{"id":661,"date":"2011-10-26T13:43:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T19:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theloungeisback.wordpress.com\/?p=661"},"modified":"2014-01-12T07:36:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T07:36:28","slug":"really-bizarre-ad-from-tobacco-stooge-herman-cain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=661","title":{"rendered":"Really bizarre ad from tobacco stooge Herman Cain"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cain<\/a>Thanks to Misti for digging this up.<\/p>\n

This is really bizarre. It’s an ad from Herman Cain’s campaign manager. It’s a pretty direct matter-of-fact personal testimony from the guy about why he likes Herman Cain … and then at the very end, they show him smoking a cigarette and blowing smoke right into the camera.<\/p>\n

Bizarre. It’s like an old cigarette ad. I think it’s just a clumsy ad. They probably just told him, “act natural,” while they continued filming him, so he lit up a cigarette and smoked it.<\/p>\n

I think…<\/p>\n

… then again, Herman Cain does have a long, illustrious history of being a tobacco industry stooge.<\/a>\u00a0 While he was a lobbyist for the National Restaurant Association, he apparently took a shitload of money from Big Tobacco as he lobbied against smoking bans in restaurants.\u00a0More on that in this New York Times article.<\/a> Maybe it was a secret product placement for his tobacco buddies. Probably not…<\/p>\n

… but then again, you never know.<\/p>\n