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Senator Pat Roberts Gives His Constituents Golden Showers, Which They Do Not Like!

by Sara K. Smith  12:57 pm October 13, 2008

Let’s take a breather from presidential politics for a moment and reflect on this glorious advertisement from the Jim Slattery campaign, which shows Kansas Senator Pat Roberts growing into a fifty-foot monster who urinates on people. This is amazing. ["Hosed"]

{ 72 comments }

NoWireHangers October 13, 2008 at 1:00 pm

Finally, a Senator R. Kelly can get behind!

Serolf Divad October 13, 2008 at 1:01 pm

Aaaaaw, why’d they have to ruin that commercial by showing a gas pump hose?

Truculent October 13, 2008 at 1:02 pm

Holy shit. That is a new low in poor taste. Rove, knock it off!

Texan Bulldoggette October 13, 2008 at 1:02 pm

If I’d seen Giant Pat start to kneel, I’d have hauled my ass out of there!

Tawmn October 13, 2008 at 1:02 pm

How can you NOT just love this ad?

azw88 October 13, 2008 at 1:04 pm

You KNOW they only put that “gas nozzle” in there to avoid violating some sort of FCC ruling and avoid fines.

Besides, thy didn’t want to lose the “golden Shower” vote!

ReverendGreen October 13, 2008 at 1:05 pm

Ahh, the freedom running as a Democrat in an ultra-stupid red state allows you to have.

NavinJohnson October 13, 2008 at 1:05 pm

We have three weeks left until the election and I want to see the ads that top that one. Make it rain baby!

Gopherit v2.0 October 13, 2008 at 1:06 pm

Even the Dems in Kansas are all class!

dano October 13, 2008 at 1:06 pm

[re=131579]Tawmn[/re]: Agreed. This ad is awesome. Those Lilliputian voters totally deserved to be showered with…ahem…gasoline.

Lascauxcaveman October 13, 2008 at 1:06 pm

God, I am soooo going to miss all this stuff after Nov 4 and it’s no longer an election year.

OTOH, I may actually get some work done for a change.

Noodle Salad October 13, 2008 at 1:07 pm

What’s the matter with Kansas? Other than being populated by port-a-port dwelling Liliputians?

Norbert October 13, 2008 at 1:07 pm

quick, someone make a Larry Craig joke

CivicHoliday October 13, 2008 at 1:07 pm

Worst. Commercial. Ever.

Terry October 13, 2008 at 1:07 pm

Almost makes you want to move to Kansas to vote for Slattery. Almost.

azw88 October 13, 2008 at 1:08 pm

This hast be the first political ad to use the phrase “getting hosed”.

I wonder if they are going to runva fertilizer ad in response or as a follow up….

Texan Bulldoggette October 13, 2008 at 1:09 pm

[re=131589]Noodle Salad[/re]: It might help if they used texts other than the Bible in their public school systems.

Cogito Ergo Bibo October 13, 2008 at 1:09 pm

That is hysterical. So, you can run a car on pee? At least we have an endless supply of that.

TGY October 13, 2008 at 1:10 pm

Gasssssssss.

Ah, the midwest. Heartland of the nation.

Serolf Divad October 13, 2008 at 1:10 pm

OMFG, Slattery has got the best ads.

azw88 October 13, 2008 at 1:12 pm

[re=131592]Norbert[/re]: no, the Craig ad would have the hose pumping out Whipped cream, and the tag line “While Idaho voters get creamed”

azw88 October 13, 2008 at 1:13 pm

[re=131602]Serolf Divad[/re]: OMG!!! That was too funny!

NoWireHangers October 13, 2008 at 1:14 pm

At least it was “getting hosed” and not “getting shat on.”

Carrie_Okie October 13, 2008 at 1:14 pm

[re=131575]Truculent[/re]: Toes…he should be more respectful…like..

sati demise October 13, 2008 at 1:14 pm

Glad someone FINALLY mentioned Glass-Steigel and Phil Gramm. anyone who voted for changing the laws put in place after the ’30′s to prevent another great depression should eat a bag of dicks.

Where is Mr. Gramm these days? And why isn’t Hopey talking about him?

freakishlystrong October 13, 2008 at 1:15 pm

Meh, the rediculous, religulous Repukes have been pissing all over us for the last eight years…

fuckinredneck October 13, 2008 at 1:16 pm

At least urine isn’t a highly flammable substance!

denver_80203 October 13, 2008 at 1:19 pm

Pat Roberts can’t get it in the tank

Miller October 13, 2008 at 1:21 pm

That was almost the greatest ad of all time. Why pull out of the metaphor when its going so well? He needs to make a doo-doo ad to make up for his urine cowardice.

http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

edgydrifter October 13, 2008 at 1:22 pm

[re=131600]Cogito Ergo Bibo[/re]: Sort of. The Mercedes BlueTec emissions-control fluid is urea-based, so it’s basically colored piss. That you pay money for. Who says Germans don’t have a sense of humor?

WadISay October 13, 2008 at 1:23 pm

[re=131575]Truculent[/re]: Could have been worse. I thought they were going to use the “Worlds biggest penis” line.

Gopherit v2.0 October 13, 2008 at 1:23 pm

[re=131602]Serolf Divad[/re]: Fart jokes can’t be far away.

V572625694 October 13, 2008 at 1:25 pm

[re=131634]edgydrifter[/re]: Richtig! Arbeit macht Frei!

Min October 13, 2008 at 1:26 pm

The mind boggles.

queeraselvis v 2.0 October 13, 2008 at 1:26 pm

Gas nozzle. Right. Size queen.

Deepthroat October 13, 2008 at 1:31 pm

Kim Kardashian is in loooovveee

Kingbee October 13, 2008 at 1:33 pm

[re=131600]Cogito Ergo Bibo[/re]: Yes, and what creates an endless supply of pee? An endless supply of beer! And who’s married to a beer heiress? McCain! And what does a hobo like McCain do to get a rich heiress to marry him? Drill, baby, drill! It all comes back to oil.

Godot October 13, 2008 at 1:37 pm

The gas nozzle is possibly MORE horrific. If he was just pissing on folks then it’s just the standard “fuck you” that we expect from our political leaders. But the only reason I know of to pour gasoline on someone is when you plan to BURN THEM ALIVE!

ManchuCandidate October 13, 2008 at 1:38 pm

Just wait till the next ad which is code named “Cleveland Steamer” for some reason.

ForTheTurnstiles October 13, 2008 at 1:42 pm

Picked the wrong day to quit huffing gas!

2druk2phluq October 13, 2008 at 1:47 pm

Jim Slattery goes after the urolagnia constituency, wins their 10 votes hands down. Next up: winning the scatophile vote.

(ew)

azw88 October 13, 2008 at 1:49 pm

[re=131649]ManchuCandidate[/re]: THIS is why I LOVE the Wonkette you learn SOO many new terms and phrases…

What I really need to know now is, WTF does the act ‘cleveland steamer‘ have to do with the City of Cleveland??

I’ve heard Cleveland is pretty dirty, but I’v never heard it called shitty!!

zetetic October 13, 2008 at 1:52 pm

This proves it: voters CAN be simultaneously pissed off and pissed on.

WIDTAP October 13, 2008 at 1:55 pm

[re=131610]NoWireHangers[/re]: I’m not so sure. Check out the last two seconds during the “So do we” shout. How is it that the Lilliputians are so grimy after their shower?

El Topo October 13, 2008 at 1:56 pm

That boy’s wee-wee looks different from mine.

btwbfdimho October 13, 2008 at 2:00 pm

Golden showers for the poor, golden parachutes for the rich.

Special Agent Jack Mehoff October 13, 2008 at 2:02 pm

[re=131611]Carrie_Okie[/re]: HAHA! they put Hussein in quotes. Do you think the person responsible for that sign was too dumb to know that is ACTUALLY his middle name, as opposed to just some sort of Muslim slur?

Mista Eko October 13, 2008 at 2:03 pm

This is a gross distortion of Congressional Republicans. There are women in that mob.

azw88 October 13, 2008 at 2:03 pm

[re=131668]El Topo[/re]: Yeah, the scalpel slipped big-time during his Bris

Reefpilot October 13, 2008 at 2:04 pm

Jesus fucking christ that was awesome. My favorite part: the piss-drenched mini-citizens yelling at the end, “SO DO WE!” Well, that part and the part when they get pissed on.

rbloom October 13, 2008 at 2:05 pm

Slattery: Standing up for the peons!

slappypaddy October 13, 2008 at 2:07 pm

God, I love this country.

lawrenceofthedesert October 13, 2008 at 2:10 pm

Obviously, someone from the Slattery campaign had recently finished Proust, who in “Remembrance of Things Past” used the metaphor that we never stop growing and become decrepit giants in our dotage. Otoh, Proust wisely refrained from any Senatorial campaigns.

SayItWithWookies October 13, 2008 at 2:11 pm

Let’s hope the election gets here before Slattery has to deploy the “facial” ad.

OzoneTom October 13, 2008 at 2:16 pm

“Don’t worry, it’s just raining” he calls back over his shoulder as he flips a smoldering cigarette-butt at the voters.

I just missed the deadline for this year’s “Dark and Stormy Night” contest.

Hedley Lamar October 13, 2008 at 2:16 pm

I want to see 2 Candidates, 1 Cup.

Carrie_Okie October 13, 2008 at 2:18 pm

[re=131672]Special Agent Jack Mehoff[/re]: just a moran muslin hater, doubtless.

cal October 13, 2008 at 2:21 pm

Jolly Yellow Giant?

Keram2 October 13, 2008 at 2:44 pm

Finally, an ad that speaks to me.

regisgoat October 13, 2008 at 2:48 pm

Who ever is responsible for this ad needs to take over the Obama campaign right this minute!

BruceLee5000 October 13, 2008 at 2:58 pm

Slattery, or “Slathering”?

msmoneypenny October 13, 2008 at 3:07 pm

Check out his Airbus radio spot, too. Tres magnifique!

Truculent October 13, 2008 at 3:27 pm

[re=131635]WadISay[/re]: Yeah, but that would have been funny.

GoshDarnitSarahPalinCom October 13, 2008 at 3:46 pm

Does anybody else feel like Bush has been doing this to us for the past 8 years?

fuckinredneck October 13, 2008 at 3:53 pm

[re=131627]denver_80203[/re]: Surprise, his urine IS gasoline!!!

checkonechecktwo October 13, 2008 at 4:29 pm

That’s my Robert, always pissin’ on somebody.

Ilikepigeons October 13, 2008 at 6:15 pm

He just started taking Flomax!

Those people looked like they were enjoying themselves.

ShortShadey October 13, 2008 at 6:21 pm

I see the focus-group test-run nixed the tossed match at the end.

Reefpilot October 13, 2008 at 9:36 pm

If I could have this entire video shrunken, re-res’ed to actually resemble its original youtube self, and played in full in my avatar I think I’d open a thousand libraries in Asia in Wonkette’s name. Also, if you hovered your cursor over it for three seconds, a popup would appear that you could scratch and sniff and it would smell like a urinal cake.

Scooter October 13, 2008 at 11:10 pm

No question that Roberts is a craven feckless vacuous pile of manure` who sat on the Senate’s Iraq pre-war intelligence probe for 3 years. And that’s why my fellow Kansans are poised to hand him another landslide.

heroinhotwater October 13, 2008 at 11:21 pm

Living in Kansas, I’ve seen the Slattery signs all over but TV only seems to run attack ads against him. However, now I know who I’m voting for. Hell, even if he wasn’t a democrat, this ad is too good and it would get my vote either way.

NYStateofMind October 14, 2008 at 12:04 pm

I live in Kansas too but haven’t seen any of Slattery’s TV commercials, which is too bad since they’re kind of awesome! However, he impressed me by showing up at my door a few weeks ago (he’s the first politician around here I’ve ever known to do that), and then again at an event I attended last weekend.

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