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By now everyone has likely seen the Carly Fiorina sheep ad. Crazy? Sure! Over the top? Definitely! Totally unprecedented? Nope. I have a feeling someone on Fiorina's staff must be a B horror flick fan because the campaign's attack has a great 2007 New Zealand pedigree, as seen below.

The silver lining for Tom Campbell, I suppose, is that Black Sheep ultimately serves as a cautionary tale against riling up both regular as well as genetically cross-bred man-sheep. Also, some of Fiorina's campaign war chest clearly has to go to paying some Kiwis royalties...

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Missy| 2.3.10 @ 10:43PM

Is that a Mel Gibson film? Creepy!

Scott Pandich| 2.3.10 @ 11:55PM

I just saw Black Sheep two days ago, and now this. Weird.

bfwebster| 2.4.10 @ 12:08AM

Heh. I recommended "Black Sheep" to my older sister, who watched it with her college-age daughter. I'm still not sure she's completely forgiven me.

Kevin Riley O'Keeffe| 2.4.10 @ 7:30AM

That Carly Fiorina ad is grotesque and insane. I'm still voting for Tom Campbell.

Pingback| 2.4.10 @ 9:33AM

When Falls the Coliseum » Fun with sheep links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

FAQ Columns Policies Submissions History Subscribe © Fun with sheep Posted on February 4th, 2010 at 9:33 am by Scott Stein Shawn Macomber ( who sometimes writes for WFTC ) posted the trailer for Black Sheep over at The American Spectator . The trailer made me laugh. Shawn discusses it in connection to a recent political ad that is critical of Tom Campbell. I hadn’t heard of the political ad, or of Tom…

Brian B| 2.4.10 @ 10:09AM

The ad is creepy and bizzare. However the unaddressed question is; is it accurate?
Campbell is running as a tightwad fiscal conservative. If he really supported all the tax increases he's accused of he'll need more than ridicule of some zombie sheep to get votes. Given the present black mood in CA he's going to have to work harder to get mine and many others'.

bfwebster| 2.4.10 @ 10:35AM

Now Chuck DeVore (the 3rd GOP candidate) has jumped in with both feet and, unlike Fiorina, knows how to play the whole thing: http://demonsheep.org/demonsheep/.