Posted on 02/16/2014 6:29:18 AM PST by jimbo123
Fox News host Greta Van Susteren on Friday blasted a bizarre television spot by longshot Texas Senate candidate Dwayne Stovall that likens Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to a Looney Tunes turtle.
"This ad is lousy," Van Susteren said on her Fox website. "It is gratuitously insulting.
"I have no idea whether Stovall is a great candidate or not — but his ad makes me think he is a jerk," she added. "You can be clever and funny in ads … or you can be gratuitously insulting."
In the ad, Stovell, one of seven candidates vying to unseat Sen. John Cornyn in a GOP primary, blasts the Minority Whip for following McConnell's lead — including this week's vote to raise the debt ceiling.
"As a senator from Texas you vote for Texas, you don't stab her in the back by voting for cloture on Obamacare; you don't enslave its children with unconstitutional laws and overwhelming debt — and you certainly don't do this to please some guy that looks and fights like a turtle," Stovall says in the 30-second ad.
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Proper response is “You bet your sweet ass I am.”
Anyone here get the refrence? ;)
Greta does some good stuff but never forget where her loyalty lies.
They don’t want to let ‘harsh language’ become a common thing. Because shaming it helps keep people from expressing anger in other ways. It emboldens...and the left cannot allow that.
Greta is so above it all...just like her sidekick, Ted Baxter.
Greta is a scientology cultist so that alone would question her sanity and intellect.
“...stir up some sympathy for mitch.”
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No. No sympathy for mitch. Mitch is a pathetic person though.
“Just sayin”
Most overused ghetto phrase and means nothing.
I’m so done with Greta. Like O’Reilly, she tries to play both sides. She’s really not as smart as people think. Especially when she tries to play devil’s advocate by asking stupid questions for which the answer is quite obvious.
I’m still trying to find where Greta criticized McConnell for his ugly comments about the TEA Party.
If anyone finds such a statement, please post a link for me.
Greta is all about Greta. Always has been.
I will never trust a fast talker, and Greta is a fast talker.
Greta insulted her own looks by getting a facelift.
I have not seen the ad but my wife and I have dealt face to face with Mitch. He has earned his mocking.
RESEMBLES or reminds me of a turtle would have been a much milder comparison with plausible deniability...
looks like acts like
Just another reason not the bother watching Faux News.
Criticizing someone on looks or anything they have no control over, is not good.
Not in a campaign.
Maybe anyone who looks like a turtle should not be a minority leader, a majority leader, a senator, and definitely not a wimpy one, like McConnell is.
I’d rather get the real news and not some idiot’s personal opinion?
They all suck!
That’s agood one. I’m trying to come up with something clever but I can’t.
I know someone will.
You nailed it. It’s not about looks. It’s about actions.
The ad is a little amateurish: Great ad for the first 15 seconds, kinda silly in the 2nd half. But amateurish ads are their own punishment; that Greta is attacking Stovall reveals she’s a shill for Cornyn/McConnell and that she’s afraid the amateurishness might be less important than the basic, dead-on message.
And it’s not gratutious: that Cornyn is a lap dog for someone who himself has not an ounce of manliness is made relevant by his McConnell’s (and Cornyn’s) absolute political cowardice: they are men without chests, owned in every sense of the word by the Democrat-run political establishment.
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