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Advertising. there's always something new and terrible in every election season. but thus far among major party candidates for major offices and specifically among ads that were not just cut and put up on the web somewhere but were actually aired and broadcast for money, this year so far the texas lieutenant governor david dew hirs, he is the undisputed title holder for the worst ad this year at least. i don't know if you've seen this ad. this is how it starts. normal enough. texas landscape. guitar music. sort of starts really texas normal. everything's going to be fine. but then right away t...

For re-election in the state senate in virginia, he ran an ad that at one point featured him cuddling a mute animal statue that he talked to throughout the ad. >> senator ken cuccinelli. ron and i have something to ask you. right, ron? we're going to ask you to help our campaign. please give us a call. we'd really appreciate it. right, ron? >> it just sat there. yeah. animals are often involved, though. i think the best most terrible political ad that i've ever seen involving animals was one that ran in 2008 in florida. there was a conservation measure on the ballot that year, and a group that...

Terrible. that is the classic racist variety of offensive political ad. it's sort of a variant on the same kind of terrible that was this ad against multiple amputee vietnam war veteran senator max cleland. this ad run against him by republican saxby chambliss morphed senator cleland into osama bin laden. yes. sometimes terrible political ads are terrible just because they are offensive. but it's not always offensive. there's a lot of different ways to be a terrible political ad even when you're not being offensive. >> i'm not a witch. i'm nothing you've heard. >> that political ad was terribl...

Which -- this is not a still. this is an ad. more than a minute of the ad was just him staring into the camera as if he might reach through the lens and rip your throat out. just staring. right? nice guy. ambitious campaign. very, very terrible political ad. a lot of terrible political ads seem to involve animals. remember when john mccain's friend carly fiorina ran for senate in california? she did this kind of muppets on meth ad that everybody ended up calling the demon sheep. i think that the -- see? there it is. the demon sheep ad was i think purposely designed to be so weird that people w...

This is a terrible ad made by a liberal group opposed to the paul ryan budget. this one was terrible just because it was sadistic. almost impossible to watch. and it went on and on and on and on with this relentless sort of faceless evil figure pushing an increasingly distraught elderly lady closer and closer to the edge of a cliff while she panics and screams and freaks out and then yes, finally throwing her off the cliff. no matter what you think about the paul ryan budget, that is a terrible, terrible ad. that's a horror movie. in 2008 former democratic u.s. senator from alaska, a man named...