{"id":6065,"date":"2010-05-08T12:58:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T19:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=6065"},"modified":"2010-05-08T12:58:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T19:58:52","slug":"campaign-season-campaign-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/05\/08\/campaign-season-campaign-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaign Season. Campaign Ads."},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay.\u00c2\u00a0 Political ads are us.<\/p>\n

Notable Ad #1:\u00c2\u00a0 Dan Fanielli running against Alan Grayson<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Supporting Racial Profiling.\u00c2\u00a0 Memo to Mr. Fanielli at :44, “If a good looking ripped guy without much hair” — you flatter yourself.
\nWell, the ad did its job.\u00c2\u00a0 Partially.\u00c2\u00a0 It got the man national attention.\u00c2\u00a0 Donors.\u00c2\u00a0
\nIt’s worth noting, and everybody else is noting it with me\u00c2\u00a0— this guy looks like a terrorist<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 And this guy looks like a terrorist<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, so does this guy.
\n1:04 :\u00c2\u00a0 Thinking of the premise of the ad, it is here that the Arabic man who is playing the part of the Terrorist is really starting to bug me.\u00c2\u00a0 It is not even the political implication of supporting your “Racial Profiling”, as reports go, all I can say is — Fine, Whatever<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 But I can’t quite understand why he would want to make sure, after his “minor inconvenience”\u00c2\u00a0of interrorgation in\u00c2\u00a0airport security, be sure that a guy like him doesn’t get near a “thing like this” — the Airplane — isn’t the premise that all Arab looking men will be pulled out, investigated, then Let onto the plane after they are fully checked — butt cracks included?\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Notable Ad #2.\u00c2\u00a0 You have to understand that the Carly Fiorni campaign gave the Democratic Party a gift by running this ad <\/a>against her porimary opponent, Tom Campbell.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Short hand, this is what Carly Fiorni accused Tom Campbell of being:<\/p>\n

\"demon-sheep\"<\/p>\n

Well, it grabbed some attention.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know how many people watching the ad out in cyberspace picked any names out, instead of — say, rolling to staid Internet memes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Naturally the Democratic Party of\u00c2\u00a0 California would be guilty of political malfunction if they didn’t pick up and run with it<\/a>.
\nAnd so it goes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Noted Ad\u00c2\u00a0 #3.\u00c2\u00a0 I suspect the Republican Party of Ohio overdid this one<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 They had a photograph which they couldn’t resist using.\u00c2\u00a0 They dropped the standard campaign bits against it.\u00c2\u00a0 I can’t figure out what the point of the suggestion is, and maybe I’m wrong — maybe the suggestive aura of\u00c2\u00a0Nero Masturbating while Rome Burns has some traction to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay.\u00c2\u00a0 Political ads are us. Notable Ad #1:\u00c2\u00a0 Dan Fanielli running against Alan Grayson.\u00c2\u00a0 Supporting Racial Profiling.\u00c2\u00a0 Memo to Mr. Fanielli at :44, “If a good looking ripped guy without much hair” — you flatter yourself. Well, the ad did its job.\u00c2\u00a0 Partially.\u00c2\u00a0 It got the man national attention.\u00c2\u00a0 Donors.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s worth noting, and everybody […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6067,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065\/revisions\/6067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}