Warren Rails Against Ad ‘Where I Look Like A Commie Dictator’

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Tuesday night tore into an ad that ran during the Fox Business Network debate that criticized the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and portrayed Warren as a dictator on a red banner at an oppressive CFPB office.

The 30-second ad from the conservative American Action Network portrays the CFPB as a Soviet-style sweat shop with workers robotically denying loans to American consumers. The narrator says that the bureau is “designed to interfere with your personal financial decisions.”

“With the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, those who need help the most are are denied,” the narrator says.

The American Action Network spent $500,000 on the ad that ran during the debate and will continue to run the spot on cable in Washington, D.C., this week, according to Politico.

On Twitter, Warren called out Wall Street lobbyists for working to undermine the CFPB.

Watch the American Action Network ad:

H/t The Hill

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  1. After Hillary serves her first term in the White House and the Senate is once again safely in Democratic hands, I strongly suggest to President Clinton she nominate Senator Elizabeth Warren to a seat on the Supreme Court of the United States.

    Keep fighting the good fights, Sen. Warren!!

  2. Ignorance is Strength

  3. Avatar for tesla tesla says:

    Projection strikes again. Remember, folks, as far as the GOTP is concerned, 1984 is not a novel. It’s an instruction manual.

  4. Avatar for tcinla tcinla says:

    Like everything else these worthless goddamned fucking scum do, it’s the opposite of reality. Further proof that Truman was right: “the only ‘good Republicans’ are pushing up daisies.”

  5. Elizabeth gets it—you have to respond immediately and strongly to Republican bullshit. You don’t wait a week and then post some lame tweet on the DNC website and think you’ve done your job.

    The content on the front page of the DNC site is beyond weak.

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