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Beware. John McCain’s BRUTAL NO-HOLDS-BARRED RESPONSE AD OF DEATH about TONY REZKO is out, and you better be SCARED. Ha ha just kidding, it sucks. The ad distills Obama’s naive but benign relationship with Rezko into a more familiar, corrupt politician’s narrative: (1) Rezko bought Obama a house, so (2) Obama returned the favor by giving him $14 million in taxpayer money! Since this is a horrible lie, the narrator doesn’t actually say this, just chooses words that sound like he’s saying this. Too bad no one will ever care about this. [YouTube]
With that brilliant piece of advertising, the McCain camp can just demand keys to the White House right this minute.
I’m biased, but that’s a pretty bad ad.
Where is Tony the Tiger and his Rezko rants when you don’t need them?
I especially like the unattributed quotation marks. Hillz?
And, really, congratulations on staying above the fray, you maverick dickhead, you. Can someone please just take Biden/Webb/who-the-fuck-ever off their goddamned leashes so the Dems can seem like they have a pair for once?
OMG! Obama = Ted Stevens! Only he’s black, and the story in the commercial is bullshit.
shortsshortsshorts:
Wait, Canmon will comment.
I’m still waiting for the “Why’d he” aka “Whitey” tape.
Is it just me or does the guy say “billion” instead of “million”? Is there any house in the world worth a billion dollars? Sadly, many people will think “billion” is correct.
Also, his house is not really a mansion. I’ve seen it many times, I used to work down the street.
shortsshortsshorts: But he went to law school with Barry!! And refused blow jobs from him every day!! Ah, I miss Tony sometimes…
Gopherit v2.0: Are you implying Ted Steven is NOT full of bullshit?
Can you imagine what is going on over at the Obama mansion right now? Michelle probably just got home from her “job” and is busy weeding the arugula garden while Malia and Natasha are busy trying on Mommy’s makeup for the video crew from their blog. They wish everyone was hammered like at Meghan’s party
Lame add. Too complicated. Walnuts looks like shit at the end. C-
The great thing about this is that the American public don’t give a shit about the Rezko “scandal”. It’s way too hard for them to understand or get outraged about. They do understand now, however, that McCain is an elitist pansyass who loses count of how many homes he owns. As easy-to-follow storyline that even a toothless hick can understand!
Plus damn, wen u add up the cost to the us taxpayer of crashun five airplains, he may o us muney back.
Two words: KEATING Five!
BobLoblawLawBlog: No,I’m saying that the story about Stevens taking kickback for his house has legs. The Rezko thin is the lamest political scandal in this election.
Gopherit v2.0: I really hope Barry grows a set and just smears WALNUTS all over the floor with dirty laundry. The guy wreaks of old Washington. DO IT Barry.
Ooh! Ooh! Does this mean Barry can run ads about the Keating Five? I think the 125 billion dollars we spent to bail out WALNUTS’ S and L friends is a wee bit more than the 14 mil Rezko got.
That’s going to cost “Seven Houses” McCain some decimal points on the Truth-O-Meter.
shortsshortsshorts: I’m with you.
I know they keep saying they’re going to play nice and all. But the Rove playbook is in full bloom right now. If it’s going to be personal attacks, let the shit fly.
tonashideska: The Ketting Five is Barry’s ace in the hole. No need to use it just yet - I think mid-October would be a wonderful time to start hammering Walnuts! with that little “taint”.
Not_So_Much: The great thing is, McCain just cannot win with this tack of trying to air Barry’s dirty laundry and pretend he hasn’t got any of his own. He’s corrupt, does dirty deals with lobbyists, fucks lobbyists, and doesn’t believe in god or fidelity or any of the things that necons and evangelicals supposedly care about. Barry has one minor piddling skeleton in his closet that no one besides Walnuts and Tony the Tiger cares about. The ONLY thing he can use that’s effective is reminding people that Barry is a secret Muslim and a black man. I’m sure he and his fine people will go back to that shortly.
I love the logic of the McCain Rapid Response Team:
Step 1: Release a crappy video at like 6:00 p.m. after all the good journos have gone to bed.
Step 2: No one watches.
Step 3: ????
Step 4: Profit?
…I just don’t get Obama’s strategy? I would figure that he would be aggressive toward McCain in every AD, not attack but aggressive. Barry has the money advantage so every cent that WALNUTS! is forced to spend rebutting or counter striking an AD is another cent that cant be used to organize his campaign or put out another AD. At some point WALNUTS! is going to be forced to decide where he is going to invest his money and Obama should be putting that pressure on him NOW!
AngryBlakGuy: I could be wrong (again), but I believe that if you include the RNC cash barge, they actually have more money to spend.
I could look it up, but that would require effort — and that’s not how I roll….zzz
Why does the music playing when McCain’s name appears sound like something from a Nintendo Wii game? Also, Rezko sounds like a badass supervillian name!
Gopherit v2.0: lolol…
The Hispanic Buddy Holly: You like Rezko? Wait ’til you meet Reverand Wright! And believe me, you will.
personally speaking, im ready for the gloves to come off…..
any real fight with McCain has to be dirty…its the nature of the beast…
its time for the DNC to hit him hard everyday…lord knows theres plenty of info to pull out……
Keram2: One minor problem with your steps. After 6 p.m. all the journos have gone to [b]bars[/b] not bed.
The Incomparable Tiny Valdez: I can’t wait. That Wright guy seems like a nice fellow. I mean, he is a reverand and those guys are always nice.
You guys are all wrong. Walnetto’s going to win the presidency with this tactic.
!st: foreign-sounding name Lord Darth Rezko. Rezko rhymes with Negro, if you accent it right.
Second: terrifying crypto-tintype shot of billion-dollar Satanic Amityville Horror mansion (you can dub in the image, Vincent Price-wise: “This is the house where the bodies are buried….”).
Third: Walnutzoids’ air of real-manliness by counterpunching from the hip: “You want to talk houses, upstart Negro? Let’s talk about your ill-gotten Chicago gangster paradise!” Swing voters will achieve tuminescence when they see how fast McCain’s crackerjack team of character assassins got this crap on-line.
Zogby says it, I believe it and that settles it.
The Hispanic Buddy Holly: Yes sir, He is a rustic concerned about the chickens coming home to roost, that’s all.
The Hispanic Buddy Holly: I’m onto you.
The .ae file for this ad took FIVE AND A HALF!!! hours to render.
Oh man, those 25%ers are going to hate Obama even more. Then they’ll be moved up to Advanced 25%ers.
shortsshortsshorts: You smellin’ Tiger in the air?
My favorite part of the McCain ads is always near the end–just after the narrator finishes giving some bullcrap. It’s like I’m always waiting with anticipation to see if John McCain approved that message or they just slipped it by him.
And then… he always comes through. And I’m all “I can’t believe he approved that shit,” to my bro sitting next to me.
I think they are making the brief pause a little longer each time to keep people like me excited.
Whiskeybaby: “…The ONLY thing he can use that’s effective is reminding people that Barry is a secret Muslim and a black man. I’m sure he and his fine people will go back to that shortly.”
That is where the campaign is going. See Sullivan. I doubt McCain controls “the American Issues Project”, but I’d expect more of this.
Wait. What does John McCain got in his cheek? Baccy? Or is that just his wattles?
Oh goody, now Barry can bring up the Keating 5 Scandal that cost the bitters $160 bilion in tax dollars.
erymanthian bore: Silly it’s a WALNUT!
(brush, brush…)
WTF? I am totally voting for McMansion after that little number.
If McNovocain can reduce the campaign to the usual Rove s-storm level, it covers his platform’s lack of substance. If he can whip things up to the point where we all are sick to death of both candidates, then he figures more Dems will stay home than Repubs, because Dems have a life. Apologies to Ronald, but I’m not lovin’ this campaign so far. This ad is bait I hope Obama doesn’t take.
AngryBlakGuy: Why bother? McCain is already spending like a sailor, because he needs to burn through his funds before he can accept public financing on September 4th. Why do you think he’s been inching up in battleground states everywhere? He’s flooding them with TV ads! If he were smarter, he’d invest in infrastructure, instead of trying to get bumped in the polls 2.5 months before the election. But he’s John “Seven Houses” “894th out of 899 students” McCain. He doesn’t do smarter.
“purchasing part of the property he couldn’t afford.”
OHHH SHIT Barry must have had like 80 billion bucks!!!!1!
Or WALNUTS has failed. Amazing that his response to the “look how rich WALNUTS is ad” is “this black man is totally broke so he needed help” thing. Yes it is acknowledged that Barry has tons of money now, but STILL not even slightly/nearly/assfuckingly as much as McMoneybags’ wonderful cunt-trollip.
Gopherit v2.0: Definitely. See how the troll stopped posting…
curious it seems.
I give this ad an F minus. I could have created a better attack ad on my little Mac with some fucking sock puppets. One of the socks could even have a hole in it.
AngryBlakGuy: So, I feel like it would be good if the Obama camp reacted with a bit more scorn-bordering-on-pity. Like, “Well, that’s a really sad tactic, but if that’s what he needs to do to feel good…” followed by lots of eye-rolling and a sighing explanation of why nothing John McCain has ever said has been true.
chitownlib: The narrator totally makes it sound like ‘billion’ and I’m sure it’s no accident.
“naive but benign relationship”?
GMAFB
Aren’t you supposed to run attack ads that contain zero truth only at the very end? What a waste this one is. It’s incomprehensible and two months early.
Walnuts is cracking…
No no no. See the liberal media is doing this all wrong. When McCain was whining about not getting equal coverage with Hopey he didn’t mean that they should actually report on things he said in real life. They were just supposed to repeat the taking points of his Clown Hall meetings.
Quacker: Better question is - if they’re whipping out Ayers, Rezko and Wright already - all of whom failed to do shit for Hillary in the primaries - what the hell are they even going to have *left* for the next two months?
“This young boy is Jimmy Johnson. Barack Obama once punched him in the shoulder at Punahou prep school after a kerfuffle on the basketball court. It bruised, and Billy was sore for a week. Obama is a violent, dangerous negro. Vote McCain.”
AxmxZ: Remember:
He’s a MOOSlim!
His wife is anti-American!
He voted present 8 billion times in the IL Senate!
He smoked the pot!
He isn’t white!
He voted against the Iraq War!
He doesn’t have experience!
He isn’t umm, PRESIDENTIAL!
He is the anti-Christ!
He didn’t wear a FLAG PIN!
More of the same shit. Thank you middle 30 states (minus MI, IL, and maybe MN) for making this so easy. I hope Childers says something about you.
I think the Keating/Rezko should be done. I’d love to see a graph showing what 125,000,000,000 looks like next to 14,000,000 but that would look like Hopey was admitting there was validity to the Rezko story.
Chigurh: You married into it.
McCain: …If that’s the way you wanna put it.
Chigurh: I don’t have some way to put it. That’s the way it is.
Oh honey, if this is the best they can do I’m feeling a whole lot better about this little contest moving forward.
What really scares me is that this is the kind of crap THE ‘MERICAN PEOPLE use to make a decision?
This place gets creepier every day…
McNopoly!
Olbermann nails it again.
texette: Another Rezko beneficiary? What are these elitist doing to our country?
You can only hope that Barry will create a long video simply displaying WALNUTS losing track of his thoughts in oh-so-many of his press conferences. He’s like George Jr., but really, really old.
shortsshortsshorts:
This is from the NY Times in March. I think it proves your point.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/images/photo/2008/03/19/0320-PENN/22497807.JPG
“But Peter Contacos, 42, the fourth generation of his family to own and operate Coney Island Lunch, said he would not vote for Senator Barack Obama ‘because his name is Barack Hussein Obama — case closed.’”
This is from the NY Times in March. I think it proves your point.
qwerty42: OK, that was actually quite chilling. There really is no shame or limits with this stuff is there? Must go look at LOLcats now.
qwerty42: Thank you for that video. Thank you so very much.
They changed the photo of Geezer McFlyboy there at the end, where he says “I’m John McCain, and I approve this message” from a profile to a face shot.
Somebody must have told them that the profile looked retarded. The new one does, too, a little bit. John boy just doesn’t look natural.
I considered myself pretty educated on this whole Obama/Rezko thing, but after this ad I don’t even know if I was thinking about the right guys. If I was Obama I would have just kept the 14 million dollars.
Hello…time to go for blood:
Keating Five anyone?
The ad should run something like this:
McCain wants you to think Obama is an elitist out of touch with REAL Americans…but by his calculations, Obama is merely upper middle class since he makes less than five million - what McCain thinks rich people make.
McCain thinks the economy is doing just fine - which it is if you have some many houses you can’t remember just how many and your wife just made a mint to support you by selling yet another American company to a foreign corporation.
And lastly, McCain wants you to think that Obama is mixed up in some shady financial dealings…really? Hmmm…can you say Keating 5? The last time we were in such a financial storm, there was one Senator sitting right in the middle of it all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five
Can we really afford to have someone so confused and out of touch in charge of America’s recovery from the last 8 years?
So Obama bought a house from those fire spitting triceratops things from Super Mario World? The rotten fucker, they worked for Bowser.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/