Please Bring Back the Demon Sheep Campaign Ad
The forgotten glory of Carly Fiorina's California Senate campaign attack ad.
Attack ads are one of the great vestiges of American political campaigns, and thanks to YouTube, they are forever seared onto the brain of the Internet.
Let’s set the stage: The year is 2010. Justin Bieber had swoopy bangs. Carly Fiorina is best known for her six year stint as CEO of Hewlett-Packard. The GOP has set its sights on Barbara Boxer‘s U.S. Senate seat, and Fiorina is battling former congressman Tom Campbell for the Republican nomination. In the heat of the campaign, Fiorina brings in political advertiser Fred Davis to create an ad attacking Campbell, and he delivers this:
Coming in at a little less than three and a half minutes, the ad is hilarious.
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