New Hampshire U.S. Senatorial candidate Kelly Ayotte does not come across as someone who is very interested in literary theory. Nor does she come across as someone with much of a sense of irony. But her campaign consultants did come up with a post-post-modern attack ad: an attack ad ironically attacking her opponent for running attack ads. Her fellow Republican Bill Binnie's evil motivation for running attack ads was, by the way, because he was "trailing in the polls." Apparently, Binnie's desire to win the election is a very, very bad thing— even though Ayotte herself is running the ad in an attempt to— well, frankly, in an attempt to win the election! (The ad also attacks Binnie for merely considering or being open to things, such as a "European-style Value Added Tax," even if he doesn't necessarily support them.)
This is actually the second in a series of meta-attack ads: she earlier attacked Democrat Paul Hodes for running attack ads (as well as for being behind in the polls.) She even shows some video from Hodes' attack ads: that video was at a hearing which I attended and even testified at. (She was dodging questions about a New Hampshire-based mortgage company called FRM which spectacularly imploded in 2009 after years of blatantly fraudulent activity.)
And finally, here are two of Hodes's own anti-Ayotte ads, which I (not too surprisingly) think are not objectionable at all, and which fairly adumbrate Ayotte's nonfeasance. They state truthfully that she did nothing to stop the FRM scandal. I myself can be seen lurking in an underlit hallway in the first video: