Les Phillip, an African-American Republican who is looking to unseat Democrat-turned-Republican Congressman Parker Griffith in Alabama, has an ad that is intended to contrast Phillip with the president, claiming Obama…
“fell in with left-wing radicals,” “played with terrorists,” and “allowed his America-hating pastor to baptize his children.”
It includes a shot of Mr. Obama smoking a cigarette – an image, as the Washington Post’s Dave Weigel notes, that is a forgery.
Philip says in the spot that while he loves America, “President Obama is ashamed of it.” He says he wants to stop Mr. Obama from “destroying our nation.”
