The brilliant Washington State Democratic party went about making an attack ad of Republican gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi by using a “Sopranos” theme. In case you don’t know anything about life, “Dino Rossi” is the most Italian name since “Papa John Pizza.” And so the “Italian Club of Seattle” got predictably offended and called it “racist,” against dinosaurs. [YouTube, Seattle Times]
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At least he didn’t wake up this morning in a nursing home, like John McCain!
Paulie Walnuts approves.
Hatsa no achange we can-a-beleeeve een!!
I see no Racism, in fact I enjoy the theme song. Can we please have the RNC have a grainy black and white photo of Hopey while the theme song to the Jeffersons plays in the background? Moving on up! Moooving on up, to the new Black House! la di da
And with equal predictability, Dino Rossi woke up this morning, got his self a gun and went looking for Christine Gregoire.
So? Where’s the beef? Oh yeah, at the Badda Bing.
What’s the problem? It’s a catchy tune that merely implies that this Rossi character is connected. It’s not like they’re saying he’s the one who put Big Pussy at the bottom of the Atlantic.
“we’d like to apologize to Rossi’s friend Mr. DiJulio, his organization, and anyone else we may have inadvertently offended.”
Looks like someone was afraid of getting whacked.
Che cazzo?
Also, am I the only one who still thinks the Sopranos theme song is really good?
I hope they replace the song with “That’s Amore!” They could change the lyrics to “That’s Amoral!”, too, just for fun.
Guido > Dino
I will never get that 1:43 back again.
[re=25599]Gopherit v2.0[/re]: Nah, they’ll use the theme from The Godfather
Mama mia – That’s not racially transcendental.
Alabama 3. Acid house is now Italian?
They should’ve gone with the Super Mario Bros. theme.
Calogero > Guido
not racist?…the largest mass lynching in US history was of sicilian men…in New Orleans, 1891…
Seriously, this dude is fucking nuts. I did some volunteer work at the WSDC and was involved with opposition research. I transcribed hours of speeches that he’s given and the man is a complete psycho. He’s been engaging in fundraising for over a year although he didn’t declare his candidacy until recently. He wrote a shitty book that nobody’s buying and he claims the profits are huge when the money is, in fact, campaign contributions. People in Washington should be genuinely concerned.
Washington politicians are all kind of nutty. Last year at the state Republican convention in Spokane a Representative was arrested for soliciting a male prostitute. He was dressing up in women’s lingerie and getting it in the ass.
Here’s a link to an article by our favorite native son Dan Savage
http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/xxxgay
Oh yeah, the WSDC is a complete mess of stoned, half-literate nitwits. I’ve been to orgies that were more organized.
Thirty gold coins and a life to anyone who can edit the Super Mario Bros. theme into the commercial.
I’m willing to give the benefit of the doubt to the Washington DNC on this one. It is far more likely that the song was employed to expose Rossi as a connected (though conflicted) jerk on par with Tony Soprano than to attack his Italian-American heritage–something that doesn’t mean the same thing in Washington that it might in Jersey.
anyway, am I the only one struck by the fact that Democratic attack ads always seem way hipper and have better visuals than their Republican counterparts?
is there not a single video editor who watches something besides “JAG” reruns that could help out the RNC of Mississippi in the next election?
Italians are nuts.I’ve heard them claim Native Americans are racists for calling Columbus a genocidal asshat.
[re=25615]nbawriter[/re]: I’d prefer a case of mushrooms for that kind of work….
…this was kinda wimpy as far as offensive attack ads go, it would have been far more offensive if it was “God Father” themed!
dagg!
“WSDC” and “MSGOP”. sorry.
[re=25615]nbawriter[/re]: Consider it done, though not until later, when I get home.
[re=25618]SocialList[/re]: Didn’t they do that ON the Sopranos?
[re=25618]SocialList[/re]: As a South Philadelphian imbedded amongst Italians, I cannot snark on that comment. My dog is much cuter raw, as opposed to well done.
[re=25620]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: …chances are the Republicans are going to run a “Martin” or “Fresh Prince of Bel Aire” themed ad against Barry before all is said and done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSJa9biD5s4
Now that’s offensive to Italians!
[re=25599]Gopherit v2.0[/re]:
When the prize makes you drool just like Rove’s big fat fazool
That’s immorale
When you dance with the truth like you’ve had too much vermouth
That’s immorale
Scuzza me, but I see, you’re a rat yessiree
That’s immorale
[re=25618]SocialList[/re]: “Italians are nuts.I’ve heard them claim Native Americans are racists for calling Columbus a genocidal asshat.”
im so glad you listened to ‘them’…all of ‘them’…
The WA State Republicans have released this video in response: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFacWGBJ_cs
[re=25614]KevoTron[/re]: Ewww. I would rather fuck Richard Curtis than that tacky, white-trash escort. And Richard Curtis is not pleasing to look at.
[re=25598]ronaldpagan[/re]: Hell no. That song is the best lead-in tune in TV history.
[re=25614]KevoTron[/re]: You have apparently never worked for the San Luis Obispo democratic party.
Did anyone notice that the word “Goddam” is in that song? Did it play on television? Nipplegate? Noooooo. Goddam-Gate! eek!
[re=25645]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: No sir, I can’t say that I have. I can only imagine what that little “love in” is like.
Should have used the Flintstones theme.
That Dino Rossi… he was bangin’ cocktail waitresses two at a time
They should’ve played the Godfather theme. Nino Rotti version. For the rhyming LOLz.
[re=25650]KevoTron[/re]: I was once at a strategy meeting with the leaders there when we were trying to get some local asshat-republicans out of the County Board, and when I said that we needed a unilateral platform the response was “what? No man! We need to be freeeeee.” I resigned at that very moment after slaving two years for those fucks.
Fucking idiots.
When the moon hits your eye,
like a big pizza pie,
That’s amore’!
If the WSDP had come to me in respect, this Rossi would be suffering this very day.
Oh, but it was cool when everyone was running around bagging on “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” and renaming fries and toast and shit so they wouldn’t even have to utter the dreaded word FRENCH?? Bite-moi, Dino.
[re=25615]nbawriter[/re]: Quit it, man, you’re destroying me. I can’t breathe.
[re=25622]Walter Sobchak[/re]: Didn’t they do that ON the Sopranos?
It was a tragedy. It should have been scored by Albinoini.
This is a great opp for any Louie Prima cut, especially those on which he yells, “I ain’t gonna change!” which was his frequent onstage middle finger to Keely. One could use the less than subtle “there’ll be no next time,” the gently ironic “Buona Sera,” or the enthusiastic “Angelina/Zooma Zooma” (which is actually a corruption of “zuppa, zuppa,” since it’s a song about seafood soup). This would imply that the Rossi candidacy should swim with the fishes. Of course, the guy who sang “Jump, Jive and Wail” might be too close to the bone for politicians to fully appreciate…
[re=25675]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Crimony that’s worse than I thought. My worst experience in Washington was at last years Crab Feed Fundraiser. The Governor and the other local Dem big shots show up and give some speeches. My job for the ENTIRE TEN HOURS was to move cases of wine and beer from a truck to a table. It was exhausting and boring. The pretty Iranian girl who was volunteering sat at a table and flirted the whole time. Yes, I got exceedingly drunk and hit on the Iranian girl. Thus came my resignation and my end in local politics (for now, I’m pretty amped about Peter Steinbrueck running for mayor, possibly.)
This doesn’t offend me…but I am somewhat of a self-loathing Italian. On the other hand, I make a mean risotto alla milanese. Hospitaliano!
[re=25727]KevoTron[/re]: Did you send this one in, too? I was so thrilled to see that Italians still consider themselves a separate race. Still, I always thought the name Dino was Greek. Ah, well. This guy is SUCH a schmuck.
I love A3.
Also, Dino’s about as Italian as egg foo young. He is, however, from the other side of the Cascade Mountains (where, I am ashamed to say, I was raised) and thus spouts a good line about all the redneck shit that my inbred friends and classmates all love so much, but honestly, he’s like Repubs: in it for the tax breaks.
I’ve never seen The Sopranos, but that is one catchy tune. If anything it makes me think Rossi likes cool, hip music.
This whole thing is a complete misunderstanding. What the ad was intended to refer to was that Dino sings in this weird falsetto. That’s not a soprano we can believe in!
If they’re gonna run a Sopranos themed slam against an Italian American, I think we need to see more Bada Bing titties and a cap in Adrianna’s ass for cooperating with the feds…
Good lord, even his hair’s Italian.
[re=25839]jasonelias[/re]: HAH!!!! Awesome.
Actually, the Mob should be upset with being compared to an amoral lot like the BIAW.
The WA GOP should shut their pieholes (the nutbags) and just run this in response, on the A3 theme:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMRANk8t0rE
It is time to get the Italians out of crime and back into politics where they belong. Some day I”ll call for you and……….
Living in Europe,I’ve never seen the Sopranos. Pretty cool theme song, though.
sorry to break it to you, but Pacific Northwest Italian-Americans are not REAL* Italian-Americans. In fact, any Italian American living more than 100 miles west of the I-95 corridor** have surrendered all rights to claims of racism or prejudice against their mobbed-up big-nosed garlic-eating baby-factory selves. Dino Rossi is a GINO (guinea in name only).
*Exception: Italian Americans in the Pacific Northwest who own a restaurant, butcher shop, or fish market are still legitimate
**Possible exceptions: Las Vegas, Kansas City, Chicago, parts of Western PA, and households with living relatives that came over on a boat.
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