where it looked like he was masturbating and was shirtless (taken from a documentary from an earlier Governor's race). Really, could the Rethugs be any more disgusting?
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Suggestive GOP ad attacks Ohio Senate Dem hopeful
By JULIE CARR SMYTH (AP) – 9 hours ago
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A sexually suggestive political attack ad featuring a shirtless Democratic U.S. Senate candidate from Ohio in a provocative pose has drawn a barrage of decency and copyright complaints after being posted on a national Republican campaign committee's website.
The ad, created by the National Republican Senatorial Committee, features Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher bare-chested with one hand on his belly and the other one below the screen. The image oscillates as steamy saxophone music plays and a title reads: "He was more concerned about his job than yours."
Fisher won the Democratic nomination Tuesday primary in the campaign for the seat of retiring Republican U.S. Sen. George Voinovich.
Ohio newspapers dubbed the ad racy, tasteless and suggestive of masturbation.
YouTube pulled the spot from its website Thursday at the request of the Buckeye State Blog, an Ohio political blog that claimed rights to other pieces of video used in the ad. The ad drew 40,000 hits before it was pulled from the site, and Fisher campaign spokesman John Collins said the campaign saw an outpouring of online donations in an apparent backlash.
The shirtless image is taken from a few seconds from an on-camera conversation Fisher had with son, Jason, during the filming of a documentary on Ohio's 2006 gubernatorial campaign. Fisher already endured an earlier round of embarrassment over the scene when it was first posted online.
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