Negative political campaign ads
U.S. elections are nine days away, I’ve been watching some American TV courtesy of TVUPlayer and been enjoying all the negative political campaign ads. Each year they reach new lows, it’s funny. Here’s a great spoof on negative campaign ads from one of the most brilliant sketch comedy shows of all time, HBO’s Mr. Show… (if you like fucked up humor about religion, American politics, and drugs)
And another about negative television ads…
If you liked these, click below for more of my favorites from Mr. Show…
I find the real campaign ads much better. They’re hilariously hypocritical, pathetically desperate, and have much better acting. These parodies are just sad because they hilight how horrible our campaigns are getting, but manage to prove that the politicians are in fact being even more callous than satires dare imagine.
Comment by stercus — Sun, Oct 29th, 2006 @ 10:10 pm
Mr. Show is great! My favorite sketch is the “Pre-Taped Call In Show”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWWyHHpmV3g
Comment by Ilkka — Sun, Oct 29th, 2006 @ 10:11 pm
My favorite sketch is the “Pre-Taped Call In Showâ€Â:
“You should have called in last week when we had our show about racism”
Comment by Phil — Sun, Oct 29th, 2006 @ 11:10 pm
youtube video on Dems ideas to stop North Korea nukes.
Funny.
Albright Ad
Comment by winter — Sun, Oct 29th, 2006 @ 11:21 pm
Hungarians marked the brutal suppression of their democracy by Soviet tanks 50 years ago by rioting against their elected Government. In Italy, the Government’s credit rating was reduced to the same level as Botswana’s. The British Home Secretary welcomed Bulgarians and Romanians into the European Union by restricting their ability to seek jobs.
Lets not go into France burning again. You version of Gitmo in Paris, with 2 dead prisoners in your jail.
What happened? Well its the Euro.
“the creation of the euro. What we see today, not only in Italy and Hungary, but also in the other relatively weak economies on the southern and eastern fringes of the EU, is the beginning of the end of the European project.”
“The economic effect of forcing Central Europe to abide by deflationary policies designed for the mature economies of the eurozone is the weak demand growth and mass unemployment experienced by the accession countries.”
You all have major problems over there. The USA should not even be on your radar.
Comment by winter — Sun, Oct 29th, 2006 @ 11:35 pm
The Hungarians rioted because their government secretly admitted it lied. Here in the US, we’ve come to expect that so they keep doing it. Hell, the Republicans can’t even be trusted to tell the truth about how many times their own guy said, “Stay the course” - despite the fact it’s in their own press releases!
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/24/snow-stay-the-course/
Comment by dhen — Mon, Oct 30th, 2006 @ 1:07 am
“Republicans can’t even be trusted to tell the truth ”
comes around so many times as a Dem talking point. I asked a Dem who works in my office if he could name one lie? He could not, it was real interesting to see the guy mumble.
So I ask again, name one lie?
Comment by winter — Mon, Oct 30th, 2006 @ 1:56 am
France Calm - Only 200 Cars Torched Saturday Night
Apart from that horrific Molotov cocktail attack on a bus that sent a woman to the hospital with burns over 60% of her body, the French Interior Ministry says last night was relatively calm.
“Relatively calm,†in this case, means that only 200 cars were burned by disenchanted youths. It was just a Fun night out.
Comment by winter — Mon, Oct 30th, 2006 @ 2:14 am
The Dem lie machine:
“An analysis of state-wide records by the Poughkeepsie Journal reveals that 77,000 dead people remain on election rolls in New York State, and some 2,600 may have managed to vote after they had died. The study also found that Democrats are more successful at voting after death than Republicans, by a margin of four-to-one, largely because so many dead people seem to vote in Democrat-dominated New York City.”
The dead live on in Democrate Cities. I can see a movie in these figures.
Comment by winter — Mon, Oct 30th, 2006 @ 2:18 am
I asked a Dem who works in my office if he could name one lie? He could not, it was real interesting to see the guy mumble.
So I ask again, name one lie?
I just did in post 6, but I’ll spell it out for you.
Tony Snow: “This a great story, because we went back and looked today and could only find eight times where he ever used the phrase stay the course.”
Go and look at the White House’s own press releases and it’s at least 30 for Bush alone. But “Stay the course,” i.e. “lie,” has worked well for the Republican party leadership for 6 years, so I wouldn’t expect that to change anytime soon. But looking at the latest polls, it seems that most of America is getting pretty sick of it.
By the way, if you want to talk about sleazy voting, look no further than Republican run Florida, which can’t seem to run an election to save it’s life.
Comment by dhen — Mon, Oct 30th, 2006 @ 3:19 am
“Florida, which can’t seem to run an election to save it’s life.”
Ah you mean those 2 dem controlled and run counties that can’t count? Well they did count the votes 4 times, and each time, Bush pulled further ahead.
So no dead Dem’s this time to vote.
Ah so “Stay the course,†i.e. “lie,â€Â?? What about cut and run? Oh I forget its “redeploy to Korea.
Keep them comming, that was to easy.
Comment by winter — Mon, Oct 30th, 2006 @ 4:17 am
You never addressed the issue about Tony Snow’s lies. I guess you thought I wouldn’t notice.
I guess there’s no point in pointing out the many other lies that the Republican leadership comes up with.
But I will point out that I work with the military every day and a lot of guys in uniform are pretty fed up with this administration as well. I was talking to a marine, who was in Iraq last year, who told me that we were “losing” in Iraq. I’d love to hear you call him a pussy. He had arms the size of my legs.
But by all means, “stay the course.” It’s much easier and face-saving than admitting the whole thing is/was pointless and has left America more, not less, vulnerable.
Comment by dhen — Mon, Oct 30th, 2006 @ 4:38 am
Ahahahaha those videos were hilarious. But what was even funnier was winter’s assertion that republicans have never lied. Does this guy live in Tajikistan?? And how did we AGAIN end up discussing politics?!
Even the most hardcore republicans have stopped denying they lied through their teeth. Hell Bush has such a long list of lies I don’t think he even bothers to claim he didn’t.
You see, in winter’s world, lying isn’t called lying it’s called ‘quoting misinformation’, or ‘misinformation quotage’, or some other pathetic way the US government has come up to hoodwink the mentally weak such as winter.
Having said that, the Democrats are not much better. The american political arena is an ochlocracy. Americans are progressively becoming fools like winter, who don’t speak in big boy words. So they are only able to pick different cheeks of the same back-side.
Comment by racists need to be shot — Mon, Oct 30th, 2006 @ 4:50 am
Tony Snow’s lies? He lied. Where? He was stating a generality on a war that changes. Or have you missed the memo about have wars happen? Hint: they are never a cakewalk, as Tony has told you over and over again.
Again show me a lie. I know that is hard, but think. So far you not quoted anything concrete, as in a Lie.
“we were “losing†in Iraq.” Its not our country.
So just how are we losing? Our goal is to change the government from a Dictatorship, to something better. So far, I think we did the first part. Am I wrong here?
The second part will not be known for 20 years. Just like Germany and Japan, we can only try, its up to the population to determine what they want, not the USA.
Are you really that arrogant to think the USA can determine the outcome here?
Comment by winter — Mon, Oct 30th, 2006 @ 5:47 am
Call to Duty: Boots on the Ground, courtesy of Major John Tammes.
now that a 12 min film to watch.
Lets support the troups. Something Dem’s are not doing. Any Army guy will tell you that to your face.
ARMY
Comment by winter — Mon, Oct 30th, 2006 @ 6:17 am
You still didn’t address the issue I brought up in #6, seems to be a common theme for you to take a couple things someone says, ignore the rest, and run with it.
So this is pointless.
Comment by dhen — Mon, Oct 30th, 2006 @ 6:24 am
“So I ask again, name one lie?”
Well, there was the one about Republicans never lying.
Comment by Kimmo W — Mon, Oct 30th, 2006 @ 8:01 am
Heh. I love how these all manage to just decay into flaming.
Comment by Anonymous — Mon, Oct 30th, 2006 @ 9:16 am
#11 (on “staying the course”, among other things)
You make this too easy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQnQwIF8-ws
Comment by Kimmo W — Mon, Oct 30th, 2006 @ 10:22 am
Is there some secret trick you should know about on getting TVU player to work? It doesn’t seem to start playing no matter what I try.
Comment by Jukka Michelsson — Mon, Oct 30th, 2006 @ 3:49 pm
“The study also found that Democrats are more successful at voting after death than Republicans, by a margin of four-to-one, largely because so many dead people seem to vote in Democrat-dominated New York City.â€Â
Wait, does this mean that in America it’s possible to trace a vote back to the voter? Because IMHO, that’s the only way they can find out which dead ones in the rolls actually voted.
Comment by iJusten — Mon, Oct 30th, 2006 @ 4:29 pm
@21,
all you need is a list of voters who can vote in this precinct and names get crossed off as people vote. That’s what we do here in Finland. Any dead people have their name crossed off, there’s been fraud.
But just ignore winter. Anyone who can be for Bush, given Bush’s record (e.g. on North Korean nukes, http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=12542), is just too intellectually challenged to be worth bothering about.
Comment by prince of dorkness — Mon, Oct 30th, 2006 @ 4:39 pm
I mostly meant that Winter wrote that the dead people voted democrats. Either living or dead, knowing these things about voting behaviour is pretty suspicious.
Comment by iJusten — Mon, Oct 30th, 2006 @ 4:58 pm
#17. That’s FUNNY!!
Comment by funkybrownchick — Mon, Oct 30th, 2006 @ 4:58 pm
Phil have you seen: “America Must Stop Bragging That It’s The Greatest Country on Earth and Start Acting Like It.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zbVvP7tp1U
Comment by Tommi — Mon, Oct 30th, 2006 @ 6:59 pm
Thanks Tommi for good link!
Comment by iJusten — Mon, Oct 30th, 2006 @ 7:30 pm
Is there some secret trick you should know about on getting TVU player to work? It doesn’t seem to start playing no matter what I try.
Are you behind a firewall? I know that it doesn’t work at my office because of that.
Comment by Phil — Mon, Oct 30th, 2006 @ 7:47 pm
Tommi
Once again the notion that dead babies is the fault of the American Medical System, thus we are not great.
Yet, the USA tries to save its babies (other countries just abort them), and we do save many (most welfare state countries just abort them and put the death in the aborted line, thus not a death, but hay your numbers look good).
So we are not great because we 1) at least try to save the kid, not going the abortion rout first. and 2) we correctly report the death, not as an abortion, but as a lost kid.
Please you some basic homework before you listen to these jerks who have the standard bash America line down pat.
Comment by winter — Mon, Oct 30th, 2006 @ 10:15 pm
So, no hard evidance of a lie, just a little crying over “stay the course” vrs “cut and run”? Come on guys this is to easy. Where is the lie? Did the republicans Cut and Run to please the dem’s? NO.
Seems like the USA is doing what we said we would do. Again, where is the lie?
Comment by winter — Mon, Oct 30th, 2006 @ 10:20 pm
“(AINA)  According to the Assyrian website ankawa.com, a 14 year old Christian Assyrian boy, Ayad Tariq, from Baqouba, Iraq was decapitated at his work place on October 21.
According to another employee who witnessed the events, and who hid when he saw the insurgents approach, the insurgents questioned Ayad after seeing that his ID stated “Christianâ€Â, asking if he was truly a “Christian sinner.†Ayad replied “yes, I am Christian but I am not a sinner.†The insurgents quickly said this is a “dirty Christian sinner!†Then they proceeded to each hold one limb, shouting “Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar!†while beheading the boy.”
THESE are the kinds of people the EU and UN think we can just talk into being peaceful.
Just more Muslim “mischief”.
Prepare yourselves, Europeans, for this is what is coming.
But remember, Guys and Dolls, we have to be nice to the Jihadis at Club Gitmo. If we even make them uncomfortable the L³eftists will scream “torture”!
I wonder if this will make tomorrows New York Times. I guess not. The boy is not part of their agenda.
Comment by winter — Mon, Oct 30th, 2006 @ 10:32 pm
ahahaha guys i wouldn’t bother arguing with winter
if ever the term ’sheep’ applied to someone…
bush could annihilate the world, take a shit on it, kill 10 million babies then spit on their spontaneously combusting bodies (http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article1935945.ece)
then rape 14000 women and piss on them
all on live television
and winter would be prancing up and down in the back yelling ‘GO AMERICA GO! WE’RE THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD! DAMN THOSE JIHADIS! YIPPPEEEE!’
winter the logic that you use when posing your arguments is mediocre
and your unfathomably pigheaded perseverence in refusing to accept any and all information that goes against your beliefs, is even worse.
bush himself is so inconceivably stupid that if you asked him, ’sir do you lie to your people on a regular basis?’ he would probably answer ‘ummm….dick! dick! what do aaaa say??’
if you can honestly not find anything wrong with the current ruling aristocracy in the states, then it is beyond all of us to attempt to widen your ken even a little
that task is impossible. God himself could kneel down from the heavens, give you an almighty bitch slap across the face, and you would still stubbornly insist upon your fidelity
Comment by racists need to be shot — Tue, Oct 31st, 2006 @ 5:20 am
“honestly not find anything wrong with the current ruling aristocracy in the states,’
sure, its just that the replacement (They ruled the USA for 30 years) is even more incompetent. Plus I have money now, and I plan on protecting it, so why vote in the Tax, and spend types?
Comment by winter — Tue, Oct 31st, 2006 @ 6:59 am
@30,
yes, you’ve done a heck of a job in Iraq. Under Saddam, the Christians were safe. Under you, they are not. And don’t pretend to care, ’cause if you did, you’d do something about this.
Comment by prince of dorkness — Tue, Oct 31st, 2006 @ 9:58 am
#28 “Yet, the USA tries to save its babies (other countries just abort them), and we do save many (most welfare state countries just abort them and put the death in the aborted line, thus not a death, but hay your numbers look good).”
So we’re getting into the “right to life” issue - apparently defined by the US right-wing as something that begins at conception and ends at birth!
If I understand it correctly, Winter is suggesting that an embarassingly high infant mortality rate in the USA is mitigated by a lower rate of abortions than we have in European welfare states. I really would like to see some corroborating statistics. A random brorwse through websites gives a different picture. Here’s a 1999 study on figures from 1996 (scroll down to Table 2):
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/25s3099.html
It shows that in ‘96 the number of abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 was 22.9 in the United States, and 10 in Finland. The only places where the abortion rate was considerably higher than the USA were countries of the former East Block and the ex-Soviet Union.
Comment by Kimmo W. — Tue, Oct 31st, 2006 @ 10:05 am
And here’s another interesting tidbit of news from the United States for all of you right-wing fetus-fetishists:
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/10-13-2004/0002275999
A small extract:
‘”Under President Bush, the decade-long trend of declining abortion rates appears to have reversed,” said Glen Stassen, Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary, a leading evangelical divinity school’
Comment by Kimmo W. — Tue, Oct 31st, 2006 @ 10:18 am
winter, another republican caught lying.
Comment by Blah — Tue, Oct 31st, 2006 @ 12:25 pm
” don’t pretend to care, ’cause if you did, you’d do something about this.”
just like you don’t care about the Darfur kids, who in less than 100 days we will have 1 million less to feed in this world.
We can use the money we don’t have to spend feeding these dead people for more coffee and donuts.
Comment by winter — Tue, Oct 31st, 2006 @ 9:56 pm
#37
Or five amazing cars and extra 10 000 dollars at wal-mart as you have so elegantly pointed out to us
Comment by Blah — Tue, Oct 31st, 2006 @ 11:52 pm
@37,
my country is not the occupying power responsible for maintaining public order in Dar Fur. The US is the occupying power in Iraq, and has consistently done a worse job of running the place than Saddam did.
Comment by prince of dorkness — Wed, Nov 1st, 2006 @ 4:06 pm
“my country is not the occupying power responsible for maintaining public order in Dar Fur.”
Ah yes, the no responsability rule. So why did the UN (Kofi) ask the USA to go in there? Did you guys feel the USA can do your dirty work?
Comment by winter — Thu, Nov 2nd, 2006 @ 7:15 pm
France: 14 Attacks On Police Every Day
14 a day, gosh that’s only some 5,100 a year. Wonder who’s winning this intifada?
Since France is the occupying power…….
Comment by winter — Thu, Nov 2nd, 2006 @ 7:19 pm
#40 “Did you guys feel the USA can do your dirty work?”
Well, dirty work is certainly something you guys are pretty good at!
But it’s interesting that you haven’t managed to defend your notion that European welfare states are more abortion-happy than the baby-loving USA.
Comment by Kimmo W. — Thu, Nov 2nd, 2006 @ 9:59 pm
“abortion-happy than the baby-loving USA.”
you missed the point. Your welfare state does not try to save early pre-babies. You just let them die. Then you call it an abortion to cover up your failed welfare state system.
We do try. We may fail, but at least we try. Sorta like your foreign policy, a policy of not doing anything.
Comment by winter — Thu, Nov 2nd, 2006 @ 10:41 pm
#43 “We may fail, but at least we try.”
You try?!?!?
Give me a fucking break! Your failure rate suggests that you aren’t trying very hard.
Americans have roughly twice the abortion rate that Finland does (and a huge population of teenage mothers on top of that) and you have the nerve to say that we are negligent in terms of protecting the welfare of our children!
But what can you expect from someone who is so delusional as to think that Bush is doing a good job?
Comment by Kimmo W. — Fri, Nov 3rd, 2006 @ 12:10 am
“Bush is doing a good job?”
and your EU is doing a better one? Thing about the million dying on your watch right now in Darfur.
Its all on your watch.
Comment by winter — Fri, Nov 3rd, 2006 @ 2:55 am
I’m not defending the EU record in Darfur, but it is a strange notion taht EU shortcomings in that area would somehow justify the disastrous policies of the current US administration in other areas.
Anyway, you still haven’t explained your contention that the United States, which has more abortions, more unwanted pregnancies, and more child welfare problems than most European countries, is somehow more child-friendly than, say, Finland.
Comment by Kimmo W. — Fri, Nov 3rd, 2006 @ 9:54 am
Ah winter is one of these *family-values* type of people who ironically happen to be one of the most corrupt ones of all people.
You can lie all you wan’t it isn’t going to make it true, hypocrit.
Kimmo W. I applau you for having the patience to argue with this person whose world view is so twisted (not finnpundit twisted so winter still may have some hope) that even himself doesn’t know how idiotic babble he is letting out of his mouth.
Comment by Anonymous — Fri, Nov 3rd, 2006 @ 12:52 pm
#winter
Any chance that you might be running for the congress?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaSQ-LNp9Nk
Are you Vernon *idiot* Robinson?
Comment by Blah — Fri, Nov 3rd, 2006 @ 7:16 pm
Humm
So the USA which “contention that the United States” saves more pre babies than the welfare state kills then lists the kids as an abortion is a good thing?
Ah, so we don’t then classify your dead babies as an abortion to hide the welfare states record on saving kids.
or
We then can say the USA has a bad… sucky, medical system, because is tries to save pre-kids, and our sucky welfare state system don’t.
Then there is you 80 year old who is told they are to old for that knee operation, just sit the rest of you life in this state provided wheelchair? Here are some drugs for the pain.
Yea, great system you all have, just cook the numbers some more, we all believe you. Going private any time soon?
Comment by winter — Sat, Nov 4th, 2006 @ 7:01 am
#winter
I’m not even going to bother with you. You are either a moron or you twist these things into your liking and refuse to acknoweledge the facts.
Stop watching FOX
Comment by Anonymous — Sat, Nov 4th, 2006 @ 12:29 pm
#49 is so incoherent, that I am inclined to suspect winter was either seriously intoxicated when he wrote it, or that the message was written by someone else.
So, winter, if you really did write it, could you please put up a version using standard syntax?
Comment by Kimmo W. — Sat, Nov 4th, 2006 @ 5:19 pm
acknoweledge the facts? When the facts are looked at, they fall apart. Your medical system is cheep, because you do not have the latest advances, and then report the unpleasant facts in a way that hids your real system.
Just look at the private side, and ask if your system is sooooooo good, then why does it even exist?
Try explaining that one away.
I agree, “#49 is so incoherent”, the rum was flowing, damm its cheep here.
Comment by winter — Sun, Nov 5th, 2006 @ 8:27 pm
You have been proven wrong but you just keep on banging your head against the wall. And about the incoherent post #49 I doubt it was the cheap rum, it’s because you’re a bit thick aren’t you.
Comment by Anonymous — Sun, Nov 5th, 2006 @ 9:49 pm
Just look at the private side, and ask if your system is sooooooo good, then why does it even exist?
Comment by winter — Sun, Nov 5th, 2006 @ 10:50 pm
So having another choice is a bad thing now? If you wish to speed up on things you can do that if you need to but it doesn’t mean that the quality of the private sector is any better than the public one.
I can only speak for myself. I have had excelent service on the public and in the private sector, which I use very rarely (Used it once to see a specialist that on the public sector would have taken a bit longer time, a week or two and the KELA compensated part of my bill, those evil commies how dare they)
And about the long queues in dental care in the public sector never happened to me. I called thursday and made an appointment to monday tomorrow.(And now it seems there’s some problems in the private dental care in Finland as they don’t do their jobs right and fix something that doesn’t need to be fixed so that they can milk more money out of the customer leaving the patient to be cared by the public sector)
The private sector exits because business is business, some prefer the private sector some don’t. The fact that it exists doesn’t say anything about the public sectors or the private sectors quality ( in fact the private sector is quite inferior compared to the public sector when it comes to hospital equipment.)
Comment by Anonymous — Mon, Nov 6th, 2006 @ 1:13 am
#54
So having another choice is a bad thing now? If you wish to speed up on things you can do that if you need to but it doesn’t mean that the quality of the private sector is any better than the public one.
I can only speak for myself. I have had excelent service on the public and in the private sector, which I use very rarely (Used it once to see a specialist that on the public sector would have taken a bit longer time, a week or two and the KELA compensated part of my bill, those evil commies how dare they)
And about the long queues in dental care in the public sector never happened to me. I called thursday and made an appointment to monday tomorrow.(And now it seems there’s some problems in the private dental care in Finland as they don’t do their jobs right and fix something that doesn’t need to be fixed so that they can milk more money out of the customer leaving the patient to be cared by the public sector)
The private sector exits because business is business, some prefer the private sector some don’t. The fact that it exists doesn’t say anything about the public sectors or the private sectors quality ( in fact the private sector is quite inferior compared to the public sector when it comes to hospital equipment.)
Comment by Anonymous — Mon, Nov 6th, 2006 @ 1:15 am
test test, it doesn’t seem to accept my posts
Comment by Anonymous — Mon, Nov 6th, 2006 @ 1:16 am
So having another choice is a bad thing now? If you wish to speed up on things you can do that if you need to but it doesn’t mean that the quality of the private sector is any better than the public one.
I can only speak for myself. I have had excelent service on the public and in the private sector, which I use very rarely (Used it once to see a specialist that on the public sector would have taken a bit longer time, a week or two and the KELA compensated part of my bill, those evil commies how dare they)
And about the long queues in dental care in the public sector never happened to me. I called thursday and made an appointment to monday tomorrow.(And now it seems there’s some problems in the private dental care in Finland as they don’t do their jobs right and fix something that doesn’t need to be fixed so that they can milk more money out of the customer leaving the patient to be cared by the public sector)
The private sector exits because business is business, some prefer the private sector some don’t. The fact that it exists doesn’t say anything about the public sectors or the private sectors quality ( in fact the private sector is quite inferior compared to the public sector when it comes to hospital equipment.)
Hope it will now accept my post
Comment by gfhrdfh — Mon, Nov 6th, 2006 @ 1:16 am
Oh wait, you don’t have a Private side, I forgot.
Comment by winter — Mon, Nov 6th, 2006 @ 4:41 am
Hello! Winter! Ignorance is not a virtue, nor is stupidity.
Comment by Kimmo W — Mon, Nov 6th, 2006 @ 6:32 am
“Alot”? Seriously Phil mind your grammar. It’s the Queen’s English.
Comment by saempy — Fri, Dec 8th, 2006 @ 2:20 am
Oops wrong thread.
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