GOP Ad for Missouri Governor Features Candidate Blasting Away With a Machine Gun
Missouri Republican gubernatorial candidate Eric Greitens has run a new campaign ad, featuring him firing a high-power machine gun, and it bears an eerie resemblance to Islamic State propaganda videos.
“This is not a positive direction for the country to go,” Cenk Uygur, host of "The Young Turks," said after watching the ad. “Not just because it’s so painfully stupid that you can’t believe this guy’s actually running... [and] that our country’s devolved to this. But also because of the violent imagery."
Greitens, like the majority of Republicans, is anti-choice and in favor of "gun rights." In the spot, Greitens fires a Gatling-style machine gun into a lake ... and that's pretty much it.
"I'm pro-life," Uygur said, mercilessly mocking Greitens. "I would kill anything in my path, but I'm pro-life."
“It’s become Idiocracy—literally, like firing a machine gun and being like, ‘You know why you should vote for me?'” Uygur said, imitating the gunfire sound used in the commercial.
Another group that uses weapons in videos to persuade viewers to join its cause? The Islamic State, as Uygur compared. “We look at them and go, ‘Look at these monsters, and they’re so proudly firing their weapons and they’re savages,'” Uygur mused. “And then a guy running for ... governor will run similar ads and then we go, ‘Oh that’s our guy, that’s our maniac.'”
Greitens, a former Navy Seal, won the Missouri Republican primary for governor in Missouri Wednesday. So apparently, the joke's on us.
