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September 9, 2008

Congresswoman’s Ad Highlights Childhood As 19th Century British Street Urchin

by Jim Newell  

C’mon people, stop bitching and moaning and threatening to move to socialist Europe under the false assumption that a lame Sarah Palin/Convention bounce has somehow sealed Barack Obama’s terrible fate. Wah wah wah. Things could be so much worse for Barry! Because if John McCain was set on picking a random lady with a narrative, he could’ve gone with Colorado Rep. Marilyn Musgrave instead. Her narrative, as shown in this re-election ad, is far more compelling than Palin’s. Musgrave grew up in Industrial England as a slave hobo, eating Oliver Twist’s leftover porridge and getting beaten up by her drunk father and crying. And then she became a Congresswoman! FOR FIVE AND A HALF YEARS. [YouTube]

{ 58 comments }

NotLaughing September 9, 2008 at 4:53 pm

xoxoxoxoxoxox

Q2 September 9, 2008 at 4:53 pm

I’d rather eat Oliver Twist’s leftover porridge than human flesh!

NotLaughing September 9, 2008 at 4:54 pm

If this is about Oliver then this is mine.

All Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine

AngryBlakGuy September 9, 2008 at 4:54 pm

…hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, no mention of party affiliation during the whole AD?! Must be a Republican!

shortsshortsshorts September 9, 2008 at 4:54 pm

We are all poor, and she will serve us all. Every one, no exceptions. Period. Fin.

Q2 September 9, 2008 at 4:54 pm

Davy Crockett: Since then you pass the taters, and I’ll pass ‘em right back…

grendel September 9, 2008 at 4:55 pm

It’s my (Democratic) Party and I’ll cry if I want to

Q2 September 9, 2008 at 4:55 pm

Please sir, may I have another.

TGY September 9, 2008 at 4:57 pm

[re=90293]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Yeah. God bless us, every one. And Scrooge McCain, too.

NotLaughing September 9, 2008 at 4:58 pm

I have an apron just like the one in the picture
except mine is blue.

jjgittes September 9, 2008 at 5:00 pm

Everyone’s suddenly discovered bipartisanship now! Wheeeeee!

Working on behalf of tear-stained urchins everywhere. Unless they’ve got the ghey.

freakishlystrong September 9, 2008 at 5:01 pm

[re=90297]Q2[/re]: damn you flash…

Clancy_Pants September 9, 2008 at 5:02 pm

Yay!!! My representative made Wonkette.. I’m so proud.. Vote Betsy Markey to take this seat for the Dems (and send Musgrave back to the soup line).

freakishlystrong September 9, 2008 at 5:02 pm

Being an (R), now, she probably just eats children..

YellowSnow September 9, 2008 at 5:04 pm

Is that a bottle of Johnny Black?

I’ll be right back, but forgive my spelling for the rest of the night.

qwerty42 September 9, 2008 at 5:05 pm

My feeling is that Shelley Sekula Gibbs could do better.

kellygrrrl September 9, 2008 at 5:05 pm

I’m just not impressed unless those FIVE and a half Years were spent without a table or chair.

Besides, if she’s not hawt, does anything really matter?

YellowSnow September 9, 2008 at 5:06 pm

[re=90319]Clancy_Pants[/re]: based on the ad, she’s really not promoting she’s a republican! why does Marilyn hate republicans

Clancy_Pants September 9, 2008 at 5:10 pm

[re=90340]YellowSnow[/re]: Me thinks she senses her district is learning to hate Republicans.. She’s now into self-loathing.

She did grow up in Fort Morgan.. sort of like a Vietnamese prison camp?

AnnieGetYourFun September 9, 2008 at 5:12 pm

Must be embarrassing when she introduces her dad at rallies and everyone boos him for making her cry when she was but a wee lass.

shoeho September 9, 2008 at 5:12 pm

[re=90321]freakishlystrong[/re]: But only after the nine month gestation period, right? Because otherwise jeebus would smite her or sumthin’, right? Okay, just wanted to use “smite” even though I don’t know what it means or how to spell it. Sorta like SP on Fannie and Freddie the other day.

[re=90319]Clancy_Pants[/re]: Hey, MY (former) Rep was Mark Foley! You’ve got a long way to go to match that.

WhatTheHeck September 9, 2008 at 5:14 pm

This woman was crying tears of the politics.
How long before Sarah Palin discovers the power of tears?

I bet it’s when the questions get too hard.

Call me stormy September 9, 2008 at 5:15 pm

Not -ILFy enough.

TastyCakes September 9, 2008 at 5:15 pm

all this ad makes me want to do it get drunk and beat her up

space stout September 9, 2008 at 5:16 pm

if she grew up in such a fucked up family, how comes she didn’t turn into one of teh gayz? that’s usually her M.O.

KevoTron September 9, 2008 at 5:17 pm

My new avatar could beat up your avatar.

Clancy_Pants September 9, 2008 at 5:17 pm

No offense to LittlePhatGuise with the Fort Morgan comment…

Don’t forget this ho’s real claim to fame has been her trying to pass the constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.

NoWireHangers September 9, 2008 at 5:17 pm

Please sir, can I have some more?

EnBuenOra September 9, 2008 at 5:18 pm

I would say it was simplistic and overdone, except for 99% of the American public who might see it.

freakishlystrong September 9, 2008 at 5:18 pm

[re=90357]shoeho[/re]: Yeah, like Billo gestates on his opinions of teen pregnancy..

ZippyDee September 9, 2008 at 5:24 pm

Just have to say her she was absolutely right in her nosejob choice, given the snout she was cursed with at birth.

V572625694 September 9, 2008 at 5:24 pm

Every sperm is sacred!

Viva la Cynthia September 9, 2008 at 5:25 pm

The best part about this ad is that it comes full circle: first she’s a starving street urchin, waiting in line for some porridge, and then she grows up and becomes the lady in the line dishing it out to other, more modern starving people who fell through the cracks in a Republican’s dreamworld with charity-run soup kitchens and no social services.

LittlePhatGuise September 9, 2008 at 5:26 pm

None taken Clancy…I live in Greeley.
Granted, just a Shitburg itself, but, home of UNC….
you seen the poon the NCAA is offering up these days?

SCHWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!

Viva la Cynthia September 9, 2008 at 5:31 pm

[re=90357]shoeho[/re]: Guys, hold up. I grew up in Dick Armey’s district in Texas. No publicized scandals, but the man’s very name is just as embarrassing (not to mention his dickish personality). In one of my favorite moments of social-commentary-slash-irony, the man who succeeded Dick Armey in Texas’ 26th is a former obstetrician. Awesome. (And he delivered me into this world! *shudder*)

KevoTron September 9, 2008 at 5:32 pm

[re=90385]HomoPolitico[/re]: poetry my little gay wonk. poetry.

tsunami September 9, 2008 at 5:37 pm

[re=90335]kellygrrrl[/re]:

exactly. good point.

if i don’t want to do her, i don’t want to listen to her.

Rush September 9, 2008 at 5:39 pm

WOW – did our Editors just bitch slap us???

Their pimp hand is strong today.

shoeho September 9, 2008 at 5:40 pm

[re=90392]Viva la Cynthia[/re]: Okay, you win unless we have someone from Sugarland on Wonkette! IMO, the “Hammer” was the meanest excuse for a human ever elected to Congress.

shoeho September 9, 2008 at 5:41 pm

[re=90399]Rush[/re]: They just don’t want to listen to us whine for eight more weeks is all. Please, please let the polls just be screwed up, please!

ladymacbeth September 9, 2008 at 5:45 pm

i was only going to move to canada the land of my mother.

KevoTron September 9, 2008 at 5:46 pm

[re=90399]Rush[/re]: No shit huh?

“I’m sorry Daddy! I’m back to shitting and grinning!”

Nick vdK September 9, 2008 at 5:47 pm

helping the homeless? what is she, one of those awful “community organizers”?

Rush September 9, 2008 at 5:49 pm

[re=90407]KevoTron[/re]:

Uhhh no Mr. Principal, little Kevo fell on his bicycle and got those marks on his arm that look like cigar burns……

Viva la Cynthia September 9, 2008 at 5:49 pm

[re=90408]Nick vdK[/re]: I know, right?! What a friggin’ joke those guys are!

Gopherit v2.0 September 9, 2008 at 6:23 pm

[re=90385]HomoPolitico[/re]: “Burning puma vaginas.” Thank you for the nightmare fuel.

sanantonerose September 9, 2008 at 6:43 pm

Musgrave…isn’t she the one that said women shouldn’t work? In an interview from her congressional office?

Advocatus_Diaboli September 9, 2008 at 6:47 pm

Ha ha! You’re poor and your dad’s an alcoholic! Ha ha!

Oh wait, you’re a republican, you say?

Well then, run along and exploit, er, use the lessons you’ve learned to beat the nasty democrats.

Rodney Badger September 9, 2008 at 6:57 pm

[re=90366]space stout[/re]: That’s the dudes, for the chicks it’s porno videos or whoring, or some combination thereof. I’m sure there is some sort of fucked up Musgrove BBW videos out there, but who wants to do that oppo research?

RuperttheBear September 9, 2008 at 7:03 pm

I wonder if she dated a Newsie in high school?

Jingo September 9, 2008 at 8:38 pm

This woman is just what our country needs. Marilyn Musgrave will fight to get our children back to work so they will no longer just sit at home, cry and steal sips of Daddy’s liquor.

schvitzatura September 9, 2008 at 9:06 pm

[re=90332]YellowSnow[/re]: Looks more like a nice 15 year Haig & Haig The Dimple Pinch…Pops Musgrave picked a really nice blended Scotch to tie on.

primary_means September 9, 2008 at 9:13 pm

oh gawd – she gave my backwoods senior class a talkin’ to about voting in high school. she ended classy-like by asking us to vote for her. i didn’t. my future librul ass couldn’t take this woman outfitted entirely in sweatpants/shirt seriously.

jimh September 9, 2008 at 10:38 pm

She was forced to do two shows a day in Annie on Broadway?
IT’S A HARD KNOCK LIFE!

njdon September 10, 2008 at 2:42 am

whining always helps. whoever whines the best wins.

what about her being abused in ‘nam for 5 years.

BobLoblawLawBlog September 10, 2008 at 4:31 am

Mmmmmm…hobo slaves are delicious in porridge. But maybe I’ve said too much…

bearbait September 10, 2008 at 9:28 am

[re=90357]shoeho[/re]: “S’mite” adv. Southern U.S.- definition: I could possibly do (action).

“I jus s’mite get me a new bass boat this year.”

HomoPolitico September 10, 2008 at 4:54 pm

Umm…who scrubbed my “buring passion of a thousand PUMA vaginas” bit. Its the best post I’ve had on here.

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