Like, you know, airbrushing little pictures of Jesus into the ice cubes in all those J&B Scotch print ads.
Anyway, Allah takes Obama to the woodshed and beats him with one of Nancy Pelosi’s cardinal red high heel Gucci pumps.
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yeah, when I saw Bush on TV last time I swear a message flashed on the screen saying “if you are a liberal you must be more insane each time you see or hear me.”
Maybe it was just my imagination.
Yes. Total woodshed. For example, see this
Here’s another example. Notice “Plan for Victory” repeated in the background.
Now I guess you can debate whether subliminal is the right word…probably depends on live vs. TV audience, focus, etc. But it’s clear that Obama’s not talking about the Mission Accomplished banner.
But hey, I guess taking people to the woodshed doesn’t involve honest argumentation or basic research, does it?
If it is spelled out on the screen, doesn’t that make the message super-liminal?
And by “super-liminal” I mean “Bloody Obvious”.
Sen. Obama: “How dare this idiot chimp try to get his message out! That is the most sneaky, underhanded thing I’ve ever heard of!”
Uh, no you can’t debate this.
Or rather, you can, but you’d be advised to do it with people unfamiliar with the idea of subliminal messages.
This reminds me of the backdrop ads during baseball telecasts. They appear much larger to viewers at home than they actually are because of the way the centerfield camera works.
But if I’m in the bleachers at the game and can’t read those ads, that hardly means they aren’t there, or that they aren’t readily accessible to those with better seats than mine.
Calling such things “subliminal” is silly.
Successful marketeers have pretty much completely abandoned subliminal messaging, because studies have shown that it has no effect. I know because I had to review those studies myself. The only time it rears its head is when people start spouting off about subliminal advertisements and messages etc. If you see what you think is a subliminal message: 1. it is pretty much not subliminal, 2. it is someone having fun at no one’s expense 3. their intentions are serious and they are unaware that they are wasting their time.
So a politician put up positive slogans to set the tone for the audience, local or TV. Shocking. Duplicitous. Outrageous. Never in our illustrious history has any politician sunk so low.
What’s most interesting about this is the numerous news wire photos we’ve seen (and for the life of me I can’t find an example) that have been carefully cropped so that the President’s (or Vice President’s) face appears in front of a word like “liar” when, in fact, the background said “Familiar Places” or something like that. Anyone else know what I’m talking about?
Now THAT’S subliminal. And it’s the press that’s doing it, not the President. Obama, being a freshman Senator, seems to be learning his lessons, however. His colleagues must be so proud.
How dare you criticism Obama!? He is PERFECT. He is a rising star.
Look at his numerous accomplishments! Why the vast number of bills he has…um…He is a leader in…uh…
Well, he reminds us of how clumsy and awkward Dick Durbin is, yeah! See, he does something for the Great State of Illinois.
Jesus wept.
I’m all for truth in backdrop…
Next time Nancy Pelosi speaks, she should wear a burkha, they can pull down the American flags behind her and put up that nifty green Islamist one.
Ted Kennedy can speak from in an aquarium with an Absolut ad running behind…
Robert Byrd can appear with clips of German Shepherds lunging at African Americans
Rep. Cunningham should speak from one of those gameshow windtunnels filled with flying hundred dollar bills
Bill Clinton could speak from a strip club
Al Gore from a freezer
Tancredo can do it from a golf course with a half dozen illegals behind him trimming away each blissfully unaware…
This could be fun
Jesus Christ, when did the left go completely freaking insane? Are they so married to the campaign of demonization that they’ve abandoned reason and basic FACTS?
Robert Crawford:
Yes. It happened sometime after 9/11/01. Towards the end of 2002. We miss them. But they are gone.
I dunno. They at least tried to make their claims have some tenuous connection to reality. This is just so insane it’s incomprehensible. A politician getting upset because another politician has appeared in front of backdrops with words? *boggle*
I don’t dogsihsub think subliminal messages nacilbuperetov work at all.
Just a bunch ssanasierog of nonsense.
The morphing of the “radical left” into the “mainstream left” started in the 60s, but was pretty subtle until the late 90s.
By that time the radicals from the 60s were in power, particularly in leftist causes and the Democratic party.
When the McCain-Feingold “Campagin Financing and Prohibition of Some Free Speech While Cutting Off Major Funding to the Democratic Party” bill was passed, it allowed radical lefts groups to get a lot of money into the (D) party to replace lost funds from large donors.
Once that process started, it snowballed, what with the increased prominence of and funding to radical groups, their increased presence on campuses, and all the bandwagon-jumping by self-proclaimed communists, anarchists, misfits, etc.
Ask any parent, bad behavior becomes habit faster than good behavior and is harder to stop. Once a certain level of invective went without comment on the left, it became “normal,” i.e. BUSH LIED!
Once that happened, to get attention, you have to ratchet up the rhetoric.
Eventually we end up with Obama castigating Bush for brazenly advocating his own position, because, hey, how else is Obama going to get into the news? Advocating for the homeless? Damn, that’s so 1991.
Poor Obama. Don’t he know the word is subliminimal?
Still misunderestimating the president, after all these years.
Ahem… Met’s tickets Cough…
Yeah, well how do you explain subliminal messages like this and this? Huh? Huh?
I mean could a subliminal message be any more obvious?
Well, there you go! See, this is reality, and if there’s one that all elected Democratic officials avoid like the plague, and it’s reality. So, clearly Obama (and his hordes of drooling minions) simply must go in the opposite direction.
Really, how hard is this, people? Focus, damn you!
Jeff sez:
Except that maybe they aren’t really there. It all began with the notorious Eyetralian Zionist Larry Lucchino and the Tel Aviv Padres. Hundreds of thousands of viewers see ballpark ads that don’t really exist.
Really.
I blame Karl Rove.
– The English is in need of additional discriptive passages. The moonbats have simply made phrases like “fly shit in pepper” understated by orders of magnitude.
– I marvel daily that the left has time enough on their hands to actually dream up these fruitcakish ideas, but then I remember they are based in lassitude and mind tripping, and then it seems perfectly understandable.
– “Dayum….would you look at that….I can actually see through my hand and fingers…Kewl!”
Subliminal isn’t the right word.
But I do like hot air’s use of MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
The Democrats are completely nuts. Now they are claiming that if the President repeats his own message he is cheating.
Stupidity like this is just beyond belief. These people are not fit to run a PTA chapter.
hmmmm, would that be like “culture of corruption” and “incompetent”?
If a message is too small to be consciously reported, but large enough where features of the message can be perceived, then it’s subliminal. So you can debate whether it’s the right word based on the situation (i.e. if you’re in the crowd and can’t see, for instance). However, I don’t think that it was the best word choice by Obama.
But that wasn’t my main point. Main point was that the Allah link acts as if Obama was referring to the Mission Accomplished sign, when it’s obvious that it’s not what Obama is talking about. He’s talking about the tiny (but in most situations, supra-liminal) messages behind the president.
Talk about repeating a message.
Bush lied…
The left is so smart, so well educated that they seem to think that if they footnote and link their own groupthink… it becomes fact.
Sorta like the DaVinci Code.
Open by claiming everything you are about to say is TRUTH, cite references to published works that reinforce your “truth” claims (never mind that the sources referenced are conspiracy nuts, and/or wholesale fabricators) then spin a wild story and repeat yourself over and over and over.
I could write the Truth about the mistreatment of some indigenous group. I could cite well known scholars like Ward Churchill and all of his cronies. It could be well researched, exhaustively referenced, and entertaining. The main premise could be easily reduced to a sound bite which I could repeat in every TV interview. Radio, TV, print and bloggers could reference my work and use my sound bite catch phrase over and over… it’d still be a bunch of absolute crap and lies, but you’d see TV commentators nodding their heads sagely as they bow to the prevailing “wisdom” I’ve bestowed upon the world.
Just like this whole “Bush lied” nonsense… as if listening to Cindy Sheehan repeating it in a shriller and shriller tone as the left applauds her “moral authority”, while ignoring the moral authority of the Gold Star mothers who disagree with Ms. Sheehan doesn’t make the “Bush lied” claim true. It makes it tedious.
Subliminal message? He has a hard enough time getting out an obvious message.
Is that anything like what Condi was shopping for as the levees overtopped?
I don’t know. Was she in New Orleans at the time? Because if so, I would have advised galoshes and sand bags.
Other than that, I agree with you: the Secretary of State should have stayed at home and flooded her apartment. As a show of solidarity.
That’s what you did, right?
– He must have Jeff. After all, theres only just so many ways you can suffer that sort of oxygen brain cell deprivation, don’t cha know…..Besides, Condi likes BOOTS!
I hear Jimmy Carter was crafting a new poem during the Katrina disaster.
POETRY FOR CHRIST’S SAKE!! WHAT RHYMES WITH GURGLE MR. EX-PRESIDENT!!!
BURGLE
If you can detect it, it isn’t subliminal. By definition, a subliminal thing is below the threshold of conscious perception. Detecting the subliminal would be like seeing the invisible.
Examples please.
There once was a frisky young intern,
Whose ass could keep Texas from windburn
My pants she would burgle,
To choke, gag and gurgle
…?
Llama School—Obama was talking out his ass. By standing behind him, it looks like you’re Frenching his ass in turn.
You can either “bravely” continue to spew the lies and hate-filled paranoia, or you can step back, think for yourself, and stop being a fricking Demobot. You don’t have to start being a Bush fan, but you should at least stop drinking from every pitcher of Kool-Aid the Donks serve up.
Wanna really get paranoid, Jeff? A lot of those “signs” you see in broadcasts of ballgames aren’t really there. The teams, in conjunction with the networks, leave patches of “green screen” blank wall behind the plate and along the baselines, where different logos are “keyed in” during the game for product placement…
The teams, in conjunction with the networks, leave patches of “green screen†blank wall behind the plate and along the baselines, where different logos are “keyed in†during the game for product placement…
It ain’t just the teams and networks, Brother. The Bush cabal, led by Hayden and the NSA, are neck-deep in the “green patches” as well. You might think you’re seeing a State Farm ad, but what your brain processes is “Oppress the Other,” and “Use AIDS As A Weapon.”
Freakin’ SCARY, man.
Pablo/TomB,
There’s a difference between perception and conscious perception. It is possible to perceive something (for example, a blurry word or a word presented over a very short period of time) and not be able to consciously report what it is. For example, if you’re presented with a word very quickly, you won’t be able to report the word when asked. But you do perceive the word. For example, if you’re given a forced choice task to guess which word was previously presented, you will perform pretty accurately, even though you couldn’t consciously perceive that word originally.
But coming back to the main point, I said before that this wasn’t the best word choice by Obama. But it’s CLEAR from what he’s saying that he’s not accusing Bush of presenting secret messages. And it’s clear that he’s not referring to things like the “Mission Accomplished” banner. But feel free to nitpick on the malapropism, ignore Obama’s main point, and claim that this is some sort of rhetorical beatdown.
His main point being what? That you can’t Bushco’s constant positive message override your wallowing in the negative? You see this as a rhetorical score?
Three Questions: 2002 -2006
Search/nexis/google the foregoing three questions
of the following individuals
Senator Joe Biden
Senator Hillary Clinton
Senator Ted Kennedy
Senator John F. Kerry
Senator John Edwards
Senator Harry Reid
Senator Nancy Pelosi
Senator Dick Durban
Senator Chuck Schumer
Senator Diana Feinstein
Senator Barbara Boxer
DNC Chairman Howard Dean
Former VP Al Gore
Senator Joe Biden
We don’t have enough troops.
Never have gone into Iraq for any reason
Yes remove Saddam from power by any means
Senator Hillary Clinton
Not sending enough troops to Iraq
The War to liberate Iraq “was unfair and unjust
The war was worth it just to remove Saddam Hussein from power
Senator Ted Kennedy
Troops in Iraq were not enough –
The reasons for going to war in Iraq were all based on lies,
The extraordinary and swift success in removing Saddam from power
Senator John F. Kerry
Not deploying enough troops in Iraq
I would not have gone to war in Iraq.
Removing Saddam was the ‘right thing to do
Senator John Edwards
Not going in with enough troops
I would not have gone to war in Iraq
I voted to support removing Saddam Hussein from power
Senator Harry Reid
Not enough troops in Iraq
We should have never gone back into Iraq
I Made The Decision To Remove Saddam Hussein From Power
Senator Nancy Pelosi
We don’t have enough troops in Iraq
We would never have gone into Iraq in the first place
Responsibility of the United States is to eliminate Iraqs WMD,
Senator Dick Durban
They didn’t take enough troops to “win the peace”.
The Iraq War is the biggest fraud ever committed
I support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power
Senator Chuck Schumer
Not sending in enough troops to begin with
No good reason for going to war with Iraq
Yet we have a responsibility to remove Saddam from power
Senator Diana Feinstein
They did not provide the necessary troops,
The Iraq war was a bad idea
Removing Saddam and his cabal was a good thing,
Senator Barbara Boxer
Not nearly enough troops
We never should have gone to war in Iraq
Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein
DNC Chairman Howard Dean
We don’t have enough troops to do the job there
We should never have gone to war with Iraq
Yet it was right to remove Saddam Hussein from power
Former VP Al Gore
Campaigned on the importance of removing Saddam from power
The removal of Saddam from power is a positive accomplishment in its own right I think that the goal of removing Saddam from power is a worthy objective. That I support
The following prominent Democrats made public statements unequivocally stating Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was an imminent threat to America’s security.
Joe Biden – August 4. 2002, Bill Clinton – February 17, 1998, Madeleine Albright – February 17, 1998, Al Gore – December 16, 1998, John Kerry – January 23, 2003, Nancy Pelosi December 16, 1998, Sandy Berger – February 18, 1998, Al Gore – September 23, 2002, John Kerry – October 9, 2002, Carl Levin – September 19, 2002, Ted Kennedy – September 27, 2002, Hillary Clinton – October 10, 2002, Jay Rockefeller – October 10, 2002, Madeleine Albright – November 10, 1999, Joe Biden – August 4, 2002, Robert Byrd – October 3, 2002, Madeline Albright – February 18, 2002, Jane Hartman – August 27, 2002, Al Gore – September 23, 2002, Joe Biden – August 4, 2002, Dick Durbin – September 30, 1999, Bill Clinton – December 17, 1998, Bill Nelson – August 25, 2002, Hillary Clinton – October 10, 2002, Nancy Pelosi – December 10, 2002, Dick Gephardt – September 23, 2002, Evan Bayh – August 4, 2002, Russell Feingold – October 9, 2002, Bill Clinton – February 17, 1998, Johnny Edwards – January 7, 2003, Hillary Clinton – January 22, 2003, John Kerry – January 31, 2003, Joe Biden – August 24, 2002, Bill Nelson – September 14, 2002, Johnny Edwards – February 6, 2003, Al Gore – September 23, 2002, Joe Biden – August 4, 2002, Tom Daschle – February 11, 1998, Bob Graham – December 8, 2002, Bill Richardson – May 29, 1998, John Kerry – February 23, 1998, and Hillary Clinton – October 10, 2002.
The individuals statements are documented by the EIB Network, N.Y. Senate floor record, Library of Congress
I have heard it said –
Recognize that you don’t win elections by letting your opponent define you.
You win them by standing for principles worth fighting for. Never give in to the political winds,
Injustice Prevails  And don’t forget Pelosi’s statements came AFTER she went on TV and credited the rapid success of the invasion to “the way the military was strengthened under the Clinton Administration.”