{"id":1529732,"date":"2022-06-27T16:20:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T20:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1529732"},"modified":"2022-06-27T16:20:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T20:20:27","slug":"illinois-dem-releases-comically-bad-campaign-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illinois-dem-releases-comically-bad-campaign-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Dem Releases Comically Bad Campaign Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fillinois-dem-releases-comically-bad-campaign-ad%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1529732&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">&#8220;This is the worst political ad I&#8217;ve ever seen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tGetty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/robert-schmad\/\" title=\"Posts by Robert Schmad\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Robert Schmad<\/a> \u2022 June 27, 2022 4:05 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Longtime Chicago congressman Danny Davis (D.) was ridiculed by Twitter users over the abysmal production quality of a campaign advertisement video he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DannyKDavis7th\/status\/1540854903207145472\"><span>released<\/span><\/a><span> on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The ad is a simple text slideshow featuring a computer-generated text-to-speech narration. Despite its simplicity, the ad contains errors in its text, and the robotic voice talking over it is out of sync with the words in the video. Even the beginning of the advertisement is flawed, with the robotic voice starting its narration midway through a sentence. The ad concludes with its stilted narrator stating that Davis &#8220;works 24\/7 dot<\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><span>he is the people\u2019s champion.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congressman Danny K. Davis talks Numbers <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/REOV1n1Usv\">https:\/\/t.co\/REOV1n1Usv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Danny K. Davis (@DannyKDavis7th) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DannyKDavis7th\/status\/1540854903207145472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The Davis campaign did not return a request for comment regarding how much it paid to have the ad made.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Responses to Davis&#8217;s ad were almost universally negative, with users mocking its amateur quality and numerous mistakes.<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Yoooo my representative just discovered iMovie,&#8221; one Twitter user <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/edavis0\/status\/1541095537272832001\"><span>quipped<\/span><\/a><span>. Another tweeter <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vanillaopinions\/status\/1541088401302192128\"><span>remarked<\/span><\/a><span> that Davis\u2019s video &#8220;is the worst political ad I&#8217;ve ever seen.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Davis has a controversial history. The congressman has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/opinion\/editorials\/ct-edit-farrakhan-danny-davis-20180307-story.html\"><span>aligned<\/span><\/a><span> himself with anti-Semitic preacher Louis Farrakahn, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/ct-xpm-2006-08-24-0608240213-story.html\"><span>went on<\/span><\/a><span> a week-long trip to Sri Lanka funded by a terrorist organization, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2004\/06\/21\/moon_7\/\"><span>crown<\/span><span>ed<\/span><\/a><span> a Korean man claiming to be the Messiah during a ceremony he sponsored in a Senate office building.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Davis is in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/chicago-politics\/election-2022-president-biden-endorses-danny-davis-amid-heated-7th-district-primary-fight\/2866420\/\"><span>heated<\/span><\/a><span> primary, defending the seat he\u2019s held for the last quarter-century from Justice Democrats-aligned progressive Kina Collins. Even with his campaign&#8217;s lack of technological capabilities and his questionable history, Davis has won the support of high-level Democrats. President Joe Biden, Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker (D.), and both of Illinois&#8217;s senators have thrown their support behind the congressman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The ad isn\u2019t the congressman\u2019s only display of technological illiteracy. Davis\u2019s official YouTube channel <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Fnh0d-RBO8E\"><span>features<\/span><\/a><span> a 22-minute-long video titled &#8220;Congressman Danny K. Davis on Unemployment.&#8221; The video is totally silent and does not seem to feature the congressman. The video contains a screen recording of Davis\u2019s chief of staff resetting her Zoom password and rescheduling a dental appointment. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats &#8220;This is the worst political ad I&#8217;ve ever seen.&#8221;  Getty Images  Robert Schmad \u2022 June 27, 2022 4:05 pm Longtime Chicago congressman Danny<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1529732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}