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October 08, 2010 07:57 PM UTC

Wanted: Actors Who Look "Hicky"

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  • by: Colorado Pols

And by “Hicky,” they don’t mean “Mayoral.”

As The Associated Press reports:

National Republicans are pulling a West Virginia Senate ad after Democrats revealed a casting call for actors who looked like hicks to play state voters…

…The ad showed men in flannel shirts and baseball caps worrying that Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin would side with President Barack Obama if elected to the Senate.

It’s a theme the GOP has been hammering in the battle to replace the late Democratic U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, though Manchin’s opponent, businessman John Raese, denounced the ad.

“The ad is ridiculous and I am happy to say that no one with the Raese campaign had anything to do with it,” Raese spokesman Kevin McLaughlin said.

The casting call listed clothing options including trucker or “John Deer” hats that are “not brand new, preferably beat up,” as well as jeans, down filled vests and “Dickie’s type jacket with t-shirt underneath.”

“We are going for a ‘Hicky’ Blue Collar look,” it said. “These characters are from West Virginia so think coal miner/trucker looks.

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13 thoughts on “Wanted: Actors Who Look “Hicky””

        1. Sure, travel would cost more but there’d be no need for actors in Delta County, where Deere caps, flannel shirts, bad teeth and slightly-off eyes are standard.

  2. Now they know.

    “This is good enough for the rubes in flyover country, isn’t it?”

    Next up: the NRSC shoots an ad for Ken Buck. Casting call: “These guys are from Colorado, so think cowboys and gold miners. Preferably missing teeth, bowlow ties, big cowboy hats, maybe even riding a cow if one is available here in Philadelphia.”

  3. It was the ad agency, not the NRSC.  The real story here is that a Governor with a 60% approval rating is going to lose a race because people just don’t want Dems in the Senate.

    They do things like pass shitty Health Care “Reform” bills in the middle of the night with bribes and tricks.

    3. He’s always behind the scenes…

      Rogue Stafferman!

      Watch out or he’ll spill the beans…

      Rogue Stafferman!

      Whenever you find trouble

      You’ll find him in the rubble

      So fire him on the double

      Rogue Staffermaaaaaaan!

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