WTF PEOPLE. Bush Campaign Web Ad: KERRY + GEPHARDT + GORE = HITLER!?

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go to http://www.georgewbush.com/ and view the current video on the front page.

come on people. a bit horrifying, isn't it? i don't know whether the editing was intentionally disjointed to scare eldery voters or what.

― andrew l. r. (allocryptic), Thursday, 24 June 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

um, actually that's footage from a moveon anti-bush ad

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 24 June 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i love that the way the bush campaign responded to the washington post article in their campaign being one of the most negative ever.. they just roll out these JOHN KERRY IS NEGATIVE ads.

its kinda funny.. i watched that with no sound and gore looks pissed, dean looks pissed, gephardt looks pissed, then you get to kerry and he can like, barely emote.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Thursday, 24 June 2004 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

um, yeah thanks. i saw the moveon.org text in the ad --

i'm just confused at what is being said. to say "they called us hitler!" as cipher to me. don't get it.

― andrew l. r. (allocryptic), Thursday, 24 June 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"They called us Hitler" = "these are frivolous lunatics who you seriously don't want in charge of anything." That's the message they're going for, anyway. Beyond which I think part of the goal of this is to just create this indecipherable jumble of images and screaming from which Bush emerges, calm and happy: i.e., don't even try and discern the content of what people say, just focus on the familiar man in the suit.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, it's almost always in an incumbent's favor to portray the entire election process as a ridiculous bout of screaming that's distracting him from doing his job. Mix in a greater sense of public fear and turning-point crisis than in recent elections, and it only becomes a more potent tool.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

My head hurts.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)

nabisco: i can see that going on. i half expect for my frontal lobe to now be impregnated with post-hyponotic subliminal commands, though. that is, if the fear of HITLER (OH NO) doesn't persuade me first.

― andrew l. r. (allocryptic), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Nabisco completely otm.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

why am i starting to regret the money i gave to moveon?? i'm pretty sure it's NOT just the 50 spam messages i get from them a month.

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe i missed the point of the advert. we're not supposed to be upset or cynical over this administrations failings? be optomistic, be passive, close your eyes and all will be okay

― rxreed (rxreed), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

a note from the CJR Campaign Desk about how focusing on "optimism" vs "pessimism" is always bullshit.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Friday, 25 June 2004 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

why bush is giving face time to michael moore in his own campaign ads is beyond me.. and it actually bothers me, because i don't actually believe they're that desperate yet.. so i feel like they're up to something weird.. it's just not the playbook. incumbents are still supposed to be "above it all" at this point no? like barely mentioning kerry by name? why the hell are they doing this?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 25 June 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Because they are debased psychopaths.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Friday, 25 June 2004 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Err... I think this is the campaign equivelent of the preemptive strike technique that's been unequivocably proven GWB's preferred method of everything.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Friday, 25 June 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy shit was that ever terrible.

Hey, for fun, why not check out the nicer, Canadian version of the same thing?
http://www.liberal.ca/video/harpblur.wmv

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 25 June 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this ad actually running anywhere? I can understand it being on the Web site, because there it's mostly playing to the faithful (who can email it to all their friends). I'd be surprised if they were exposing it to a general audience, since I think its message could be confusing (i.e. 45 seconds of people bashing Bush).

But I love the "this is not a time for pessimism and rage" line -- the exact opposite of the actual Republican message of war, fear, fear, war, and when the Rapture comes kick that faggot on your way up to Heaven. I dunno. If Bush wins -- which I still think he will -- it won't be because he runs a good campaign. Karl Rove is way overrated.

― spittle (spittle), Friday, 25 June 2004 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

as the Campaign Desk article says, it's pretty standard for the incumbant to put the most fuckin' smiley face possible. "Everything's going good! let's keep it the way it is!"

and the inverse is true, of course

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Friday, 25 June 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

understood, but this ad would have you believe that of the whole shitstorm of criticism he has come out smelling like a rose.

this ad still disturbs me hours later. i hate to be the first one to say it (at least on this thread) but this is pretty orwellian shit. doublethink alert!

― andrew l. r. (allocryptic), Friday, 25 June 2004 03:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Hitler is rolling in his grave.

― David Allen (David Allen), Friday, 25 June 2004 04:41 (twenty-one years ago)

...they just roll out these JOHN KERRY IS NEGATIVE ads.
Who wants some irony?
Okay...here, have some:
Right now, the Don Imus show is on TV and Senator Zell Miller (D-Georgia) is ranting about how John Kerry is "glum, pessimistic...he's like that grouchy cartoon character with the cloud over his head. I've never seen someone so perpetually down in the mouth."
As he's saying this, onscreen is footage of John Kerry walking around on a sunny day with a big, goofy grin on his face, cordially meeting people.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Friday, 25 June 2004 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

and now Zell is talking about how Clinton was a bit glum...
...and the footage switches to a cheery (probably freshly fellated) Clinton being all chipper as he meets the press.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Friday, 25 June 2004 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I think someone should run the ads from WAG THE DOG

― People love Gravity and Ebullition! (ex machina), Friday, 25 June 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

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