An advert in support of Abdul El-Sayed, Democratic US Senate candidate for Michigan, may well be the worst political ad in the history of political ads. And yes, calling something the worst political ad in the history of political ads is a big claim. Especially in these midterms, where there has already been an attack ad in which a candidate’s mother calls her own daughter a mentally ill liar.
Still, even that did not sink as low as a new ad promoting El-Sayed. It was produced by Rebellion PAC, a political action committee founded by Cenk Uygur, the loudmouth host of the intellect-free, left-wing channel, The Young Turks. It features a tired-looking couple in a supermarket. The man picks up eggs for his family and puts them in the basket. His wife tells him to put them back. ‘Why?’, asks the husband. ‘[The kids] don’t like eggs anymore?’ The wife replies: ‘No, they like eggs. But we have to set that $7 aside. For killing Palestinians.’
Now, maybe it’s just my imagination, but I swear even the two actors playing the couple look embarrassed, ashamed and dead behind the eyes, as if they cannot believe their careers have come to this.
At the end, as a photograph of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu flashes on the screen, the voiceover states, with an actual throat-clearing noise, ‘Mike Rogers is for they / them’.
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