From Red State:
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has a new fundraising pitch going out. It uses September 11th and our troops to raise money. But, instead of using those images to show Democrats would be tougher on terrorists and make America more secure, it uses pictures of dead soldiers in their flag draped coffins and the subtle threat of harm from September 11th to make a threat to the GOP.
See it for yourself here.
And be sure to check out Rahm Emanuel’s DCCC fundraising letter—in which he links to the video of flag-draped coffins.
The message? Well, I read it this way: “With your money and support, we at the DCCC will have your money and support. Suckers! Bu$h Sux! San Dimas High School football rulez!”
But then, I’m a bit jaded.
I read that video as saying the conservatives and republicans are responsible for the War on Terror, the terrorist bombings in Iraq and elsewhere, our soldiers being killed, hurricanes, the New Orleans tragedies after Katrina, cats fighting with dogs, gas pains, and hangnails. Vote for Democrats and you’ll get pretty sunsets, good background music and cute little bunnies.
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That is, unsurprisingly, typical. Truly, if the music was a little cornier, I would’ve thought it a parody. “Look at all the bad stuff! Hurricanes! Islamists! Okay, okay…now look at all the pretty pictures! Nancy Pelosi shaking hands with children! And Bill Clinton, damn he was cool!”
What a strategy. A solution. Do your part.
To give us power.
P.S. – San Dimas blows.
I saw that pathetic commercial and what I got from it was a feeble attempt at scare-mongering, the obsessive and predictable picture and quote from Ol’ Slick, and zero, count ‘em zero, new ideas. Not even a promise of an idea, just hot, dry flatulence from the party of windage and stink.
They are truly lost. Using Reid and Pelosi as anything but dartboard targets is tragic. Meanwhile they savage any Democrat who actually, you know, cares for the good of America and her future, like Joe Lieberman. These suckers are drowning in their own hate and are being pulled in 8 different directions at once. This is a formula for disaster for them and they’re too dumb to see it coming.
Think I’ll pop some popcorn and get ready for the show.
The Right refers to America’s honored fallen to ask that their sacrifice not be in vain.
The Left refers to them as though their spirits might be brought forth to haunt the Right and scare voters away from them.
“Support the troops?” They keep using that phrase. I don’t think it means what they think it means.
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Well done. Just always make sure you end every comment with “delete” and you’ll do fine.
No volcanoes?
Did anyone else notice that the video has photoshopped’ Tom Delays Mugshot? The side profile is correct but the frontal is not. I remember him smiling big – not with a frown. The photo was also in color and not black and white. Oh well, just curious I guess.
It ended with a plea to help create a Democratic majority. Interesting that they didn’t say why that would be a good thing.
Republican Response:
~ flinty voice guy announcing ~
Campaigning for John Kerry Gave Former President Bill Clinton a Heart Attack.
[pictures of Bill Clinton with Kerry then Bill Clinton in hospital garb, then Bill Clinton limping out of the hospital]
Now this:
[copy of video montage with Clinton in the DCCC ad}
Bill Clinton: What? Are the Democrats <i>trying to kill Him? Or has the Democratic party just run out of ideas?</i>
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Heh, nice B&T reference.
Furthermore, what I find really agigtating about the whole thing, is that it looks entirely towards the past. There’s no plan, no strategy, no solution; just a look into the past 8 years or so at everything that went wrong. If there’s anything that the past 8 years have taught us it’s that we will learn nothing, will never move forward; if we insist on immediate kneejerk reactions.
The fact that the DCCC has decided to air an ad that simply appeals to what’s happened in our immediate past is a testament to their greatest pillar – being reactionary. In this world, we must be proactive in our attempts to thwart totalitarian regimes, especially given the liberal approach that has fragmented urban neighborhoods into those sections ruled by sharia and those ruled by the laws of the country.
In the end, and I wish this were true; I’ll vote for the first candidate in ‘08 who admits that we’re fighting a war on fascism; and not a war on terrorism or Al-Qaeda. But I really see no proof in words or actions that tells me any politician thinks this, or is willing to say it.
Watched the video. After throwing up in mouth at work, I laughed as the images of a caring and compassionate Nancy Pelosi danced through mind. Then there ws Bill C. What the f$#%? Note to DCCC, please distribute this garbage nationwide. Then we Rethugs won’t have to contribute any money because this crap does all the talking for us..
Thank you. Also Shank I concur, San Dimas sucks… Their claim to fame? Bill and Ted and Raging Waters…..
”GOP Uses Dead New Yorkers to Raise Money”
I liked how they clipped photos of Bush and Rove together. Y’know, playing to the fears that Rove is really the Secret Emperor™ United States of America, os something like that.
Other than that, yeah, no message beyond ”We were in power until 2000! Put us back in, in the spirit of Bill Clinton!”
And the use of the soldiers, living and fallen? Lame. Understandable—the left has been campaigning for years to get photos of the coffins arriving at Travis. Now they show us why…..and it has nothing to do with honoring our fallen.
This is one of the finest displays of Orwellian mendacity from an American political party I have ever seen. No pretense at anything other than stalinist propaganda. Deep dark music versus high light music; dark monolithic graphics versus multi-colored, cheerful graphics. Retouch the images to make the president look positively inhuman. Toss in a picture of an air force pilot giving the thumbs up–despite the fact that you really hate him and wish he would die. And that demogogic picture of Clinton!
Few words: let the images do this talking. No issues, no argument, no meaning. A world divided into good and bad, white and black, just as Orwell predicted: ”Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller.”
If anything, this ad demonstrates exactly how deeply down the hole the Dems have fallen. They are past the point of no return. Their headlong rush to doom is irrevocable. If this is the kind of propaganda their leaders condone, they are beyond redemption. They have hit the event horizon.
The music mix reminded me of the brainwashing scene in The Parallax View.
Maybe Beatty was consulted?
I think they photoshopped Cheney’s choppers along with the Delay mug shot. Other than that I was impressed or depressed, I’m not sure.
I hate to say it but the National Republican Senatorial Committee is no better. They raise money through a shameless, endless series of so-called surveys that are really just poorly disguised shake-downs, complete with check-the-box donation amounts. They are a complete waste of time and money, and don’t even have the competence to remove names from their solicitation list by request.
Give directly to candidates, these people are worthless.
McGhee,
I’m just a grunts wife.. my first reaction to the video (after my head exploded) wasn’t even appropriate for the comments section at PW.
Dem campaign strategy?
Strong.
Tough.
Layers.
Layers
Is that an acronym for lying lawyers?
Weren’t the Libs expressing their righteous indignation and moral outrage at some Republican ad that had frames of 9/11 in it ? I am no longer suprised at their utter and complete perfidy.
I know it would be intolerable, but at the same time, I think it would be fun to see them win some control, just so they would be required to present some kind of plan, and they could prove how deep their bankruptcy of ideas runs.
As is, their sheer and unadulterated hypocrisy knows no bounds.
TW : Sun, as in, the sun is the best disinfectant of liberal ideas.
Downey extra quilted Toilet Paper…
San Dimas = San Dumbass in local parlance.
Spot on, ahem.
Windmills? They have the gall to use windmills?
And Clinton? Granted, they don’t have a hell of a lot to work with.
Bill S. Preston Esquire, and Ted Theodore Logan say “Mega-Ultra-Libs are Bogus” . Wyld Stallions Rulz!
Party on dudes!
I’d rather spend the money on a bunch of boxes of delicious Count Cockula cereal. Yum, yum.
Good catch, ahem. I wondered why that video looked so familiar….I watched a couple of the old Soviet films for history. The similarity is chilling, isn’t it?
Interestingly, I had a friend recommend George Lakoff’s egregious, “Don’t Think of an Elephant” to me only yesterday. In it, Lakoff–a linguist of all things–presents progressives with the silver bullet by which they may win future presidential elections.
He artificially divides the Reps and the Dems into two laughably simplistic ‘frames’: Republicans are the stern father-figger; Dems are the nuturing mother-figger. The strategy: Take everything a Republican says and re-state it in nurturing terms. In short, take one idea and carefully dress it so it looks like something else entirely: lie. Hilarity ensues.
What an exercise in relativism, raw arrogance, immorality, greed and cynicism. And I’m not even mentioning stupidity. How did this man rise to such prominence? It’s absurd.
I sent back a reply: ‘Lakoff’s thought is anathema to me.’ So I guess I’m one more friend down.
I don’t see the video representing anything different than what the Democratic Party leadership has said all along. The video illustrates what they claim is wrong with America…flag draped coffins, a burning military vehicle, the helmet and rifle of a dead soldier, a power plant firing on all cylinders, high gasoline prices. And in turn, if given power again, the Democrats will build homes and windmills. And there’ll be no more death; for the war will be declared over. The video ends with the loud voice of Clinton saying “behold, the tabernacle of the Democratic Party is with the people.” The Democratic Party will wipe away every tear from our eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying; and there shall be no more pain, for all that was wrought on us by those evil Rethuglicans will pass away and all things will become new.
It’s “darker and edgier”, to use some hacknied Hollywood PR jargon.
That’s not the Delay mugshot I’ve seen. He’s not smiling, his clothes are different, and the number plate at the bottom reads Travis County (where Austin is, not Houston, where Delay turned himself in) and ends (cleverly) with GOP. As CNN noted, “In his mug shot, a smiling DeLay is wearing a coat and tie. The photograph doesn’t have numbers below his face like many mug shots because the county no longer uses such a system, Martinez said.”
I guess since Delay didn’t give the Dirtocrats the mug shot that they craved, they just invented one that was more to their liking. Typical. Fake, but accurate!
Leni Riefenstahl.
Without the talent.
I didn’t watch with the sound on, but “America Needs A New Direction” with images that culminate in a picture of BJ Clinton? Can’t they do any better than that.
Presumably the picture of wind turbines had something to do with the Donks’ supposed committment to renewable energy, laughable to me because coming from MA, both of my Senatorial pantloads are against the proposed Cape Winds project because they might be able to see windmills from their family compounds and/or yachts.
TW: “progress”—LOL
As someone predicted, as I recall, at the time.
TW: “me”
I wish.
Murel Bailey,
Got Milk?
Funny, I must have watched a different video since the results shown are all products of the Democratic political policy. I saw:
Rising gas prices: caused by lack of new oil refineries, refusing to drill for available domestic oil off coasts & Anwar
Dead US soldiers: failure to respond to bombing of USS Cole, 1993 WTC bombing, bombing of US Embassies in Africa & Mogadishu which emboldened Al Qaeda
Off sourcing: America companies are forced to move manufacturing over seas where they are over taxed & burdened w’ increased costs of health insurance, workman’s comp, unionized labor & won’t have to be worried about being sued over the slightest slight.
Katrina: failed response from local & state wide Democratic leaders & squandering of funds set aside for levee repair & updating.
Is it me or is every shot of a Democratic politician in the video they are looking down onto the people?
Not a problem.
Because the dead vote Democrat, all Democrats are entitled to depict any individual dead person however they wish.
That’s why all those Condoleeza Jemimas and vampire Jews in their cartoons aren’t crazed outbursts of racism. The charge doesn’t even make sense. They own those people.
Especially the dead ones.
People did prefer, at least by poll numbers, blowjobs over whatever it is that gets off dubya.
Yes… let’s hand over the security of our nation to the party that cares more about poll numbers.
The left have no values… save what the latest polls tell them to have.
FOUND IT. Tom Delays photoshopped mugshot in this video is a doctored photo that they have been using on merchandise from Cafe Press. here it is.
Jiggity, I think you’re still about four and a half feet short of the record for widest raw-URL-caused comment page at PW.
Well, if you’re talking about what people prefer, and want to rule democratically.
Democratically? We’re a constitutional republic…. people have their “preference” when they vote.
Pandering to polling data allows spineless douche nozzles with no principles to do what’s popular at that moment.
People with principles do what they think is right.. regardless of the polls.
Jeff,
Sorry about the link. Didn’t mean to jack up the comments. Did a copy and paste without looking at how long it was. You may want to ammend it. Thanks.
Thats why I was defending press freedoms from the recent mouth-breathing hordes of treason.
Actus.. stop being an obtuse prig.
The press is not “elected”. They are accountable to very little, and generally enact their own agenda… regardless to what is “right”, “wrong” or anything else.
I know. But the people who would prosecute them are.
I particularly thought the monochrome picture of Bush and Rove in red–in red–was very suggestive.
Jiggity: Use TinyUrl.
People with principles do what they think is right.. regardless of the polls.
I think the key word there is principles, of which the aformentioned press has little to none.
Obligatory warning on Rules of Engagement For Trolls, posted late, but still applicable:
IGNORE ACTUS
(aka Retarded Telephone Pole&trade
That is all.
TW: Let this be the last time for the obligatory acthole engagement warning.
When you do something illegal expect to get arrested. A press pass isn’t liscense to break the law.
Sure it is. It’s in the second paragraph of the 1st Amendment.
Damn… where were you this morning when I started posting here?
~snicker~
Thanks for the info!
Who needs a press pass? Its a right of all of us, not just the establishment.
Obligatory warning on Rules of Engagement For Trolls, posted again, but still applicable:
IGNORE ACTUS
(aka Retarded Telephone Pole™ )
That is all.
TW: growth this time. Is the AI is an oracle or a cynic?
I think we’re missing the point of Actus.
Greenwald needs someone he can beat in court…
Why limit the beating of actus to the courtroom, GMG? Maybe Greenwald has a special room in the back of his office. You know—the sort with handcuffs fastened to the wall, and an assortment of whips.