RNC Pulled Video Of Mock-Obama Criticizing Troops, Thanking Ayers

UPDATE: The RNC confirms that the mock Obama video it put up on its site -- in which a voice impersonation of the president pledges to hand the census over to ACORN and offers thanks to Bill Ayers -- was never meant to be released to the public.

"After checking on this I found out that this was an internal concept that inadvertently got posted on you tube and was taken down shortly after the error was realized," emails RNC Communications Director Trevor Francis. "The concept you saw lacked substantiation, proper internal reviews and approval, and in the end isn't something that we are going to release. I don't know if we will use impersonators in the future."

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Marking Barack Obama's 100th day in office, the Republican National Committee published a video that uses an Obama impersonator to mock the president as beholden to a teleprompter and a hypocrite on a range of policy issues.

The web ad, which has an off-sounding Obama voice commenting over footage of the inaugural address, was briefly posted on the RNC's YouTube page on Wednesday. But shortly after its release, the spot was unceremoniously removed from the site.

After a request for comment, RNC spokesman Trevor Francis said the committee planned on releasing a new version of the video with better editing and citations. He said the updated version will likely come out later today.

The early, unreleased version of the video shows the faux-president pledging to increase spending and hand the census over to ACORN, as well as celebrating a Treasury Secretary who failed to pay his taxes. There is even a shot at Obama for his association with former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers, with the president thanking "Professor Ayers" for clapping after he pledged to put together "a report that characterizes our returning service members... as people who may become terrorists."

"100 days ago, a man read a grand speech from a TelePrompter," the text at the beginning of the RNC spot reads. "What if the Teleprompter had accidentally switched to reality-mode?"

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Beyond pushing a greatest hits list of attacks on the president, the video also provides a window into the anti-Obama anger that still consumes much of the GOP. Chairman Michael Steele has been the target of criticism from some senior party members who believe he hasn't gone far enough in attacking the White House's agenda.

UPDATE: The House Republicans, meanwhile, released their own incendiary ad attacking the president. The spot, titled "Day 101," includes footage of the Pentagon burning on September 11th alongside clips of terrorist training videos and violent protests in the Middle East.

Complete with dreary background music, the video challenges Obama on his decision to close Guantanamo Bay and release memos detailing the Bush administration's policies on torture. The video also shows Obama's handshake with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, airs a bunch of headlines and news clips about CIA interrogations and flashes of terrorist training videos.

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Comments

[showmestategal]

When you fight evil with evil, Evil Wins!
IS THIS CHRISTIAN & RIGHT?

When will We the People be able to see the republicans being not so hateful in the political arena they already lost the election for Mc Cain through all of their Lies - Misleading charges & dishonest Adds. with their dirty politics taking them out of office was not enough.

We need to REMEMBER and watch how the treat their own republicans and the way they don't WANT the truths out there. So they go to any link to spread vicious vindictive ungodly information about anyone who doesn't go along with them completely.

Believe the Democrats have a lot more sources of republican corruption & failed party people, but they know that WE do not like the negative kind of politics prefer to be told Honestly what someone will do if elected
This is Abuse and Torture for the people involved just ask Palin, Mc Cain, Libby,Spec­ter,morris­,de lay,hassert, Lay ,madoff,abrams & many others. Should not be tolerated by a Moral Democracy or deserve any answer to their vicious attacks in return.
It just fuels their sadistic nature & attitude.

This is the right in action again already because they are so wrong !
We voted to change away from this kind of politics & Lying we will need to again in 2010 & 2012 .

[citizen of the universe]

This hatred of President Obama is deep, they even went after the dog! Good grief

[420]

These people profess to be moral. The Gop is the party of God according to them. Look at their base...enough said.

[protagonia]

Descendants of the swine itself.

The rt wing IS the plague.

[Horus45]

If the DNC had done this at Bush's 100th day, we would have never heard the end of it from Republicans!
They would have been on TV daily to denigrate and smear the Democrats, they would have been demanding that whoever was responsible be FIRED!

[protagonia]

This branch of the right wing is America's BLIGHT.

They are born Iiars and cheats.

Genetically crooked people.

Our lowest and worst.

[bogues]

Republicans keep making these kinds of videos and comments and then proclaim that they weren't meant for public consumption. How ironic it is that these things always make it into the news and then the damage is done. We now have proof of what the Republican party is really doing with its time and resources. You would think they would spend just a few minutes worrying about the future that they are always talking about. Why would anyone want to vote for a party that cannot grow up and be responsible.

[dRwOOD]

Were these brought up on ANY of the MSM news shows last night ????? I didn't catch it, if so sham on them!!!

[JanSP1971]

Isn't there even one republican that will have the courage to stand up and say this type of thing is out of line? Isn't there even one that will show respect to our elected President and our country? Some one stand up and say ENOUGH!

[MossyOak]

They won't because then they'll have to turn around and apologize to Rush for breaking rank.

[lgwenmurphy]

President Obama won the election! Now he is busy attempting to straighten out the mess we are in because of the Republican party. What are they doing? Running a full fledged campaign of hate, lies, etc. against the president. While they insist they are concerned about their children's future, etc., why aren't they concerned about how their children and grandchildren will view them as human beings? One would think if they put as much effort into helping the nation solve some of it's problems we could move one. But the bill relative to the banks/foreclosures failing tells us a lot. The same people (banks) who have helped create the problem and have now taken bailout money, have also BOUGHT them. Someone needs to tell them they have been exposed and the clothing provided them by the banks/insurance companies does not cover their .... .

[diamonded]

Igwenmurphy; I thoroughly enjoyed your post on Mock-Obama and have read a dozen or so of your posts with a growing sense of brotherhood with you. In fact, I would be happy to add your "blog" to my daily reading list if you were so inclined. The Huffington Post, as well as other blogs, have provided me with an outlet that I was starving for. For 8 years, as a liberal I took the "double tap", not only having to absorb the daily rape and injustice practiced by the Bushies, but the additional insult of witnessing an inept MSM totally ignoring even the worst violations of law and moral compass.

Now, through reading the blogs, and I think equally important, the comments to the postings, I'm now able to not only keep up with the battles, I'm able in a small way to help move the progressive agenda forward. So, I welcome your input and hope to read your comments for the duration.

[MossyOak]

Welcome aboard, diamonded.

[IrishmanErrant]

Agreed, diamonded.
I made a prefile to comment on this video, but I plan to do a lot more, judging how receptive this community is.

[rich misty]

Republicans don't appear to realize the fact that the election is long over now.

They lost the last straw of American support by continuing to campaign against Obama, and that is not the way Americans do politics, or sports.

[IrishmanErrant]

I honestly don't know whether to laugh or cry at these attacks. It is pitiful that the RNC and the House Republicans can't get past their bigotry and failed idealism to see that perhaps having a diplomatic president, rather than some idiotic cowboy, running our country is a POSITIVE thing.
How DARE they go to such extreme, inconceivable lengths to criticize President Obama, when just months ago Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck were proclaiming how me must always support the president, no matter what. How DARE they stand in support of the torture policies of the last administration. The fact of the matter is, Obama has the support of the majority of Americans behind him, and those tea-partygoers, who are so eager to criticize his tax policies, should wake up and realize that, unless they are in the 3 percent of Americans who make over a quarter of a million dollars a year, they will get a tax CUT.
The RNC ought to be ashamed of this video, and it's falsehoods, extrapolations, and propaganda. I'm gonna be sick.

[nomobull]

TAKE NOTE OF THEM BEFORE NEXT ELECTION AND VOTE AGAINST THEM.

[IrishmanErrant]

I did in the last election, and I plan to in every other.

[AirForceWx1701]

"This is something that we'd never release..."

but wouldn't you know,

"OOops, goshdarn it, we accidentally on purpose released it. Dang. Well, cross our hearts, this isn't how we really feel, it's just a 'concept'"...

[liz]

How much time, effort , and money went into producing the "accident?" Lies and athe lying liars that tell them. May all your chickens come home to roost.

[winnie47]

CLUCK CLUCK!

[Thomas Bailey]

To this day, I'm still utterly confused as to why the GOP rails against Obama's usage of a Teleprompter. Did they really think GWB never used one? Bizarre crazy, for real.

[Klimb]

BUAH HAD A TELEPROMPTER EVERYDAY HE SPOKE BUT FAILED TO SPEAK OR MASTER ITS USE!

[protagonia]

Because they play to the least intelligent base that this nation has ever had the misfortune to contain.

[winnie47]

It's one of those idiotic projections that the Rethugs are famous for. Bush couldn't speak WITHOUT a teleprompter because it involved all that dadburn thinkin' and payin' attention. Then when he DID use it, he looked like a deer in the headlights by staring at it unblinkingly. Since President Obama is such a gifted speaker, the GOPukes all scream in unison that it's his use of teleprompters that lets him speak so well. Unfortunately for them, at his "First 100 Days" press conference, he did the whole thing flawlessly, without teleprompters, from memory. The sound of Rethugnican heads exploding was deafening.

[showmestategal]

When will We the People we able to see the republicans not so hateful in the political arena they already lost the election for Mc Cain through all of their Lies and Misleading charges with their dirty politics taking them out of office was not enough.
We need to REMEMBER and watch how the treat their own republicans and the way they don't WANT the truths out there. So they go to any link to spread vicious vindictive ungodly information about anyone who doesn't go along with them completely.
This is Abuse and Torture for the people involved just ask Palin, Mc Cain, Libby,Specter & many others should not be tolerated by a Moral Democracy or deserve any answer to their attacks in return.
It just fuels their sadistic nature & attitude.

This is the right in action again already because they are so wrong !
We voted to change away from this kind of politics & Lying we will need to again in 2010 & 2012 .

[gypsysailor]

Why are the republicans so angry about loosing the last 2 elections? Could it be that they were caught with their respective hands in the cookie jar? Mayhap they looked in a mirror and did not like what they saw. Or maybe God finally got fed up with being used and spanked them a little.

[Klimb]

THEY DISPLAYING PROJECTION HATRED...INSTEAD OF BEJNG HATEFUL TOWARDS BUSHES/ CHENEYS WHO DESTROYED THER PARTY THEY DOING IT TOWARDS POTUS (DEMORATS)!!!!!!!!!