Dickpunch Vs. Piñata Sniper: Which Of These Political Ads Is Worse?

The sub-genre of wacky political ads that troll desperately for buzz has two new entries this week, one from a Democrat, and one from a Republican. What’s mildly interesting about this pairing , though, is that both ads attempt to play against type, and the Democrat’s ad is the far more offensive of the two.

First, there’s the ad from Senate candidate Mike McFadden (R-Minn.), which features his youth football team showing off the fruits of Coach’s indoctrination, and climaxes with a punch to the candidate’s balls:

McFadden is running against comedy legend Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), so it makes sense that he would try to show off his humorous side. What’s comical is that McFadden has not only pulled off the nearly-impossible feat of creating an unfunny dickpunch, but also exposed his party’s terminal humorlessness by actually offending some voters. Far more amusing than the ad is the McFadden campaign’s first-ever walkback of a nut-punch:

The buzzy spot did its job and created a firestorm of conversation in and out of Minnesota. But not all of the comments were positive. Some objected to the hit in the groin. That led the campaign to formally say it was, in fact, not a hit to the groin but rather a hit to first “the gut” and later “the stomach.”

Of course, McFadden’s has obviously relocated his balls to his stomach in order to throw off Joni Ernst.

Not to be outdone for humorlessness, Democrats then tracked the comments for the ad on McFadden’s Facebook page, and found that three (THREE!) negative comments were deleted!

Look, McFadden’s worst crime here is violating the number one rule of ball-annihilation humor: go big, or go home. Next time, he needs to let the kid take a big windup, then deliver an epic kick to the balls, followed by a flying elbow-drop. You’re running against Al Franken, for fuck’s sake!

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By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.