(VIDEO) Craig Huey Calls Anti-Janice Hahn Video 'Highly Offensive'

(VIDEO) Craig Huey Calls Anti-Janice Hahn Video "Highly Offensive"

By Gene Maddaus Tue., Jun. 14 2011 at 4:35 PM

Councilwoman Janice Hahn is favored to win a seat in Congress next month. She defeated her strongest opponent, Debra Bowen, in the primary, and is likely to waltz to victory over Tea Party candidate Craig Huey in the July 12 runoff.

If you're a conservative, that has to grate. So why not vent your frustration with a deeply offensive viral video?

That's apparently what Ladd Ehlinger was thinking when he produced this video, entitled "Give us your cash, bitch."

Wow. Take a moment.

Reached by phone, Ehlinger said he was trying "to see how much controversy we can stir up."

"If you can't have a sense of humor about us talking about her problems with gang members, she shouldn't be running," Ehlinger said.

Huey's campaign manager, Jimmy Camp, quickly denounced the video, calling it "inappropriate" and "highly offensive" and noting that it has no connection to the campaign.

"He's absolutely right," Ehlinger said. "It is offensive and it has absolutely nothing to do with him."

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee also denounced the ad, calling it "offensive and sexist."

Ehlinger said he wrote the lyrics with members of Splack Pack, a Florida-based rap group, who also performed.

"They're awesome guys," he said. "We were having fun."

Update: Politico goes deep on CA-36, arguing that Hahn is at risk due to Democratic apathy and her "lack of core principles." The story also cites an internal Democratic poll showing Hahn up by "roughly 5 points."

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Craig Huey, gang intervention, hip-hop, Janice Hahn, video

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We cannot afford to send another tea bagging jerk to congress. They are trying to destroy Medicare and their next target will be Social Security if we allow them to succeed with ending Medicare as we know it. Remember "tea baggers" are disgruntled far right Republicans that think their party has moved to far to the center.That illustrates how far they are out of touch with the mainstream American. We must defeat them now and in 2012, we have to retake control of the house or they will destroy middle class America. As an Independent I will vote for any party except the Republican!

Ppehs

I can't believe that Black people could sell out and disgrace themselve as jiga-boos I think this commercial is as offensive to the black race as it is to the congress woman! These black a$$holes (along with Huey Craig) should be arrested and publicly flogged for such an offense!

Ppehs

Ann Coulter fits this description to a "T

1alien1

this disgusting video is the least of hueys issues. he is the one that penned the infamous huey satan letter re his own neighbers, that made the mistake of dissagreeing with him, because we did not wish to have a mega church a few hundred feet from our homes, he said we were in league with satan. google the huey satan letter to see who this guy is. our constitution means nothing to him, just his church's doctrine has meaning. be very afraid of him, if you like your liberties/

Johndoe

Its brilliant

Dr Bill

I, for one, totally fail to see what about this offensive (to so many groups) ad, makes it such that a "sense of humor" is necessary for its appreciation. Ehlinger seems to have a sense of humor that can only be understood by those who are grossly depraved.

svivar9087

Nice pedestal you've built for yourself, Doc....looking down at all those little people =D

Dr Bill

Depravity is not a particular characteristic of "little" people. I don't believe that I have "looked down at" Adolph Hitler, Osama Bin Laden (who was actually taller than I), George W Bush, or Johnny Appleseed. People who have the power to hurt others and choose to do so - yes, I will look down at them (figuratively writing) but such a view has nothing to do with their being short of stature, or powerless, or poor, or weak, or in any fashion disadvantaged (aside from their sociopathy).

Al_Swearengen

Well, that, and the fact that the video is just another lame-ass window into how Republicans see black people and hip-hop culture. Lame, lame, lame, lame...

Hip Hop Beats

interesting video about hip hop beats

Bil Wood

Yeah I will wait to hear from the Splack Pack on this one. They could of been hired for one thing and then had the footage used for another. It would not be the first time. But if you notice in the video they have all the murders and pictures of Hahn pasted in and over and well what they are singing although it maybe offensive to some. They just keep doing the same rap riff and do not really mention Hahn. There is a good chance they had no idea this was for this purpose. If they come out and embrace it and do not call it a parody. By all means then take them apart.

Righturninsider

Too bad you're wrong about that. Splack Pack knew exactly what they were getting into. The thing I find most offensive about this ad is Hahn herself when she says "it does take a different kind of person to be able to speak the language." Isn't that racist?

KamJos

So offensive and I find that the Splack Pack's participation in this particularly horrible. What my own black people will do for money. I am so disgusted at them.