Colorado Senate candidate yanks ad; Mount McKinley no Pikes Peak
Published Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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Stumble It!DENVER -- Mount McKinley is no Pikes Peak, at least in Colorado political circles.
U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer pulled his first television campaign ad after learning that it featured Alaska's Mount McKinley, also known as Denali, instead of Pikes Peak. The famous Colorado peak was also mentioned in the ad as Schaffer touted his connections to the state.
"Colorado is my life. I proposed to Maureen on top of Pikes Peak," Schaffer says of his wife in the ad, set to debut Wednesday in Colorado Springs and Grand Junction.
Schaffer campaign spokesman Dick Wadhams said his staff was assured by a media consulting firm, DMM Media of Washington, D.C., that a photo used in the ad was a stock Colorado Rocky Mountain photo.
"The editor was dead wrong," Wadhams said. "We're totally frustrated by this and we are correcting it with a shot of Pikes Peak."
A corrected version of the Schaffer ad was posted on YouTube late Wednesday.
A message seeking comment at DMM Media was not immediately returned.
Schaffer, a former Republican congressman, is running against Democratic U.S. Rep. Mark Udall to replace GOP Sen. Wayne Allard, who is retiring.
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Heck that stuff happens. As long as he knows there are 50 states, not 57 as Obama claims we have.
I believe we should require all Presidential canidates to, at least know the number of states in our Union. I wonder if he could possibly past a junior high school history test? hmmm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtI...
NoGutsNoGlory:
Obama was president of the Harvard Law Review and later taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago. He knows how many states there are. It seems likely that he meant to say "forty-seven."
Anyway, it's time for you to man up. Here's an eighth-grade history test:
http://tinyurl.com/33tga
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