MAGA extremist Mike Collins swiftly faced widespread backlash from within his own party, including from conservative talk radio host Eric Von Haessler, after his campaign released a deepfake video to intentionally mislead Georgians.
On his show last week, Von Haessler thoroughly slammed Collins, repeatedly calling him a “dirt bag” multiple times and “spineless” and denouncing him for overstepping the boundaries of campaigns to mislead Georgians with a desperate deepfake video.
KEY QUOTES:
- [Eric Von Haessler, 95.5 WSB] “Collins is a dirt bag to do this.”
- “[…] and he’s a politician, which means he’s spineless.”
- “By the way, you know we’re running for office, and that means there’s no morality whatsoever. It’s just about power. You understand that Mike Collins, right? Dirt bag.”
- “And I know there’s going to be plenty more dirt bags to follow. This is just the first one I’ve heard of, so you’re dirt bag number one to me.”
- “I just feel like you know somebody right now should make the most heinous AI of Mike Collins […]”
- “You deserve this man.”
- “Oh, what? Oh, you can do it, but we all respect limits?”
- “No, no, you dirt bag, you and your campaign don’t respect limits.”
- “And I’ll say ‘dirt bag’ 50 times in a row.”
- “You are a dirt bag for doing that.”
- “I mean, Mike Collins deserves anything he gets off of AI by doing this.”
- “Go with it, go with it and know that you’re still going to heaven because he did it first, and if he thinks that now, ‘oh well, surely there are protocols and parameters.’”
- “Uh-uh you dirt bag.”
- “There are no protocols and parameters.”
- “I’m telling you, Mike Collins, for doing this, this campaign, they are dirt bags […]”