Instead of just standing in front of a camera and plainly stating their ideas, some politicians have decided to find "creative" ways to get attention in their ads -- with results that range from hilarious ineptitude to terrifying madness. Like ...

Not every politician has celebrities and CEOs supporting them. While Barack Obama and Mitt Romney spend nearly a billion dollars to bombard us with endless big budget commercials, other people have to figure out how to fund their campaigns with no money, or celebrity spokespersons, or sanity.

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Take a good, long look at the below screenshot of an ad that ran during the 2010 campaign for Los Angeles City Council. LOOK AT IT:



No, there wasn't a mistake in the upload -- that's the ad.

The premise of this ad is that Los Angeles Councilwoman Janice Hahn was involved with an anti-gang initiative that employed former gang members, who were supposedly paid with taxpayer money. As you can see, this sensitive issue is addressed in the subtlest way Councilwoman Hahn's opponents at Right Turn USA could think of: with a video of two gun-wielding black guys rapping and getting up close and personal with a pole dancer's ass.

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The ad defies all logic, but we'll do our best to describe it, because one day this video will be deleted from YouTube, and humanity must know that it once existed. The entire ad consists of the aforementioned black guys, presumably murderous gang members, holding guns and rapping, as photos of Al Capone, John Dillinger, Charles Manson and just random fucking people fly across the background.