California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter isn’t about to let a 48-page federal indictment stop him from scraping way down at the bottom of the barrel ahead of the midterm elections in an attempt to smear his Democratic opponent as a scary Muslim terrorist—despite the fact that he’s not even Muslim at all (though even if he were, the ad would still be bigoted trash). In the ad, which was quietly released last week by the Hunter campaign, Democratic nominee Ammar Campa-Najja is accused of attempting to “infiltrate” Congress by hiding his familial connections to terrorism. Campa-Najja, the Hunter campaign concludes at the end of the 30-second spot, is “a risk we can’t ignore.” The ad, complete with scary voiceover and official-looking font seemingly intended to invoke a national security report, highlights Campa-Najja’s paternal grandfather—a senior member of the Black September group responsible for the 1972 massacre at the Munich Olympics. But despite its ominous, Islamophobic overtones (or, really, just tones) the ad fails to mention that Campa-Najja’s grandfather died more than a decade-and-a half before the candidate was even alive. As the Washington Post notes: Campa-Najjar said in an interview that he never knew his grandfather, who died 16 years… Read full this story
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