Excitable Andy accuses the Clinton campaign of plagarizing her “3 a.m. phone ad” from the 1984 Mondale “Red Phone” ad.
His co-blogger at The Atlantic, Marc Ambinder, noted in linking to the same ad yesterday:
Roy Spence, the Texas-based advertizing wizard brought aboard to soften Hillary Clinton’s image after Super Tuesday, is the maestro behind Clinton’s most audacious advertisement to date, a Clinton campaign official said this morning.
And Spence is very familiar with the genre. It was his “red phone” ad — see it here — that helped seed doubts about Gary Hart’s credentials to be commander in chief.
Here’s the original “Red phone” ad; it’s become an archetype.
This is no more “plagarism” than Barack Obama and Deval Patrick both using material developed by David Axelrod.
I recently referred to Andrew Sullivan as “Keith Olbermann with an accent.” That may have been unfair to Olbermann.
(h/t Memeorandum.)
Does Andy think Clinton writes her own ads?
Also I think they totally stole that whole gay marriage idea from breeders. Even the throwing the bouquet part, what I heard.
Mondale… Mondale…
For some reason, the idea of using his campaign for inspiration strikes me as a bad idea.
I dunno. Mondale might have made the campaign against Bob Dole a little more interesting.
Then again, maybe that isn’t what Hillary’s trying for.
I’ve heard about another commonality between Sullivan and Olbermann. It’s been widely reported that former “lovers” of both have told friends that the manhood of their boyfriends was insufficient to satisfy a Chihuahiua in heat.
“That may have been unfair to Olbermann.”
No, it’s dead on. Twit and Nitwit. Or maybe Frick and Frack
“Frick and Frack were known for skating in Alpine Lederhosen and performing eccentric tricks on ice, including the “cantilever spread-eagle” … and Mauch’s “rubber legs” twisting and bending his legs while skating in a spread eagle position.”
The ‘Willie Horton’ ad idea came from Al Gore.
“You’re doomed, Sideshow Barack.”
And Hillary walks away, planning her 2012 resurgence.
(As an aspiring evil overlord I must salute her. “Well done, ma’am!”)
c’mon, Karl, Andy is a good guy.
So what if the realisation of Bush idiocy and his idiotic policies came a little late.
Not everybody is as smart as you and me.
And please, don’t go all Yoo/Addington on me again, Karl. Please.
You know my hatred to everything autho/tota/litarian
You just really wanted to type something, huh? It’s ok. I do that too sometimes.
sashal,
If you must troll, try to have some connection to the topic, however slim. Sullivan’s idocy in this instance comes not from his shrieking anti-Bush hysteria, but from his shrieking anti-Hillary hysteria. I am not a Hillary fan, but was obliged to note that Sullivan is a nitwit.
hf,
The difference is that when you want to type something, it’s at least funny, and usually insightful.
Thank you, sir. I think there’s a side-effect from not saying things out loud to people all day.
c’mon, Karl, Andy is a good guy.
No, but at least in contrast to the internet’s most dishonest blogger, Gren Gleenwald, Excitable Andie usually has the decency to keep is excrescences brief. Gay men are not by definition automatically good guys or funny.
To add to what Karl said, happyfeets – you are on topic and not off dancing to a tune only you and your psychologist have heard.
Wait – oooo ‘Free Falling’ is coming on – gotta groove my old caucasian self.
Karl, when describing EA’s nitwit levels, would it be possible to match them to colors like mauve or perhaps a delicious auburn? I think such a color scheme could quickly inform those interested in – even fearful of – EA’s nitwittiness.
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So much for the changyness. Jeebus! these people are thick in the past.
jdm,
I may have to work on that. At the moment, I’m thinking it’s chartreuse.
Chartreuse it is then, Karl.
It has the added advantage of having a duality when used on the ‘net. I’m sure that characteristic could be used for something, but I’m not far enough along in the morning coffee drinking to know what that is.
That’s been done. Chartreuse seems to be a mixture of appalled and nauseated.