You Tube Video has Holleman as Hitler

As if the campaigning couldn’t get uglier, a You Tube video surfaced this weekend depicting Metro Councilman Jason Holleman as Hitler.

The scene in the video is from the 2004 movie “Downfall” and shows Adolf Hitler in his bunker talking to his top military leadership and aids, learning that Berlin is about to fall and him admonishing his generals. They are all speaking German, leaving open the possibility for anyone to edit in their own subtitles and has been parodied many times.

This parody is titled, “Getting Das Boot from District 24.” The video opens with a German general talking and pointing to a map saying, “Dean hates us. Bredesen hates us. John Cooper’s God damn family hates us. Your mom’s ID calls show us hemorraging (sic) votes from White Bridge Road to West End.”

Later in the video, one subtitle says, “No one goes to the fairgrounds except half-drunk rednecks and their waterhead babies.” In another reference to the fairgrounds, the video says, “And the fairgrounds vote. Like those fairgrounds illiterate supporters even vote.”

Chatter is that the video was made by someone in Sarah Lodge Tally’s camp. Tally says not so. “I think that whoever made the You Tube video has far too much time on his hands,” she wrote in an email response to NCC. “It certainly was not anyone involved in my campaign.”

Whoever put it together knows the campaign lingo, however, and knows recent electoral history with Sen. Dough Henry and Jeff Yarbro. It also picks at Nick Bailey, Holleman’s campaign manager, Councilwoman Emily Evans, former Sylvan Park Councilman John Summers and Councilman Eric Crafton.

Holleman took the high road and refrained from harshly criticizing the mysterious source of the video. “It’s a shame that my opponent’s campaign doesn’t appear interested in substantively addressing the many, serious issues that face our district and our city,” he said.

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