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This Exists: New Campaign Ad Depicts Nancy Pelosi As Wicked Witch of the West

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Perhaps the most important part of the following campaign ad is not the hackneyed portrayal of Wizard of Oz characters, its depiction of Nancy Pelosi as a witch or that the candidate it is promoting appears to be a friend of Dorothy, dousing the Wicked Witch with water. No, the most important part of this ad comes at the very end, when candidate John Dennis is heard to say “I approve this ad.”

Sure, there may be some voters in Pelosi’s San Francisco area congressional district who, after watching this video, shout out loud “hell yeah!” before deciding to vote for Dennis. But there are likely just as many undecided and independent voters who will walk away from this ad with a greater sense of frustration and even deeper questions about John Dennis’ overall judgment to approve such a dopey and sophomoric ad.

Clearly Dennis campaign advisers are taking cues from Fox News (and Mike Gallagher in particular, who had previously joked about throwing water on Ms. Pelosi.) One would think that there’s plenty of room to criticize Nancy Pelosi on actual policy – turning her into a caricature seems more likely to engender sympathy, not frustration.

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  • notsofast

    That’s because Hillary has already taken the East!

  • writer

    When the witch in The Wizard of Oz threw a ball of fire, she reminded me more of Ed Schultz.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-Hogan/179500970 Stephen Hogan

    writer said:
    When the witch in The Wizard of Oz threw a ball of fire, she reminded me more of Ed Schultz.

    That gave me a good laugh.

  • JimBob

    A hell of a lot prettier than Mr ED the Talking
    Horses ASS, though. Has his great big fat head exploded
    on live TV yet? ED, Glenn Beck said BOO .

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    I lived in that district for 17 years. There are only about 14% registered republicans. Any republican is fooling themselves if they think they can win that district. This ad is just the kind of ad to use. It is not about winning independents and undecided voters, there are none. It is about making fun of Pelosi.
    There is no reason to be “careful” about saying anything about Pelosi.
    Run her into the ground anyway you can. Make fun of liberals. Have as much fun as you can. Make people like Colby give you dumb advice. Get as much national play as possible by tearing down NANNY.

  • timzank

    “turning her into a caricature seems more likely to engender sympathy, not frustration.”

    There is no one on this Earth with a soul that could feel sympathy for the multi-millionaire Speaker of The House that has helped foist the largest wheelbarrow of crap on us in this country’s history. Her lifestyle will not change one little bit as a result of her actions. Ours will change dramitically. (us little people)

  • felixw

    This is pretty mild stuff compared to the way George Bush and Sarah Palin have been dealt with by the Left. They can’t really expect voters to feel outraged when they compared Bush to Hitler, and make unbelievably rude comments about Palin that I won’t even deign to dignify by repeating. But I guess Leftists need to focus on this trivial stuff, since they are obviously deathly afraid of talking about Pelosi’s track record over the last two years.

  • felixw

    You need to be careful what you say about a Democrat. Read about this UK teen who has been banned from the US for life because of an email he sent to the White House — with language very typical to what Democrats say about Palin and Bush every day of the week here in the Mediaite comments.

    http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/offbeat/uk-teenager-banned-from-america-for-life-over-obscene-obama-email-091310

    Do you have any idea of what huge story this would be if the Bush administration had done this kind of heavy-handed stuff?

  • NORBIT

    Would this be comparable to the naacp ad claiming black churches would burn if Republicans were elected?
    - but we didn’t hear anything from the Professional Left when those ads ran, now did we?

  • victor the crab

    Did all you posters get dropped on your heads as babies? That would explain the ignorant bile coming from your posts.

    Have a nice life, if you can.

  • notsofast

    victor the crab said:
    Did all you posters get dropped on your heads as babies? That would explain the ignorant bile coming from your posts.

    Have a nice life, if you can.

    Hey, crab, go home and take a couple of “drop dead” pills, libby!

  • Moderate

    NBC reporters called Bush worse names than “Prick”, they were not banned. Obama sure is sensitive.

  • Powerslave

    When the socialists and liberal agitators were on the outside trying to bring down the establishment, they read Alynski’s book on how to ridicule and personally attack your political opponents and practiced it. Now that they are in power they call foul when Alynski’s tactics are used on them. Friggin’ hypocrites.

  • libra blue

    I think this add is pretty clever, but I think Botox Nancy should be more worried about falling “houses”.

  • ChuckfromTacoma

    If the bucket of water does not work, somebody is going to have to run a stake through her heart.

  • VRWC Destruction Machine

    victor the crab said:
    Did all you posters get dropped on your heads as babies? That would explain the ignorant bile coming from your posts.

    Have a nice life, if you can.

    If you can’t deal with the world of mud slinging politics, you ought to hibernate until November 3rd.

    Next November, Nancy will have to put her supersized gavel where sun doesn’t shine.

  • Helix

    Liked this ad. Dennis doesn’t have a snowball’s chance though. Also liked the line on the last frame about the “Incumbent-protection” McCain-Feingold message. Much better than Carly’s “Demon Sheep” ad earlier.

  • C.Moore

    Didn’t the last right-wing jackass created an anti-pelosi ad, the one where she’s Frankenstein, and LOST??? maybe because he was being a jackass and not using the ad wisely to talk about how to fix the problems in middle america. what an idiot!

  • C.Moore

    VRWC Destruction Machine said:
    If you can’t deal with the world of mud slinging politics, you ought to hibernate until November 3rd.

    Next November, Nancy will have to put her supersized gavel where sun doesn’t shine.

    Really? how did that work out for the right-winger who created that ad about pelosi being frankenstein? Time Burns? what’s he up to?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-Hogan/179500970 Stephen Hogan

    Powerslave said:
    Alynski

    “Alinsky” Please spell his name right if you’re going to bash him. Otherwise, people will realize that you don’t have the slightest idea of what your talking about.

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Burnnotice

    Bwaaaaaa ha ha ha ha…. That was funny!! but what about the Munchkins??? Who will take care of them? Oh thats right they have the SEIU….

  • chucken

    Not a bad personal history for Nancy Pelosi.Marrried to to the same man since 1963, 5 children,7 grandchildren,and at age 70 could have checked out and avoided the hassle of public service.And became the first woman Speaker of the House.This little asshole Dennis is destined with a clearly low blow ad to be a Fox and rightwing radio fave for years to come.Just ask JD Hayworth.

  • ksecus

    Pure class from the party of Larry Craig, Mark Foley, Caribou Barbie, and hundreds of other disgraced GOPers.

  • VRWC Destruction Machine

    C.Moore said:
    Really? how did that work out for the right-winger who created that ad about pelosi being frankenstein? Time Burns? what’s he up to?

    Who gives a crap? Politics is what it is. You either punch back or you whine to no end like you’re doing.

  • burnettjeece

    The history-making House Speaker is a favorite target of Republicans nationwide — her crime being an allegedly extreme liberal and female. But this is rather more direct, perhaps because John Dennis realizes he doesn’t have a chance in hell in unseating the 23-year incumbent.
    http://noxedgewarning.com/

  • Some_Dude

    And welcome to the level of political discourse in our country. Campaign ads haven’t been particularly classy for as long as I can remember, but with things like this and Republicans saying outrageous, Eugenics inspired things about our president, we have found a new low.

    Newt Gingrich reminds me of H.P. Lovecraft at this point, for example.

  • MichelleF

    Some Dude says:

    Republicans saying outrageous, Eugenics inspired things about our president, we have found a new low.

    Yeah, I miss the Bush days of civil discord! Hypo!

  • CAconservative

    They spelled it wrong…witch should have started with a capitol “B”.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Treacher/542957672 Jim Treacher

    Harrumph!

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