Sharron Angle, the Republican nominee for Senate in Nevada against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, has a new one-minute ad featuring dire and tragic music — mixed with fear-mongering about Michigan that could have been taken right out of The Kentucky Fried Movie.
The ad features no dialogue, other than the compulsory voice-over from Angle saying she approved the message, but instead features music with a montage of unemployed people and on-screen text from news clips about Nevada’s economic situation. And the message is repeatedly hammered home that Nevada’s unemployment is now worse than Michigan.
This is a lot like the running gags of The Kentucky Fried Movie, involving Michigan’s largest city, such as this piece of dialogue between two British intelligence officials:
Pennington: These are the Hartz Mountains of Asia. A terrain so rugged, so treacherous, no country will claim it.
Asquith: Worse than Detroit?
Pennington: I’m afraid so.
The TPM Poll Average currently gives Angle a lead of 46.0%-40.8%.
Eric Kleefeld
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