UPDATE - There's also a diary on the PA ad by Sheddhead here that predated mine (Sorry!) but I didn't see. :)
I guess we shouldn't be surprised at anything the Clinton "dead-ender" campaign does these days, but this should make for a fun exchange at the debate tonight.
It seems that the Carpetbagger Senator from NY has had to rely upon a registered NJ voter to pose as an outraged PA voter in the commercial response to "Bitter-gate." Here's the ad - look for the goatee-sporting dude in the raspberry polo shirt in the fourth quote:
It turns out that the goatee-sporting dude in the raspberry polo shirt is Clyde Thomas, a registered NJ voter, who is described as:
born in Scranton, but has lived his entire life in Somerville, N.J. He is a 46-year-old unemployed environmental engineer.
Anyhow, lest one claim that Mr. Thomas might be some sort of "plant" to embarrass the Clinton campaign, and how could they have known where this "man on the street" was really from, here's this little tidbit:
He said he has been volunteering for the campaign in recent weeks, handing out literature and making phone calls. He said the campaign approached him about appearing in the ad, which was filmed in Bethlehem, a city of about 72,000 residents in eastern Pennsylvania where Bethlehem Steel once stood tall.
So, he is "unemployed," and yet "volunteering." Uh huh. Then he was "approached" by the campaign, but "was given no script." Uh huh.
I guess we should be glad that HRC at least imported an American to feign outrage, rather than outsourcing the job abroad.
When asked about his role in the ad, Mr. Thomas replied:
“It shouldn’t be a big deal. I explained it to the campaign,” Thomas said in an interview. “I see Pennsylvanians for what they are. I grew up with the values of Pennsylvanians.”
The attitude reminds me of this quip from the weekend:
Hillary Clinton said Sunday a query about the last time she fired a gun or attended church services "is not a relevant question in this debate” over Barack Obama’s recent comments on small town Americans.
“We can answer that some other time,” Clinton said at a press conference held in a working class neighborhood here. “This is about what people feel is being said about them. I went to church on Easter. I mean, so?”