Well, this is charming.
This highly inflammatory YouTube video, posted in May, was resurrected yesterday when a Minnesota Republican lobbying group tweeted a link to the video–now broken–with the deceptively neutral text, “Republic Women vs. Democrat Women.”
The video features glamor shots of Republican women over Tom Jones’ “She’s a Lady” and doctored, unflattering photos of Democrat women to “Who Let the Dogs Out?”
They’ve taken the video down, but here’s a screen shot of their Twitter feed.
Feel like barking? Email the chair of the group, Joe Salmon.
Gross. Again with the “Democrat women are ugly” argument masquerading as legitimate political discourse.
I find it ironic that they are saying republican women "know their place" as republican women but democrat women are animals-specifically dogs. Also some of the photos used for the democrat women are poorly photo shopped.
Why are you letting them frame the debate by repeating their Democrat women rather than Democratic Women even when you aren't quoting them. Please don't use Republican cant.
This is what I sent to Mr. Salmon:
"First the grammatically correct form is "Democratic." If you want to use Democrat for some specious reason of your own, you must, in order to use the English language correctly, say "Women who are Democrats." Second, I may be ugly, but I vote. I vote every time. And I don't vote for people who can't tell an ad hominem attack from actual political discourse."
I wonder if the people who created this video buy into the (wrong) stereotype that pretty women are dumber? What would that do to change their fictitious debate?