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The other day Hip-Hop Happenin’ Michael Steele went Full Metal Nat Turner and declared that from now on he’s not taking shit from "the man" and from this day forward, well, things are going to change. And, by change, he obviously meant recycling the famous LBJ daisy ad to attempt to scare the bejeebers out of simple hard-working white folks like himself.
The RNC is launching a Web ad on Friday highlighting Democrats’ divisions over the future of Guantanamo Bay, ABC News has learned.
The ad intersperses video from one of the most famous and controversial political ads of all time — Lyndon Johnson’s “Daisy” ad from the 1964 presidential campaign against Barry Goldwater.
“To close it? To close it not?” a voice asks several times, with video playing of the little girl from the LBJ ad.
The ad shows several clips of Democrats — including Obama, Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. — contradicting each other over what the fate of Guantanamo should be.
The Web ad fades with a single word on the screen: “Really?”
It does not include the famous mushroom cloud ending.
You’ll notice that it’s a web only ad since the RNC doesn’t give Michael any walking around money because he just blows it hiring his friends and so he’s reduced to putting up videos on YouTube like a thirteen year-old experimenting with iMovie and a Katy Perry song.
As someone who remembers the original daisy ad my first impression was that they were trying to make the point that, if we incarcerated the terrorists in our SuperMax prisons (which, by the way, are easier to get of than jury duty), the terrorists will be making dirty bombs in their cells using a paperclip, a bandanna, and some pruno just like MacGyver would. But, no, now the terrorists are going to come to our American prisons, get weekend furloughs, hit the mall, and knock-up our daughters, so we should be really really afraid.
I find this less convincing than the paperclip/bandanna/pruno scenario, but then I’m not part of the Fox News demographic.
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Why does it not surprise me that you know what pruno is?
Arrrgh! The weaponized stoopid, it burns!
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But I tell you there’s a great TV show in the concept of Middle Eastern terrorists being placed in a half-way house in Kansas to learn how to fit back into society. Hilarity will ensue from the moment they go on their first trip to the grocery and inadvertently buy a carton of Mike’s Hard Lemonade instead of regular lemonade. And the blind date possibilities! Especially after one of the other occupants in the house mistakenly thinks that they are gay because they hold hands, and puts their names down as volunteers at the local gay pride event.
Tbogg gives the makers of this ad too much credit. It barely hints at the horror of terrorists on American soil. It’s just making a weak case that Obama has broken a campaign promise.
Following the story of the ad — Obama wants to close Guantanamo… some Democrats resist… Gibbs admits it’s going to take longer than they had hoped… Therefore, Obama doesn’t “Really?” want to close Guanatanamo. Also, Cold War Kablooie!! And an annoying not-quite-a-girl voice throughout.
Are they sure they want free media coverage of this?
Fucking retarded dipshits.
Unfortunately, the MSM will replay this stupid web clip day after day, causing millions of people to see it, who ordinarily would have sidestepped the big steaming pile of poo it represents.
Every attempt by Michael Steele to come off like Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night, always ends up as a Richard Pryor move, where he sets himself on fire, and the rest of the GOP then has to piss on him to put him out, before rest of the house goes up, too.
The man is a comic genius, without a doubt. Too bad he went into politics, he coulda been huh-yooge as a standup comedian!
I’m confused.
I thought Michael Steele was “the man”. He’s not taking no shit from himself no more?
I’m gonna try that….