Webmaster defends GOP video dubbed ‘juvenile’ by Republican candidate

By Paul Schmelzer
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 12:34 pm

Janet Napolitano, dubbed "Dumbass of the Year" in a video featured by the SD56 GOP.

The male webmaster of the official website for the Senate District 56 Republicans says a video comparing the attractiveness of Democratic and Republican women is just a joke. Serenaded by Tom Jones, the GOP women are depicted in bikinis and gowns, while those identified as Democrats — Helen Thomas, Rosie O’Donnell and Michele Obama, among others — are represented in unflattering photos accompanied by the song “Who Let the Dogs Out?” The video, which wasn’t produced by the local GOP, “had only one purpose, humor,” writes SD56 webmaster Randy Brown via email.

A person who seems to think he missed the mark: One of the two female district Republicans endorsed by the party.

“I do realize that there are groups of people who lack such capability [for humor], but fortunately that is their problem,” wrote Brown, who posted the video. “Again its only intention was to bring a smile to a few peoples faces, and possibly irritate a few others.  Is it fair? Does that matter? It wasn’t intended to be fair. It was intended to be funny.”

“I am not an official with the republican [sic] party (other than being a local delegate) and my association with the GOP SD56 website is that of webmaster,” he continued. “I frequently post things that I find interesting or humorous in an attempt to draw new viewers to the sight [sic].”

Andrea Kieffer, the GOP-endorsed candidate for the Minnesota House in District 56B, says she doesn’t support the video, which she called a “juvenile attempt at ‘marketing.” She emphasizes that she has no involvement with the video, which was posted to YouTube by user factsarestubbornthin on May 5 of this year.

“This is not something I would condone, and I am sending a request that the webmaster take it down immediately,” she wrote. Brown has not yet replied to MnIndy’s query about whether he would comply.

The video shows a Photoshopped image of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi grabbing her crotch, a photo calling Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano “Dumbass of the Year,” and a faux Time cover featuring former Attorney General Janet Reno as “Man of the Year.”

The district GOP’s site includes a statement of principles, including the stated belief that “the strength of our nation lies with the individual and that each person’s dignity, freedom, ability and responsibility must be honored.”

The Minnesota Independent has also contacted Kathly Lohmer, the only other GOP-endorsed woman in the district, and is awaiting her comment on the video.

Update: The video has been removed. Here’s a screengrab of it in place.

Update: GOP’s Lohmer calls for resignation of SD56 webmaster over video

Comments

26 Comments

ZeraLee
Comment posted August 18, 2010 @ 3:32 am

Brown has a perverse sense of humor, and he is too prejudiced to recognize it.

But that’s the GOP’s problem. He can humiliate the republicans all he wants.


Bud
Comment posted August 18, 2010 @ 6:57 am

I would rather have a sister in a whorehouse than a brother in the republican party!!


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Lee
Comment posted August 18, 2010 @ 12:09 pm

Ah, he’s played the standard bully card: “It was just a JOKE! Where’s your sense of HUMOR?”

NOT.

If this guy had been a Democrat, the Republicans would be yelling for blood. But he was one of theirs, so he’ll probably get a raise instead. Is this what you want running your country?


Mick Steers
Comment posted August 18, 2010 @ 3:02 pm

Did anyone who watched this “video” notice that virtually all of the lefty women were people of great character and accomplishment, whereas the GOP Foxes, were well, pretty and clever entertainers.

Funny that…

BTW: I wonder if the auteur responsible for this burst of creativity paid for the rights to those songs?


Donna
Comment posted August 18, 2010 @ 5:03 pm

Just think of the ‘can o’ worms’ brains the republican women have signing on to be a republican. Have they ever read the GOP platform? There supposed to be at home poppin’ out babies and putin’ some sort of dead animal on there man’s plate.


Karl
Comment posted August 18, 2010 @ 6:37 pm

As trite as it might sound: The truth hursts dosn’t it?!


Mai
Comment posted August 18, 2010 @ 9:34 pm

This isn’t even about Republican or Democratic, but the complete disrespect of women. Especially women in any leadership position. You don’t see a top 50 hottest male political candidates, because that would be disrespectful and no one would put up with it. However, it is “funny” to show a video that compares these great women and then defame them. No woman – Republican,Democratic, Independent, etc.. – should stand up for this.


john
Comment posted August 18, 2010 @ 11:06 pm

Yep, that sure is trite, Karl.


Steve Carlson
Comment posted August 19, 2010 @ 6:05 am

Democrat economy is a dog. Democrat national security is a dog. ObamaCare is a dog. So, who let them out?


Ralph Crammedin
Comment posted August 19, 2010 @ 11:55 am

Why is it that all College Republicans and Republican “operatives” are fat wimps who couldn’t make the football team OR the chess team. (and let’s not even get into their p*nis envy problems). Hey, you guys can take a joke, right?


gbear
Comment posted August 19, 2010 @ 4:20 pm

Steve, I would say that dog was let out by the majority of voters who voted for Obama. Obama was the candidate that people wanted and selected. He’s doing pretty much what he said he was going to do when he campaigned, and we chose him because of that. He won. Get over it.


JohnA
Comment posted August 19, 2010 @ 5:08 pm

The video is still available for viewing on Youtube, uploaded by a person named factsarestubbornthin’s with an upload date of May 05, 2010. The title is Republican Women vs Democrat Women. It has been tagged as offensive material by the Youtube community, so you need to log in to your Youtube account to view it. It is offensive.


Henk
Comment posted August 19, 2010 @ 7:05 pm

“She emphasizes that she has no involvement with the video”

Boloney, she is a MN Republican, it is/was posted on the official website of the MN Republican party, if you don’t like what the party does leave it. I’ll never understand women, blacks, latinos or gays who are Republican. You have to have some kind of self loathing.


Lazercat
Comment posted August 19, 2010 @ 10:50 pm

Disgraceful.

Is the level the Republican Party has stooped too? Or is the web guy 15 years old?


Steve Carlson
Comment posted August 20, 2010 @ 1:11 am

gbear, I’ll get over it November 2, and then again in 2012. Yeah, you got it, who let the dogs out is about mindless groupies running all over the American flag and launching America on a downward trajectory.


Philip G. Allen
Comment posted August 20, 2010 @ 2:06 am

Is this incorrigible child model what the Republican Party has become? Ridiculous chiding, obstructionist filibustering , unmitigated deliberate lying, are the earmarks of this obviously stupid group.


Daniel
Comment posted August 20, 2010 @ 3:36 pm

I find it funny that this has caused such a stir. There is plenty of vapid political propaganda created on this great internet of ours and somehow this has become big news.


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splashy
Comment posted August 20, 2010 @ 11:16 pm

Were women like Angelina Jolie included? I couldn’t watch it, since it started with Palin.

Or did he go for the older left wingers and younger right wingers?

Inquiring minds want to know.


Ben
Comment posted August 20, 2010 @ 11:31 pm

“mindless groupies running all over the American flag and launching America on a downward trajectory”

Steve, yes, it was mindless groupies who put Obama over the top and into office. And a different set of mindless groupies voted Bush in, twice. That’s how our political system works and everyone knows it. The only people who are swayed by the ads they see on TV are mindless groupies.

But if you honestly believe that voting either Obama or Bush into office caused a downward trajectory, I’ve got a bridge you might be interested in purchasing.

You clearly don’t see that we’ve been on a downward trajectory, fueled by deficit spending, since the days of Reagan. The passage of Gramm-Leach-Bliley in 1999 was the last nail in the coffin.


Connie
Comment posted August 21, 2010 @ 1:13 am

The GOP here in MN is a nasty bunch, so this really doesn’t surprise me. I think Michelle Obama is pretty but whatever. Was Democratic MI Governor Jennifer Granholm included in the clip? How ’bout that looker, former First Lady, Barbara Bush? Of course they weren’t as they wouldn’t fit the “joke,” would they?

As of today, Mark Dayton has a growing 9 point lead for Governor over Tom Emmer now, so maybe that’s why the MN GOP is so grumpy? And it’s not like Pawlenty’s going anywhere with his sad presidential bid! He won’t even win his own state! LOL! But hey, he says his wife is “smokin’ red hot” and that’s all that seems to matter to Republicans. They obviously think that’s what gets people to the voting booth!! LMAO

And this is the party of good Christian value voters, folks. What an uplifting and encouraging bunch!!


Anna
Comment posted August 21, 2010 @ 11:53 am

I pray that the Minnesota Republicans have hit the bottom with this one. I mean, can it get more ridiculous? Are they trying to sabotage their own campaigns? It sure seems like it.

Seriously, Bachmann’s idiocy is tame compared to this.


LdC
Comment posted August 22, 2010 @ 9:36 am

you may be correct, but where were all the independent and democrats when many were moking & batching Palin???
I do not like name calling, and negative remarks on either side, but this person has the right to say and do as he pleases, so “everyone” says all the time…SO, then if one person on either side of the isle can very nicely point out to him/her whenever writing articles like this why he/she should not…instead of asking for an apology…what about the apologies owed to Palin and Bush??? this answer was mainly ment for the democrat that was demanding an apology but I did not know how to get to them. Thanks and keep the wood work, God bless.


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JR
Comment posted December 5, 2010 @ 4:37 pm

When can we see a photo gallery of Angle, Bachmann and O’Donnell in various sexual positions involving dildos? I certainly would see the “humor” there.


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