Critics blast Obama campaign for new ad
Oct 26, 2012 14:13:04 GMT -5
Post by PrisonerOfHope on Oct 26, 2012 14:13:04 GMT -5
Critics blast Obama campaign for new ad that likens voting for Barack Obama to a young woman losing her virginity
Published October 26, 2012
FoxNews.com
Actress Lena Dunham likens voting for Barack Obama to losing her virginity in an official Obama campaign ad featured on the campaign's website.
Critics have lambasted the spot, vetted and approved by President Obama's campaign, calling it tasteless and inappropriate for the campaign to target young female voters with the sexual double entendre.
Titled "Lena Dunham: Your First Time," the creator of HBO's hit series "Girls" talks directly to the camera, saying: "The first time shouldn't be with just anybody. You want to do it with a great guy. Someone who really cares about and understands women."
Dunham proceeds to get a bit more overtly political in the commercial, adding the “first time” should be with "a guy who cares whether you get health insurance and specifically whether you get birth control."
She then gets into full campaign mode, touching on several hot button issues in the Presidential campaign, saying "You want to do it with a guy who brought the troops out of Iraq" and "You don't want a guy who says, 'Oh hey, I'm at the library studying,' when really he's out not signing the Lilly Ledbetter act."
Dunham closes the ad with: "My first time voting was amazing. It was this line in the sand. Before I was a girl, now I was a woman. I went to the polling station, I pulled back the curtain, I voted for Barack Obama."
The double entendre ad has come under intense criticism. Ben Shapiro on Breitbart.com called it "astoundingly tasteless." Breeanne Howe on the website Red State criticized the President directly, saying: "This is an adult man, with two young daughters, who should know better."
Not everyone was offended. Entertainment Weekly called it "wryly hip" and said it would appeal to Dunham's young fans.
And on a side note, Slate.com notes Dunham would actually have been of voting age for Bush v. Kerry in 2004. Which means she apparently missed her first chance to vote for President.
Read more: www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/10/26/girls-creator-lena-dunham-compares-voting-to-barack-obama-to-losing-virginity/?intcmp=features#ixzz2AQyFoaN4
Published October 26, 2012
FoxNews.com
Actress Lena Dunham likens voting for Barack Obama to losing her virginity in an official Obama campaign ad featured on the campaign's website.
Critics have lambasted the spot, vetted and approved by President Obama's campaign, calling it tasteless and inappropriate for the campaign to target young female voters with the sexual double entendre.
Titled "Lena Dunham: Your First Time," the creator of HBO's hit series "Girls" talks directly to the camera, saying: "The first time shouldn't be with just anybody. You want to do it with a great guy. Someone who really cares about and understands women."
Dunham proceeds to get a bit more overtly political in the commercial, adding the “first time” should be with "a guy who cares whether you get health insurance and specifically whether you get birth control."
She then gets into full campaign mode, touching on several hot button issues in the Presidential campaign, saying "You want to do it with a guy who brought the troops out of Iraq" and "You don't want a guy who says, 'Oh hey, I'm at the library studying,' when really he's out not signing the Lilly Ledbetter act."
Dunham closes the ad with: "My first time voting was amazing. It was this line in the sand. Before I was a girl, now I was a woman. I went to the polling station, I pulled back the curtain, I voted for Barack Obama."
The double entendre ad has come under intense criticism. Ben Shapiro on Breitbart.com called it "astoundingly tasteless." Breeanne Howe on the website Red State criticized the President directly, saying: "This is an adult man, with two young daughters, who should know better."
Not everyone was offended. Entertainment Weekly called it "wryly hip" and said it would appeal to Dunham's young fans.
And on a side note, Slate.com notes Dunham would actually have been of voting age for Bush v. Kerry in 2004. Which means she apparently missed her first chance to vote for President.
Read more: www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/10/26/girls-creator-lena-dunham-compares-voting-to-barack-obama-to-losing-virginity/?intcmp=features#ixzz2AQyFoaN4
