What do you do when you're down by 30 points?
If you're Freddy Ferrer, you release an ad that portrays your opponent giving a handjob to the president.
Bloomberg wears a suit. Bush sports a cowboy hat, a plaid shirt and a holster with a gun. They are bobbing up and down.Then Bloomberg's right hand, which holds a wad of cash, moves up and down in a rhythmic motion below Bush's belt, as a grin crosses the president's face, and his arms and legs quiver momentarily.
Bloomberg then gives the money to the president -- and Bush's pistol goes off in celebration.
The Bloomberg campaign cried foul, charging the commercial clearly shows the mayor performing a sex act on Bush.
Comments
Oy.
Posted by: K | November 1, 2005 09:28 AM
No wonder Republicans are quaking int their cowboy boots over '06...with that kind of serious discussion of the issues, they don't stand a chance.
Posted by: withoutfeathers | November 1, 2005 09:37 AM
I guess they learned a lot from that Willie Horton "Dem blacks is goings to rapes all da white wimmens!" ad the Republicans paid for and ran nationwide.
Posted by: Bailey Hankins | November 1, 2005 11:09 AM
Don't quite remember that one. Why must you hate everyone so much, Bailey Hankins?
Posted by: That Guy | November 3, 2005 03:45 AM
You don't remember the Willie Horton ad? Bush I used it to bury Dukakis, by suggesting that Dukakis wanted to release all large black murderers from prison to go a-rapin' and a-torturin' white people on the weekends.
The commercial showed the shadowy figure of a large hulking black man and told the story of the crimes he committed on a weekend furlough -- crimes against a young white couple.
Of course the commercial was mostly lies. Karl Rove later perfected the technique.
Posted by: Bailey Hankins | November 4, 2005 11:27 PM
As far as I can remember, it was the truth that Dukakis had released a murderer on a weekend furlough, and the murderer had killed. I never knew the race of the man or woman involved, and I certainly never heard of anything as grotesque as you're suggesting. And I learned this on my own, seeing as how I was 2 in '88, and not quite caring yet about politics.
Posted by: That Guy | November 7, 2005 04:59 AM