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“Mad Men” Blasts Romney’s Dad, Calls Him a ‘Clown’

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040212 MadMenAMC?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1333386994906Michael Yarish/AMC(NEW YORK) — The hit AMC TV show Mad Men took a not-so-subtle swipe at Romney Sunday night — George Romney, the  father of presidential contender Mitt Romney, that is.

In the 1960s-era  series, the character Henry Francis, who in previous seasons worked as a political aide for New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, calls  Gov. George Romney, who led the state of Michigan  from 1963-1969, a clown.

“Well, tell Jim his honor’s not going to Michigan,” Francis says during a work-related phone conversation. “Because Romney’s a clown, and I don’t want him standing next to him.”

The series, which follows life in an advertising agency in the early- to mid-1960s, has delved into politics before, most notably the presidential battle between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon, in season one. The ad agency was working with the Nixon campaign, cheering and celebrating Nixon’s victory in the pivotal state of Ohio, and then showing a gloomy Don Draper, the main ad man, as he watched Nixon’s concession speech.

“Kennedy? Nouveau riche, a recent immigrant who bought his way into Harvard,” Draper says. “Nixon is from nothing. Abe Lincoln of California, a self-made man. Kennedy, I see a silver spoon. Nixon, I see myself.”

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