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Can Lena Dunham, the 26-year-old creator and star of HBO’s “Girls,” do anything without enraging half the population?

Dunham cut an ad for the Obama campaign that was uploaded to YouTube Thursday in which she cheekily discusses her “first time” (voting for Obama, that is — get it?) and encourages young women to vote for the president because of his support for women’s rights.

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Your first time “shouldn’t be with just anybody,” Dunham says in the ad, adding it should be with “someone who really cares about and understands women.”

Many Republicans, to say the least, are not fans of Dunham’s controversial brand of humour.

Erick Erickson, a CNN contributor and editor-in-chief of Redstate.com, went off on a long Twitter rant about the ad Thursday.