AS GLENN NOTED YESTERDAY, SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL, WAPO SUCKERED BY FAKE FRED TRUMP 1969 MAYORAL CAMPAIGN ADS:

The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler, who writes the paper’s “Fact Check” column, also shared the videos on Twitter, before later deleting the tweets.

The videos were created and uploaded to Youtube and Vimeo last year by “Historical Paroxysm,” an art project that creates and shares “found footage from alternate realities.” Other videos uploaded by Historical Paroxysm include (fake) saran wrap ads supposedly from 1988 and sex-free pornography supposedly from 1991. Both the saran wrap ads ad the porn videos were created by Laura Moss, a freelance filmmaker.

Historical Paroxysm identifies itself as an anonymous collective, but it appears to be run by Moss and her husband, Brendan O’Brien. On IMDb, Moss is credited as the co-writer and director of “Porn Without Sex,” the fake 1991 porn film, while O’Brien is credited as the co-writer and co-producer. And it was O’Brien who posted the supposed Fred Trump campaign ads on Historical Paroxysm’s account in October.

On the same day that O’Brien posted the Fred Trump ads, independent producer Devin Landin shared the “Dope Man” video with a comment suggesting that it was deliberately created as a commentary on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Here’s the fake ad:

It’s funny though, the “racist” fake Fred Trump ad isn’t that far removed from the real campaign ads of the “Progressive” John Lindsay’s 1969 reelection bid; one ad’s thinly disguised racist motto was vote for Lindsay because, hey, at least New York isn’t the war-torn urban moonscape of Newark: