A member of Denmark’s parliament in the Liberal Alliance found an innovative way to draw media attention away from his far-right-wing rival this week. Joachim Olsen took out a political ad—on Pornhub. According to the Danish newspaper B.T., Olsen’s ad read, “Når du er færdig med at spille, stem for Jokke!"
In English, that translates as "When you're done gambling, vote for Jokke!" Presumably, however, Olsen was aware that Pornhub is not actually a gambling site. “Half the internet is porn,” he told B.T. “That's where people are, so I thought it might be fun to make an ad on Pornhub.”
Olsen also took to his Facebook page to confirm that the ad was really his own.
“Yes, I am the one who is on Pornhub,” he wrote. “And No, there is no big idea behind it—I just hope you have a good laugh. There must also be room for all the serious political messages.”
A day after his Facebook post, the politician went to his Twitter account to offer a further explanation for the ad.
“There are no limits to how far I want to go for the nation,” he wrote. “If it requires an ad on Pornhub to keep Rasmus Paludan out of foreign media, then I take one for the team.”
Rasmus Paludan is a rival Danish politician who leads the far-right political party Stram Kurs, or “Hard Line,” a party whose platform centers around white nationalism, opposition to immigration from “non-Western” countries, and banning the Islamic religion.
Olsen is also a three-time Olympic shot putter, who took a silver medal in the event at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece.
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