Sep 08 2012

Funniest Political Ad Ever?

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Here’s a very amusing ad put out by the Campaign for American Values Super PAC, headed by first-class bigot and imbecile Gary Bauer. The ad is going to run in North Carolina, which is pretty much a dead heat in the polls right now.

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docsarvis

September 8, 2012 at 10:21 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

That was pathetic.
2

tubi

September 8, 2012 at 10:24 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

Well, I’m convinced.
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equisetum

September 8, 2012 at 10:24 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

I guess they think there are enough single issue voters to turn the campaign. And that they voted for Obama last time.
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Gwynnyd

September 8, 2012 at 10:27 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

See! The Republicans are ALL about *jobs* and the *economy*! That’s what they are focusing on! I can tell by… er… what?
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busterggi

September 8, 2012 at 10:28 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

A typical breakfast conversation between two Faux News viewers – right down to the lie about having voted for Obama.
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julian

September 8, 2012 at 10:32 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

My Intermediat School drama club had better acting.

God, it looks like they were reading their lines as they went along. Poor timing, emphasis on the wrong word, it doesn’t even look like the husband is being serious. It looks like he’s humoring her.

Gah! What complete rubbish.
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Subtract Hominem

September 8, 2012 at 10:34 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

On YouTube, this video has 396 likes, and 30,433 dislikes. I guess it’s working!
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Gvlgeologist, FCD

September 8, 2012 at 10:38 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

I was just about to point out what Subtract Hominem said. Since s/he beat me to it, I’ll point out that it works out to a ratio of 77:1. I do get some hope for that.

The comments on Youtube are a treat.

And maybe it’ll make people realize how bigoted that attitude is.
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Hank Fox

September 8, 2012 at 10:41 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

If Obama gets elected, we’ll all have to decide who we’re going to gay-marry.

Bet you anything both those actors just despised what they were saying. THAT was why they seemed so wooden.
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StevoR

September 8, 2012 at 10:45 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

Well its not the change I voted for either ..

… But only because I’m living as a citizen on a totally different flippin’ continent and thus ineligiable to vote in the US elections.

If I could vote for such a policy I would.

As for the advert, meh, Herman Caine’s ads were funnier. Rmoney can’t even win that dubious distinction in my view.
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Randomfactor

September 8, 2012 at 10:45 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

At least some little kid got a little spending money for playing the piano in the background. Unless they stiffed her.
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timberwoof

September 8, 2012 at 10:59 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

This demands evil parody.

“Geoffrey, I’m worried about these Democratic Gay Marriage Panels they’re gong to establish to force everyone into Gay Marriages.”

“Me, too, Michael. I voted for Obama, and this is not the sort of change I wanted. I’d much rather marry you than anyone else, and I’d hate to have some gay marriage forced on me by the Obama Administration’s Gay Marriage Panels. What can we do?”

“We can vote for someone who will stand up for our rights to marry each other. We can vote for Mitt Romney.”

But Poe’s Law will cause some Freeper to believe it.
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matty1

September 8, 2012 at 11:16 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

I’m just going to quote from another site

I want to pretend that the male actor has Paul Newman-like skill at revealing complex emotions with the smallest of facial movements. Because when I watch the bit at the 17-second mark, I see a whole story-line of a man trapped in a loveless marriage realizing that he’s about to be free to find the love he’s always dreamed of, and then a quick realization of where he is as he rushes to agree with his wife so as not give up the game. And if the actress were Meryl Streep, you would see how the pointed, wooden way she’s telling her husband that a marriage is between a man and a woman reveals that she already knows his terrible secret. I have never seen a political ad reveal so much about it’s characters, even if it did so because it had hired terrible talent that telegraphed the opposite of what they were supposed to convey.
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equisetum

September 8, 2012 at 11:45 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

@matty1: I knew I caught a little vibe of something when I watched that the first time. That comment just made me realize what it was.
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Aliasalpha

September 8, 2012 at 11:49 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

If Obama gets elected, we’ll all have to decide who we’re going to gay-marry.

What? Obama is going to force you to marry someone of your own gender but, in a moment of dictatorial benevolence, permit you to pick who? Imagine being the last pick, how depressing would that be?
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savagemutt

September 8, 2012 at 12:27 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

I honestly thought at first that Ed was trolling us and this was really something from Funny or Die. I mean, the schmaltzy music, the anguish on the woman’s face…and when the husband shook his head slightly before replying, I thought, “Ok, here comes the punchline.”

Oh wait? That was real? That was really real?

Oh crap. I live in NC. I’m going to see this thing over and over.
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cactuswren

September 8, 2012 at 1:01 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

Go watch it at Youtube, just to revel in the Like/Dislike ratio. (Right now it’s 400 likes, 30,728 dislikes.)
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erikjensen

September 8, 2012 at 2:50 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

Ed, the answer to your headline is “no”. Rick Perry’s Brokeback Mountain ad was way more funny.
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caseloweraz

September 8, 2012 at 7:22 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

That last line was not a lie, strictly speaking. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have values. Why, Romney alone has a net worth estimated at between $190 million and $250 million (per Wikipedia.)

In fact I think it would be fair to say that their values (net worths) are their values (ethical standards.)

/snark
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RW Ahrens

September 8, 2012 at 8:41 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

So, which GOP staffer is the actor this time?
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Midnight Rambler

September 8, 2012 at 9:55 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

matty1 @13: It goes by so fast that it’s hard to even pause it, but yeah – there’s a quick look at his wide open eyes that scream “oh shit, SHE KNOWS”, and then the scrambling to come up with something to say…
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PatrickG

September 8, 2012 at 11:24 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

@matty1:

Your link is non-functioning, looks like they corrected it after you commented (the “to” was missing the “t”).. Anyhoo: here is their new version.
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scienceavenger

September 9, 2012 at 7:34 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

timberwoof satired: ‘…and I’d hate to have some gay marriage forced on me by the Obama Administration’s Gay Marriage Panels.’

No, no, no, not “forced on me”. When referring to gay marriage, you must follow Huckabee’s example and always describe it as being “rammed down our throats”. Everything them homos want is always rammed down our throats.
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hunter

September 9, 2012 at 12:45 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

What a terrible ad. It’s just lame. Now we know why Gary Bauer hasn’t been so much in the limelight lately, if that’s the best he can do.

As for gay marriage being forced on the country, does that mean I automatically get a husband, or do I have to find one myself?
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aaronbaker

September 9, 2012 at 3:45 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

Thanks for making clear who Gary Bauer is. Up to now, I always confused him with Ralph Reed. I wonder why.
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Ichthyic

September 9, 2012 at 11:03 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

If Obama gets elected, we’ll all have to decide who we’re going to gay-marry.

well, if we get to choose, do we start making our claims now?

I’m sure there will be a lot of competition.

do we make a list in order of preference, or do we just get to choose one?

If the latter, I pick Daniel Craig.

hands off!

I wonder what Buffybot will think of that choice? I guess we’ll have to move to Craig’s pad, since ours here in Welly is too small for the 3 of us.
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Rip Steakface

September 10, 2012 at 12:53 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

If you get Daniel Craig, I call Brad Pitt.
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democommie

September 10, 2012 at 9:35 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

“Thanks for making clear who Gary Bauer is. Up to now, I always confused him with Ralph Reed. I wonder why.”

Well, actually, it’s easy to tell them apart. Ralph is the one who looks like this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bundy

while Mr. Bauer is more Trumanesque*.

Two GODLY men named Ralph & Gary
Campaign against teh GAY’s right to marry.
‘Cuz it makes JESUS cry,
When side-by-side men lie.
Unless their name’s, “Craig”, as in “Larry”.

* THIS Truman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_Capote)
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Tualha

September 10, 2012 at 10:42 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

Advice to the “actors”: don’t quit your day jobs.
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baal

September 10, 2012 at 12:10 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

I’m fairly nauseated by the use of social-permissioning by the Romney team (I’m including the pacs and what nots).

It’s a little less obvious in this ad but notice the statement, “this isn’t the change I voted for” which suggests that she is an Obama voter but has changed her mind to Romney. The message is an attempt to say to prior Obama voters that it’s ok to vote Romney, everyone else shares your feelings and they are going to.

Were it just this one ad, I’d not have pointed this out. Sadly, if you read comments or listen to NPR or other call in shows, there are a whole class of commentors who start with “I voted for Obama but Romney does X so much better.” The X is then something that’s a typically liberal position.