Randall Terry puts out his latest campaign ad aimed at Kamala Harris. Networks slap viewer discretion on it. |
Be warned, there will be graphic content.
Operation Rescue, a far right anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ organization led by Randall Terry is not doing former president Donald J. Trump any favors.
Terry who is running for president under the Constitution Party released a graphic political ad depicting dead fetuses and what could happen if America votes for Vice President Kamala Harris as the next president.
Terry, a white extremist opposes human induced abortion and its legality, Islam, and homosexuality.
He joins Trump, the far right, tankies and leftists in the mispronouncing of the vice president's name, her policies and her stances on many issues.
Terry is a fringe candidate for president who has qualified for the ballot in a dozen states as the standardbearer of the Constitution Party, a status that has enabled him to get airtime for his commercials.
Under Federal Communications Commission regulations, broadcast stations “are prohibited from censoring or rejecting political ads that are paid for and sponsored by legally qualified candidates,” a standard that Terry has met.
“This is the last bastion of free speech,” Terry said in an interview. “The only place that you can still have free speech is on a licensed station as a federal candidate.”
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The FCC rule applies only to candidates, not political organizations, meet its criteria and doesn’t apply to cable networks or web-based properties like podcasts. CNN, which is not required to show the ad and said it wouldn’t meet its standards anyway, issued a statement calling it “outrageous, antisemitic and dangerous.”
Terry already has another ad — featured on his website but not yet on television — that specifically targets CNN’s Jake Tapper.
“I’m not going to be the president,” Terry said. “I’m not delusional. The whole point of this is to cause Kamala’s defeat.”
To that end, many of his ads are anti-Harris and, except for a brief printed message on the screen, don’t even mention his candidacy. He has been running advertisements on a local level throughout the campaign, in each of the states where an abortion measure is on the ballot. A total of 40 local ads have been completed, along with a series of national advertisements, Terry said.
His target audience is people aged 50 to 80, an age group that would be most likely to watch broadcast television, who are likely Democratic voters, Catholics and Black.
Christian F. Nunes, president of the National Organization for Women, said she worries that the ads represent a manipulation of FCC regulations and are promoting hateful rhetoric.
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