Is This the Most Racist and Offensive Political Ad Ever Made?

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Filmmaker Ladd Ehlinger Jr. earned a measure of notoriety in 2010 with his ads for Dale Peterson, the Alabama agriculture commissioner candidate, that showed Peterson waving his gun around and ranting about the "thugs and criminals" and "dummies" who were driving Alabama into the ground. Ehlinger also dressed up Nancy Pelosi as the Wicked Witch of the West in ads for her 2010 opponent John Dennis. But those spots look like PTA bake-sale ads compared to Ehlinger's latest effort—the unreal spot below attacking Janice Hahn, a Democrat running for Congress in California.

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