The Pappas campaign has struggled with legitimacy for years. He’s got a white-collar political activist in a commercial pretending (much like Pappas himself) to be a blue-collar guy. And now there’s an ad with a “New Hampshire” family eating dinner who are actually Russian, living in Moscow.
Reformatted.
Pappas has released a new ad that begins, “Here in New Hampshire, we keep the government out of our homes…” But the kitchen where a happy family is enjoying corn on the cob and orange juice in the Pappas ad appears to be not in Manchester but in Moscow.
The video is from the stock footage company Pond5. According to the description on its website, it was shot by Daria Kozyreva in Russia.
Karoline Leavitt has some thoughts (also care of NH Journal),
“First, Chris Pappas made his Democrat Party lawyer friend dress up as a mechanic for his TV ad because real blue-collar, middle-class workers in our state don’t support him. … Now, Chris Pappas is using footage of a Russian family eating an extravagant dinner while real families in our state cannot afford to feed their children or heat their homes.
That’s all true, but the thing that struck me as more dishonest than showing a Russian family having a feast passed off as Granite Staters was the opening ad copy. “Here in New Hampshire, we keep the government out of our homes and out of our doctor’s offices.”
Seriously?
New Hampshire Democrats lined up to try and force people to get the COVID shots. Many objected to allowing doctors to prescribe FDA-licensed drugs that were in the best interests of their patients. Some Dems wanted them punished if they tried.
The Left also promoted, we could even say demanded, that adults and children be required to get an experimental pharmaceutical injection to attend any school, keep a job, or take part in normal everyday life.
If there was a way to get between people and their doctors during COVID, Democrats were all in on that. It was their reason for living, and anyone who dared to keep the government from getting between doctors and patients was smeared, pilloried, or labeled vaccine-hesitant or a science denier, including doctors.
As for homes, I don’t have time to dredge it all up, but there is no shortage of regulatory or legislative intrusion from the Left into everyday life, so the premise of this ad is absurd. But that’s not nearly as fun as this.
It’s been fourteen years since John McCain picked Governor Sarah Palin as his VP. The media lost its mind, and with the help of the leftist cabal, they created fables about the woman, few if any, based on any scrap of truth, but to which Democrats still cling. Like Tina Fey, pretending to be Palin, saying she could see Russia from her front porch.
As Granite Staters and Americans struggle to afford high energy costs and food prices that have (in some cases) doubled, Chris Pappas can see a well-fed Russian family at the dinner table “from his front porch.”
And they are all white. Does that make Pappas a racist as well?
