Posted on 02/11/2016 6:19:32 PM PST by M. Thatcher
Amy Lindsay has appeared in films such as Erotic Confessions, Carnal Wishes, Secrets of a Chambermaid, and Insatiable Desires. "Had the campaign known of her full filmography, we obviously would not have let her appear in the ad," a Cruz campaign spokesman told BuzzFeed News.
Ted Cruz's campaign has pulled its most recent ad, "Conservatives Anonymous," after learning one of the actresses in the spot is also a softcore porn star.
The ad, which was set at a group therapy session of conservative voters who feel betrayed by Marco Rubio on immigration, featured actress Amy Lindsay, who played a woman telling another group member, "maybe you should vote for more than just a pretty face next time."
Lindsay has appeared in several softcore porn films, including Erotic Confessions, Carnal Wishes, Secrets of a Chambermaid, and Insatiable Desires.
BuzzFeed News, after learning of Lindsay's prior filmography, requested comment from the Cruz campaign. Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler told BuzzFeed News in a statement that the campaign is taking the ad down and replacing it with a different one.
"The actress responded to an open casting call. She passed her audition and got the job. Unfortunately, she was not vetted by the production company. Had the campaign known of her full filmography, we obviously would not have let her appear in the ad," Tyler said.
Prior to the Cruz campaign pulling the ad, Lindsay told BuzzFeed News in a phone interview on Thursday that she's a Christian conservative and a Republican. While she emphasized that she did not do hardcore porn and that she also appeared in non-erotic films, Lindsay said she thinks it is cool that an actress who has appeared in softcore porn could also appear in Cruz's ad.
"In a cool way, then hey, then it's not just some old, white Christian bigot that people want to say, 'It could be, maybe, a cool kind of open-minded woman like me,'" she said of people supporting Cruz.
Though Lindsay initially told BuzzFeed News that the person at the campaign who hired her "absolutely knew everything that I had done," she later called back to say that she realized that was not the case.
"I have clearly talked to the filmmakers and stuff and just to be clear, I assumed that they knew but none of the filmmakers or the casting director knew about my complete filmography in the past that you're talking about, so I was wrong in that statement," Lindsay said, saying that she had assumed that an old friend of hers from an acting class who was present when she was hired was aware of her film history.
Lindsay said she is currently deciding whether to support Cruz or Donald Trump.
Soft porn? Is that porn for men with ED?
Cruz doesn’t direct the ads, except for the one with his family /half joking
Apparently you are not a Christian. Otherwise you would know that Christians ARE the body of Christ, and that we are to represent God to the world. It is not uncommon for someone to express it in that way.
Well, it at least has gotten people talking about it.
Even if he has failed, at least now people are a little smarter about HOW and WHY.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkQz8vZ0jsU
Sad and rueful snicker. It was inadvertent. We should be talking about higher things than this.
This news will have millions scramble to search engines to see the ad.
Nuh huh
Well, Trump never pretended to be the ultra family values fellow.
Hubba-hubba.
Yeah the Cruzbots are desperate ...slime begets slime
I do not see why Cruz should in any way be blamed for this. The ad was pulled. No big deal.
Cruz has to approve the details of the ad (message). What the actress did in her personal life is not relevant to the ad or his campaign. I’m sure that one of the people who partook in the creation of his ads was pro-choice, you aren’t going to pull the ads over it. He is not receiving endorsements from those people, they were paid to make an ad and that was their job. Cruz approves the production and the message. That is why it isn’t an issue. The other shenanigans that Cruz approved is all his to own.
As a Trump supporter, I say this is a whole lot o’ nothin’.
The fact that this ‘actress’ did some soft porn is no reflection on Ted Cruz OR his campaign.
If the phrase “move along folks, nothing to see here” ever applied, it applies in this instance.
Cruz is desperate ... he doesn’t even have the guts to own this .. he’s a wimp and has backed down again .. own it Ted , at least spin it as a conversion ...good grief !
Like Cruz really made & produced the ad himself...If he’s not your candidate fine, but don’t make yourself look stupid by trying to make a strawman out of some pulled commercial.
“I’m Ted Cruz, and I approve this message”. So does Beck no doubt.
Yeah .. any comment from Levin and Beck ?
So Cruz pulled out early.
No no noooooo.
This is exactly what we should be talking about....The "Face of God".....hiring a hooker.
Annnnd 1.
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