WORST. Political attack ad. EVER.

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2004-01-07 05:55pm

I'm not making this up.

Husband: WHAT DO I THINK?
WELL, I THINK HOWARD DEAN SHOULD TAKE HIS TAX HIKING, GOVERNMENT-EXPANDING, LATTE-DRINKING, SUSHI-EATING, VOLVO-DRIVING, NEW YORK TIMES-READING . . .

Wife: . . . BODY PIERCING, HOLLYWOOD-LOVING, LEFT-WING FREAK SHOW BACK TO VERMONT, WHERE IT BELONGS.

This idiocy brought to you by Club for Growth.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2004-01-07 06:28pm

How utterly rational and convincing! I'm voting Bush fer sure, now!

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2004-01-07 06:35pm

Makes only slightly more sense than Bush=Hitler....slightly more.

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2004-01-07 06:37pm

That is a genuine advertisement?! Are this kind of attacks common in U.S. politics?

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2004-01-07 06:38pm

Sir Sirius wrote: That is a genuine advertisement?! Are this kind of attacks common in U.S. politics?

*clicks heels*

Jawolh herr Standartenfuhrer!

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2004-01-07 06:42pm

Sir Sirius wrote: That is a genuine advertisement?! Are this kind of attacks common in U.S. politics?

The ploy is, yes, but the quality of that paticular ad is uncommonly bad.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-01-07 06:49pm

It's too silly for anyone to take seriously. It's not nearly as bad as the James Byrd commercial that ran in 2000.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2004-01-07 07:25pm

Joe wrote:It's too silly for anyone to take seriously. It's not nearly as bad as the James Byrd commercial that ran in 2000.

I didn't hear about that. How did it go?

Will they be making another commercial like that marketed toward religous voters, that says "If you vote Democrat, you'll make the Baby Jesus cry"?

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2004-01-07 07:25pm

Wow, xenophobia, ignorance, and social regression all in one tidy bundle.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-01-07 07:44pm

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:
Joe wrote:It's too silly for anyone to take seriously. It's not nearly as bad as the James Byrd commercial that ran in 2000.
I didn't hear about that. How did it go?

Will they be making another commercial like that marketed toward religous voters, that says "If you vote Democrat, you'll make the Baby Jesus cry"?

It was an ad that depicted the dragging death (not graphically, of course) of James Byrd, a black man who was killed in Texas by two racist white men and pointed out that Bush had failed to support a new hate crime law in Texas. It neglected to mention the two men who killed Byrd were sentenced to death in Texas, and the accomplice got life in prison.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2004-01-07 07:49pm

Hey, what the hell is wrong with sushi and Volvos?

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2004-01-07 07:52pm

Uraniun235 wrote:Hey, what the hell is wrong with sushi and Volvos?

dimdamn furriners stealin' our wimmin...[/Boomhauer]

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-01-07 07:59pm

I think the Volvo bit is a reference to Vermont. Even the rednecks drive Volvos in Vermont.

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2004-01-07 08:32pm

Wow, that ad is silly.

It's a shame that there exist enough people who think like that that what ever ad agency dreamed it up thinks that it will play.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-01-07 08:50pm

I always thought American politics was fucking stupid sometimes.

Now I know for sure. Honestly, if someone started a bitchslapping fight in the House of Commons this week and wedgied the Speaker, it still wouldn't rival the childishness of some American politicians.

These guys really do think the average US voter is a fucking idiot. I hope one day someone with sense actually stomps the two petty parties into the ground.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-01-07 08:54pm

Now I know for sure. Honestly, if someone started a bitchslapping fight in the House of Commons this week and wedgied the Speaker, it still wouldn't rival the childishness of some American politicians.

*cough*Galloway*cough*

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2004-01-07 09:03pm

You know what, I bet Karl Rove paid for that ad, you know what else, Karl Rove is trully smart enough to know that it was ineffective, and you know what I think finally? Karl Rove meant it to be like that, if Dean wins, and assuming there isn't a full blown return to recession, White House=Bush House.

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2004-01-07 09:03pm

I've decided to make my own attack ad along the same vein.

*cuts to a really grungy looking black man breaking into a house and a narrator starts talking*
Narrator: "This is Howard Dean's America. An America were decent folks are helpless in their homes against intruders, unable to defend themselves...
*said man opens a door to a room with a little blonde white girl is sleeping in her bed. He has something shadowy under his arm*
Narrator: "An America where children are no longer safe in their own beds..."
*man looms over sleeping girl*
Narrator: "An America where the most heinous things are allowed to happen, due to laws passed by Dean that will turn Americans into victims in their own homes...."
*man sits at the edge of the bed and reading to the blonde girl*
Man: "...and so, as you can see, the world wasn't created in seven days like the Bible says. Humans like you and me evolved from primitive hominids through evolution over millions of years."
Girl: "Hurray! I'm an atheist now!"
Narrator: "Paid for by the Friends of George W. Bush for Re-Election Initative"

And just to be fair, so no one can say that I'm biased.

*commercial cuts in to a paternal looking father in a V-neck sweater with an angelic look blonde boy who is his son*
Timmy: "Daddy? My fwiend says he's a Repubwican and that his daddy is going to vote for Pwesident Bush in the ewection this year... who's Pwesident Bush?"
Dad: "Well, Timmy, President Bush, or Dubya as you should call him, is a bad man, and nobody should vote for him."
Timmy: "Why, daddy?"
Dad: "You've heard about his ranch in Texas? *blank look from Timmy* You see, he doesn't go there just to avoid doing work he's too stupid to understand. He's there to go hunting."
Timmy: "Deer?"
Dad: "Mexicans. You see, Dubya is a racist. Every once in a while his redneck trigger finger gets itchy and he has the secret service grab hard working migrant workers who just want a better life, so he can chase after them on a horse and shoot them with a rifle."
Timmy: "He does?"
Dad: "He does it when he thinks no one is looking, but fortunately we've got a video."
*badly spliced footage of Bush intermixed with grain black and white cowboy films*
Timmy: "That's awful! He's a bad man!"
Dad: "Yes, Timmy my boy, that's why I'm going to vote Kucinich, so we can get that Mexican killing monkey out of the white house and into a zoo where he belongs."
Timmy: "Yay!"
Narrator: "Paid for by the Kucinich for President campaign."

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-01-07 09:15pm

Joe wrote:
Now I know for sure. Honestly, if someone started a bitchslapping fight in the House of Commons this week and wedgied the Speaker, it still wouldn't rival the childishness of some American politicians.
*cough*Galloway*cough*

He's good at dodging missiles thrown his way and Ken Livingstone, who miraculously got back into Labour the other day, is another idiot who should be axed again.

But I don't see the smear campaigns and polarised attitudes that I see in America.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2004-01-07 09:37pm

Husband: WHAT DO I THINK?
WELL, I THINK HOWARD DEAN SHOULD TAKE HIS TAX HIKING, GOVERNMENT-EXPANDING, LATTE-DRINKING, SUSHI-EATING, VOLVO-DRIVING, NEW YORK TIMES-READING . . .

Wife: . . . BODY PIERCING, HOLLYWOOD-LOVING, LEFT-WING FREAK SHOW BACK TO VERMONT, WHERE IT BELONGS.

That's the saddest thing I remember ever seeing.

Gil Hamilton wrote:I've decided to make my own attack ad along the same vein.

*cuts to a really grungy looking black man breaking into a house and a narrator starts talking*
Narrator: "This is Howard Dean's America. An America were decent folks are helpless in their homes against intruders, unable to defend themselves...
*said man opens a door to a room with a little blonde white girl is sleeping in her bed. He has something shadowy under his arm*
Narrator: "An America where children are no longer safe in their own beds..."
*man looms over sleeping girl*
Narrator: "An America where the most heinous things are allowed to happen, due to laws passed by Dean that will turn Americans into victims in their own homes...."
*man sits at the edge of the bed and reading to the blonde girl*
Man: "...and so, as you can see, the world wasn't created in seven days like the Bible says. Humans like you and me evolved from primitive hominids through evolution over millions of years."
Girl: "Hurray! I'm an atheist now!"
Narrator: "Paid for by the Friends of George W. Bush for Re-Election Initative"

And just to be fair, so no one can say that I'm biased.

*commercial cuts in to a paternal looking father in a V-neck sweater with an angelic look blonde boy who is his son*
Timmy: "Daddy? My fwiend says he's a Repubwican and that his daddy is going to vote for Pwesident Bush in the ewection this year... who's Pwesident Bush?"
Dad: "Well, Timmy, President Bush, or Dubya as you should call him, is a bad man, and nobody should vote for him."
Timmy: "Why, daddy?"
Dad: "You've heard about his ranch in Texas? *blank look from Timmy* You see, he doesn't go there just to avoid doing work he's too stupid to understand. He's there to go hunting."
Timmy: "Deer?"
Dad: "Mexicans. You see, Dubya is a racist. Every once in a while his redneck trigger finger gets itchy and he has the secret service grab hard working migrant workers who just want a better life, so he can chase after them on a horse and shoot them with a rifle."
Timmy: "He does?"
Dad: "He does it when he thinks no one is looking, but fortunately we've got a video."
*badly spliced footage of Bush intermixed with grain black and white cowboy films*
Timmy: "That's awful! He's a bad man!"
Dad: "Yes, Timmy my boy, that's why I'm going to vote Kucinich, so we can get that Mexican killing monkey out of the white house and into a zoo where he belongs."
Timmy: "Yay!"
Narrator: "Paid for by the Kucinich for President campaign."

That's pretty funny.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-01-07 09:39pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:
Joe wrote:
Now I know for sure. Honestly, if someone started a bitchslapping fight in the House of Commons this week and wedgied the Speaker, it still wouldn't rival the childishness of some American politicians.
*cough*Galloway*cough*
He's good at dodging missiles thrown his way and Ken Livingstone, who miraculously got back into Labour the other day, is another idiot who should be axed again.

But I don't see the smear campaigns and polarised attitudes that I see in America.

Two parties = more polarization. It's one of the side effects of what is otherwise a stable system.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-01-07 09:40pm

The sad thing is, I'm sure Bush would like that one about Dean, Valdemar.

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2004-01-07 10:00pm

Joe wrote:
Admiral Valdemar wrote:
Joe wrote: *cough*Galloway*cough*
He's good at dodging missiles thrown his way and Ken Livingstone, who miraculously got back into Labour the other day, is another idiot who should be axed again.

But I don't see the smear campaigns and polarised attitudes that I see in America.
Two parties = more polarization. It's one of the side effects of what is otherwise a stable system.

Yeah, but the Polarization doesn't hurt much. And whenever we need unity we get UNITY (Pearl Harbour, Early Vietnam, 9-11, etc.) It's not that much of a draw-back, and we actually get some good stuff from it.

Post by **Vympel** » 2004-01-07 10:03pm

Shep- the Hitler ad was a submission out of 1,500 to a website, made by some crazed leftie who is good at flash animation. It didn't even make the finals. It's hardly the same thing.

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2004-01-07 10:07pm

Vympel wrote:Shep- the Hitler ad was a submission out of 1,500 to a website, made by some crazed leftie who is good at flash animation. It didn't even make the finals. It's hardly the same thing.

But it is the perfect example of why McCain-Feingold is a complete and total piece of garbage, that deserves to be burned no matter what Sandra Day O'Connor's most massive brain fart says.