Sounds to me like it's less what NRSC thinks of citizens and more what the casting company they used thinks of them. I don't think you can blame NRSC for the language used by the casting company. They probably never even saw the casting call till after the commercial was made.
-----Original Message----- From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 9:04 AM To: cf-community Subject: FW:GOP pulling W.Va. Senate ad with 'hicky' actors You really have to wonder about the sheer contempt that the NRSC holds for a lot of citizens. Hick actors? Really :/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/07/AR201010 0703009.html?hpid=topnews GOP pulling W.Va. Senate ad with 'hicky' actors By LAWRENCE MESSINA The Associated Press Thursday, October 7, 2010; 7:22 PM CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- National Republicans pulled back a West Virginia Senate ad Thursday after Democrats revealed its casting call had sought actors who looked like hicks to play state voters. The 30-second spot, filmed in Philadelphia, was dropped from the National Republican Senatorial Committee's YouTube channel Thursday. Republicans expected it to also be withdrawn from TV, where it has been in heavy rotation since Tuesday, according to a party official not directly involved in handling the ad. The official 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. It's a theme the GOP has been hammering in the battle to replace the late Democratic U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd. But the Republican nominee, 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 declined comment when contacted Thursday. "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 said it spent around $450,000 to air the ad, out of a estimated $3.5 million it has reserved for ad airtime in the closely fought race that 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. (c) 2010 The Associated Pres ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:328889 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
