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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOops! Ohio Cong Candidate Uses Footage of Moroccan Migrants to Warn of Mexican Border Crossers
Oops! Ohio Congressional Candidate Uses Footage of Moroccan Migrants to Warn of Mexican Border Crossersby Ken Meyer | 10:27 am, March 16th, 2018
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For a few months now, Ohio Republican congressional candidate Christina Hagan has been running an ad for her campaign about how shell drain the swamp, help President Donald Trump, and advocate for strong borders.
Theres just a slight problem: the clip she includes in her new campaign ad of illegal immigrants supposedly crossing the Mexican border are actually crossing a completely different border.
A portion of the ad shows scores of people approaching a wall and supposedly invading America like no ones business. However, CNNs Andrew Kaczynski spotted the irregularity:
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Politifact found that the footage originated from the Italian television network RepubblicaTV, and it shows a group of Moroccans pouring into Melilla, an autonomous Spanish-held enclave in North Africa. Interestingly enough, Trump used the exact same footage in one of his campaign ads, making no reference to the fact that it did not actually show Mexicans illegally pouring into the United States.
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Oops! Ohio Cong Candidate Uses Footage of Moroccan Migrants to Warn of Mexican Border Crossers (Original Post)
DonViejo
Mar 2018
OP
They both start with M and she probably presumes are all of the "darker complexion types". So
Guy Whitey Corngood
Mar 2018
#1
Anything to stir up FEAR of the other...cheapest, oldest most disgusting trick in the book.
Fred Sanders
Mar 2018
#6
There was a time the outrage here would be that source of video aside, anyone
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2018
#4
When Trump sees this video, his only thought is, "I can give her a bigger pearl necklace!"
TheBlackAdder
Mar 2018
#7
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,514 posts)1. They both start with M and she probably presumes are all of the "darker complexion types". So
it's OK.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)6. Anything to stir up FEAR of the other...cheapest, oldest most disgusting trick in the book.
And only Republicans do it without consequence or regard, even lying in your face...they really are deplorable.
MiniMe
(21,727 posts)2. Time to send her a check for "Hopes and Prayers"
Only costs a stamp. Make sure you explain why you are sending them i.e. the wrong footage.
Thyla
(791 posts)3. This is like my French FIL who suppots Trump
Because you know, Moroccans.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,158 posts)4. There was a time the outrage here would be that source of video aside, anyone
running for office in our country could not do this and not be shamed and easily defeated.
The least educated immigrant illegally crossing the border right now is a BETTER human being than this woman.
LisaM
(27,864 posts)5. Does she have any chance?
She's dressed like Sarah Huckabee Sanders, FFS. (Which confirms fire that the way SHS dresses is a code for a subset of voters).
TheBlackAdder
(28,262 posts)7. When Trump sees this video, his only thought is, "I can give her a bigger pearl necklace!"