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July 31, 2008 - 10:37am — Diana Cage
I’m one of the first people to start talking smack about racist and sexist subtext in the mainstream media. In fact, I love that shit; I've practically made a career out of complaining about it. But this latest claim that John McCain's campaign is trying to stir up plantation-esque, black-men-are-going-to-steal-all-of-our-white-women-and-
please-them-with-their-superior-black-penises-panic is just silly. Even to me.
For one, the McCain campaign just isn’t sophisticated enough to think of planting subliminal messages in their ads. And, in fact, they are so unsophisticated, I’m pretty sure they are comparing Barack Obama to Britney and Paris because they haven’t actually heard of any other celebrities, so they have no concept that blond trainwrecks are totally over. And really, anyone who is going to be swayed by that ad also has no idea that no one cares about them anymore either. People who are responding to McCain ads don’t know how to use the Google. John McCain, though, is aware of the Internet. But, apparently, he can’t read his own e-mail. So really, he should be a little more up on celebrity gossip.
Britney knows how to use the Google to Google herself, but she doesn’t care about the McCain ad. Besides, how could that racism claim possibly be true when McCain says he really wants to run a respectful campaign? It’s not racism; it’s jealousy. McCain is totally mad that all the cute boys want to date Obama. McCain really shouldn’t be stomping his foot about it though because Mitt Romney is cute and he totally wants to go to prom with McCain. He’s just waiting for McCain to ask him so he can go out and buy the dress.
My new favorite silly thing about Obama is that he’s hating on Ludacris for hating on Hillary in a new song. Obama said he liked Ludacris until Ludacris wrote a song about him and plus he wants to paint the White House black! Sacrilege!
“With a slot in the President's iPod Obama shattered 'em
Said I handled his biz and I'm one of his favorite rappers
Well give Luda a special pardon if I'm ever in the slammer
Better yet put him in office, make me your vice president
Hillary hated on you, so that bitch is irrelevant
Jesse talking slick and apologizing for what?
If you said it then you meant it how you want it have a gut”
Now poor Obama can’t be pals with him anymore. I don’t think the White House would look all that cute in black. It’s much nicer to imagine it in chocolate brown.
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John McCain must be senile
John McCain must be senile to have "approved" this ad. You can almost hear his weary belabored gasps of desperation except that Obama looks so absolutely GORGEOUS, CONFIDENT, VIBRANT AND CHARISMATIC in these clips that nobody's listening to anything. I almost called 911 for the old guy when I thought I heard him gurgle but it just turned out to be applause. Obama was so gorgeous and vibrant in this ad that I didn't even see those forgotten blondes (and I actually am a lesbian). Do you think any "true" sensory overloaded, visually overstimulated American even heard or read the text of that ad? NO!!
This ad shows just how old McCain really is!!!! Doesn't he even remember the Kennedy/Nixon debates?? And then to show his true dementia, he forces us back to the sobering stark reality, as he peeks his OLD, pasty, white head out at the end, approving his opponent's shimmering ad, that HE is our OLD, concededly lame duck, pathetic, idiotic, gasping alternative. I think Obama may have actually produced this ad. If so he's an absolutely brilliant strategist, if not he's been given the opportunity of a lifetime.
USING YOUR OPPONENT'S EVIDENCE TO PROVE YOUR CASE IS THE MOST PERSUASIVE EVIDENCE THERE IS...
This ad is Bill Clinton's wettest wet dream...Bill would have passed up a(n)....[ ]...if he could have produced such a visually appealing ad. Why do you think he had...I mean...played sax on the Arsenio Hall show?!
To completely sew up the election, Obama should dig up an OLD black and white clip of the OLD Lawrence Welk show and superimpose McCain playing an accordian duet with the master himself in front of a dance floor full of elderly white couples with slicked back hair and hairdos; Bobby and Sissy swirling around them in the background. No words...just uninterrupted accordian music. THEN just as everybody starts to get completely grossed out, play that gorgeous vibrant footage provided by none other than John "Welk" McCain, assuring us that our dreams really can come true.
If you don't know who Lawrence Welk is then you definitely need to vote...
[no offense to accordian players intended]
I'm confused
Exactly what qualifies you as "one of the first people to start talking smack about racist and sexist subtext in the mainstream media"? If everyone believed this, why would you have to start your entry with this disclaimer?
Secondly, what makes you think the McCain campaign lacks "sophistication"? Do you think it was McCain himself who created that ad or a highly paid, very sophisticated advertising team?
Finally, here's a short list of very famous celebrities who aren't white women: Tom Cruise, Oprah Winfrey, Tiger Woods, Beyonce Knowles, David Beckham, Johnny Depp, Jay-Z, Brad Pitt, Donald Trump... do you still think it's a coincidence?
Thanks for puting it in perspective!
Although I'm allergic to chocolate, it is the cure for everything that ails most! Including this entire campaign season!I'm just sayin'.....
just found this on the Anchoress
Hey, McCain didn’t say it first, Obama did - (H/T reader Lynda)
“Andy Warhol said we all get our 15 minutes of fame. I’ve already had an hour and a half. I mean, I’m so overexposed, I’m making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.”
– Then-Senator-elect Barack Obama, D-Ill., Gridiron Dinner, December 2004
Obama 2004: Baby, I’m a star!
(this blows your theory, Diana, of "... because they haven’t actually heard of any other celebrities". They actually took the cue from Obama himself!)
FACT?
I wasn't aware that The Anchoress reported actual facts. Sounds more like fiction.
your opinion
you're welcome to research it, Slim!
Later: look, I found it by accident:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A48523-2005Feb23?language=print...
so cool
we dont get cool (and maybe slightly insulting) ad's like that in australia.. Actually we dont get many campaign ad's at all. the biggest revolution in australian politics was the Kevin07 slogan, and t-shirts... But the other guys didnt care about that (maybe if they did they would not have lost so bad and we wouldn't have Kevin Rudd, sorry the Honourable Mr Kevin Rudd, spending all of that budget surplus on overseas trips) -->yes thats right, australia has a surplus. Jealous America?
LOL
We do have campaign ads here, they are just boring and forgetable. Rudd just spent more time being a publicity hound then anyone previously. I always thought he tool a leaf from the American campaigns.
PSSST: I'm not sure we should gloat about having a surplus, as you said Rudd likes to travel... :)
great big long upright...
Leave it to Huffpo to publish a piece as stupid as that!
(O - god! I wrote "piece"!! a subliminal sexual message – and no doubt racist too!!)
Now, will Huffpo make McCain responsible for Obama standing (oops! I did it again!) & delivering a speech in front of Berlin’s largest outdoor sandstone ornamental phallus??
As for Britney & paris: I think they were chosen as celebrity symbols of SHALLOW, EMPTY...
there is something magic in Mc Cain
only in the french version !
http://www.videorigolo.com/v-f8c442a565
that is so funny
someone should post it on youtube. McCain as a French brand of instant mashed potatoes. ah le symbolisme.
I wish I thought it was silly.
I wish everyone was as culturally savvy as you are. I wish that everyone got how sad this ad is for the McCain camp. I'd like to believe that most folks could see it as silly but I'm not so sure. So now the RNC isn't doing Willie Horton, now they're doing Harold Ford-redux. The way the ad is getting played everywhere there is no telling it's impact - even among the google challenged. Whatever the fear of the moment is the RNC will play it. It worked before, why not again? And it worked not just with the "who gives a shit what they think contingent". The self-serving -scary socialist- secret Muslim-troop hating-war losing- fussy elitist black guy that the McCain campaign is whipping up might just unsettle enough people to win an election.
I do agree with you that it says more about Sen. McCain than it does about Sen. Obama. It is pathetic that his campaign is out of ideas already.
As for the Luda situation - It would be great if he had only to answer for his own stuff but that isn't the way this is working. It seems like the media is looking to hold Sen. Obama accountable for the controversial doings of every black person in the country. I think he had to respond because this particular track falls right into the narrative that is being written about the Obamas. In this case, damned if you do is better than damned if you don't.
uh-oh
"I’m pretty sure they are comparing Barack Obama to Britney and Paris because they haven’t actually heard of any other celebrities, so they have no concept that blond trainwrecks are totally over."
d-bag--
although this line made me laugh out loud, it resonated in a way that leaves me a little queasy. if blond trainwrecks are totally over, what the fuck am i supposed to do? be passe?
don't you worry your pretty little blonde head, darling
they go out but they come right back in again.
Liederman
you have to "accidentally" show your privates in public in order to be an "official" trainwreck.
So just make sure to keep your panties on while out.
Personal experience?
Grace, certainly you aren't speaking from personal experience? Your exposure seems to be so premeditated and controlled.
;)Taem?
Parliament's Chocolate City
The song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0K__vTC-Hc
A video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntT57iQJmbk&feature=related
Before anyone comments about Bill Clinton as America's first black president.... The Clinton as "America's first black president" reference was made by Nobel Prize winning American author Toni Morrison in a New Yorker, Oct, 1998 essay. Ms. Morrison now officially supports Obama.
Nothing but love
Tex
McCain and Mitt sitting in a tree
K I S S I N G...
hahaha, who gets to wear the corsage?
video
there's a screamer video on huffington
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/31/leave-barack-alone-video_n_1160...
p.s. did you mean sacrilege?
No. I wrote "sacrament" as
No. I wrote "sacrament" as in quebecoise swearing. But I guess I cant use canadian french slang in my blogs. Why don't you call me anymore? Have I been replaced by sex?
do not lose the québécois on *my* behalf, s'il te plaît
and here i thought *I'd* been replaced by sex...
I think McCartney nixed it.
You can not be replaced by sex Erin Blackwell
oh that saj, moon in pisces!
nor could you my darling even were i having any
one of the best things you said was "you can move through it. it needn't stick" or words to that effect. such enlightened guidance. it's helping. thank you. as i move through seemingly sticky things.
ok you caught that typo...
dog.