1-95c7-79bf159a688b\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blaze reported yesterday on a video campaign ad put up by the American Sunrise PAC. The article reports: The American Sunrise PAC\u00a0is responsible for the video. \u00a0The group was\u00a0incidentally\u00a0founded by the father of Congressman West\u2019s general election opponent, Democrat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15056\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2724,3732,1132,422,219,352,3703,999],"class_list":["post-15056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-allenwest","tag-american-sunrise-pac","tag-blaze","tag-campaign-advertising","tag-democratic","tag-mitt-romney","tag-video","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15056"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15059,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15056\/revisions\/15059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}