John Cornyn Links Tasteless Video on NRSC Website
It’s time for Texans to realize who their Senator is and what he does for a living. If you think he is busy representing Texans in the United States Senate, think again. He’s busy botching up his real job as the leader of the Republican Senatorial Committee charged with getting Republican’s elected to the United States Senate. Botching up his job, you ask? Think Bob Bennett from Utah and Charlie Crist from Florida, but that’s another story.
The story today is Senator Cornyn’s low-life efforts to smear the Democratic Lt Governor of Ohio and his efforts to win a Ohio Senate seat in the fall. This from Joe Hallet of the Columbus Dispatch. Follow the link to read all the dirty sexual innuendo that Senator Cornyn is passing around.
Politics is the new porn. And Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas is a purveyor of it.Rob Portman, Ohio Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate, tacitly embraces political porn.
Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, Portmans Democratic opponent, plays the innocent victim – and then cynically tries to profit from political porn.
There is no gutter deep enough for where this column is headed. If youre already sick of the 2010 campaign in Ohio, read no further. This might make you barf.
Last week, the National Republican Senatorial Committee created an attack ad against Fisher and ensured that it went viral. The ad was stunningly crass, its sexual explicitness alarmingly vile. The NRSC took footage from Swing State, an otherwise charming documentary by Fishers son, Jason, and Jasons college buddy, John Intrater, about the 2006 race for governor.
Late one night, Jason snuck into his fathers study, John following with camera, and they found Fisher shirtless and hunched over his laptop. “Out, out, out,” Fisher protested, but the filmmakers insisted on interviewing him. After he was elected lieutenant governor, Fisher asked that the bare-chested scene be edited out, but Jason persisted. Fishers instincts told him the footage could end up being used to embarrass him but never fathomed that Republicans would make him the star of their porn movie. Under the guise of criticizing Fisher as “job czar” while 350,000 jobs fled Ohio during a recession, the Republicans created an ad that would make a triple-X starlet blush.
Political scientist John Green, an expert on Ohio politics, showed it to students and faculty members at the University of Akron and to a person – Democrat, Republican and Independent – they cringed, adjudging it “uncalled-for,” Green said. Using provocative music and sexual double-entendres, the NRSC froze an image of Fisher with one hand on his bare chest and the other out of sight below his belt. NRSC applied an undulating effect to make it appear that Fisher was masturbating.
Here’s the video:
