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Updated: Video: Bachmann Super PAC Ad Hits Perry in S.C.

The Keep Conservatives United Super PAC — operating independent of U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign — is attacking GOP primary front-runner Rick Perry in an ad set to air in South Carolina.

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Update: Perry requested that Time Warner Cable remove the ad, but his request was denied. His aides called the ad, which attacks Perry's spending, "false," according to Politico.

In one of the first ad assaults on newly christened Republican front-runner Rick Perry, the Keep Conservatives United Super PAC — operating independent of U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann's campaign but supporting her bid for the presidency — will air the following spot in the crucial early primary state of South Carolina. (H/T: Ben Smith of Politico.)

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