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BY RUISHA QIAN
ANCHOR CHRISTY LEWIS

Cain’s latest video ad has his campaign manager Mark Block smoking coolly over pop music. For those who missed it, here’s Adweek...

“Together we can do it. We can take this country back.”

When Cain appeared on CBS Face the Nation, Bob Schieffer confronted Cain about the ad and the discussion got heated.

SCHIEFFER: “Let me just tell you, it's not funny to me. I am a cancer survivor like you.”
 

CAIN: “I am also.”

SCHIEFFER: “I had cancer that was smoking related. I don't think it serves the country well -- and this is an editorial opinion here -- to be showing someone smoking a cigarette. You're the front-runner now, and it seems to me as front-runner you would have a responsibility not to take that kind of a tone in this campaign. I would suggest that perhaps as the front-runner, you'd want to raise the level of the campaign.”

The Mediaite says Schieffer might have gone a little overboard...

“[W]hen Cain argued that the ad ‘wasn’t intended to send any subliminal signal whatsoever,’ Schieffer disagreed, suggesting the ad made smoking look ‘cool.’ Because nothing says cool like a middle-aged man with a slightly disturbing mustache blowing smoke while the camera is super-zoomed-in on his face.”

When asked to remove the ad Cain said he couldn’t even if he wanted to because the Ad has gone viral. But USA Today reports Cain did promise some changes.

“On other topics, Cain vowed to be more careful about his public statements on topics such as immigration, which have gotten him in trouble in recent weeks.”

And The New York Times says Cain should’ve seen this coming.

“Had Mr. Cain done his homework, he might have been better prepared for the smoking lecture. It turns out that when Representative John A. Boehner, speaker of the House and a long-time smoker, appeared last fall on the same program, he got similarly direct treatment.”