I was on the couch on a sleepy Sunday, tuned in to a football game.
As I got up during a commercial break, Betsy called me back into the living room.
“You have to hear this,” she said. “It is the craziest thing ever.”
I rewound the commercial, a political ad for Ohio U.S. Senate candidate Mike Gibbons.
After I picked my jaw up from the ground, I rewound it one more time, so I could transcribe it for this column.
What the ad said:
“I believe in an America where we kneel in devotion, not disrespect. I’m Mike Gibbons. The socialist left, fake news and world corporations have one thing in common: They hate America and they hate our faith. They want our money and our minds to replace God and government. But the America I know kneels to no man. It takes gridiron grit to send these leftist losers back to the bench.”
Is this what we’ve come to? Pandering to a very specific crowd while taking pot shots at everyone else? Building on the us-vs.-them mentality while spewing venom looped with…
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