Sharron Angle Targets Reid's Supermodel Friend In New Ad (VIDEO)

Sharron Angle is out with a new ad designed to contrast the economic woes in Nevada and the allegedly lavish lifestyle of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

"Not everyone in Nevada is suffering from Harry Reid's failed economic policies," a woman, who appears to be channeling Michele Bachmann's "Jim, the election guy," says in the ad. "While you may be in the unemployment line, someone's more likely to be in a conga line."

The commercial then shows a picture, which Slate's Dave Weigel points out is actually an edited picture of Reid with First Lady Michelle Obama

"And while your family is just hanging on, someone's been hanging out with supermodels," the woman continues.

A picture of Reid with a supermodel flashes on the screen.

"And while you worry about making your next mortgage payment, guess who lives in this spectacular Washington Ritz-Carlton," the woman says.

If anything, it's surprising that Angle took so long to come out with this final attack, which has been tossed around in Republican circles for months. The NRSC also just got around to making a point of Reid's swanky residence in a separate attack ad Tuesday.

Angle also tried to make a point of Reid's personal wealth in their debate last week:

"Not only that, you came from Searchlight to the Senate with very little. Now you're one of the richest men in the U.S. Senate," Angle said during the face-off. "On behalf of Nevada taxpayers, I'd like to know -- we'd like to know -- how did you become so wealthy on a government payroll?"

Reid deflected the shot as a "low-blow":

"I think most everyone knows, I was a very successful lawyer, I did a very good job in investing, I've been on a fixed income since I went to Washington, I lived off what I made in the private sector, I put my five kids through 100 semesters of school, and I paid for every penny of it," Reid responded. "So your suggestion that I made money being a senator is simply false."

UPDATE:

The ad has been removed from YouTube due to a copyright claim made by Zuffa LLC, the group that owns Ultimate Fighting Championship.

At this point, it isn't clear which part of the ad has prompted the complaints.

Comments

[rougebaisers]

10:03 AM on 10/22/2010

What should have been said......."Man up Harry Reid." ............"Shut the f**k up b***h, and that's Harry Rod to you."

[moose and squirrel]

02:22 AM on 10/22/2010

did you see his interview on the Ed Show? if you are going to pick on harry reid for the 2 years of economic downturn in nevada, you also have to give him credit for the 20 years of prosperity it enjoyed while he was senator.

[Deltalk]

12:38 AM on 10/22/2010

Never underestimate the American People.

On november 2nd 2010; We, The People, take America back!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Os0cwpCQE&feature=player_embedded

[turfkiller]

10:23 PM on 10/23/2010

"All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years." --Sarah Palin, unable to name a single newspaper or magazine she reads, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008

Estimating is not necessary but ignorance is a proven and substantial part of what little character she has.

[moose and squirrel]

12:19 AM on 10/22/2010

are you kiding me? this guarantees Reid the dude vote! what guy in las vegas doesnt want his picture taken with a supermodel? Sharron Angle totally miscalculated this one, but who can blame her-- with her looks the only attention she gets is from dairy farmers!

[rgateman]

02:07 PM on 10/23/2010

only a dairy farmer that did not own a sheep. lol

[edejan]

11:26 PM on 10/21/2010

What a skum bagg.

[MrVee]

10:47 PM on 10/21/2010

What else is Harry supposed to do? A fine, dime piece of a model wants to take a photo with a politician she respects and Harry supposed to straight arm her? Nahhh, I can't hate on Harry for this. Its not like he got a lap dance. Wify would break Harry off with a quickness. lol.

[edejan]

11:25 PM on 10/21/2010

Did you read the article? The photo of a model was photoshopped over a photo of Harry with Michele Obama.

[OmegaHunter]

01:00 AM on 10/22/2010

You misunderstood.

The photo with the model is real and comes after the edited one.

The photoshopped photo is the one you see in the link to Slate. He is giving a two-handed high-five to someone that in that picture is just out of the frame. They chopped Michelle Obama off at the elbows.

But the narration claims that he is in a "conga line" when really he's with the first lady.

[MrVee]

06:37 AM on 10/22/2010

I read it. I know it's some desperate teaparty nonsense. I was just speaking to the irony of the storyline.

[kaptaintripps]

09:56 PM on 10/21/2010

From Nevada:

Bizarro, Sharron. You really, really are desperate and pathetic, aren't you?

[gransview]

09:25 PM on 10/21/2010

A little O/T... I restore photographs, and just want to say what a great job they did!

(That was a dirty trick!)

[Anonymous17]

09:23 PM on 10/21/2010

You go Harry, I'd be letting her hug up on me too! Certainly beats Angle hugging up on her illegal alien house help doesn't it!

[avshanbh]

09:18 PM on 10/21/2010

Why is Angle allowed to get away with showing a photo shopped pic as a real pic?

[OmegaHunter]

01:01 AM on 10/22/2010

It is a real pic.

The edited photo comes before the one with the model in the ad.

The narration claims he is partying around in a "conga line" when it's on screen and it shows him smiling and touching both hands to someone out of the frame.

The actual photo shows that the person in question is Michelle Obama and he isn't in a conga line at all.

[Takebackourmoney]

09:12 PM on 10/21/2010

H#ll hath no fury like a woman scorned.

[ctman47]

09:01 PM on 10/21/2010

So Sharron thinks Reid is a model Senator?

[Daw8it]

07:47 PM on 10/21/2010

This is great for Harry Reid. Nothing better than a Super model to boost your status.
i would vote for him now

[seeksthetruth]

07:47 PM on 10/21/2010

Angle, the populist. Yeah right. I guess telling people that your ideology would result in an even greater transfer of wealth from the middle class to the wealthy doesn't play too well, so she has to lie and act like it is really Reid that can't relate to the middle class.

And, she had previously been open about wanting to do way with unemployment, social security, public schools, etc., but has had to backtrack on that too.

Let's hope the people of Nevada are wise enough to see through these Rovian tactics!

[SunnyMorning162]

07:30 PM on 10/21/2010

Sharron...do the good people of Nevada realize you want to dismantle the Department of Energy?

Sharron Angle "would eliminate the Department of Education."

The Nevada Senate race between incumbent Democrat Harry Reid and Republican challenger Sharron Angle has become one of the nation's most bitter, with Angle seeking to make Reid the poster child for the poor national and Nevada economies and Reid trying to portray Angle's staunchly conservative views as out of the mainstream.

In a television ad released Aug. 23, 2010, Reid's campaign says that Angle wants to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education. The ad relies on a clip from an interview Angle did with radio station KNPR, the NPR affiliate in Nevada, on May 19, 2010, when she was running in the GOP primary.

The exchange quoted in the ad begins with the host asking Angle, "Would you eliminate the Department of Education or simply cut it back?" Angle replies, "I would like to go through to the elimination."

http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/sep/01/harry-reid/harry-reid-says-sharron-angle-wants-eliminate-educ/