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Turns out Pete Hoekstra's controversial Super Bowl spot is even more bizarre than you thought. The Republican Senate candidate in Michigan was roundly criticized for showing an Asian woman speaking in stereotypical broken English to make the point that Sen. Debbie Stabenow's free-spending policies send U.S. jobs to China. (We listed the ad as one of the most controversial of the Super Bowl, despite only running in one state.) Now, it has emerged that the woman was faking the accent, too.
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