Alexi Giannoulias is a Democrat running for Senate in Illinois. Here is the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s anti-Alexi Giannoulias attack ad that is basically season two of the Wire (the Greeks, not the Poles or the blacks) plus the Sopranos finale, minus Journey, divided by Rod Blagojevich. [Ben Smith]
UNFOCUSED STEREOTYPES 9:38 am February 4, 2010
This Greek Senate Candidate Is So Morally Bankrupt He’s Basically An Italian
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Hey Wonkett, what is an “unfocued stereotype”?
But we know what the Greeks, like, da Buttsexx.
We have 9 FUCKING MONTHS of this crap to look forward to here in Land o’ Lincoln. That Jeebuz I don’t have to watch local channels….
Man, the campaign ads this year are, in Michael Steele’s words, “off da hook.”
Can’t wait for late summer, when they get really nasty.
I just don’t know if the NRSC is thinking this out. Chicago is the city that loved Capone – and where a lot of average folks still love Blago. It’s like when they tried to taint Obama by linking him to “Chicago Politics” and most of the country had no idea what they were talking about.
Plus, this 6 degrees of seperation shit will taint Kirk just as much. Would you rather be the son of someone who loaned money to some slimy characters, or a cheerleader for the invasion of Iraq, tax cuts for the wealthies Americans, etc.?
My big fat Greek
erectionelection.Why did I read the comments on Politico? Eileen for Freedom/Liberty really needs to get on her meds. Yes, the people of Illinois have disgraced themselves and buckled under to the tyranny and oppression of the mafia by not nominating her preferred Republican for governor.
Lovin’ The Godfather typeface.
Alexi’s way cuter than Mark, which is the only redeeming factor of the next several billion commercials I will have to sit through, having the misfortune, at the moment, to live in Illinois.
Eyy! Oh!! Whadda these stugots talkin’ ’bout? This Giannoulis sounds like my kinda guy! As long as he isn’t some kinda mezzofanook. You know what they say ’bout those Greeks.
The GOP’s willingness to embrace Kirk despite a 100% rating from NARAL says all you need to know about their “principles.” Just wonder what Tea Partiers will do now – cry?
Is there anyone at the RNC who doesn’t consider Italian food, ethnic?
Fucking WASPy dipshits.
Welcome to the “We All Look Alike” Club, Italians and Greeks.
From the Various tints of Asians/Blacks/other minorities.
[re=507452]JMP[/re]: Oh man, I know. I had to go take a walk and yoga breathe. The “Kenyan usurper” inspires a brittle hatred indeed.
Greeks.. Italians? They’re all a bunch of swarthy southern Europeans to the Mayflower crowd at the RNC and NRSC.
Are there no Italians in Chicago? I can’t imagine this goes over too well with the Sons Of Italy.
[re=507460]freakishlystrong[/re]: It’s good to see that the wignuts are still obsessed with Tony Rezko; I thought they had forgotten that once nobody cared about their made-up scandal with Obama, but apparently not. Will they pull the Bill Ayers boogeyman back out next?
BUT he made the trains run on time!
I gave that guy two gyros to paint my chicken coop and he never did it!
There go Mark Kirk’s chances to get a decent table in Greektown.
This freaking guy.
[re=507462]Hart88[/re]: The GOP may have pissed off the mafia-ruled Eye-talians and the filthy Greeks, but they still can appeal to the dumb Polocks.
[re=507465]norbizness[/re]: I gave him three gyros and a falafel to paint my porch and instead he painted my Ferrari.
[re=507467]doxastic[/re]:
Or get Stuffed Grape Leaves that doesn’t have a pube or ten in it.
Best part of the campaign so far has been Andy Martin calling Mark Kirk a “de facto pedophile” because Kirk helped cover up Mark Foley’s sexy texting. Fucking priceless.
[re=507473]JMP[/re]: I can just see the Kirk’s campaign slogan now… “A screen door for every Polish submarine!”
Frankly it makes the greek guy look like the coolest Senate candidate ever. He’s a good guy, this greek.
[re=507473]JMP[/re]: The [Polish-American] nabe was wiped out in the fall of ’80 by all the [persons of Polish extraction] who put lighted candles in their living-room windows in solidarity with, um, Solidarity, and then forgot to blow them out before they went to bed.
For those poor souls who can’t get enough of politics as played in my home town, here’s the lead story from this morning’s Trib:
The newly minted Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor said Wednesday he doesn’t think a 2005 domestic battery arrest should hurt him in the fall general election, although records in the case raise questions about his version of events.
Scott Lee Cohen, a pawnbroker who was the surprise winner in the little-publicized contest among half a dozen candidates, had previously disclosed the arrest. He described it Wednesday as an argument with his drunken girlfriend and said he didn’t lay a hand on her, though she called the police and had him taken into custody.
But the official police and court records show that the woman alleged Cohen put a knife to her throat and pushed her head against the wall.
In their October 14 arrest report detailing the complaint from the 24-year-old woman, Chicago police noted they observed “mild abrasions from knife wound” on her neck. They also noted “minor scars on her hand from her trying to defend herself against the arrestee swinging the knife at her.” The report notes the woman was seen by ambulance personnel but not taken to a hospital.
The case was dropped a month later when the woman did not show up for a court date.
Also, public records show that the alleged victim, Scott’s 24-year-old girlfriend at the time, was a prostitute. Six months before the October 2005 incident, she had been arrested after a police investigation of a Glenview massage parlor. She later pleaded guilty to a charge of prostitution.
Through a spokesman Cohen said he did not know at the time that the woman was a prostitute and that she had told him she worked as a “massage therapist.”
p.s. This Cohen character will almost certainly win–and given the (political) life expectancy of Illinois governors, we might be privileged to call him Governor Cohen before long.
Hey cannolis, Giannoulias says 24 is the highest number, faggottaboutit
As long as there’s another excuse to put on that song by Journey.
Isn’t this the race to be Senator of Cookcountychicago? What’s the problem with a
wiseguyguy having some friends?[re=507503]chaste everywhere[/re]: Forget the possible assault, I wouldn’t vote for a guy who claims to be so ignorant he doesn’t know that “massage therapist” is code for prostitute.
It is better than that “Menace of the Lambs” video. Less creepy. Also.
[re=507516]JMP[/re]: He knew, he was just proving he could balance the budget by getting her to give it up for free.
[re=507503]chaste everywhere[/re]: A pawnbroker named Cohen and some Italian or Greek guy (both have too many vowels in their names for the downstate dummies) at the top of the ticket.
Love Illinois ethnic/racial politics.
[re=507536]donner_froh[/re]: If only the pawnbroker’s name were Sol Nazerman, then we would know he was, well, THE Pawnbroker–y’kno, the performance for which Rod Steiger got shafted for the Oscar–am I going too far back in time here, people?
[re=507457]Berkeley Bear[/re]: I actually heard a convo about that on the L. The punchline was “I guess I’m gonna have to suck it up and vote for that faggot.” That Mountain Dew was a better choice for breakfast before it ended up in my nose.
[re=507490]pondscum[/re]: If the Democrats would not be such wimps, they would be running ads about Kirk enabling child rape and easily take the seat. Most normal people are somewhat offended by such things and Republicans only make up like 20% of the population.
you know, the senate dems could dearly use a couple of chicago machine pols.
[re=507503]chaste everywhere[/re]: It’s a step in the right direction.
What’s an Italian? I live on the west coast.
They totally left out the child-fucking. Whoops, wrong party.
What’s in a name?
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201002040022
Feb.4
Beck on Obama using his real name “Barack”: “You don’t take the name Barack to identify with America,” but with “your heritage,” “radical[s]“
[re=507459]ManchuCandidate[/re]: We Mediterranian types are pretty much charter members of the You all look-a-like club. Of course the Greek and Egyptian Pizza places don’t help the cause any.
But what connections do they have with Frank Sobotka?
Phhht. That wasn’t very good. There weren’t even any possessed sheep humanoids lurching out from behind trees.
What’s the over/under on how long it takes the NRSC to pull this blatantly racist ad? I say 12 hours, depends on how long it takes Italian Americans to get wind of it.
Today’s GOP. Bringing the ail in ways you could never imagine.
Can somebody tell me what kind of accent that was in the ad? It sounds like Jersey to me.
Kind of heavy-handed, wouldn’t you say? What’s going on in Illinois??? All those nostalgic photos of Blagoyovitch make him look kind of scarey and unreal. Didn’t people realize when they were voting for him that he was kind of a weird dude? And what’s with the two inch thick crust on the pizza? WHAT’S GOING ON IN ILLINOIS?
He’s banging (female) Senate pages two at a time!
say what you will, but it’s nice to see The Situation get work after Jersey Shore, even if it’s just some racist voiceover
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