’)You make hokey, silly ads like this one. Look, a couple folks from the South may chuckle at it, but to the rest of America it just makes the GOP out to be the Southern goobers so many of us think. Next time fellas, a little less Gomer Pyle, a little more Sheriff Andy.
“Now, let’s you just drop them pants…”
Mystic tan power
Make sure you get the boom mic shadow in that last shot. Wouldn’t want to make it look stupid or anything.
Um, Bush started the bank-bailouts. And it’s been five months. I’d love to see the unemployment rate drop as well, but after eight years of Bush when we had negative job growth and negative real income growth, what the hell legs to stand on does any member of the GOP or their drooling little followers like Dennis and Jay have to tell a Dem president how to handle the economy?
It’s going to rebound, and Obama is going to win in a landslide in 2012 since it’s usually all about the economy. And the GOP is on record for hoping that Obama and the American economy “fail.” Simple as that.
Oh Mah Gawd! It’s like Christopher Guest in “Best in Show”.
“here’s mah dawggie…she luvs me…she knows what ah-m a-sayin’”
Banjo music? They backed it up with banjo music?
Wow.
Republicans drove the economy off a cliff and during the free-fall handed the keys to a Democratic leader and then blamed Republican recklessness on him.
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Jaim’s broken record crystal ball fiction writing is still amusing, even after the thousandth time he’s posted it.
Double digit unemployment with no signs of improvement in the key components, no matter how Gibby tries to spin it, and Jaim thinks the millions unemployed will blame Rush Limbaugh because he ‘hoped it happened’.
Shorter elitist liberals: “Thank God we’re not from the South. Holy sheez, can you believe these cretins? I mean, banjo music. WTF?”
I love banjo music, I play the banjo, but this is shit banjo music.
It’s a stupid commercial Dennis, with a confusing, muddled message that plays on lies (AIG was bailed out by Bush, not Obama). The boom mic shadow in the final shot doesn’t really play to that “aw shucks” tone of the commercial, it just looks like a dumb mistake. If this is the kind of thing Republicans think will help them win back America then I think they should run with it!
Play this commercial everywhere! When Republicans start trying to speak to people than their base then I’ll be worried.
I do find the entire “hunt ‘em down with bloodhounds” thing a little troubling. I guess that’s just how conservatives think, keep blowing that racism dog whistle.
I love banjo music too, MOH. I grew up in the Northern half of the US. I’ve lived in St. Louis and Pittsburgh, two primarily Democratic-voting cities, and I now live in the South in a primarily conservative area. I witness far less racism and bigotry here than in anywhere else I’ve lived. Far less. I don’t hear ‘dog whistles’ either, but then again, I don’t recognize or go looking for them.
I don’t know if that’s just my personal experience, but one thing I think is fairly certain, the prejudice against the south and southerners here is quite pronounced. And I don’t say it to incite anyone or for the sake of an argument. It’s just more of the ’stupid conservatives’ meme that goes right along with the Fox and Palin bashing. And it is elitism.
Shorter elitist liberals: “Thank God we’re not from the South. Holy sheez, can you believe these cretins? I mean, banjo music. WTF?”
I’m from the south, and I can say that it’s still stupid as hell. They haven’t learned from 2008, they’re just trying to rile up the south, while alienating the rest of the country. I expect the next ad they put out to be Dick Cheney beating a dead horse for 45 seconds.
‘I don’t know if that’s just my personal experience, but one thing I think is fairly certain, the prejudice against the south and southerners here is quite pronounced.’
Unlike say, your prejudice against, oh I don’t know, Liberals on a Left wing blog?
I don’t see so much Southern prejudice as criticism of asinine GOP elements bathed in Southern fried hokum, which this ad typifies.
But then, a’hm one o’ them thar iducated folk what thinks a’hm to good for hisself, ‘cuz I don’t hold a rifel in one hand and an’ a Bible in t’othah.
I expect the next ad they put out to be Dick Cheney beating a dead horse for 45 seconds.
I kinda see the word “off” inserted somewhere in the above quote…
the prejudice against the south and southerners here is quite pronounced
I could not possibly imagine why.
@ Oliver Willis.
LOL!
Generally I play the “moderate” role around here, I think. Sometimes I piss of liberals, and sometimes I piss of conservatives. It just depends on the subject matter. Many times I have criticized Oliver about being a little too accusatory about the south. But this, is OBVIOUSLY 1st degree pandering. Banjo music, hound dogs, and “kneeling” next to said hound dog? GMAFB!
I mean John Boehner, as the last member of the “Gang of 7″ and one of the people that ushered in the Republican Revolution and the Contract with(on) America. Is heralded in the Republican Party. Don’t get me wrong, while I have ideological differences with him I have thought of him as a man who stuck to his principles. But, this commercial is a hot mess. Dude, you were born in Ohio, and you are kneeling in the grass with a Hound Dog in “PRESSED PANTS!” Be yourself dude, for real.
Obama is six months in to his term. He has 3 and 1/2 years to go.
If the economy doesn’t improve by then, he doesn’t deserve to be re-elected.
Thing is, it is going to improve by then and yes Dennis, Barack Hussein Obama is going to be your president until 2016 no matter how hard and how frequently you continue to shit your diapers.
But please, continue to puke and blather for our shared amusement.
Well, what did you just witness in San Angelo and how were you treated. A lot of stupid, racist goobers running around with blood hounds and banjos, waving Confederate flags?
(I didn’t close the italics because my comment was more awesome than usual.)
Right, Jaim. So awesome the first time you wrote it and still awesome on the 50th time. It left me near speechless. Shitting diapers….awesome stuff. More awesome than usual, indeed.
Dennis, try and put your twisted, failed ideology aside for just a moment and answer these questions:
Historically, how long do Recessions in America last?
What are the chances that the current Bush/Republican Recession is an outlier, and that it will last longer than the standard 2-3 year cycle that they usually go in?
And if this is an outlier, making it comparable to the Great Depression, will people be dumb enough to blame Obama for stabilizing a stock market that dropped almost half of its value under Bush, and has risen slightly in the mere five months he’s been president?
And if, as historically expected, the economy does recover in the next 3 1/2 years, do you really think the GOP will have a snowball’s chance in hell, given that only three GOP senators were willing to support the stimulus bill, and that GOP leader Rush Limbaugh is on record as hoping Obama and America fail?
I realize you’ll probably dodge these questions, but I just want to put you on record as being absolutely bat-shit-insane.
Shorter elitist liberals: “Thank God we’re not from the South. Holy sheez, can you believe these cretins? I mean, banjo music. WTF?”
I hope you’re not talking to me, yankee. I was born in North Carolina and grew up in the piney woods of North Florida. I know a peckerwood when I see one.
So, cawdsack, take your “elitist liberal” crap and go hikin’.
Jaim, it’s heading toward 1am where I am and I’m tired and have a lot to do tomorrow. I’ll answer you in the morning. But in general, neither you nor I has the first clue what will transpire in the next 3 1/2 years to make any predictions, or whether or not Obama’s fate will hinge on the stock economy or something else entirely different. It’s silly for you to act like you do know what will happen, and even sillier for you to guess what will be weighing on voters’ minds in 2012. But the silliest thing of all you keep coming back to, is that you think what Limbaugh said somehow gives Obama an out come 3 1/2 years from now.
A stock market that has risen slightly in the mere five months he has been president? La de f’ing da. Jobless recoveries aren’t what this bold man promised, my friend.
Being unemployed really takes it out of you, doesn’t it?
“you nor I has the first clue what will transpire in the next 3 1/2 years to make any predictions”
Actually, there’s plenty of historical data to indicate that the Bush Recession will subside in a window of 12 to 24 months. If it’s worse than that, we have a Depression on our hands that began under a Republican president named Bush and Obama’s situation remains strong. Throw in the fact that your major candidates for 2012 are Palin (LOL), Jindal (double LOL), and Romney (will be shot in the back by the fundies because he’s Mormon) and I’d be willing to bet money that Obama/Biden is a lock for 2012 (a major terrorist attack could change things, but we know that those usually happen under Republican administrations).
But it’s cute how you throw up your hands and pretend the GOP isn’t majorly screwed.
“Jobless recoveries aren’t what this bold man promised, my friend.”
Right wing ideology has given US increasingly jobless recoveries for the last 30 years.
The current Great Recession is a direct result of decades of stupid right wing policies
The economy was much worse under Republican Bush than most anyone realized and those that understood how bad the Bush economy was were largely ignored (Krugman, Roubini, Taleb, Stiglitz, Baker, Reich).
The stimulus package was too small (lefty economists repeatedly said as much and were ignored).
The right wing are doing everything they can to sabotage the economic recovery. Some right wingers genuinely don’t understand that their economic ideology both created this Great Recession but their ideology significantly exacerbates it as well. Some right wingers do understand that their economic policies are hurting US but just don’t care.
Just as the selection of Sarah Palin and Michael Steele were examples of Rpublicans thinking how they THINK Democrats think, this too is an example of Republicans thinking how they think Republicans think.
Epic legendary FAIL all the way around.
and Jaim thinks the millions unemployed will blame Rush Limbaugh because he ‘hoped it happened’.
A lot of them will, Denny.
Boehn-head: “In Wisconsin, the stimulus paid for a bridge to a bar called Rusty’s Backwater Saloon. They’ve got great burgers, but no new jobs…”
Oh I see, Boehn-head, I suppose that bridge built itself. Or maybe robots built the bridge. Maybe space aliens.
I work in construction. “New jobs” is a crock. No one in our business is expecting any “new jobs” any time soon; we’re too busy panicking over the massive continuing losses of the jobs we already had. So, Sen. Boehner, you’re telling us that the stimulus program funded some highway work that otherwise wouldn’t have gotten done, and thus kept the paychecks coming to construction workers like me so we can continue to pay our mortgages and feed our children? And this is due to President Obama’s stimulus bill? Then take me to D.C. so I can grab good ol’ B. Hussein and kiss him. Thanks for bringing that to my attention, Sen. Boehner!
Good Lord, John Boehner actually is as stupid as they all say.
How on Earth did we lose to these clowns in the past?