And she is not happy.
The trickle of Brown’s fakity has become a torrent. Via dkos, a story from Rhode Island local NBC channel 10.
Carol Gorman is seen shaking hands with Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown in a new campaign ad aimed at women voters.
But Gorman actually supports his opponent, Democrat Elizabeth Warren.
“He tried to exploit my presence. He knew what my position was. And yet he chose to put that on TV, to put me on TV as a supporter,” Gorman said.
Gorman has a sign in her yard and even spends her weekends volunteering for the Warren campaign.
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She said she believes he hasn’t supported women over the past four years, and she told him so.
Gorman told NBC 10 that Brown didn’t have an immediate reaction.
But then, Gorman said the senator yelled at her to “go vote for Joe Kennedy” as he walked away.
“He barked at me, yelled at me, saying, ‘Go vote for Joe Kennedy!” she said.
I have to imagine that the audio recorded with the original video had to have portrayed some aspect of their actual conversation. It’s pretty dumb to use footage of people without knowing whether or not they are really supporters, lest…say…they go to a local news channel and complain on air. Call this another self-inflicted wound that was absolutely preventable.
You could make the argument that Brown isn’t portraying her as a supporter, just “a women at an event that he talked to.” But that’s a stretch. If I were videotaped at a Brown event and that footage was used in his ad trying (pretty badly) to appease women voters, I’d be pretty skeezed out too, and I certainly wouldn’t keep that to myself.
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15 Comments . Leave a comment below.Forcible as rape.
I hope you are kidding.
No, wait, I hope to GOD you aren’t joking about rape.
film a commercial? Do you need to put unwilling people in it?
What I find curious: isn’t the camera behind her? Didn’t she sign a release?
This is really weird. I can’t look now, because I’m on the phaone, but
is the camera in her house?
They used footage from a campaign rally. She’d been at the front at that rally, so lots of folks saw her on TV as the camera focused on her and one other person. We never felt that they’d done anything wrong there. That said, they never asked permission or asked her to sign a waiver. (She happily would have done so.)
Anyway, it might not be standard to get people’s permission for non-speaking parts in commercials. Though it’s a hugely asinine thing to do if you don’t have good reason so think they’re supporters.
(The one funny thing was that the Deval Patrick rally had been in the spring, then the commercial aired in the fall. The campaign concluded that footage showing people dressed for 50-degree weather looked more current than more recent footage from the warm, late summer.)
at a restaurant in New Hampshire. We weren’t the focus of the commercial they were shooting, but they asked us to sign waivers in case we ended up in the periphery of the shot.
This is the kind of stupid stuff these guys do. It’s just sloppy. And it comes back to bite them. They didn’t need this shot. They could have used a campaign volunteer from behind. Given Scott Brown’s good looks, there must be a binderful of women willing to be filmed talking to him.
The lady was taped outside what looks like a bank, not her house.
the idea that women are falling all over Brown because he’s handsome. Give my gender a little benefit of the doubt please…
women were falling all over him. That’s why I mentioned a “binderful.” Romney has one, why shouldn’t Brown?
but maybe that’s just me.
the commercial shot is outside an event. The TV station came to her house to interview her.
My girlfriend and her aunt are in an Elizabeth Warren commercial; they did not sign releases.
is that the Warren campaign has been doing checks to be sure people in commercials are kosher. At least, that’s the experience of a friend of mine who knows two people who are in her ads.
Not sure what the rules are for releases, but I do know what when doing stuff for LTC I have to get releases for those who are interviewed, but not for like every incidental person who’s in the shot.
My girlfriend and her aunt met EW at an outdoor event and there was a professional camera crew. My girlfriend mistakenly thought it was a news crew or something else. She was surprised and let out a boisterous “Oh my God!” and a hearty laugh when she first realized that the commercial featured her aunt shaking hands with EW with her in the background. Needless to say, she didn’t know she was going to be in the commercial, but she was also happy and proud to be apart of it.
Perhaps there is a difference in protocol for candid footage, such as the commercial my girlfriend was in and planned/scripted (even without speaking parts) commercials?
Somewhere on the editors floor is me chatting with Warren. They asked me to sign a release. Maybe it is the production crew that handles it? Dunno. They weren’t pushy about it.
I was in a quick shot for a Paul Hodes for Senate in 2010. They asked for a release, too.
Your milage may vary.
We all signed releases, and they cleared the sidewalks of other anyone who had not signed, asking them to walk on the other side of the street or just wait until the shot was finished.
She said she believes he hasn’t supported women over the past four years, and she told him so.
Gorman told NBC 10 that Brown didn’t have an immediate reaction.
But then, Gorman said the senator yelled at her to “go vote for Joe Kennedy” as he walked away.
“He barked at me, yelled at me, saying, ‘Go vote for Joe Kennedy!” she said.
The ‘was a release needed’ is tangential.
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