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"Go to Hell Barack" Metro Add Raises Ire
U.S. Representative calls the add "inappropriate, disrespectful of the President" and says it should be removed.
Clarendon Patch is reporting a movie advertisement in the Clarendon Metro station telling President Barack Obama to "go to hell" has raised eyebrows in Northern Virginia.
The ad is for a movie called "Sick & Sicker," and its filmakers, Logan Darrow Clements, said the phrase is designed to capture 'magnitude of anger' at health care reform. The adds states, "Barack Obama wants politicians and bureaucrats to control America's entire medical system."
It adds: "Go to hell Barack."
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U.S. Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., called on the Washington Metro Area Transit Authority, or WMATA, to remove the ad.
But the Metro board is prohibited from removing an ad based on its political content, spokesman Dan Stessel told Patch.
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Moran spokeswoman Anne Hughes told Patch that the congressman's office had heard from a number of people about the matter Wednesday.
"We’ve heard from a number of constituents in all platforms – phone calls, twitter, etc," Hughes told Patch in an email.
"People are upset – and rightfully so."
Should it stay or should the add go? Tell us in the comments.
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