Last year, the tea party-affiliated group FreedomWorks recorded a promotional video that featured a fake panda performing oral sex on a woman impersonating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according to a report published Thursday by Mother Jones’ David Corn.
Two female interns were chosen to participate in the video, according to the report, one wearing the panda suit and the other dressed as Clinton. The video was created ahead of the group’s FreePAC conference, which was held in late July 2012, and it was intended to be shown at the event.
More from Corn on the video:
In one segment of the film, according to a former official who saw it, Brandon is seen waking from a nap at his desk. In what appears to be a dream or a nightmare, he wanders down a hallway and spots a giant panda on its knees with its head in the lap of a seated Hillary Clinton and apparently fellating the then-secretary of state. Two female interns at FreedomWorks were recruited to play the panda and Clinton. One intern wore a Hillary Clinton mask. The other wore a giant panda suit that FreedomWorks had used at protests to denounce progressives as panderers. (See here, here, and here.) Placing the panda in the video, a former FreedomWorks staffer says, was “an inside joke.”
Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, who recently resigned as chairman of the group, said he didn’t hear about the video until months later. “There was a concern that this kind of behavior could land you in court. I was shocked at the ugly and bad taste,” Armey said, according to Mother Jones.
Read the full report here.
(Photo credit: Jeff Malet/maletphoto.com)
