ABC (TV network) airs disturbing political ad during 3rd Dem Debate

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From The Washington Post:

The clip opens with ominous music and a portrait of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) bursting into flames to reveal a pile of skulls.

“This is the face of socialism and ignorance,” the narrator intones. “Does Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez know the horror of socialism?”

The jarring ad, which aired on ABC during Thursday’s Democratic presidential debate in Houston, compares the freshman Democrat’s support of democratic socialism to the communist Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia that killed nearly 2 million people in the 1970s.

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The spot, funded by a newly formed Republican PAC and narrated by a recently defeated California GOP candidate, prompted Ocasio-Cortez to accuse its producers of racism and critics to question why ABC approved the ad. (The network didn’t immediately respond to messages on Thursday night.)

“Know that this wasn’t an ad for young conservatives of color — that was the pretense,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “What you just watched was a love letter to the GOP’s white supremacist case.”

 

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/09/13/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-khmer-rouge-ad-genocide/%3FoutputType%3Damp

 

Regardless of where you stand politically, you have to at least understand that burning a picture of a U.S. official is too far. The last 2 (almost 3) years have flipped people from both side on their head, and there’s no telling how much further each side will go.

[Diamond Heart 4,400]

Jesus Christ 

[AdmistTheLight 2,269]

Is there anyway she can sue them for using her image in an ad??

[ZiggyZiggs 30,067]

Hmmm so an actual advert that AIRED on national TV....

Wonder if the people who made it will get the same treatment they gave to Kathy griffin for the trump Halloween mask ketchup photo 

[derpmonster 22,412]

They showed her picture of her face being burnt

[whocares 2,122]

The only way that ANYONE would think the likes of AOC or Bernie Sanders are communists who agree with these regimes is if they have been fed right-wing propaganda.

You all know what happened when Kathy Griffin made that stupid photoshoot with ketchup. You all know how the right reacted. They’ll be totally ok with a photo of AOC being burnt. Because hey, Venezuela.

[drunkygagaa 275]

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[Standing-o 198]

What the actual F***!?!?!! Her face burning... I can't believe this is America.

[Magneto 13,546]

Are left wingers into genocide? Are a lot of countries actually doing way better than the US?

That's a secret I'll never tell. You know you love me.

XOXO, socialism

[thefamefatale 264]

They're crazy. They don't have a moral compass, and that's why there's reserved places for them when their time is up somewhere far far far away from here.

[DutchHooker 8,600]

1 minute ago, thefamefatale said:

somewhere far far far away from here.

Is it wrong that the Gaga-obsession-twink in me immediately thought of this:

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/48d61342-e6ff-4d27-b144-ea96bac6bf21

"Now let's go far far away from here; you promise we'll never go back? I Promise."

[ALGAYDO 35,053]

Fear-mongering is getting so tired. Like, exactly how many idiots live in America to actually fall for it anymore? I feel like anyone dumb enough to buy into it already did, they’re just advertising to themselves at this point. 

[Mister G 10,512]

I was watching the debate last night at a bar here in DC since we’re on a mini-getaway. I was very disgusted at what I saw and even more annoyed that ABC allowed it. Convinced that the fools putting these ads together are morally bankrupt, and shame on ABC for thinking this was even remotely acceptable...

[djBuffoon 12,235]

I was very surprised and disturbed by the ad. Disgusting.

[Fish 6,259]

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