GOP ad casting call: 'hicky' W.Va. look

[Crankie Avalon]

By MIKE ALLEN | 10/7/10 4:27 AM EDT Updated: 10/7/10 12:38 PM EDT
A Republican ad that shows a couple of regular-looking guys commiserating in a diner about West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) turns out to have been shot with actors, from a script, in Philadelphia.

But not just any actors: “We are going for a ‘Hicky’ Blue Collar look,” read the casting call for the ad, being aired by the National Republican Senatorial Committee. “These characters are from West Virginia so think coal miner/trucker looks.”

Clothing Suggestions” included jeans, work boots, flannel shirt, denim shirt, “Dickie’s type jacket with t-shirt underneath,” down-filled vest, “John Deer hats (not brand new, preferably beat up),” “trucker hats (not brand new, preferably beat up).”

The NRSC began airing the ad this week in the West Virginia Senate race, in which Manchin is facing a sudden scare from Republican businessman John Raese (pronounced “racy”) in the contest to replace the late Sen. Robert Byrd.



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[Laughing Mirror]

1. And they don't sound like people from West Virginia either

Nice green plaid shirt, though. The guy in the middle.

[tanyev]

2. Obviously they wanted Hollywood hick, not hick hick.

Because they could have gone to any teabag rally and found many with great potential.

[blondeatlast]

3. Don't all miners/truckers have shaped and buffed fingernails? nt

[rucky]

4. Here's another one from Ohio. Kasich hired one too:

http://www.daytondailynews.com/o/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/ohiopolitics/entries/2010/10/07/kasich_hires_actor_to_play_wor.html

[blondeatlast]

5. Ben Quayle (son of ex Veep) fakes his own family.

No kidding--he hired two kids to pose as his non-existent kids.

http://www.tucsonweekly.com/TheRange/archives/2010/08/06/ben-quayle-family-fake