The conservative Congressional Leadership Fund labels Democrat Dan McCready as “Greedy Dan McCready” in its first TV spot ahead of the Sept. 10 special election in North Carolina’s 9th District, but a photo watermark reveals that it was the CLF that got greedy.
As the DSCC’s Ben Seltzer first spotted, CLF’s spot features a photo of McCready with the logo of the stock footage company Dissolve still visible, dead center, as a clip of random people walking rolls in the background. Companies use watermarks like these to prevent photos or videos from being shared that haven’t been properly licensed, or to at least expose biters who circulate such images anyway—like CLF. While Seltzer tweeted his keen observation on Tuesday evening (and Dissolve took notice as well), the watermark remained in CLF’s commercial as of Thursday morning.
The NRCC is also out with a new ad that, once again, attacks “Greedy McCready.” Even the ad makers seem to think this is a really awful joke, though, since the commercial concludes with one of the actors burying her head in her desk in frustration after hearing it one time too many.
McCready’s allies at VoteVets, meanwhile, are launching what Politico reports is a $200,000 buy, and thankfully, their spot is free of both watermarks and bad nicknames. Instead, it stars a combat medic named Cynthia Lauer saying she’s supporting McCready, a fellow veteran, because he’s “committed to working across the aisle to deliver quality health care to every family.” Lauer goes on to say that Dan Bishop was the lone Republican in the North Carolina legislature to oppose bipartisan legislation to lower prescription drug prices.
Dan McCready is a Marine and a Boy Scout—literally. Send him $3 to fight these GOP lies today!