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Dayum! That McCain is one clever guy!
Remember last night how I wrote about how the leftosphere was trying to paint McCain’s “Celeb” ad as “racist” simply because it had two promiscuous white female celebrities in the begininng of it? Well, it turns out that’s not ALL the ad was trying to imply … it’s actually much much more sinister than that, as Ross Douthat explains:
It’s remarkable what those fiendish GOP operatives can squeeze into thirty seconds: Not only does McCain’s “celeb” ad have “Barack Obama will rape yo daughters overtones,” says Rick Perlstein (who’s apparently under the impression that most Americans think of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears as stand-ins for their daughters), but it was edited to blatantly evoke Triumph of the Will as well – the better to freak out elderly Jews in South Florida, perhaps. Comparing the “Celeb” ad to stills from Leni Riefenstahl’s work, Perlstein writes: “I actually wonder if the Republicans had a crew on the scene to capture just the right angles; for instance, the identical camera placement shooting the speaker over the shoulder at stage right.” If he actually wonders that, I fear for his sanity.
That assumes he had any sanity to begin with.
Speaking of the ad, I received an mass email today from the Obama campaign about it, and check out the breathless, dramatic way it’s described:
Less than 24 hours ago, the McCain campaign launched the latest and lowest in a series of misleading attack ads.
This Karl Rove-style ploy misleads people about Barack’s energy plan and even mocks his ability to inspire voters and bring Americans back into the political process.
Watchdogs in the media are calling McCain’s accusations “bogus,” “desperate,” “wrong,” “misleading,” “ugly,” “offensive,” “reckless,” and “a nasty turn into the gutter.”
Some of McCain’s own supporters agree. One senior Republican strategist quoted by the Washington Post called the latest ad a “wild swing at Obama” that reflects his campaign’s “increasing bitterness” and the lack of “any coherent strategy to elect McCain.”
Even John Weaver, a strategist who worked for McCain’s presidential campaign in 2000 and on his current campaign last year, called the ad “childish,” adding that this negative strategy “diminishes John McCain” and “needs to stop.”
Sometimes I think Glenn Greenwald or Andrew Sullivan must write some of this junk. Implying that a candidate is more of a celebrity than a serious contender for president is, “bogus,” “desperate,” “wrong,” “misleading,” “ugly,” “offensive,” “reckless,” and “a nasty turn into the gutter”? Seriously?  Yeah, I know part of it they are quoting from “media watchdogs” and others, but clearly this email was designed to say that the Obama campaign was in full agreement.
Make sure to watch the ad again. Then after that, think about how Obama has repeatedly injected race not into just the general election campaign, but the primary season as well against Hillary Clinton, and then tell me who is “nasty” and “low” and “ugly” and “offensive” and “in the gutter.”
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This is a full broadside aimed at Republicans in an effort to make them soil their armor and run away (Sir Robin-style). It has always worked in the past, given the fact that the majority of GOP candidates in the past few elections seem to be cowards.
Will McCain stand his ground and hold the Messiah accountable for his Jesse Jackson-style race-baiting? If he does not, he deserves to lose in a 57-state landslide – and probably will.
I predict that at some point before the November elections the Messiah or one of his stooges will claim that there is a plot afoot to assassinate Him – and Republicans are at fault. Bank on it.
Call Obama a Wambulance
Excellent point, Mwalimu. I wonder how many Republicans will get squishy over this?
If the McCain campaign were attempting to imply that BO was a threat to women of virtue, they would have shown pictures of such women of virtue. Instead they showed pictures of Brittany Spears and Paris Hilton.
LOL, David. Hide the women and children! Or should I say “womyn”?
All I know is that this is a prime post for Sneery to show up on!! Be afraid….be very afraid.
Oh Sneery, where are ya my lil’ luvbug?
This continued bs where BO plays the race card, or the victim card is so foolish. Is this what we can expect when he goes up against our ememies?? Do these people who are so in love with this buffoon actually believe that if BO get’s elected all the world will be our friends?? This is a serious delusion, and I pray that people start to snap out of it. – Lorica
There goes the engagement!! – Lorica
I’ll say that I’d have to agree with some of that. Notably the first three or four. I mean, this angle would have worked better and made more sense with someone whose entrance into politics was made much easier because of celebrity. Someone like, say, Schwarzenegger. Trying to mock a politician that has taken on a celebrity status for being a good politician does appear a bit desperate on the surface.
Interesting that the Obama propaganda piece doesn’t care to identify the media “watchdogs” they cite. Anyone want to bet that they’re including thoroughly discredited sites like MediaMatters, Obama campaign auxiliaries like ThinkProgress, or deranged spittle-flecked haters like Olbermann?
Who first made the connection of the empty suit to shallow, air headed Hollywood types?
The empty suit hisownself:
“Andy Warhol said we all get our 15 minutes of fame,” says Barack Obama. “I’ve already had an hour and a half. I mean, I’m so overexposed, I’m making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.”
Yeah, dream on wingnuts, what McSame is really saying in the ad is that he wishes he could score with total babes like Britney and Paris! My best friend Lakeisha Hussein O’Brien says she’d like be all over Obama in a New York second!
Actually, Lakeisha is a person of gender but she isn’t really a person of color which is totally not her fault, her parents are like total fascists and had her born white. In fact, they named her Brigit Kathleen O’Brien, but last year she decided she’d use Lakeisha for a first name, to show solidarity with her sisters of, um, sisterness. And a month ago she decided that her middle name would be Hussein to show that it’s a good American name, not like the Nazi RethugliKKKans say. When I say it’s an American name, I mean a good one like Shabazz or one of those oppressed ones, not those Nazi names like Mike or Tom.
She totally rocks and even though she’s graduated already and has been accepted into Tri-County Community College to study graphic arts, she says I’m way more mature than the other Juniors.
Now I gotta go work on the giant papier mache puppet head. We still haven’t decided if it’s going to be George Bush or Chief Justice Roberts. Maybe they have – I’m not sure what either of them look like. I mean, Bush always looks like a chimp in the cartoons but when he’s supposedly giving a speech I never can see anyone who looks like that on the TV. That’s because he totally controls the media and they’re totally in the tank for him, which is why Obama has to work like twice as hard just to get any press at all.
You rock, Sneery!
What the… Sneery, when I asked you to watch my dogs for me while I’m out of town, you knew full well you weren’t to use my computer! Your Dad was very specific about you still being grounded.
That’s it – I’m asking him to drop by and make sure my computers are all shut down. I’m tired of getting porn spam every time you sneak onto my connection, and just because I haven’t told your Dad about the last time doesn’t mean I won’t!
LOL!!! I love it!!!
Time – Verbatim – For the week of Feb. 28 – Mar. 6, 2005