Wonkette
For many moons, MTV was the channel where you could watch Downtown Julie Brown in her fingerless gloves talking about music, and then the Genesis video with the Claymation people would come on, and you could dance around your living room wearing your jelly bracelets and baggy neon shorts. Sadly, those days are over now and the only thing on MTV is a series of progressively more depressing/humiliating reality shows featuring drunk idiots who have sex with each other in the shower. But now there will be political ads, too, on this channel that never allowed political ads before, and the first one just aired! It is shockingly bad.
“Both Ways Barack” just doesn’t have the same ring as, say, “Hanoi Jane” or “Tricky Dick.” Plus, telling MTV watchers that Barack Obama is always “straddling” things will not make him any less popular.
Let Freedom Ring: Both Ways Barack” [YouTube]
Barack Obama Attacked In First National Political Ad Ever To Air On MTV [MTV News]
Reality killed the Video Star…
“you could dance around your living room wearing your jelly bracelets and baggy neon shorts”
BTW, do you happen to have photos, Sara?
At the risk of stating the obvious, is McCain now admitting he’s a “flip-flopper” and being so is somehow better?
He can “hold two positions at the same time” and “wants to have it both ways”? Sick bastards. Also, is it me or is this thing painfully dated? Even the narrator sounds like the guy who used to do the recap at the top of continued episodes of Soap or Too Close for Comfort. (Oops — just dated the hell out of myself.)
This will be followed by an ad for “coin slot cleanser.”
The fact that this may be airing during “A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila” makes me warm all over.
So McCrone just wrote off the bi-curious vote?
People still watch MTV?
I wonder how this will affect the douchebag vote.
The narrator sounds like the same narrator from my fifth-grade filmstrip on the life of the amoeba.
Buffy and Hildegard: “dating yourself” I thought that was the M.O. of most Paultards?
So Barry is into the 69?
I think this video should be 86′d.
And Walnuts is 72.
NUMBERS!!!!!!!1!
And all twenty or so MTV viewers are going to be swayed by that shitty commercial?
Buffy and Hildegard: Not that your avatar or name would have dated you…..
MTV has lost all respectability with this ad.
Toonces: Best to keep in mind that he’s got the under 18 vote pinned for this…
WALNUTS isn’t out of touch AT ALLLLLL….
So it is the land of confusion?
According to F. Scott Fitzgerald:
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability
to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time,
and still retain the ability to function.”
That video no good. The song was boring, no Snoop Dogg cameo and no girl on girl action. MTV’s standards are definitely slipping.
Toonces: the majority of those twenty viewers are the “stars” of “The Hills”.
they’ve already decided to vote for McCain.
Baracking the Vote.
i hate myself.
Here’s their next ad. No charge, fellas.
Are you tired of presidential candidates who want to have it both ways?
:: shot of irritated, big-haired woman shaking her head at her console TV.
Tired of the same old politics? Tired of flip-floppers? Wish there was something different?
:: Woman looks up at narrator curiously.
Well, then you need to try MAC-CANE!
:Woman smiles joyously.
Mac-Cane, the space-age, patented solution to all your governing needs! Mac-Cane is revolutionary, but time- and torture-tested. Endorsed by leading experts! Washable, nontoxic and economical. Mac-Cane!
*McCain is not sold in stores. Side effects may include drowsiness, irritability, and sudden, unexpected brushfire wars. Not available in California, Massachusetts or the District of Columbia.
::Woman: Thanks, Mac-Cane. Now, my troubles will soon be over!
This sounds like something that idiot VJ Kennedy might make. But there’s plenty of stupid out there besides Kennedy’s. The group that made that ad, some weird outfit called “Let Freedom Ring,” calls the Girl Scout of America a “radical organization.” So take them with a grain of salt. Or a thin mint.
“Both Ways Barack” makes a promise Hopey could never deliver on. Sorry boys.
They’ve played this commercial on MSNBC as well, but it’s far more suggestive on MTV.
I’d sooo have a threesome with 2 Baracks.
From our friends at Fox News, their current front page:
http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/3955/fauxxq8.jpg
At least the speech in front of hundreds of thousands is above the Alien story.
JTFC, who is running that campaign anyway?
So the “M” now stands for “Moron”?
Sean O:
PUPPET SHOW
SPINAL TAP
SuperRounder: This is why Edwards drinks and impregnates stray females.
If it was VH1, they could run this ad before that classic Joni Mitchell “Both Sides Now” video.
That is, if VH1 isn’t all ‘reality’ programming these days. Been a long time since I got cable.
Are the youngins’ really going to do anything more than snicker at this ad. I mean, seriously…
WagTehGod: Diabetic shut-ins.
TheMac: The reality tv crowd is absolutely stupid, trashy, and low-classed enough to still be a swing vote this election.
OMG I know that voice: I live in the Philly area and we have furniture clearinghouse store called “The Dump”. I swear, I can hear that guy saying, “This Friday, Saturday, and Sunday only, leave your checkbooks at home ’cause we can’t take your money. Hundreds of handmade Indian rugs with no payments until November of 2009. To the Dump, to the Dump, to the Dump, Dump, Dump!” True stuff.
Well, that IS the network with the lowest standards (other than, of course, Fox News, where “Fair and Balanced” manages to mean “I just thought up some random crap, let’s assume it’s true and call it news”).
I’m pretty sure that one of the fonts used in there is from “Remote Control.”
So, I guess they’re trying to appeal to MTV viewers of the late 80s or so.
I’m so glad they’re using warm, crumbly, trustworthy middle-aged voices on MTV. Good for them. Can you not see these McCain people going “William Holden, that’s what we need here.”
I mean, they did not have the temporary brains to use some conservative 20 year old for a narrator, one of those voices who puts a question mark at the end of every sentence? Like, Obama? He’s worse than a flip-flopper? Y’know?
Wubba wubba wubba, resquiat in pace…
I think the voice they picked is funny and actually kind of charming, H’s warm and knows
the script is enough to tell the story without having to be one of those ridiculous over-the-top
sinister “movie trailer” voices. Because the guy is friendly, I actually listen to it!
They knew what they were doing. It breaks through BECAUSE it’s like listening to your favorite wise Uncle Frank who has seen it all before and knows a politician when he sees and hear one. People want advice from someone who’s been around the block - not from some snot-nosed kid who doesn’t have enough life experiences to recognize when he’s being sold a bag of dried oregano!
I’m not sure what holding two positions at the same time would even look like, but why wouldn’t you want a man who could do that?
Hey Marty Quinn: “Big time” is a post-Genesis Gabriel song/video.
My God, I’d love Both-Ways Barack.
MTV? Sorry McCain, you guys are barely cool enough for Lifetime.