Comments on: The ad wars: McCain’s “Celebs” isn’t about Obama’s inexperience; it’s about mobilizing the evangelical base

By: publiuuus

publiuuus — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:24:48 +0000

I searched Google for a while, trying to find an audio file of people chanting “O-sa-ma!”, to compare it to the McCain spot, but couldn't come up with anything. Seems the Mexican fans at a US-Mexico soccer game a couple years ago chanted it, but I couldn't find a file of that either. It sounds so totally faked in that commercial.

By: publiuuus

publiuuus — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:52:15 +0000

Listen to the soundtrack….American audiences don't chant his name like that. “O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma!” It sounds like a modified soundtrack from an Al-Qaeda rally. Then they show him in the lower right corner, under what looks like an imposing minaret.

Shameless Rovian hit job.

By: richardpdx

richardpdx — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:38:42 +0000

That's a subtle analysis, Steve.

At first glance I didn't read the Spears and Hilton cuts in that light. I saw simply banality. That's probably my hedonistic, godless antennae failing to register what the women signify to fundies.

Lost sheep. Degraded women. Spears was a right wing darling once, thought to be suitable late-night viewing for Bob Dole, before her transformation into a post-pubescent nutjob. And Hilton, sired by wealth, was emblematic of hierarchical order.

Then both were discovered to have active snatches, and well, the honeymoon was over.

If McCain's people wanted to suggest merely hedonism, there are lots of other celebs they could have used. The subtext here is good-girls-gone-wild, and it's set against the aspect of the suave black figure, conquerer of fame, mover of millions, erotic svengali.

So, this ad is also a little D.W. Griffith for the megachurch crowd.

By: publiuuus

publiuuus — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I searched Google for a while, trying to find an audio file of people chanting “O-sa-ma!”, to compare it to the McCain spot, but couldn’t come up with anything. Seems the Mexican fans at a US-Mexico soccer game a couple years ago chanted it, but I couldn’t find a file of that either. It sounds so totally faked in that commercial.

By: publiuuus

publiuuus — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Listen to the soundtrack….American audiences don’t chant his name like that. “O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma!” It sounds like a modified soundtrack from an Al-Qaeda rally. Then they show him in the lower right corner, under what looks like an imposing minaret.

Shameless Rovian hit job.

By: richardpdx

richardpdx — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

That’s a subtle analysis, Steve.

At first glance I didn’t read the Spears and Hilton cuts in that light. I saw simply banality. That’s probably my hedonistic, godless antennae failing to register what the women signify to fundies.

Lost sheep. Degraded women. Spears was a right wing darling once, thought to be suitable late-night viewing for Bob Dole, before her transformation into a post-pubescent nutjob. And Hilton, sired by wealth, was emblematic of hierarchical order.

Then both were discovered to have active snatches, and well, the honeymoon was over.

If McCain’s people wanted to suggest merely hedonism, there are lots of other celebs they could have used. The subtext here is good-girls-gone-wild, and it’s set against the aspect of the suave black figure, conquerer of fame, mover of millions, erotic svengali.

So, this ad is also a little D.W. Griffith for the megachurch crowd.