On Wednesday, it was revealed that former President Barack Hussein Obama’s layers are sending a cease and desist letter to the Committee to Defend the President, a hybrid PAC that is running anti-Joe Biden ads in South Carolina with Obama’s voice.
The ad features an audio clip of Barack Obama reading his book, Dreams from My Father, where he is quoting a black barber in Chicago, who says, “Plantation politics…. Black people in the worst jobs, the worst housing, police brutality rampant. But when the so-called black committeemen came around election time, we’d all line up and vote the straight Democratic ticket, sell our souls for a Christmas turkey.”
Obama spokesperson Katie Hill writes, “This despicable ad is straight out of the Republican disinformation playbook, and it’s clearly designed to suppress turnout among minority voters in South Carolina by taking President Obama’s voice out of context and twisting his words to mislead viewers. In the interest of truth in advertising, we are calling on TV stations to take this ad down and stop playing into the hands of bad actors who seek to sow division and confusion among the electorate.”
However, there is no appearance that the ad takes Obama’s words out of context, especially since Obama was quoting a black barber frustrated by the Democrat policies that had left people of color disenfranchised.
Committee to Defend the President’s Chairman, Ted Harvey, writes, “The Committee has a long history of taking on Joe Biden, beyond Nevada and South Carolina. President Obama made a point in his book about Democrats paying lip-service to the African-American community and we believe his point applies perfectly to Joe Biden.
“It took President Trump to lower black unemployment and create jobs for the African-American community, in addition to passing criminal justice reform. Joe Biden, on the other hand, is simply giving lip-service for votes. That’s the point President Obama made in his book, and we have every right to use his own words — in his own voice — in the political forum,” he said.
“This latest intervention in the Democratic primary is one of the most desperate yet, a despicable torrent of misinformation by the president’s lackeys,” said Biden campaign spokesperson Andrew Bates.