This Political Commercial Is Bonkers
01.27.12
Political commercials are terrible. It seems like every one is the same: black and white shots of the candidate’s opponent, ominous music, scary words splashed across the screen in red, and a deep-voiced announcer taking things out of context to make it sound like their opponent wants to do things like use government dollars to pay for a space program run by convicted child molesters. I hate them so very much. That’s why this commercial for Florida Republican Mark Oxner is a breath of fresh air. It is INSANE. In it, President Obama is depicted as a cartoon boat captain who enslaves children and is hell-bent on steering his vessel over a waterfall, and Oxner’s opponent (I assume) is his parrot. LITERALLY. They put his head on a parrot’s body.
I would love to have a campaign full of commercials like this. After the Republicans release this one, the Democrats could make one where the Republicans are cartoon robbers who are giving brown sacks with dollar signs on them to Wall St. fat cats (like, ACTUAL overweight felines). Then the Republicans could shoot back with one where the Democrats tie the Constitution to train tracks and twirl their mustaches as a speeding train approaches, and the Democrats could hire those Taiwanese Animation dudes to make their rebuttal and let things get REALLY weird. That would be great. It wouldn’t change my personal politics one iota, but it would be awesome mindless entertainment between reruns of “The Simpsons,” and I think that’s what really important here.
I’m pretty sure the Founding Fathers would be with me on this.
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Living in a single-party congressional district in a single-party state, I rarely see any of these ads. When I see this stuff, it’s like watching something from a foreign country.
So what? they’re making a sequel to Amistad?
Am I the only one who thinks Mark Oxner kinda looks like a lady?
I was thinking mortician who wasn’t beyond f*cking a corpse. Either way, less him more opponent’s head on a parrot makes sense.
I dunno’, I’m probably somewhere to the left of Trotsky but I find this convincing. Television is magic.
Danger G….
….I suspect your Linked-In profile will be flooded with “consulting” offers based on your cartoon ideas…..I would LOVE to see some of those…….
signed…The 14%….
STOP ARGUING ABOUT POLITICS. THIS IS ABOUT CARTOONS. I HATE ALL OF YOU.
(Admittedly, this is somewhat preemptive.)
This is why we can’t have nice things.
It wasn’t a slave ship.
Alan Grayson as a parrot: Awesome.
*in deep voice*
Bobby Newport!
*in deeper voice*
Bobby Newport!
Have a candy bar, my dad made ‘em.
I don’t know what’s weirder here — portraying the first black president as captain of a slave ship, or claiming that it was Obama who pushed through the bank bailout of 2008?
No, wait, it’s the Alan Grayson parrot. That’s the weirdest part.
well the slave ship was your own invention due to the fact that you need to try and make republicans look racist.
but your right about the other stuff, that shit is weird yo.
So you’re saying that the kids who are chained together rowing the ship as a man with a whip screams at them aren’t slaves but are … what, on a work-study program?
Interesting theory. You should send this campaign your contact information.
And for the record, I don’t need to try to make Republicans look racist.
Between Rick Perry owning an estate called “N*ggerhead,” Ron Paul publishing a newsletter that repeatedly warned of “the coming race war” fueled by welfare-coddled blacks (in the 1990s!), Rick Santorum talking about “the blahs,” and Newt Gingrich saying that black people need to be taught the value of paychecks and get off food stamps … they’re doing a damn fine job of it themselves.
And, no, not all Republicans are racists. But it does often seem like all racists are Republicans.
racism goes both ways, obama was the one who talked about his grandmother being a typical white woman
now deiced senator was in the klan for a number of years
and race baiters like Al Sharpton run ramped through out the party both in, and out with associations.
I’m not saying your wrong, but the n-gger head rock thing is a cheap shot. places like that exist all over america.
I forgot about that scene with the kids, but I’m equally tired of hearing about how racist I am for being a republican. its really funny how the party that tried to keep blacks away from the vote, and equal rights now tries to label everyone else as a racist.
oops, deceased.
I’m sure there were other spelling problems in there, you can point them out for me.
its really funny how the party that tried to keep blacks away from the vote, and equal rights now tries to label everyone else as a racist.
Yes, Democrats tried to keep blacks away from the vote and equal rights in the early 20th century. And then when Lyndon Johnson led the party to embrace civil rights in the 1960s, where the fuck do you think all the racists went?
Strom Thurmond, the Dixiecrat presidential candidate, jumped to the GOP in 1964 — the same year your presidential candidate Barry Goldwater campaigned against the Civil Rights Act — and all the redneck Southern Democrats followed him.
The Republican Party has a well-documented track record of using racist appeals to win votes. This isn’t the opinion of fucking hippies. We have it on tapes from the Nixon White House, we have it in strategy memos of the Reagan campaign.
We have Lee Atwater — the campaign director for George H.W. Bush and Karl Rove’s mentor — explaining it in 1981 this way: “You start out in 1954 by saying, ‘N-gger, n-gger, n-gger,’ ” said Atwater. “By 1968, you can’t say ‘n-gger’ — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things, and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.”
I’m so sorry if calling these things racist hurts your poor little feelings. I guess in thinking about how your party has made its way for fifty fucking years aggravating the racial divide in this country for their own personal gain really blinded me to the fact that white guys are the real victims here.
hey otto, can you have a conversation here without being a complete and utter cum dumpster?
goldwatter was a guy who had on at least 2 occasions paid off the debt on his local chapter of the naacp. the civil rights act was also filibustered by Al Gores father.
why cant we just agree that their are racists in both parties instead of just putting this on one?
GW bush put more minorities in high end cabinet positions than any one else, Reagon put the first woman on the supreme court.
and Johnson, that guy, the talked out of both sides of his mouth. it all depended on what part of the country he was speaking that day.
I love you Otto.
why cant we just agree that their are racists in both parties instead of just putting this on one?
Because that kind of false equivalency is absolute bullshit.
Yes, there are some racists in the Democratic Party. But their number is absolutely dwarfed by the number of racists who call the Republican Party home. And, more to the point, it’s the Republican Party that has had a well-documented, deep history of making explicit racist appeals. The fact that Robert Byrd briefly belonged to the Klan in the mid-1940s doesn’t negate that avalanche of racism on the other side.
And yeah, George W. Bush was not a racist. I’ll absolutely agree with that. Kanye was wrong — it wasn’t that George W. Bush didn’t like black people, it’s that he didn’t give a shit about poor people. But that’s another story.
Once again, I’m sorry if pointing out these well-documented facts about the long, protracted history of racism in the modern Republican Party makes you sad. And if facts make me a “cum dumster,” well, then chalk up another sign of the way the GOP treats faggy ideas like “facts” and “data.”
Been a while since I’ve seen Otto take a GOPer out behind the woodshed. I really missed it. But kudos to you, Chris Johnston, for taking your beating like a man. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to watch New Gingrich talk about food stamps again.
I’m trying to pace myself.
As long as the judges are scoring this effort, I’d like to point out that I didn’t even touch the current Republican Party’s favorite targets of Mexicans and Muslims.
I guess that’s not that high a degree of difficulty when you’ve got stuff like that Orange County party chair who mailed out an image of the Obama White House with a watermelon patch out front, or the poll of Mississippi Republicans that showed 46% of them want interracial marriage outlawed (in 2011!), or any of the Tea Party “lyin’ African” signs.
Sorry, sorry. Someone was saying there’s little racism in the Republican Party. Please continue.
I’m sorry for my ignorance here (maybe I’m being racist by even asking); but what exactly is a cum dumster? Is this a Taiwanese thing? Is it a typo of dumb cumster? Is 4chan involved?
Nice touch with the jazzy piano music at the end.