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GOP pulling W.Va. Senate ad with ‘hicky’ actors

By The Associated Press
Thursday, October 7th, 2010 -- 3:11 pm

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GOP pulling W.Va. Senate ad after casting call sought actors with a 'hicky blue collar' look

National Republicans are pulling a West Virginia Senate ad after Democrats revealed a casting call for actors who looked like hicks to play state voters.

The ad, filmed in Philadelphia, was dropped from the National Republican Senatorial Committee's YouTube channel Thursday.

Republicans expect it to also be withdrawn from TV, where it has been in heavy rotation since Tuesday, according to a party official not directly involved in handling the ad who was not authorized to comment and requested anonymity.

The ad showed men in flannel shirts and baseball caps worrying that Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin would side with President Barack Obama if elected to the Senate.

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It's a theme the GOP has been hammering in the battle to replace the late Democratic U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, though Manchin's opponent, businessman John Raese, denounced the ad.

"The ad is ridiculous and I am happy to say that no one with the Raese campaign had anything to do with it," Raese spokesman Kevin McLaughlin said.

The casting call listed clothing options including trucker or "John Deer" hats that are "not brand new, preferably beat up," as well as jeans, down filled vests and "Dickie's type jacket with t-shirt underneath."

"We are going for a 'Hicky' Blue Collar look," it said. "These characters are from West Virginia so think coal miner/trucker looks."

The NRSC blamed the wording on Philadelphia-based Kathy Wickline Casting, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

"No one at the NRSC, or associated with the NRSC, had anything to do with the language used in this casting call," spokesman Brian Walsh said.

The NRSC provided a Sept. 27 e-mail in which its production firm asked the casting company "for someone to represent the middle of the country Ohio, Pittsburgh, West Virginia area."

The casting call was first reported by the website Politico. The NRSC has spent $3.5 million on the ad and others in the closely fought race, which the GOP believes it has a shot at winning.

Manchin and Democrats called the ad an insult.

"Not only have they been spending millions to try and buy this election with lies and distortions, we can now see once and for all what (Raese) and his friends really think of West Virginia and our people," Manchin said in a statement.

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  1. 1Anonymous

    big surprise…they are targeting the people they are screwing…


  2. 2Anonymous

    Just proves, very clearly, what a low opinion the GOP really has of average Americans.


  3. 3Anonymous

    …and they call liberals elitists.
    Manchin would be stupid if he does not use this. The GOP calls you a hick, but still wants your vote.


  4. 4Anonymous

    Yessss! I hope this hurts and damages them nationwide. I love how they are always calling Democrats “elitists.” Well you can clearly see who the real “elitists” are from this story.


  5. 5Anonymous

    the teethbrush was invented in w. virginia but it didn’t take off until they changed the name to toothbrush to accommodate the needs of its citizens…


  6. 6Anonymous

    That ad is pretty stereotypical. Rove money only fuels campy ads, and not everyone in WV is a hayseed. Fucking stupid.


  7. 7Anonymous

    Yes, and the republicans seem to be masters at getting people to vote against their best interests.


  8. 8Anonymous

    FTA
    “The NRSC blamed the wording on Philadelphia-based Kathy Wickline Casting, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.”

    Check out these weasels trying to blame the casting agency. The agency only does whats requested and if there truly was a problem with the actors it should have been delt with long before production wraps up.


  9. 9Anonymous

    the actors…


  10. 10Applesauce » GOP casting call: Looking for blue-collar hick types to portray West Virginians in campaign TV spot

    [...] In light of widespread ridicule of the hick-type casting call, the GOP has decided to DROP the campaign spot at [...]


  11. 11Anonymous

    Does anyone recall the looks of the Republicans when they announced their Pledge Against America? None of the Republicans had a suit or tie on. They all wore a shirt and sweater thinking that will con America that they are watching our backs. Is that a hoot, Republicans watching our backs. When they put their hand on your back they acutally feeling where to stick the knife.


  12. 12Anonymous

    This is such a joke. The republicans are killing their party and some in the party knows it.


  13. 13Anonymous

    “Republicans expect it to also be withdrawn from TV, where it has been in heavy rotation since Tuesday”

    This is just like any RepubliKlanner or Christian Taliban “apology”: the message is already out, the damage is done, so pulling the advert after it’s been running for days is meaningless.


  14. 14Linda Williams

    Shhhhhh!


  15. 15Linda Williams

    A hick is a hillbilly without manners. he reference is worse than most know.


  16. 16Linda Williams

    A hick is a hillbilly without manners. he reference is worse than most know.


  17. 17Linda Williams

    A hick is a hillbilly without manners. he reference is worse than most know.


  18. 18Linda Williams

    Shhhhh!


  19. 19Linda Williams

    Shhhhh!


  20. 20Linda Williams

    Shhhhh!


  21. 21VoxMagi

    If that helps clear it up for anyone who was in doubt…thats what the ultra wealthy uberscum actually think of the rest of us.

    Loyal Repubs…line up and take notes…YOU AREN’T RICH! THEY HATE YOU! THEY WILL TAKE YOUR VOTE AND LAUGH OVER WHAT SUCKERS YOU ARE! AND THEY’RE RIGHT! YOU’RE TOO DUMB TO SEE IT EVEN WHEN ITS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU!

    Sadly, I only wish I couldn’t say the exact same thing about the DNC.


  22. 22Big Dan

    This is proof the GOP “uses” hicks for votes.


  23. 23Big Dan

    What’s a mile long and has 3 teeth?

    The line at the West Virginia pancake festival.

    This joke can be applied to any area. In my area, “What’s a mile long and has 3 teeth? The kielbasi line at the Plymouth Kielbasi festival”.


  24. 24Big Dan

    What’s a mile long and has 3 teeth?

    The line at the West Virginia pancake festival.

    This joke can be applied to any area. In my area, “What’s a mile long and has 3 teeth? The kielbasi line at the Plymouth Kielbasi festival”.


  25. 25Anonymous

    The republikkkan party has become the laughing stock of the political world!


  26. 26Anonymous

    Another example, as if the people of Virginia and West Virginia needed one, of what elite Tea Party Republicans really think of those working class people whose votes they seek.


  27. 27godistwaddle

    As a well-educated 66 year old hick from northern New Hampshire, I’d like to warn the GOP that even un-well-educated hicks are a canny bunch, able to smell bullshit.


  28. 28Anonymous

    So this is what the GOP is spending all those corporate bucks on. Come ON, folks, smarten up! The GOP thinks propaganda will work on you! THINK about what your interests are and DO NOT vote against them!


  29. 29Trippin Mczoink

    I don’t see any problem. The anti-Obama crowd around these parts fits these characters to a “T” — almost. This is what they look like — except they should have been drunk and in a bar room, not a diner, and should have used the term “goddamn n!gger” instead of President Obama. With that small improvement, they’d have it down perfectly.

    Obviously the ad was targeted to undereducated, anti-science, gay bashing, misogynistic, misinformed white racists as depicted — these being the key to Republican hopes to win elections as they have been since the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Not a one of them has enough brains to recognize they’re being insulted. They’d just think it’s about time “real people” like them get on TV once in a while.


  30. 30Anonymous

    Wow, such disrespectful condescension!

    If the Democrats had done this the Republicans would have been waiving it as proof positive of elitist contempt for working class voters.

    It would be amusing to see the casting criteria for “Joe the Plumber.”


  31. 31Anonymous

    First, (apart from some minimum wage “trolls” hired to interpose asinine remarks at liberal sites) the GOP’s target audience is not reading The Raw Story or anything other than the National Enquirer and Focus on the Family’s Glow-in-the-Dark Picture Bible (for semi-literates).

    Second, anyone other than a multi-milliionaire who votes Republican almost certainly lacks the cognitive resources to ‘smarten up.’

    Third, propaganda has worked successfully since the beginning of human politics. The only defense to propaganda is quality education, which the plutocrats always do their utmost to confine to as few citizens as possible.


  32. 32Anonymous

    Sadly, not enough evidence of that talent since the 2000 election, and even less since the 2010 election:

    WMD?
    Clear Skies Act?
    Swift Boat ads?
    Manchurian candidate from Kenya?
    Headless victims in the desert?
    “Ground Zero Mosque”?
    Sharia law in Michigan?

    Seems that a lot of hicks, and suburbanites, and urbanites are gluttons for bullshit constantly salivating for the next serving.


  33. 33Anonymous

    But they are laughing their way to their numbered bank accounts … in Switzerland, Grand Cayman Islands, and other tax havens favored by plutocrats.


  34. 34Anonymous

    But they are laughing their way to their numbered bank accounts … in Switzerland, Grand Cayman Islands, and other tax havens favored by plutocrats.


  35. 35Anonymous

    I like how the Republican candidate takes no responsibility for the ad yet the statement at the end says Republicans are responsible for the content. So is Raese sayin he’s not a Republican?


  36. 36Bob Zentrails

    Exactly what I was thinking. That kind of obvious lie can’t sit well with the voters.


  37. 37Anonymous

    Sadly, you are correct. Against all odds, I was putting out my karma wishes to the general universe, not specifically to rawstory readers.


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