--- title: Honest Gil Fulbright's Fake Wife Opens Up About Being a Prop description: "Hi, I'm a politician's wife delivering a focus-grouped message" canonical: https://time.com/4106283/watch-this-fake-candidates-wife-open-up-about-being-a-prop/ author: Michael Scherer article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-10T16:19:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T12:28:46.009Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch This Fake Candidate's Wife Open Up About Being a 'Prop' og:description: "Hi, I'm a politician's wife delivering a focus-grouped message" og:url: https://time.com/4106283/watch-this-fake-candidates-wife-open-up-about-being-a-prop/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt47a2af67ff61ee04/698864d1ab6d77b8c46a6493/honest-gil-2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: honest-gil og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch This Fake Candidate's Wife Open Up About Being a 'Prop' twitter:description: "Hi, I'm a politician's wife delivering a focus-grouped message" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt47a2af67ff61ee04/698864d1ab6d77b8c46a6493/honest-gil-2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch This Fake Candidate's Wife Open Up About Being a 'Prop' by [Michael Scherer](https://time.com/author/michael-scherer/) ## Michael Scherer Nov 10, 2015 4:19 PM UTC  'Honest Gil' Fulbright 'Honest Gil' FulbrightCourtesy of Represent.us by [Michael Scherer](https://time.com/author/michael-scherer/) ## Michael Scherer Nov 10, 2015 4:19 PM UTC Honest Gil Fulbright is not running for President by pretending to run for president, which is in some ways better than the candidates who are pretending to run for president while actually running for president. But Honest Gil, a satirical actor created by a campaign finance reform group to expose the ugliness of politics, still makes campaign ads—and funny ones at that. This one features Gil’s fake wife, whose “practiced smile should tell you all’s well with the Fulbright house,” a line that may hit a bit close to home for some actual candidate wives who have had an actual chance of becoming first lady. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4106283/watch-this-fake-candidates-wife-open-up-about-being-a-prop/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4106283/watch-this-fake-candidates-wife-open-up-about-being-a-prop/"},"headline":"Watch This Fake Candidate's Wife Open Up About Being a 'Prop'","datePublished":"2015-11-10T16:19:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:28:46.009Z","description":"\"Hi, I'm a politician's wife delivering a focus-grouped message\"","url":"https://time.com/4106283/watch-this-fake-candidates-wife-open-up-about-being-a-prop/","keywords":["Campaign Finance","2016 Campaign"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt47a2af67ff61ee04/698864d1ab6d77b8c46a6493/honest-gil-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Michael Scherer","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/michael-scherer/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt47a2af67ff61ee04/698864d1ab6d77b8c46a6493/honest-gil-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"honest-gil","caption":"honest-gil","creditText":"Courtesy of Represent.us","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4106283/watch-this-fake-candidates-wife-open-up-about-being-a-prop/","name":"Watch This Fake Candidate's Wife Open Up About Being a 'Prop'"}}]}] ```