GOP Senate Candidate Uses ISIS Propaganda Footage in Anti-Obama Ad

The slippery slope of using ISIS footage for attack ads is complete: first there was a still of a photojournalist’s execution in ads, then actual video, and now a GOP Senate candidate is just using ISIS videos to make ads.

Arkansas candidate Tom Cotton took the slickly-produced footage from a 55-minute long ISIS propaganda piece, and cut them into an ad criticizing Barack Obama for “underestimating” ISIS’s capacities. According to BuzzFeed, the footage from “Flames of War” doesn’t just show jihadists rolling around in tanks, but also “features graphic content that includes a mass execution of a group of men who fall into a ditch.”

When candidates don’t pay good American dollars for stock footage and resort to professionally-shot terrorist movies to make their ads…the terrorists win (literally).

Watch the ad below:

[BuzzFeed]
[Image via screenshot]

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