GOP Ad Attacks Deeds For Calling Female Reporter ‘Young Lady’

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The Republican Governors Association has a new ad in the Virginia Governor’s race, presenting Democratic candidate Creigh Deeds as being disrespectful to women.

The ad is an apparent comeback to Dem attacks against Republican candidate Bob McDonnell’s hard-right grad school thesis, which disparaged working women and opposed government policies that would help them.

In the ad, Deeds is shown being questioned by a female reporter, to which he responds: “I think I made myself clear, young lady.” The female narrator then cuts in: “Did you catch that? ‘Young lady.'”

Late Update: I asked Deeds senior adviser Mo Elleithee for comment on a campaign conference call. “I mean, Creigh has known the reporter in question for a long time, and has a tremendous amount of respect for her, and recognized that he probably should not have spoken to her in that way, and called her and apologized after the fact,” said Elleithee. “But if you want to talk about respect for women, we’ll put Creigh’s record up against Bob McDonnell’s, any day of the week.”

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