Hey, remember Mark Block? The chain smoker in that weird Herman Cain campaign ad?
The reason I used the Letterman clip is that when I looked for a YouTube of the original ad, I got this message:
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I guess they weren't expecting their ad to be used as fodder for so many satirists and the inevitable onslaught of snarkitude, which speaks volumes about their judgment skills. What did they expect? So, thank you David Letterman.
Now where was I? Oh yes, Mark Block. You know what they say...
... Where there's smoke...
Federal authorities have opened an investigation into two Wisconsin-based corporations founded and run by Mark Block, a veteran political operative who ran Herman Cain's unsuccessful presidential campaign.
"They are very interested in Mark and these groups," said a source familiar with the probe. "It is not my sense, right now, that Cain is a target."
In recent weeks, FBI agents have been talking to donors and other individuals connected with Prosperity USA and Wisconsin Prosperity Network. Block and Linda Hansen, Cain's deputy chief of staff, were the two primary people running those groups. [...]
... Block ran the state chapter of Americans for Prosperity, a nonprofit cofounded by the conservative Koch brothers that helped organize the tea party movement in Wisconsin and elsewhere.
Between Block and Cain, their "family values" have pretty much gone right down the drain.
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