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Campaign Ad: “Role Models”

Highlighting the sharp, heated rhetoric of the Donald Trump campaign, Hillary Clinton releases this new spot contrasting the images and language of the two presidential campaigns.

As Stephen Sondheim once wrote, “Careful the things you say, children will listen.”

Via the Washington Post:

The sharply negative spot comes a day before Trump is expected to announce his vice-presidential running mate and several days before the Republican Party’s convention.

In it, video of Trump plays in the background as children watch. Entitled “Role Models,” it contrasts Trump — using profanity, mocking a disabled reporter, apparently alluding to a female reporter’s menstrual cycle — with Clinton, who appears at the end of the ad.

“I love the old days, you know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this? They’d be carried out on a stretcher, folks,” Trump says in one clip. “And you can tell them to go f*** themselves,” he says in another.

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What If The Donald Trump Campaign Was A Big Joke?

I’ve actually contemplated – seriously contemplated – that the Donald Trump campaign is a big “punk” on the American people.

Just when it looks like the Trumpster couldn’t get more outrageous, he does. And it lands.

Cracked.com has made that scenario come to life in this short 8 minute film.

It’s going to be so funny. It’s going to be so funny.

It makes me believe even moreso that the “punking” of America could be true.

If not, the short film is still pretty funny.

In a very, very, very dark way.

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Trump Advisors To Republicans: Don’t Worry – It’s All An Act

During a closed door meeting in Florida, Donald Trump’s senior advisors told Republican leaders to not worry – the first part of the campaign has been an act put on by the Trumpster “projecting an image.”

From the Associated Press:

Trump’s newly hired senior aide, Paul Manafort, made the case to Republican National Committee members that Trump has two personalities: one in private and one onstage.

“When he’s out on the stage, when he’s talking about the kinds of things he’s talking about on the stump, he’s projecting an image that’s for that purpose,” Manafort said in a private briefing.

“You’ll start to see more depth of the person, the real person. You’ll see a real different guy,” he said.

The Associated Press obtained a recording of the closed-door exchange.

“He gets it,” Manafort said of Trump’s need to moderate his personality. “The part that he’s been playing is evolving into the part that now you’ve been expecting, but he wasn’t ready for, because he had first to complete the first phase. The negatives will come down. The image is going to change.”

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Donald Trump: “The Audience Hit Back. That’s What We Need A Little More Of”

When asked about the arrest of one of his supporters for sucker-punching a protester on his way out of a rally, Donald Trump said, “The audience hit back. That’s what we need a little more of.”

Yep – his answer to the situation is that the protester, who was leaving without inciting any violence, got what he had coming to him.

Another reporter asked, “When you say things like, I want to punch a protester in the face… is it just politics or are you playing a character there?”

“Let me just tell you, we have had some violent people as protesters,” Trump responded. “They are not just people saying, ‘oh!’ These are people that punch, these are people that are violent people.”

Trump has attempted to portray the protesters, not his supporters, as violent. But no reporter covering his campaign says they’ve seen evidence of that. Quite the opposite. We’ve seen protesters raise their voices but not their fists, even as they are shoved and spit on as they exit Trump rallies.

The latest incident happened at Wednesdays’rally in Fayetteville, which was caught on camera from several angles. A white man identified as 78-year-old John McGraw approached a group of protesters and punched one, identified as Rakeem Jones, in the face.

Hope Hicks, the Trump campaign spokeswoman, called the violence unfortunate in an interview with the New York Times and said Trump’s campaign had “no control” over its supporters’ behavior.

(source)

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Campaign Ad: Ted Cruz Is Desperate To Get Attention

This is honestly one of the dumbest campaign ads I’ve ever seen. Is this supposed to make him look tough?

GOP presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz wants you to believe he cooks bacon by wrapping it around the barrel of a high-powered gun.

SRSLY?

From the folks who brought you Dr. Ben Carson playing “Operation” and Sen. Lindsey Graham destroying his cell phone.

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Donald Trump Tweets Campaign Ad Featuring Nazi Soldiers On American Flag

Earlier today, Donald Trump tweeted out the above image, then quickly deleted it when it became apparent the image of soldiers featured in the corner are Nazi soldiers.

From Mediate:

The lead soldier with the camo uniform in the now-deleted tweet is very obviously wearing a Waffen-SS uniform. For those who skipped history class, the SS were basically the worst kind of Nazis there were.

CNN’s MJ Lee reports that the Trump campaign claims “an intern accidentally posted questionable photo” and apologized. Meanwhile Mother Jones managed to track down the original image used in Trump’s tweet, and confirmed that the soldiers are Nazis.

See tweet below showing the original image incorporated into campaign image.

Now, if Trump can’t oversee a campaign team, HOW is he going to lead the United States?

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Donald Trump Apparently Had To Pay For Crowd Enthusiasm At Campaign Launch

According to the Hollywood Reporter, some of the folks in the “enthusiastic crowd” at Donald Trump’s presidential campaign launch were paid to wear the t-shirts and hold the “home-made” looking signs to gin up the crowd factor.

New York-based Extra Mile Casting sent an email last Friday to its client list of background actors, seeking extras to beef up attendance at Trump’s event.

“We are looking to cast people for the event to wear t-shirts and carry signs and help cheer him in support of his announcement,” reads the June 12 email, obtained by The Hollywood Reporter. “We understand this is not a traditional ‘background job,’ but we believe acting comes in all forms and this is inclusive of that school of thought.” (Read the full email at the bottom of the post.)

The pay was listed as $50 for less than three hours of work. According to the email, Extra Mile was reaching out to potential extras in partnership with Gotham Government Relations and Communications, a New York-Based political consulting group that has worked with Trump in the past. Gotham GR had no comment.

Questions as to whether the Trump campaign had hired extras were first raised Wednesday by anti-Trump activist Angelo Carusone, who came across an Instagram photo showing a man he recognized as a background actor posing at the Trump event. Carusone screengrabbed the photo of the actor, Domenico Del Giacco, and published it in a blog post. The photo shows Del Giacco with a woman, identified in the now-deleted Instagram post as actress Courtney Klotz. (Del Giacco has since deleted his entire Instagram account.)

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Arizona: Campaign Ad Features Lesbian Couple

New campaign ad from Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, who is running for Secretary of State.

Featured in the ad are Melanie Puskar-Blakely and Tonya Blakely recounting how Goddard’s opponent, Sen. Michele Reagan, supported the anti-gay SB 1062 which would have legalized discrimination against the LGBT community in Arizona.

Thankfully, the bill was vetoed by Gov. Brewer.

Very rare – but welcome – to see a lesbian couple head up a campaign ad.