Well, we got complaints from a fair number of viewers - and we heard you loud and clear -and it seems the PUP did as well - and this morning, the party furiously backpedaled to distance itself from the creators of the ad.

Now, you might be scratching your head at this point saying: "how can the PUP distance itself when it created the ad?" And you would be right to ask that question; after all, it looks like a PUP ad - after all, who else is advertising against Prime Minister Barrow? But, Party Leader Francis Fonseca fired off a text to us this morning saying quote "the…Ad is not a PUP AD; It is distasteful, and I condemn it."

And by noon, the party's Communications Director Lisa Shoman had issued a release saying, "The PUP wishes to make it absolutely clear that we are not responsible at all for this contemptible caricature. We condemn, in the strongest terms, this ad as being base and completely outside the accepted norm of any party political campaign."

Ok then…strong words, but if not the PUP, then who else would produce such an ad? Well, we can say for sure that the persons who placed and paid for the ad are known to us to be PUP sympathizers and operatives - but we cannot say that it came from the PUP Secretariat or Headquarters; it did not.

At any rate, the sponsors have pulled the ad - and it lives on, on Youtube - where, we gather, it is gaining some degree of viral video status - which seems to suit the creators just fine.