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If You’re Pretending To Be Liberal, At Least Look Into The Camera

Here’s a new ad from Republican Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith, who faces a tough re-election bid this year against Jeff Merkley, the bore who barely defeated that awesome little pirate hobbit in May’s Democratic primary. Smith’s ad here is the latest of his to compare himself to — gasp — Barack Obama and John Kerry! Is Oregon really so liberal that a Republican has to pretend he’s friends with two gay socialists? Anyway, this video is mostly funny because Smith never looks into the camera, and sometimes looks down, and everyone feels awkward. [YouTube]


11:26 AM on Fri August 1 2008
By Jim Newell
629 Views

  1. Vanity Smurf says at 11:32 am, August 1st, 2008

    Wait… it’s not about who gets the credit???? I thought that was exactly the problem with our economy right now, who is or is not getting teh credit.

  2. ManchuCandidate says at 11:34 am, August 1st, 2008

    Skinny elitist.

  3. Rev. Peter Lemonjello says at 11:35 am, August 1st, 2008

    Nice to see that the GOP finally has the balls to film an ad in a bathhouse.

  4. Enturbulator says at 11:38 am, August 1st, 2008

    Someone must have called Central Casting for a ‘generic bullshitting politico.’

    And what about the hair helmet? Move that hairline a little lower, m-kay?

  5. Vanity Smurf says at 11:40 am, August 1st, 2008

    Enturbulator: Looks like he borrowed it from Rick Perry.

  6. Whoa, it’s like he’s asking them out on a date. Add a little bit of foot shuffling and it’ll be perfect.

  7. shortsshortsshorts says at 11:45 am, August 1st, 2008

    “I’m Gordon and I think Medicare is totez awesome and I’ve been like voting for liberal shit for years, which is why I am so Republican. This is why I am the best, ever! I will vote along party lines but you shall never know because I am hidden in some liberal looking tree in a red wood somewhere trying to compensate for my loss of pride.”

    I’m shortsshortsshorts and I disapprove of this douchebag.

  8. ForTheTurnstiles says at 11:49 am, August 1st, 2008

    I’m telling you, he’s a young Larry Craig. And not just the Mormon thing either… Pendleton is basically Idaho.

  9. Harmless says at 11:49 am, August 1st, 2008

    Burlap sack is the new– wait, what was the old burlap sack?

  10. AngryBlakGuy says at 11:51 am, August 1st, 2008

    …what, no Paris or Britney?

  11. AngryBlakGuy says at 11:54 am, August 1st, 2008

    …a white guy giving a black guy the political equivalent of a sloppy, dripping, deep throat blow job?! Bob Allen is that you?!

  12. trophy(forparticipation)wife says at 12:04 pm, August 1st, 2008

    So many people are reaching across the I’ll.

  13. RWWiley83 says at 12:08 pm, August 1st, 2008

    But can he open a beer with a prosthetic hand?

  14. RuperttheBear says at 12:11 pm, August 1st, 2008

    Enturbulator: The head nodding/shaking is like bad acting.

  15. Enturbulator says at 12:36 pm, August 1st, 2008

    RuperttheBear: The rehearsed fake sincerity is bad acting. In fact his performance displays a complete and magnificent array of day-player, hack, non-union skilz.

  16. irisheyes says at 12:38 pm, August 1st, 2008

    Oh I don’t know…he seems kind of sincere. And his white teeth look like they’re talking to me all by themselves….is it 5 o’clock yet?

  17. WagTehGod says at 12:44 pm, August 1st, 2008

    Where the hell is his flag pin?

  18. WagTehGod says at 12:45 pm, August 1st, 2008

    And by the way, using terms like “helping people” and “reach across the aisle” and “Barack Obama” doesn’t mean you still don’t come off as a giant douche.

  19. Closet Republicans: it means two things now!

  20. Smacksipad says at 4:49 pm, August 2nd, 2008

    Why is he protecting Homo Nurse?

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