Atheist voter Justin Scott has been busy in Iowa asking all sorts of presidential candidates about their views on atheism. Yet he did not expect one of those candidates, Marco Rubio, to actually steal his video, upload it to his own YouTube channel and use it to pander for donations.

Scott asked Rubio at a recent event if he was running for “Commander in Chief or Pastor in Chief?”

The video quickly went viral, being covered by Huffington Post, Associated Press, Time Magazine, ABC News, and many others.

There was one problem: The video being shared was coming from Marco Rubio’s own YouTube account. Not Scott’s.

Rubio was so excited to show his supporters that he knew an atheist and so easily answered his question that his campaign didn’t even bother to ask Scott if they could use the video or bother to credit him for it. As far as anyone can tell, it is a Rubio campaign video.

Talk about sleazy!

What kind of campaign just believes they can steal any video the please and use it to raise money? The right thing to do would have been to ask if they could use the video that Scott himself owned. At the very least, credit him when using it.

I guess you can learn a lot about candidates by their actions.

You can check out the video of the exchange below:

photo credits: all photos used with permission from Justin Scott