Don't Do What the Anthony Weiner Campaign (Supposedly) Did
We’re not saying that the New York Post‘s report on Anthony Weiner‘s mayoral campaign reaching out to “publicity firm” Crowds on Demand to hire fake supporters for a rally is totally accurate.
We can’t confirm that his surrogates wanted Z-list actors to act “like either supporters or people who met him and became supporters as a result of that encounter”. It’s like, who’s to say with anonymous sources, right?
On the other hand, we have no doubt that Weiner needs credibility very badly right now and that he would love nothing more than to follow the company’s tagline and “Live Like an A-Lister”. Also: we don’t know a single person in the greater New York metropolitan area who would willingly attend one of his rallies or volunteer to speak on one of his campaign commercials—and we know a fair amount of people despite the fact that our mom is always telling us that we should get out more and make new friends. Some stories are just imminently believable, aren’t they?
Crowds on Demand responded to the news with “no comment”, which we take to mean “much high-fiving and fist pumping” because no one in the world had ever heard of them before today. (We kid, we kid.)
*Photo via Doug Meszler/Splash News
