Slog - Comments on Re: More Like This, Please

Comment by Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:24:59 -0800

video no good.

Comment by sam

sam — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:31:18 -0800

horrible video. the info may be good but that's probably the worst political vid i've ever seen.

anthony's video was better.

Comment by COMTE

COMTE — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:37:14 -0800

Oh, but that tag line, "Sorry John, but your wife can't buy you THIS house" - that's pretty good!

Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball

Jubilation T. Cornball — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:45:41 -0800

That voiceover is awful. The guy who did it is extremely fat, and wears a mottled-pattern slip-over shirt with an elastic waistband.

I have visions...

Comment by Anthony Hecht

Anthony Hecht — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:58:44 -0800

Good info, most of it, but terrible video, as noted.

And sadly no one will ever get anywhere but dead going after a POWs military record. Recipe for disaster.

Comment by tim

tim — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:09:05 -0800

Is that Pat Cashman doing the voiceover?

Comment by max solomon

max solomon — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:14:10 -0800

something tells me barack obama didn't approve that one.

salient points however.

Comment by Dan Savage

Dan Savage — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:19:58 -0800

Going after a war heroes record though? That's okay?

Why are rich former POWs sacrosanct?

Comment by tabletop-joe

tabletop-joe — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:56:04 -0800

Zing!

Comment by snarky

snarky — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:38:09 -0800

Great mud. By raising the questions about his best asset, it creates doubt. It worked against Kerry, why not McCain.

Comment by GS

GS — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:50:58 -0800

Meh... If I was a POW or prisoner or captured by some random-evildoer-whoever, I would sign and admit whatever they wanted me to. I wouldn't wait 4 hours either; I'd do it right away. Forced confessions are about as meaningful as celebrity marriages.

Comment by nelson

nelson — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:59:40 -0800

This feels too much like the Swift Boat ads for my comfort.

Comment by COMTE

COMTE — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:32:42 -0800

Except @12, that it's all factual, and quite easily verifiable.

@5:

Four years ago, I would have said exactly the same thing regarding impugning the military record of the recipient of a silver and bronze star, and three purple hearts, but we all know how that one turned out.

If McCain is going to use his POW status as a qualification for office, then by golly the other side has every right, nay an obligation, to call those qualifications into question, ESPECIALLY after what the GOP and their sock puppets did to Kerry.

Comment by w7ngman

w7ngman — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:22:40 -0800

It worked against Kerry, why not McCain.

Because McCain is a Republican?

Comment by Hoyt Clagwell

Hoyt Clagwell — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:45:27 -0800

J.T.C.: I had nearly the same picture in my head, but more directly because I thought the voiceover guy sounds uncannily like Rush Limbaugh.

I was barely aware of the content of this clip because I was too preoccupied imagining some balding fatass in elastic-waisted Dockers and a loud golf shirt who's made his sad career in AM talk radio.

Comment by Boojums

Boojums — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:14:32 -0800

It's probably a good one to have on the internets, but certainly not linked to the Obama campaign. Except for the bit about propaganda. That's just not a fair hit and thus weakens the whole set of arguments.

Comment by ibc

ibc — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:11:48 -0800

Way TMI. It's one thing to throw up a lot of stuff, and see what sticks, but not all in the same ad.