Oops! Mitch McConnell Campaign Accidentally Thinks Duke Univ. Is In Kentucky

mitch

If there’s one thing Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) does with great regularity, it’s to make a big deal out of nothing, only to then have it come around and kick him in the butt. The most recent example of this is when Alison Lundergan Grimes? campaign committee ran an ad prominently depicting a Kentucky coal miner. At least, they thought he was from Kentucky. However, according to Yahoo! News, he was from the Ukraine.


When the campaign committee found out, they?quickly?replaced the Ukrainian man with an American. According to Politico, while the ad generated lots of media attention for the Lundergan Grimes campaign, it was flagged and the photo replaced before it ever wound up in print, campaign representatives said.

Because most of the energy used in Kentucky is still coal-based, Lundergan Grimes has been trying to distance herself from Obama’s mandate, which he issued on June 2. The mandate says that states must reduce their carbon emissions by 30 percent before 2030, Yahoo! reports.? Coal mining states ? like Kentucky, for instance, are against the move, however and this is probably the only area where McConnell and Lundergan Grimes are likely in sync.

In fact, according to this poll, Lundergan Grimes is trailing McConnell by a very thin margin. So, with the photo in question, perhaps McConnell thought he had the perfect opportunity to pounce.

Which he did, claiming that Lundergan Grimes was merely using empty rhetoric in an effort to appeal to Kentucky voters, whom, he contended, will most likely have to pay higher energy costs, according to Yahoo! Plus, while she says she’s opposed to Obama’s plan, she’s met with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who happens to support Obama’s plan.? Oh no!? Say it isn’t so.

Mitch McConnell, the filibuster king,?would never use empty rhetoric, would he?

Yes he would.

McConnell’s committee has scores of photographic big, bad, naughty no-nos, albeit accidental.

Geography seems to be problematic for the committee:

  • Apparently some countries look one heck of a lot like Kentucky ? as the photos shown in the article by Yahoo! show. First up is an ad on McConnell’s Facebook page that depicts a coal mining operation, replete with red-striped tower. Under the bright blue American sky an imposing message looms: ?Like if you agree?Democrats have a choice: Stand with coal families or get out of our way.? The problem is, if the Democrats are going to do any getting out of the way, they’d have to do this in Piraeus, Greece. Where the photo was actually taken.
  • Then there’s a perky little love note from the NRA that shows a guy who looks like he just stepped out of a hunting catalog after a visit with the?Duck Dynasty crowd, replete with cute dog. Yes, this photo looks like good-old homespun Americana. Even if it was actually shot in Denmark.
  • Last November, there was this ad, depicting a sepia-toned pastoral image of a hunter’s rifle ready to blow some hapless creature away. “Mitch is fighting to protect Kentuckians’ right to bear arms” the ad trumpets, along with a post from McConnell: ?”We’re marking the beginning of deer season in Kentucky with the rollout of our Sportsmen for Team Mitch coalition!” Oh that Mitch, what a guy! Except that the photo is marking the beginning of deer season…in Slovenia.

One spectacular goof in a televized campaign ad got past McConnell’s campaign committee, and even the flying monkey sycophants at Fox News got in on it, trotting out this?article courtesy of the Associated Press.

In the ad, McConnell pats himself on the back and talks the usual campaign shtick about ‘this great country,’ and ‘what it is to be an American,’ and blahblahblah. Meanwhile, we see all these heartwarming images of Kentucky ? and the Duke University basketball team, which would be all well and good, except for the minor fact that Duke University is in North Carolina.


 
Ooops. Um…didn’t I use this word (if it is a word) earlier?

According to the Associated Press via those fine people at Fox, Allison Moore, McConnell’s spokeswoman, is not pleased. She’s blamed the faux pas on a vendor and said she was “horrified.”

This makes me wonder if anyone on campaign committees ever does any fact-checking. In each of these instances, including the earlier boo-boo that slipped past the Lundergan Grimes committee, the error was blamed on someone else. Her people blamed the design firm that was responsible for the ad.

In the game of pin the blame on the donkey, these political kerfuffles keep the candidates in front of our eyes, but kick the issues out of sight. It keeps us focused on the fact that the McConnell team showed images that might have been correct in some other alternate universe, but it doesn’t tell us whether or not he’s going to keep undermining Obamacare, or if he’s going to keep tickling the toes of the National Rifle Association. It doesn’t tell us if he’s going to keep supporting an elderly, decrepit and possibly dangerous nuclear power plant.

All this does is tell us a lot of nothing about nothing.

Please let us know what you think of all of this on the Liberal America Facebook page.

 

edited by tw

I'm a journalist with more than 25 years of experience in writing for newspapers large and small. I'm currently writing for Decoded Arts, Digital Journal. Currently, I have 13 friendly cats (I'm not superstitious) and a large wolf dog named Bartolomé and I'm teaching him how to eat tea party members. Okay, not really.