REUTERS Report: FreedomWorks made fake Hillary Clinton sex video

A leading tea party group made a video of a fake Hillary Clinton having sex with a panda to show to a massive gathering of conservatives before scrapping the film, according to a report Thursday.

Mother Jones reported two female interns at FreedomWorks played the parts, with one wearing a panda suit and one wearing a Clinton mask. In the video, FreedomWorks Executive Vice President Adam Brandon is shown waking from a nap at his desk before wandering down the hall and witnessing the panda performing oral sex on Clinton in a dream sequence.


The video was screened for FreedomWorks staffers and was supposed to be shown at FreePac, a July 2012 conference in Dallas. The video was scrapped after staffers objected.

“How was that not some form of sexual harassment?” a former FreedomWorks official told the magazine. “And there were going to be thousands of Christian conservatives at this thing. This was a terrible lack of judgment.”

The magazine also reported Matt Kibbe, the group’s president, issued guidelines to hire women based on their appearance. Kibbe and Brandon were allies at the organization.

“It is disappointing that so many media outlets are repeating unsourced, baseless and intentionally harmful accusations made by disgruntled former employees,” Jackie Bodnar, a FreedomWorks spokeswoman, said in a statement. “The goal is clearly to distract from the important and successful work FreedomWorks is doing to equip grassroots fiscal conservatives around the country.”

Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey had a high-profile split with FreedomWorks late last year over what he believed was Kibbe’s use of the group’s resources to promote himself. Mother Jones reported two of the group’s board members hired lawyers to investigate “allegations of wrongdoing by the organization or its employees.” The lawyers have interviewed Armey, according to Mother Jones.