Embrace the absurdity: Vote for real Chan!

By Paul Schmelzer
Monday, October 20, 2008 at 11:40 am

Chan You Can Believe In: New York art-blogger Hrag Vartanian spotted a Jackie Chan supporter behind MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell after last week’s presidential debate. Two signs appeared on-screen showing Obama’s sign altered to picture kung-fu great Jackie Chan and the phrase “Chan is all we need” — a take on an Obama slogan.

Brain at half-mast: Meanwhile, conservatives were outraged — briefly — that Barack Obama appeared last week in front of what conservative radio host Bob Grant called an “‘O’ flag.” The nationally syndicated broadcaster on Oct. 15 asked, “[W]hat is that flag that Obama’s been standing in front of that looks like an American flag, but instead of having the field of 50 stars representing the 50 states, there’s a circle?” He said someone who’d make over the American flag like that is “a person who would like to be a potentate — a dictator.” Only trouble — as Grant now knows — is that Obama was giving a speech in Ohio, in front of that state’s flag.

Soundtrack for Michele: Wired magazine dedicates a song to Michele Bachmann after Friday’s comments about her fears about Barack Obama and other members of Congress she fears have “anti-American views, The Minutemen’s “Joe McCarthy’s Ghost,” while MNspeak commenter “g rote” dedicates one for the CD6 Republican: REM’s 1987 song, “Exhuming Joe McCarthy.”

Barack and Bacon: Inspired by the web meme/site Barack Obama is Your New Bicycle, Jason Kottke has created When Barack Obama wins, which cycles through the possibilities of an Obama administration. Curiously, John McCain is Your New Bicycle now sports a McCain-Palin ad and cycles through just two entries: “JOHN MCCAIN IS SUPER AWESOME!” and “STILL SUPER AWESOME!”