On Glenn Beck's show, Shane Osborn is asked whether he ever tongue-kissed, held hands or saw a movie with Mitch McConnell

Beck: "Wait, wait. This is gonna be good. This is like a junkyard fight."
     AKSARBENT was tempted to quote Beck as later saying "I'd take either one of you guys," but that would be out of context and sleazy so we won't.
     Later, Osborn explained the circumstances of FreedomWorks jilting him for Sasse, a midstream tea party shift that Beck remarked that he had never seen happen before.
     Osborn went on to claim that "Putin owns Obama."
     Really? As much as the Koch Bros. now own the GOP, Shane?
     On immigration, Beck worried aloud about illegals coming in and "taking our stuff." Osborn opined that comprehensive immigration reform is all a Democrat plot to turn Texas purple.
     On racist tax cheat Clive Bundy and his weapons-carrying posse, Osborn said it was "inspiring" to see people standing up to the federal government.
     Finally, recovering alcoholic Beck grilled Osborn (12:35) on his relationship with the evil Osborne Corp. and the constant attacks on Spiderman. When Osborn explained that his surname doesn't have an "e" on the end, Beck said, "That's exactly what a villain trying to kill Spiderman would say."



Below: Ben Sasse, Osborn's tea party opponent, is now the butt of YouTube butt jokes on account of his name. But don't feel too sorry for Sasse. His dark money D.C. friends are pummeling Osborn with $2.8 million in attack ads in sparsely populated Nebraska.

Watch: Glenn Beck tells Ben Sasse to his face that his evasive answer is 'kind of weasely'

Nebraska U.S. Senate race GOP primary: Dinsdale pushes back against blitzkrieg of dark money attack ads by D.C. Sasse supporters

Sasse is staying positive while his Tea Party supporters — astroturf puppets of dark money billionaires — do the dirty work of blanketing Nebraska TV with attack ads against his GOP opponents. The Wall Street Journal says: "In Nebraska, Attack Ads Aren't Welcome." 
     Dinsdale, a honcho of Pinnacle Bank, is worth, according to financial disclosure statements between $110 and $250 million, or more.

Ben Sasse's supporters pouring $2.8 million into ads attacking his GOP opponents; one, that wants to kill farm subsidies, is dropping $200,000

Also: a locally-produced video has some fun with Ben Sasse's name. It involves a lot of butt jokes.

From Leavenworth St.:

At this point, nearly $2.8 MILLION in negative ads has been spent in the Senate race, on behalf of ONE candidate.
     Here is a short list of those who have hammered Sasse’s opponents with negative ads:

• 60 Plus Assn
• Club for Growth
• Club for Growth Action
• EmpowerNE.org
• Ensuring a Conservative Nebraska
• ForAmerica
• Freedom Pioneers Action Network
• Freedomworks for America
• Gun Owners of America
• Legacy Foundation Action Fund
• Madison Action Fund
• Senate Conservatives Fund
• Special Operations for America
• Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund

     The latest is $200,000 worth of ads from the Club for Growth attacking  Sid Dinsdale, who is starting to freak out the Tea Party. The Club for Growth is a Wall St. gang that wants to eliminate farm subsidies.
     Here's a press release from last June from that outfit:

“Now that the House has defeated the Farm Bill, we should finally discuss real reform,” said Club for Growth President Chris Chocola. “The time for reform is now. We need to put farm subsidies on a path to elimination...

Inside Ben Sasse: Nebraskans on YouTube use butt jokes to mock Tea Party Senate candidate endorsed by Rick Santorum

Disclaimer: AKSARBENT had NOTHING to do with this; in fact we first saw it in a tweet from the right-wing LeavenworthST blog. The video was shot and edited here in town by Seven Minutes in Purgatory, an Omaha-based sketch and improv comedy group, made up of Justin Patterson and Price Comstock.



The Washington Post says Nebraska's GOP U.S. Senate primary is a make-or-break contest for the Tea Party, whose astroturf affiliates are spending at least $2.8 million in Nebraska to trash Sasse's opponents in a cesspool of attack ads. Below, the real Ben Sasse sucks up talks to the Nebraska Family Alliance, the predecessor of which circulated a petition which stopped an LGBT equal rights ordinance in Lincoln. In the video, Sasse (endorsed by Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz and Rick Santorum) claims that government does not define marriage.



     Sasse's tea party allies have produced a swift-boat attack ad against his most formidable GOP primary opponent, former state treasurer Shane Osborn, that is so nasty that one Omaha station, KETV, won't run it until it gets more documentation for the claim alleging Osborn "created" a "fake memo" on U.S. Navy letterhead defending his decision to land a damaged spy plane in China rather than crashing it into the ocean during his military service.
     (AKSARBENT noticed this evening that WOWT has had no qualms about taking the money and running the ad.)
     The ad was made by the 60-Plus Association, a dark-money D.C. 501(c)(4) slush fund, that, according to a somewhat dated Wikipepdia entry,

...has sought to offer a privatized option for Social Security, end the federal estate tax, and strengthen gun rights. Current issues include opposing certain health care reform proposals, opposing federal energy standards, opposing the structure of the General Motors bailout, supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act, and opposing tax increases... In 2014, documents left behind by an attendee at an exclusive "donor seminar" put on by Charles and David Koch (of Koch Industries) revealed that the billionaire brothers count the 60 Plus Association as a part of their massive political network.

     Breitbart.com says Osborn's lawyers may go after TV stations running the "Dishonorable" ad, shown below.

     In a letter sent to television stations airing the ad, obtained by Breitbart News, attorney Patrick Borchers warned networks that the ad in question "contains materially false statements concerning Former Lt. Cmdr. Osborn's service in the Navy and subsequent actions."
     "Your station has a legal duty 'to protect the public from false, misleading or deceptive advertising,'" he writes, citing a 1961 court case, and adds that "broadcasting stations are not protected from legal liability for airing false and misleading advertisements," suggesting that the Osborn campaign may take legal action against stations that air the ad.

Tea Party swift-boats NE GOP Senate candidate Shane Osborn with ad so nasty, one Omaha TV station isn't airing it

KETV said it wants more documentation for an ad alleging Shane Osborn "created" a "fake memo" on U.S. Navy letterhead defending his decision to land a damaged spy plane in China rather than crashing it into the ocean during his military service. AKSARBENT noticed this evening that WOWT has had no qualms about taking the money and running the ad.
     The 60-Plus Association is a dark-money D.C. slush fund, that, according to Wikipepdia,

...has sought to offer a privatized option for Social Security, end the federal estate tax, and strengthen gun rights. Current issues include opposing certain health care reform proposals, opposing federal energy standards, opposing the structure of the General Motors bailout, supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act, and opposing tax increases... In 2014, documents left behind by an attendee at an exclusive "donor seminar" put on by Charles and David Koch (of Koch Industries) revealed that the billionaire brothers count the 60 Plus Association as a part of their massive political network.

The Washington Post says Nebraska's wild GOP U.S. Senate primary is a make-or-break contest for the Tea Party, which is going all out for Ben Sasse.
     Breitbart.com says Osborn's lawyers may go after TV stations running the "Dishonorable" ad, shown below.

     In a letter sent to television stations airing the ad, obtained by Breitbart News, attorney Patrick Borchers warned networks that the ad in question "contains materially false statements concerning Former Lt. Cmdr. Osborn's service in the Navy and subsequent actions." 
     "Your station has a legal duty 'to protect the public from false, misleading or deceptive advertising,'" he writes, citing a 1961 court case, and adds that "broadcasting stations are not protected from legal liability for airing false and misleading advertisements," suggesting that the Osborn campaign may take legal action against stations that air the ad.