Today's batshit insane Herman Cain video features killer chickens

The crude attempts ar comedy make this ad too awful to even be considered "so bad it's good."


Over at sickofstimulus.com, they are now crowdsourcing themes for their next ad.

 Why "Sick of Herman Cain's batshit insane videos" is not an option is beyond me.

Also, this made me laugh:

The lamest teen magazine of all time #FdAdFriday

First of all, do teens even read print magazines anymore?

Second, how cool is this?

No, this couldn't possibly be an indoctrination project by adults. I mean, teens totally idolize the United States' first black President... Ronald Reagan?!?

And speaking of black Presidents, there's also a handy guide to caricaturing President Obama:

And a warning about the morally corrosive forces of liberal media bias and gay-friendly TV shows:

I can hardly wait until the next issue, in which I hope they will tackle the big issues like evolutionism and slutty sluts who want free birth control so they can make our children into sluts.

Via Buzzfeed

Welcome to Obamaville

Rick Santorum's team have cooked up a rather epic plan to discredit the policies of US President Barack Obama: Obamaville.

It's a dystopian "Anytown, USA" in 2014, two years into President Obama's second term: People are out of work, Main Street is a ghost town, gas prices are up, religious bigotry (sorry... "freedom of religion") is under attack and people have to deal with the horrors of semi-socialized healthcare.



Oh yeah, and the USA is under nuclear threat from Iran.

Or is its biggest threat its own President?

Dun dun dun...

David Weigel at Slate talks about the weird TV thing. To me its the least of this ad's idiocies.

For example, what is the meaning behind this baby image? Is this supposed to be "pro-life"? If so, it's confusing.

And what the hell does this symbolize? Sexual immorality? Loss of free speech? Too many public libraries full of secular books?

And then we're transported back to the industrial revolution for some reason.

Hey, cool! It's The Matrix!

Perhaps they'll explain all these random images when the 8-part webisode series launches on the Santorum campaign site in a couple of weeks.

But for the time being, let's imagine what "Santorumville" would look like. (I'm thinking something like Stepford, Connecticut, but with more Jesus.)

Don't look too closely at this Santorum mosaic #FdAdFriday

That is, unless you want to see more Santorum.

Not the man, mind you, but the substance. It's made up entirely of gay porn.

Via Death + Taxes

"China" political ad proves that racism is a losing strategy

Pete Hoekstra, a Michigan Republican running for the United States Senate, ran this Super Bowl ad that offended pretty much everyone.



Accusing his opponent, Debbie Stabenow of increasing US reliance on China by passing "wasteful spending bill after wasteful spending bill," it used a caricature of a Chinese woman to push xenophobic buttons among his supporters.

Instead, the ad rallied support (and funds) for "Debbie Spenditnow" and critics from both parties called the ad “offensive and insensitive,” “very disturbing” and “really, really dumb.”

It was also parodied by Funny or Die:

Controversial Racist Pete Hoekstra Ad - watch more funny videos      

Even the actress involved in the ad became the focus of negative attention, and she was outed by the Angry Asian Man blog:

The details about her identity are out there, slowly trickling in. And I imagine Ms. Chan is about to receive a lot of unwanted attention. I actually agonized over whether or not to post this information. I'm not trying to demonize her -- people have already done plenty of that, and I think that takes our attention away from the real culprit, Pete Hoekstra and his blatantly racist fear-mongering. And I hope you, good readers, will keep cool heads about this. 

I'm not saying Lisa Chan is blameless. I go back and forth between wanting to hang her out to dry for making such an idiotic, destructive choice, and feeling sorry that she was just doing a job, manipulated by a politician's ugly tactics.  

The truth is, I fall somewhere in the middle, and in the end I'd just like to know how a seemingly intelligent, educated person with a history of community involvement could willingly take part in something so fantastically awful and so harmful in ways that we can't even anticipate. 

For her part, Ms. Chan issued a full and heartfelt apology (in the manner of our times):

 And the man who "approved this message"? He still doesn't get it.



Lose, Pete Hoekstra. Lose big.

UPDATE: Hoekstra pulled the ad from YouTube. But it lives on.

Bad Lip Reading does Rick Santorum

And this is the most sense he has ever made to me.



Via Buzzfeed

Rick Perry's "Strong" ad just keeps giving and giving...

This one combines the "Brokeback Jacket" meme with the "Bad Lip Reading" one:



And in case you live in a rolled-up newspaper at the bottom of a lake, here's the original:



It's the most hated video on YouTube, apparently. So there's that, too.