Yahoo! News: Bizarre Attack Ad Heats Up California Senate Race. The campaign for high-profile California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina has released an attack ad against one of her Republican primary opponents that just might be the most bizarre in American political history, one that’s already being called everything from “terrifying” to “psychedelic.”
I saw the ad and it is every bit as weird as described. From bad graphics to fake citizens opposed to Tom Campbell. Yes, FAKE. Here’s the voiceover dialogue:
Who would remember that as the governor’s chief budget officer, Campbell was the architect of disastrous 2005 budget. A budget so bloated with increased ongoing spending commitments and borrowing that it literally set the stage for the recent decline of California. That’s fiscally conservative Tom? Who would remember that was the Tom Campbell budget? We would.
At “we would,” the video freezes momentarily on this group of “citizens.”
I saw the photo and it looked a bit too composed. Much like the many photos that I’ve seen on iStockphoto. So, with the screenshot from below, I used TinEye, a reverse image search engine. Just upload or specify an online photo, and TinEye will attempt to locate the same image online.
In this case, TinEye worked spectacularly well and pointed me to this page of Concerned Group of Workers on iStockphoto.
These concerned group of workers allegedly remember the Tom Campbell budget?
I wonder if the use of the photo to depict people that remember the Tom Campbell budget and presumably support Carly Fiorina constitutes use that depicts personal endorsement by model.
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