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This ad about John McCain’s 26 years servicing Washington has funny olde-tyme flapper music and lots of clips of John McCain debasing himself by hugging people and going on the Jay Leno show. The most shocking part is the outtakes from his sex tape with Paris Hilton: he is not known as the “White Tornado” for nothing. [Ben Smith]
8:53 AM
on Mon August 11 2008
By
Sara K. Smith
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I look forward to the response ad from the gals on the View.
Just what we need, another President who will take advice from no one becauswe he is the decider.
Next ad: Why can’t McCain close the deal?
To be an accurate response, for parity, this ad needs more bullshit. Maybe talk about how McCain will raise taxes on the super rich. They’ll believe it and vote for Obama because they’re retarded.
McCain’s first legislative priority will be to require all restaurants in the US to participate in a senior citizen “early bird” discount dining program.
Meh… what Obama really needs is an ad attacking McCain’s positions, especially the scarier ones, like his call to eliminate the Employer Health Care tax write-off and replace it with a $5000 tax credit for individuals. If you thought it sucked that 40 million Americans have no health insurance, just wait ’till that number climbs to 180 million.
I knew John McCain was still the champion celebrity candidate when his weekly YouTube hit count exceeded Barack Obama’s.
Of course, that YouTube video of the kitten throwing up still beats both candidates, so I don’t know how that bodes for the election.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLDbGqJ2KYk
What!? no creepy shower scene clip from SNL with Amy Poehler? MMmm Looooofa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lhomInJ7Pc
Serolf Divad: Meh yourself. The retards who are on the fence don’t care about yer stastics, or yer tax “write-offs” or other stuff. It’s so . . complicated. And math is hard.
This perfectly underscores the message that McCain is a hypocrite, a continuation of Bush, old as dirt, and full of shit. McCain = same as Bush/bad. That’s all they can handle.
They’re all fucking idiots, the whole lot of them.
I hope McCain comes out with another ad, showing Obama on each of those TV shows himself. The hip-hop music in the background will make it more effective.
The best he could do was “I know you are but what am I”?
Question for anyone who watched the Olympics over the weekend…
Here in Illinois there were ads from both candydates. I’m wondering if they were national. It’s crazy for either of them to be spending money in Illinois.
Serolf Divad: Simpler: McCain wants to radically change the health care system in this country. Why does John McCain want to destroy the best health care system in the world? Why does John McCain hate America?
Honor and Dignity: I think the McCain campaign should incorporate that “It’s Hard Out Here for A Pimp” song from Hustle and Flow.
pondscum: We got them too but that’s here in Arlington in war-torn VA.
pondscum: Yeah, they’re national ad buys. They ran here in Massachusetts, too—another state where it’s crazy for either of them to buy ad time. Arguably it makes some sense, though, since Boston TV reaches New Hampshire, which is in play, but there are enough stations in New Hampshire that would make for cheaper ad buys.
But yeah, these are running in all fifty states, and possibly Puerto Rico (but I don’t know for sure.) It started when the Obama campaign announced it was going to spend $5 million advertising during the Olympics, so the McCain campaign announced it would spend $6 million! Me, too! Me, too! Me, too!
Barry’s next ad will show McCain in the middle of an American Apparel-type threesome, with Vicki Iseman in front and Bush up his bum from behind.
I think this ad sucks. He should use clips from the biker rally of McCain stammering and lurching and looking old and confused.
That’s the only thing that will work on McCain - people’s concerns that he is old and confused.
“Is anybody tired of paying 4 dollars a buck?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8v7vz9KzQw
Larry McAwful: If it made McCain spend extra money, then I guess it was worth it. I thought both ads sucked. But I’m pretty harsh when it comes to rating ads.
Other amusing thing is the comparison of national vs local ad production values. In this venue the differences were glaring and hilarious.
WadISay:
There goes my lunch…
I smell hypocrisy… wasnt Obama on SNL, too?
I’m waiting for Obama to bring out the Chicago old school stuff.
Imagine Connery’s accent:
“You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. *That’s* the *Chicago* way! And that’s how you get Capone. Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that? I’m offering you a deal. Do you want this deal?”
Delicious: I thought we alrealdy di d the McCain is old? Remember, Obama said MCain is so old we told him to act his age and he died”
Delicious:
agreed. the whole “celebrity” thing is way stupid, and obama should leave
it alone.
songbird mccain is an old, mean douchbag, and there are many, many avenues
of attack…and they’re all on tape.
my favorite are the old man examples, and him bragging about supporting bush. put ‘em on tv
and hang ‘em with his own words/actions.
Not only that, but he was the one who told Al Jolson that blackface was a sure-fire winner.
Remember: vacationing in your home state with relatives = elitist celebrity. Marrying a beer heiress and owning eleventythousand houses = salt of the earth centenarian.
queerbubbles: It would only be hypocrisy if Obama set out to say that he wasn’t.
Servo: Love your avatar, btw, a great–uh–bot and role model to many.
How about they stop spending the donation dollars of hard-working people to put thumbtacks on one another’s seats?
My ad would have the camera panning along a box full of white mushrooms growing in a dark, damp cave, stopping on a large one on the end….John McCain’s head in the black soil.
Wasn’t McCain also on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In?
Now a “McCain cheated on ailing wife just like Edwards” ad…
I don’t have the sound on but Mccain looks disturbing human and as though he has all his senses in this ad. That slow-mo shot of him walking down a corridor with his cronies as though they’re in the opening sequence of Law & Order is, like, the coolest Walnuts has ever looked. When will both candidates stop making ads that actually make each other look better?
I suppose if you must make attack ads, they might as well be lame.
Delicious: “Is anybody tired of paying 4 dollars a buck?”
You’re misquoting him, What he said was: “Is there anybody is it’s tired a paying four dollars a, da-, a-, a bucks?!”
I think what he was trying to say was “is there anybody here who is tired of paying four dollars a dollar?” and then he remembered that bikers don’t use the archaic term “dollars” but rather the new slang term “buck.” His handlers have been trying to teach him vernacular with mixed success.
queerbubbles: I think Obama’s point is that if he’s a “celebrity” then McCain also deserves that label. Obama’s just more of a leading role or a supporting role - the token black guy dating a white woman who doesn’t offend mainstream audiences. McCain is the crabby landlord yelling at the kids for partying all night.
american mutt: The food is terrible and the portions are too small.
Hopey stinky on attackey. Wacky.
…just a few tips for any future “Attack Ads” :
-do it all in black white with flickering camera effect.
-everytime McCain and Bush are shown in the same frame play slow love music
-talk about his military career with cut-in’s of a Sopwith Camel or soldiers taking part in a bayonet charge.
Remember Bob Dole? They should tie him in somehow.
I can’t wait for the McDoughface response; I am rubber, you are glue . . .
Audio from the ad: http://entertonement.com/collections/1814/Attack-Ad
Honor and Dignity: Not retarded. Inbred.
I think we need to discover a McCain love child. Preferably a black McCain love child. Didn’t I hear something about this once before? http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080805222645AA3xQ3Y
I like turtles.
AngryBlakGuy: Hey, stop making fun of McCain’s military credentials!
He knows the top brass; I hear he’s confident that Sherman is going to be able to organize a surge to hold Georgia.
Two words: green screen.
queerbubbles: Yeah it was the 94-95 season, the musicial guest, The Tragically Hip.
That mean, nasty old Barack Hussein! Picking on poor old Juan, who is one of the founding members of AARP (along with Mephistopheles and Disraeli). “Hopey” is showing his true colors, now that he’s hiding in “Hawaii”, amped on Afghani hash and blow, cruising the effete golf courses in bare feet, posing in the surf for People magazine. (Although he looks pretty good in a thong!)
Here I thought Barrack Hussein Osama was going to be the Abe Lincoln of our times, holding the Union together through the culture wars, bringing together Josiah Lieberman and Keith Ellison, elevating Arabic as our national language and exiling the Truck Nutz and Bitters to our new embassy fortress in Baghdad.
Shame on Hussein. He should be staycationing on the front lines in Georgia, defending Atlanta from Commie tanks, not poking fun at old white guyz from his ivory plantation in da islands.
Wow, I had no idea how good looking and suave is Walnuts! I may forego my Paultard alliance and vote instead for The Man from Sturgis.
And I love the new Mr Clean look in his Paris Hilton-Britney Spears sex tape - shaved head, heavy gold ring in one ear, smooth pecs bulging out of the denim shirt with sleeves rolled up to massive biceps……oooooooooo.
White Tornado? Isn’t that urban Jihadist street slang for cocaine? Kewl!!
A classic attack ad from the “I know you are but what am I?” school. One nice bit of differentiation this ad points out is that while the previous (current) Republican prez loves John McCain, Barack Obama gets none whatsoever from the previous Democratic prez.
Summary: No one loves Hopey - so that means he’s better! Wait that’s an exact mirror image of McCain’s ad. Does nobody like these guys?
Remember when Sideshow Bob ran for mayor of Springfield, and attacked Mayor Quimby for releasing known criminals, like Sideshow Bob? Maybe they can dig up a clip of Obama saying something nice about McCain, and have a voiceover saying ‘he’s been praised by Muslim terrorists who hate America…’
Is “hugging” DC slang for buttsecs? I’m not from DC, so I wouldn’t know.
american mutt: I thought he was Fred Mertz on “I Love Lucy”
The word ‘celebrity’ clearly enjoys a 9% approval rating. Compare that to ‘assface’ and ’shitheel’ at 36% and 54%, respectively.
Hopey even attacked Carell!