Carly Fiorina "look at this face" ad in response to Trump

[jeaniebueller]

It is pretty brilliant. I don't know how to embed a video, but its at the link.

www.vox.com/2015/9/14/9326297/carly-fiorina-ad-response-trump

Hand it to Carly Fiorina's superPAC. It figured out how to do something none of the other Republicans vying for the party's nomination could: Make Donald Trump fall flat on his face.

Without mentioning him by name, the Carly for America Committee released a web ad Monday responding to Trump's assertion that no one would want someone with Fiorina's face as president of the United States. The ad, called "Look at This Face," intersperses images of other women with Fiorina speaking at a Republican women's event.

"Ladies, look at this face and look at all of your faces, the face of leadership," Fiorina says. "This is the face of a 61-year-old woman. I am proud of every year and every wrinkle."

It's basically Fiorina's team shaming Trump as sexist, and it's the best comeback to a Trump insult yet.

Why is Carly Fiorina defending her face to Donald Trump?

It all started last week with a Rolling Stone feature on what it's like to be on the campaign trail with Trump:


When the anchor throws to Carly Fiorina for her reaction to Trump's momentum, Trump's expression sours in schoolboy disgust as the camera bores in on Fiorina. "Look at that face!" he cries. "Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?!" The laughter grows halting and faint behind him. "I mean, she's a woman, and I'm not s'posedta say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?"

Typically, a demeaning insult like that would create a backlash against the candidate who said it. But the old political rules don't always apply to Trump, and Republican candidates have had a hard time figuring out just where the line is and when he's crossed it. Jeb Bush and Ben Carson, for example, have struggled to respond to Trump's taunts about them having "low energy."

But it was clear that Fiorina might have an opening when Trump started backpedaling last week. He said he'd been talking about Fiorina's "persona" and not her face.

"Maybe, just maybe, I'm getting under his skin a little bit because I am climbing in the polls," Fiorina said last week.

By Monday, her superPAC was ready to unload. And while her putative target was Democrats — "Ladies, note to Democrat Party: We are not a special interest group, we are the majority of the nation," Fiorina says in the ad — there's no doubt she was making Trump face up to his own commentary.

Correction: The ad was released by Fiorina's SuperPAC.

[2curlydogs]

[NitaX]

I heard it yesterday and thought it was an excellent response.

I wish she had a tad bit more diversity in the ad, but other than that, as a democrat - I find no fault with it.

[ttt]

I think she sucks but that's a great ad.

[ttt]

Sept 15, 2015 9:59:28 GMT -5 NitaX said:

I heard it yesterday and thought it was an excellent response.

I wish she had a tad bit more diversity in the ad, but other than that, as a democrat - I find no fault with it.

LOL you can practically hear the producers saying "ok we've got...one...two black women, OK good, that's enough." 

[NitaX]

Sept 15, 2015 10:02:32 GMT -5 ttt said:

Sept 15, 2015 9:59:28 GMT -5 NitaX said:

I heard it yesterday and thought it was an excellent response.

I wish she had a tad bit more diversity in the ad, but other than that, as a democrat - I find no fault with it.

LOL you can practically hear the producers saying "ok we've got...one...two black women, OK good, that's enough." 

I counted my fellow black folks, but I still needed to see a Latina and some Asian representation. If she'd done that, she could have gained a few more points for inclusion. But, other than that - it was a really good video. 

[ttt]

Sept 15, 2015 11:02:15 GMT -5 NitaX said:

Sept 15, 2015 10:02:32 GMT -5 ttt said:

LOL you can practically hear the producers saying "ok we've got...one...two black women, OK good, that's enough." 

I counted my fellow black folks, but I still needed to see a Latina and some Asian representation. If she'd done that, she could have gained a few more points for inclusion. But, other than that - it was a really good video. 

I think they felt that the two black women were enough to check the "Diversity" box. 

I also felt like I was looking at the same three white women over and over again. 

[epphd]

Sept 15, 2015 9:59:28 GMT -5 NitaX said:

I heard it yesterday and thought it was an excellent response.

I wish she had a tad bit more diversity in the ad, but other than that, as a democrat - I find no fault with it.

That and the use of the "democrat party".

[aurora]

Good for her. I still don't plan to vote for her, but someone needs to call him out on his outrageousness.