Fear in the Fourth: GOP photoshops Rep. McCollum to look like horror film villain
Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 9:59 am
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The GOP has been accused of fear-mongering this campaign cycle, but Republican candidate Ed Matthews has taken it to a new, overt level: he’s borrowed the horror-film genre to strike fear into voters of the Fourth Congressional District. In a mailer posted at Minnesota Democrats Exposed, Matthews’ team has photoshopped Democratic incumbent Betty McCollum to look like Leatherface from “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” MDE’s post came out the same day KARE-11 TV ran a story about the GOP darkening the skin tone of DFLer Ashwin Madia in TV commercials supporting GOP candidate Erik Paulsen. Headlined “Betty McCollum stars in Taxes Chainsaw Massacre,” the two-sided flyer charges the incumbent congresswoman is “leading Minnesota down a dangerous path.” A headline on the back reads: “Who will survive and what will be left of them?”
See the flyer after the jump.
5 Comments
Comment posted October 30, 2008 @ 10:36 am
I would not want my 3-year-old to see that in our mailbox!
Comment posted October 30, 2008 @ 11:13 am
Deplorable! This only makes me want to vote for her more!
I voted republican in the last two elections (sorry), but I have to turn away from them. They have disgraced themselves.
What is it with the republican party ads now that basically say “if you vote democratic, you’ll die”? Republicans are sounding psychotic.
Comment posted October 30, 2008 @ 11:55 am
Pretty harsh! Maybe everyone should just lighten up though. It is Halloween. At least she’s not hanging in effigy like Palin.
Comment posted October 30, 2008 @ 12:20 pm
I think the chainsaw metaphor is a little misplaced. the whole hatchet/scalpal debate could really use a timely halloween overhaul, like chainsaw/vampire bite, and it would actually be witty and meaningful. And, maybe i’m just a recently gutted corpse, but i like every one of those stances on the back. (i reluctantly take the bailout medicine, but the other positions make up for it)
Comment posted October 31, 2008 @ 8:42 am
I don’t get it. Is she from Texas? If not, it’s like something the sophmore cheerleading squad puts together to show that they’re going to beat their across the town rivals. I’m not saying it’s dangerous. It sounds like people are saying that it’s dire or something. It’s just…I don’t know…lame. Like when they take a popular film and make a porno title out of it–it’s porno-clever: not really clever but trying to be.
Plus, you know, she doesn’t really look like leatherface. That might be my problem. After all, leatherface is wearing a mask…so, shouldn’t she be just wearing a mask, and if she did, wouldn’t she NOT look like herself. I mean, I don’t know what Leatherface really looks like. That’s the point. Like Scarecrow. He’s only Scarecrow when he’s wearing the mask.
Lastly, and maybe I’m beating the point, but should Republicans really bring up Texas. I mean, I thought the Texas Cheney Massacre was something that Republicans shouldn’t remind us about.
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