Political ads normally aren’t particularly captivating television, let alone appealing viral videos. But in the YouTube era, a handful of candidates have managed to captivate the public’s imagination with their outlandish (and sometimes borderline slanderous) claims about the bizarre sex practices of their rivals, the [expletive deleted] state of local politics, and, most recently in New Orleans, with a certain coroner’s propensity for selling body parts.
In a TV spot that began airing this week, Dwight McKenna, the lone challenger to longtime Orleans Parish Coroner Frank Minyard, is trying to grab voter attention with allegations of organ theft — illustrated by a psuedo-Dr. Frankenstein and his impish assistant standing around an operating table.
The masked doctor and his hunched-over assistant poke and prod at a body covered with a white sheet. A tag on the foot reads “DOA,” and, when turned over, “For Sale.”
The campaign voice-over intones, “It’s unconscionable: body parts sold out of the Orleans Parish coroner’s office. Families filled with grief. Lawsuits and settlements at taxpayer expense.”
But it’s the next image that really grabs the viewer: the doctor holding up a quivering liver, saying “Igor, Igor. We need a heart. A spleen. And a liver for tonight’s sale.”
Full story: Gruesome body-parts ad airs in New Orleans coroner race – The Times-Picayune
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