There’s really nothing to say to this. It’s just gross.
James Foley, the American journalist murdered by ISIS militants, makes a cameo in a series of web ads from the Secure America Now, a right-wing nonprofit national security organization that lists on its advisory board people like former Gov. Mike Huckabee and Ambassador John Bolton. […]
The new advertisements are part of “the launch of a new advocacy campaign in Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana, Michigan, and New Hampshire.”
Maybe people like Mike Huckabee and John Bolton shouldn’t be using the literal products of terrorism as promotional material to boost their preferred party’s candidates. Videotaping an American’s murder so that it would be widely broadcast to Americans was the whole point of the terrorist act, and maybe promoting that act because you think it helps your partisan political agenda shows that you have a poor sense of moral priorities. Using a still image of a murder for an utterly generic, swap-in-each-state-candidate’s-face-here border spot in which you are trying yourself to strike fear into Americans so that they vote the way you tell them to may, if possible, even make it worse.
I mean, ick. I thought I couldn’t possibly think less of Mike Huckabee and John Bolton, but I was wrong. I was really, really wrong.
