Even The Advertiser Calls Ad 'Bizarre'

Usually advocacy groups avoid spending money on attack ads against politicians they can't beat. But the brand-new 2020 Action Fund, challenging Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe in deep-red Oklahoma, is in it for the long haul.

Even the spokesman for the Boston-based group calls its new ad "borderline bizarre."

The bizarre starts with a metaphor: old stock footage of a guy kicking another guy in the rear, repeatedly. The ad blames Inhofe for opposing energy independence, good wages and jobs. Then comes an impressionistic collage of images including a spinning globe, a man eating something, flying dollar signs, some sort of parade and money grabbed from a table. Words appear on the screen saying "15 Months $2 Trillion...Gone From Your Pensions."

Get it? That's Inhofe doing the kicking, and Oklahoma taking it. The ad's punch line: "Kick back, Oklahoma."

It's far from clear in the ad, but the 2020 Action Fund is dedicated to opposing politicians who get in the way of climate change legislation. The number one target: Inhofe, who, as ranking Republican on the Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, has railed against global warming concerns and called the problem a "hoax."

More about the 2020 Action Fund, its leaders and mission after the jump...

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