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Republican Senate Candidate John James Apologizes For Including Swastika In Campaign Ad
Inquisitr ^ | October 16, 2018 | Kristine Lofgren

Posted on 10/16/2018 1:18:41 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

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Investigate the ad agency.
1 posted on 10/16/2018 1:18:41 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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Investigate the ad agency.

What campaign airs an ad that it hasn't given a frame-by-frame vetting first? Sign of a sloppy, disorganized campaign.


2 posted on 10/16/2018 1:21:25 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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I didn’t see it in the ad...where was it?


3 posted on 10/16/2018 1:24:22 PM PDT by mikelets456
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To: Buckeye McFrog

The campaign used stock footage, and someone in the stock footage selecting process just happened to miss the the Swastika.

It could happen to any campaign.

No be deal.


4 posted on 10/16/2018 1:25:52 PM PDT by Blue House Sue
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To: yesthatjallen

I smell sabotage. I hope he keeps on campaigning. Don’t wilt.
The Dems in Michigan are as thick as thieves, and they consider those voters as their property.
End justifies means, they will convince themselves.


5 posted on 10/16/2018 1:26:06 PM PDT by lee martell (AT)
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To: yesthatjallen

Investigate the school. Why isn’t that a No Swastika Zone?


6 posted on 10/16/2018 1:27:48 PM PDT by gnickgnack2 ( Another bad day for Trump, he only got seven major things accomplished .)
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7 posted on 10/16/2018 1:29:39 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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Pretty sure that that the black gentleman is not, in fact, a Nazi.


8 posted on 10/16/2018 1:30:04 PM PDT by chris37
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What is a swastika doing in a school hallway?

P.S. American indians (unlike warren) used the symbol throughout history.

9 posted on 10/16/2018 1:30:18 PM PDT by pfflier
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Looks out of place . . Most likely a plant by Evil Dims


10 posted on 10/16/2018 1:32:15 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Mods/Indies/Dems/Non-voters" Are the CRAZY DIMS REALLY who you'd want BACK in POWER?)
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To: yesthatjallen

Yes, but this whole thing is such a crock. The bulletin board in question (on the wall of a school hallway, apparently) has numerous flyers all over it. I had to watch several times before I even noticed the flyer with a swastika on it. No one seems to know what the flyer represents (it may well have been a left-wing Antifa type group denouncing the swastika etc, we don’t know yet).

It is certainly careless video editing by the ad agency and campaign, but it is utterly ludicrous to suggest it represents anything substantive about John James or his campaign. It is a brief glimpse of something on a school bulletin board. If anything, people should be condemning that SCHOOL for having a swastika-bearing flyer on their bulletin board, huh?


11 posted on 10/16/2018 1:32:23 PM PDT by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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To: gnickgnack2

Upon rereading the story, I’m even more confused. The candidate is walking the school hall, but it’s “stock footage”? Why didn’t the camera crew see it, I’m sure he walked that same path numerous times in filming the ad.


12 posted on 10/16/2018 1:33:33 PM PDT by gnickgnack2 ( Another bad day for Trump, he only got seven major things accomplished .)
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“I smell sabotage.”

How does one sabotage stock footage?


13 posted on 10/16/2018 1:33:40 PM PDT by Blue House Sue
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p14

And just like that Stabacow eat a cow gets another 6 years.

14 posted on 10/16/2018 1:34:14 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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Definitely smells of sabotage. Someone in the ad agency had to choose that footage, and some ppl in the ad agency surely went over the ad frame by frame before it was released. The campaign should have caught it, but sabotage must be suspected.


15 posted on 10/16/2018 1:34:26 PM PDT by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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“The candidate is walking the school hall, but it’s “stock footage”?”

The candidate is not walking down the hallway.


16 posted on 10/16/2018 1:36:05 PM PDT by Blue House Sue
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First, it is the USE of the stock footage in the ad that is suspect. Never should have been used. Any ad agency that has not scrutinized every frame and every inch of visual material it plans to release is simply incompetent.

2nd, with video editing the stock footage certainly could have been altered. Very strange that the “flyer” seems to contain nothing but the swastika, so far as I could see (I don’t see any text on it, such as some historical lesson or announcing a film on the 3rd Reich etc.). So why is it there? The whole incident definitely stinks, but it says nothing whatsoever about the ideas or character of John James.


17 posted on 10/16/2018 1:37:46 PM PDT by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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To: Blue House Sue

The ad company could have used stock footage they knew had a swastika.


18 posted on 10/16/2018 1:37:53 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: gnickgnack2

He is not walking in the school hallway, it is a voice over talking about failing schools (perhaps having a swastika flyer on the school’s bulletin board actually does illustrate that, but it does not appear to have been intended in any way by the John James campaign).


19 posted on 10/16/2018 1:39:12 PM PDT by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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To: lee martell

Sabotage probably it will become a big deal probably destroying what slim chance he had. Stabenow is vile but looks like we’re going to be stuck with her for another 6 years ugh.


20 posted on 10/16/2018 1:39:33 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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