McCain's "Hate Him Because he's Popular and Young" ad

News Type: Opinion — Fri Aug 1, 2008 12:25 AM EDT

politics, obama, mccain, paris, ad, britney, race-card, rick-davis, campaign-tactics

Ok, after having to suffer through this ad 5 times now I needed an outlet...

The attempt to tie Obama to Paris and Britney through their youth and popularity by this over the hill fuddy dudddy is absolutely absurd. I can just envision how this all must have come about... *screen blurs*

Rick Davis - "Ok, ok... now we are trying to harp on his inexperience -

(narrator: I love the fact that Obama has relatively little experience navigating the the shark, and somewhat ironically pork, infested waters of Washington D.C. politics. I think that world corrupts quickly, with its insidious ideals and money grabs.)

continued- so how do we do that? What kind of visual tie in can we make that will really have an affect on the pop-culture saturated, idiotic masses. They also have to be absolutely repulsive to red america, to attempt to solidify any of the wavering republican base. Who who who...

JM - "Hmmm... well he's an articulate, well educated, self made black man..."

Rick Davis - "THAT'S IT! We need the sluttiest, stunted vocabulariest, dumbest, most ridiculed white girls we can find... BRITNEY AND PARIS! BRILLIANT!"

JM - "Brilliant! I endorse this message! I'm soooo old! I received a D on my Disabled Veterans voting report card to Obama's B+! I'm completely hypocritical in my support for the troops! I call my wife a c***! "

Rick Davis - (interrupting) "..whoa whoa whoa there sir. You PROMISED you'd never say that word again, or at least for the next 7 years."

JM - "F*** you."

Rick Davis - "Right then."

(narrator: And now we turn to Cheney's daughter's bedroom, where...)

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Djehuty

Young
Inexperienced
Racist

Never mind the irony, they'll push these things like crazy because they represent McCain's weaknesses (if you read inexperienced as "unstable and unsafe at any speed"). Martin Westenfelder pointed this out and he's right. It's the lie lie lie until it becomes truth tactic.

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6 votes

#1 - Fri Aug 1, 2008 2:17 AM EDT

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otb

the irony is enough to kill!

It makes me laugh because I find Obama's short time in Washington a positive, not a liability. When they preach it from the rooftops like I'm supposed to be upset about it I can't help but chuckle.

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4 votes

#1.1 - Fri Aug 1, 2008 2:48 AM EDT

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Kyle Mix

just saw on the daily show, the hiltons donated the maximum amount to the Mccain campaign... Mccain you a$$, that's no way to treat your donors

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2 votes

#2 - Fri Aug 1, 2008 4:33 AM EDT

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Jack Huang

Wow, I didn't know that -- must've missed that part. That's a dick thing to do. Then again, what else does McCain have left?

Speaking of the Daily Show, though, last night's episode had a rather psychotic video clip of McCain raging with promised hellfire against Iraq... then suddenly giving a big used-car-salesman grin. WTF?!

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2 votes

#2.1 - Fri Aug 1, 2008 9:11 AM EDT

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Brett Andrew Ferguson

The ad was a mistake, but the premise was not about hating him because he's popular and young.

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#3 - Fri Aug 1, 2008 10:00 AM EDT

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John Whittet

Thanks for pointing that out, Andrew. The "they want you to hate me because I'm popular and young" is Obama spin.

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#3.1 - Fri Aug 1, 2008 10:06 AM EDT

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otb

The ad was a mistake, but the premise was not about hating him because he's popular and young.

I completely agree Brett, and my intent wasn't to poke fun at the premise. My intent was to call out the absurdity of even including those two ditzes in a political ad (and the tie in which was unmistakably there).

It's nothing but nasty, knee jerk politics that brings nothing constructive to the table.

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#3.2 - Fri Aug 1, 2008 11:13 AM EDT

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John Whittet

The ad floundered from a message standpoint.

"Obama is the world's biggest celebrity." Interesting point. I think he's rather full of himself, personally, though Brad Pitt is probably more fam— Oh, I'm rambling. Do go on.

"Is he ready to lead?" Since when do celebrities lead? I mean, granted, leadership does not popularity... but where is this going?

"Gas prices... taxes..." What does this have to do with Paris Hilton and celebrity!?

It's just an abrupt left turn from the original message.

Personally, I found Obama's response just as bad. "They want you to be afraid of me because I don't look like the other presidents."

Way to address the issues, Barack. Instead, we get another left turn. We were trying to get to Alaska and ended up in Key West.

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1 vote

#3.3 - Fri Aug 1, 2008 11:19 AM EDT

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Jack Huang

"Is he ready to lead?" Since when do celebrities lead? I mean, granted, leadership does not popularity... but where is this going?

Actually, where this is going is precisely the implication of "Since when do celebrities lead?" Good job.

"Gas prices... taxes..." What does this have to do with Paris Hilton and celebrity!?

They're also celebrities, and since they're obviously not ready to lead, this means Obama is not ready to lead by association.

It's just an abrupt left turn from the original message.

True, though it's a sad commentary when oblique references to actual issues constitute a "left turn" from the ad's core message.

Personally, I found Obama's response just as bad. "They want you to be afraid of me because I don't look like the other presidents."

Way to address the issues, Barack.

How else could Obama have responded? If he simply reiterated his issues, that wouldn't be considered a response to the ad.

I suppose he could've said "Popular and young, the opposite of McCain," but you'd be down his throat in an instant for that one. Lose-lose situation, no matter what Obama says.

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#3.4 - Fri Aug 1, 2008 1:54 PM EDT

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