7 Political Ads That Might Be Weirder Than Carly Fiorina's "Demon Sheep" - New York News - Runnin' Scared... put out by Carly Fiorina, Republican candidate for the Senate in California. It has many brain-searing qualities: a tortured sheep metaphor (teased out with pigs, an alpha sheep that tumbles from a pedestal through a storm-ripped sky, and a guy in a sheep suit and a canvas mask with glowing red eyes), sententious chanting, and a voice-over by, it sounds like, someone from Massachusetts. It's a humdinger. But is it the worst political ad of our time? Thanks in part to the dream-enabling power of the stupid internet, there are at least seven other candidates among current and recent political ads for that dubious title. Take a look at them and judge for yourself. Where else but in Nawlins would you have an attack ad in a coroner's race? There were charges years ago that, on the watch of New Orleans Coroner Frank Minyard, ... ... out of corpses in the Parish morgue. Dwight McKenna, seeking to unseat the nine-term incumbent, portrays Minyard as a mad scientist shaking a handful of ripe guts and calling for his assistant Igor to supply him with "a heart, a spleen, and a liver for tonight's sale." ... Related Searches: New York News | NY News | New York News Blogs | NY News Blogs | Village Voice News |
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