Posted on 11/11/2026 7:05:00 PM PST by Round Earther
Russ Hudson was not supposed to be in Scott Colom’s protein ad.
Mr. Hudson, 35, had known the district attorney for about a decade before Mr. Colom became the Democratic candidate for Senate in Mississippi. But it was Mr. Hudson’s father who was initially cast in the campaign ad mocking a suggestion from Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, the Republican incumbent, that Mississippi residents pick another type of protein to avoid rising beef prices.
When the elder Mr. Hudson balked at a script that would require him to utter profanity on camera, his son volunteered. In a short-sleeved button down shirt, he stood at a grill in the backyard of Mr. Colom’s parent’s house and tossed his head back to deliver a drawling, deadpan rebuke of Ms. Hyde-Smith.
“Shee-it,” Mr. Hudson says in the spot, rendering the off-color word with a distinct southern twang. “I’d rather pick another senator, instead.”
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