I posted yesterday regarding the latest B.J. Lawson ad featuring a narrator who sounded exactly like the actor Morgan Freeman (see the ad below). I and others were surprised Freeman would do an ad for a Republican, much less one associated with Tea Party activists, but Lawson had said on his Facebook page that the narrator of the ad was, indeed, Freeman.
But today, Freeman said he wasn’t the narrator;
Freeman said in a statement through his publicist Monday that he never recorded any ads for North Carolina candidate B.J. Lawson and that he does not support Lawson’s candidacy. Lawson is trying to unseat Democratic Rep. David Price.
Lawson campaign manager Martin Avila said today the campaign had a contract for a Freeman ad with a Los Angeles agency and they thought it was him.
“The Lawson campaign was shocked about what has happened and operated under the pretense that the ad was legitimate. Until today, we had no reason to believe the ad was not narrated by Morgan Freeman,” Avila said.
I suppose what happened here will get explained at some point. It doesn’t make sense for the Lawson people to lie about this, and it doesn’t make sense that they, just out of the blue, decided that Freeman was the narrator. And how likely is it that an ad agency picked a random narrator who sounds exactly like Morgan Freeman?
Strange doings. Here’s the ad:
