Exploitation for Fun and Profit: The Obama Way
By medusa on November 2, 2008 at 8:30 AM in Advertising, Barack Obama
I’ve always been a fan of British humor and the October 31st Times Online review of Obama’s infomercial, written by Chris Ayers is a perfect example of that dry British wit. The title and subtitle set it up perfectly:
Review: A no-holds-barred weepathon
At times during this half hour of mawkish misery you longed for the wit and wisdom of a debate featuring Sarah Palin.
I didn’t have the stomach to watch what HotAir brilliantly termed the “Transmission from Mt. Olympus.” So I am grateful for Chris Ayers’ insightful review of the “weepathon.” Here’s how America appears to him:
America’s supplies of tissues must have been exhausted during Barack Obama’s 30-minute election broadcast late on Wednesday night. It had been billed as a “closing argument” by the Democrat’s seemingly unstoppable campaign. In reality, it was an all-out, no-holds-barred weepathon with a feel-bad factor pitched somewhere between the third act of Schindler’s List and the slaughter scenes in Watership Down. I emerged from my TV room sodden-eyed and legs trembling, wishing that Iran would just drop the bomb and get it all over with.
It began, as these things so often do, with a flugelhorn. Then pictures of wind-rippled cornfields. Then footage of children and old people smiling — the tape slowed down a little, to make their happiness appear somehow tragic.
I’m not even sure what a flugelhorn sounds like, but I can certainly imagine how Amabo Productions made use of it (you know, Harpo=Oprah backwards, so why not?):
When Obama, made his entrance he was wearing a sombre black suit (pictured right) and standing in what appeared to be a log cabin. You could practically smell the coffee roasting. This was Obamaland, where everything is safe and warm, where Big Brobama loves you and keeps the evil profit-doers at bay. You, too, could go to Obamaland, went the subtext, just so long as you voted for the man with the “D” next to his name. But in case Americans didn’t realise what was at stake, Obama set out to demonstrate what a God-forsaken, economically devastated shell of a nation they now live in.
So we cut to a harried mother named Rebecca, from North Kansas City, Missouri, who complained that her husband Brian, who works at a tyre plant, has to stand up all day, even though he has a dicky knee. We were treated to a glimpse of Brian slumped on his sofa, looking fed up. He had planned to have surgery in June, said Rebecca, but because of the rising cost of living he couldn’t afford it. We then saw Rebecca rationing the food in her fridge, balancing her cheque book, and driving her humungous SUV in the moonlight.
Rebecca and Brian are clearly Obama’s shout-out to the bitter gun-totters, I suppose. And then there’s this little nugget, as if Obama actually cares one iota about a single working mother with a sick child:
From this purgatory we emerged again into the comforting fuzzy goodness of Obamaland. “We measure the strength of our country not by the number of billionaires we have,” he boomed, “but by whether a waitress who lives on tips can take the day off to look after a sick kid without being laid off.”
Coming up is the biggest insult to the working class. I’ll let Chris Ayers paint the picture:
Then we were back in the wasteland of He Who Must Not Be Named — the dark wizard Bush (whose dead half-brother, McCain, has been exhumed to carry on his dastardly work). This time we were in Sardinia, Ohio, with an elderly African-American woman named Juanita who needs 12 different medications each day for rheumatoid arthritis. Her husband Larry lost his health insurance when he retired, so he took out a loan to pay for the pills, and now, at the age of 72, he has been forced to work as a salesman at Wal-Mart. We saw him putting on his name-pin with an expression of sadness and contempt.
Larry has to work at Wal-Mart! Yuck, that is so uncool! Okay, he’s 72 and maybe wants to stop working, but come on, most people I know hope they’ll be able to work at 72 because we sure as hades won’t be able to afford to retire. But Wal-Mart! Do they even sell arugula?
Moving along to my favorite paragraph:
Then Obama brought up his dead mother. It was enough to make you pine for the wit and intelligence of a Sarah Palin debate. I had hoped for goosebumps and that swollen feeling you get in your chest when you know that something good might happen. But instead I just felt downbeat; not only because of America’s obvious problems but also because of Obama’s willingness to exploit them so mawkishly.
Exploitation is the name of the game for Obama. This Brit sees it pretty clearly.
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a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
That’s funny. Bill Ayers makes me feel sorry for Osama Bin Laden. He is really getting a bad wrap! Timothy McVeigh was put to death. Osama if caught, according to Barrakula, will be tried and put to death. Bill Ayers? Well, we put guys like him in a University and allow them to share all of their talenst with the youth of America. Oh, for joy. Osama is getting a bad wrap. He should file a discrimination law suit. I’m sure it’s because Ayers is white. He’s entitled.
hey if Osama doesn’t get caught for another 20 years he could very well end up teaching at an american college…
can you imagine Obama’s daughter running for president?
“I was 10 years old when Bin Laden was bombing America”
oh dear…
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
LOL! Now that is funny! Osama bin Ladin wins an award from the city of Chicago and becomes an esteemed professor. OMG! Giving everything we’ve seen, it’s possible!
If Obama didn’t know his Auntie was here illegally, who told her that she was not allowed to speak to any press until after the election?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5042571.ece
who ever it was…
they must have been very convincing…
she must be scared shitless…
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
Is Auntie Z. like a fugitive on the run? ha ha.
Soon to be joined by her nephew, Tyrone Hussein Davis, formerly Democratic Senator of IL and presidential nominee.
They probably threatened to expedite the deportation process if the aunt didn’t keep her mouth shut.
That’s a very good point, I’d like to hear the MSM ask that very question, “Senator Obama you claim you had no knowledge of your aunt being here, could you please explain just why is it she was told by your campaign not to talk till after Nov 4th? Or did you have no knowledge that your campaign had knowledge?
I don’t think she’ll be deported. The interesting thing in this is Obama criticized Americans at Saddleback saying, “Americans’ greatest moral failure in my lifetime, has been that we still don’t abide by that basic precept in Matthew that whatever you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me.”
So we don’t do enough for our brothers and sisters. Yet this make 2 relatives of his we’ve seen living below poverty that he hasn’t lifted a finger to help. His OWN brother and now his aunt. But, all these people think he’s going to do something for them, when he won’t even help his own family? Like the woman that believes she won’t have to worry about gas for her car, or her mortage payments anymore. Perhaps they should talk to his ACTUAL family and see just what he’s done for them. Unbelievable.
They are also trying to play it off as a Republican dirty trick that this came out now. News Flash for the Ultra Gullible!:If the Republicans wanted to leak the status of Obama’s illegal alien Aunt, they would NOT have done it in an English newspaper that virtually no one in the United States has heard of let alone reads! See in England they still have a few of these things known as investigative journalists. They actualy report NEWS rather than the hopey changey shit the Obamedia has been propagandizing.
And the better timing would have been earlier. That’s just the best lame spin they could come up with to try to deflect it. And you know he is lying when he said he didn’t know.
If Obama`s lips are moving……then he`s lying.
That went well with my morning Cup. LOL
as someone already said…
he is a lying liar who lies…
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
Does a triple negative make a positive? Or is it still a negative?
lying x liar x lies
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I need a soda:-)
Obama knew this was coming out, yesterday channel 7 news said that her neighbors haven;t seen her in 4 days. They came and pulled her out, hiding her.
On another note, if you have any friend or family involved in the coal industry or in the planning and building in coal fired electric plants, send them this little gem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdi4onAQBWQ
OT but wanted to get this out: McCain rocked on SNL last night! Not only funny, but the SNL people let him get his talking points out: e.g., skit was a “QVC special” where one of the items up for sale was a set of 10 plates commemorating the 10 town hall meetings between him and BO. When the camera panned over to the plates, they were completely blank….Then there was the William Ayers air freshener — when you activated it, something “didn’t smell quite right.” Worth a look!
http://www.popeater.com/television/article/mccain-teams-up-with-fake-palin-on-snl/235155
That was great! Thank you for the link. Sarah over there selling Palin 2012 T-shirts. Whatcha doing over there Sarah? hehehe All those poor empty plates. Priceless. He has a great sense of humor. That was nice to see Cindy over there with the necklaces.
I am so tired of free air time for o-bummer….now on CBS Morning
Maybe our MSM needs to take a look at the British and re-educate themselves on investigating reporting.
The British can see through this facade, unfortunately MSM doesn’t.
All I can say is , thank God for the internet and talk radio…let’s just hope that freedom of speech is not taken away from us if this liar is elected.
Obama’s Auntie is in deep shit.
newwavedemocrats.wordpress.com/not-the-auntie-i-used-to-know/
Apologies to all! I see that NQ has already covered this!!!
You guys are always on top of it.
Watch if/when the citizenship thing hits harder.
Backpedaling cookbook:
1. ‘I traveled to Indonesia a long time ago. I certainly can’t be held accountable for what passport my parents used.’
2. ‘Me not born on Hawaii? That’s simply not true.’
3. ‘Me not a US citizen? That’s categorically untrue.’
4. ‘I never said I was a US citizen. You got it all wrong - AGAIN.’
And so forth. Obama for Chicago city parks commissioner!
Exploitation Special!
The dems are really cooking up a fable!
When all the suckers don’t find that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, they may really wail!
When BO, Joe, and Pelosi start to divide the wealth, it may be off-shore!
Did anyone enjoy the parody of keith olbama-man on SNL?
Sweet.
I loved that bit, I went to bed chuckling..
OMG! I was choking from laughing so hard! Ben Affleck nailed it. Guess who’ll be Worst Person in the World next week?
Here is what Obama thinks about the coal industry. He wants to bankrupt it.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2008/11/02/hidden-audio-obama-tells-sf-chronicle-he-will-bankrupt-coal-industry
Some needs to get to posting this link in all Ohio newspapers online, PA, Virginia, etc. They need to hear this and how many of them will be out of work. I’m all for clean energy, but you can’t put millions of Americans out of work for it. Once again, who’s going to support all those families?
He wants to bankrupt it so that he can replace it with his buddies in the nuclear power field. You know, without any protections or government oversight, and certainly no recourse should they have a spill or pollute our already polluted waters.
He put forward the most watered down piece of legislation regarding nuclear safety standards in Illinois that in the end it didn’t pass and he didnt vote for his own legislation.
Outsiders will always see it more clearly. When our parents told us Nixon was gone in 1972 almost no one in the US bought it. Being outside is always clearer. No one is a prophet in their own country. Ever heard that?
Ayres is spot on. I love it!
Just name something, anything, that Obama has not exploited. Mainly, RACE and WOMEN,—— there is no end to the list. And when you think that people like Ayers and the rest of the communists have been working on this scenario for years, they have just about everything pretty well covered. I wish I could find the article I read before this election campaign ever started, it talked about how Obama had all these organizations and offices (in the thousands) across the United States already in place before his campaign ever begin.
I left this comment on the Times Online site:
I did watch some of the infomercial. (I am immune to Barky’s hypnosis!) What Rebecca and Brian really need is a half-hour consultation with Suze Orman. They are living above their means and need to downscale before debt destroys them. The house you can’t afford and the big SUV to keep up with the Joneses isn’t worth the stress. Larry and Juanita fell on hard times because Larry retired from his job and at 65 qualified for Medicare. But that decision left younger Juanita without any health coverage. Given her medical conditions and need for medication, how were they planning on paying those bills until she reached 65 and became covered under Medicare? Many married couples are different ages and in this same situation. Usually one keeps working until BOTH are 65. Or use portability laws to continue purchasing insurance until the younger spouse reaches 65. If “society” failed the couple, it was by not educating them about the risks of their decision and the ways to minimize the risks.
The entire half hour was Barky’s throwing crumbs to the middle-class with fake promises of subsidies.
1.) Does anyone honestly believe that this economy can afford to subsidize the middle class?
2.) Even if we could afford it, do you really want it? Subsidies have done little to help the plight of the poor, raise them out of poverty. It has enslaved them. Would you trade your liberties for a hand-out?
Juanita should also look into Patient Assistance Programs that provide assistance for people under 65 who cannot afford their prescription medicines.
There are many web sites that will match a patient with a drug company program. Combined, these programs fill millions of prescriptions every year.
the KO satire was too real to be funny.I have sat and laughed at KO many times as he threatened Hillary,Mccain and Palin.Comments he should be thrown out on his obama butt along with thrill up my leg Matthews.Wish they would have had Cafferty on also.He too has been in the tank for Obama and sthrown his personal insults at the above.
For all of my life we’ve had affordable food and affordable energy. Without those two important commodities our American standard of living would have been much, much lower. With Obama in the White House we’re all going to see our standards of living crash. Rich or poor, black or white, the blessings of affordable living that we’ve enjoyed will be history.
But trash, we’ll be able to join hands and “share the misery.” When we’re all reduced to the common denominator, equal at last, we will share in the utopia Barack Obama is promising. Unicorns will range free. Rainbows will fill the sky, and the lion will snuggle with the lamb. And . . .
Not buying it? Me neither.
I’m not even sure what a flugelhorn sounds like, but I can certainly imagine how Amabo Productions made use of it (you know, Harpo=Oprah backwards, so why not?):
Medusa, if you’ve ever heard the song “Feels So Good” by Chuck Mangione, you know what a flugelhorn sounds like. If you haven’t (and shame on you), then it sounds like a cross between a trumpet and a saxophone (IMO,a bit fuller than a trumpet but not quite as rich as a sax).
Thank you! I do know Chuck Mangione’s music! Didn’t realize that’s what he played. Here’s a Youtube of “Feels So Good.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hi22Tp-uBg
That was hilarious. I love Brit humor. “Big Brobama”. (My other favorite term from this election is “obotomy”.)
I’m from the state with the motto “Mailing It In” and I’m voting today over Sunday coffee. Not that it matters since we’re not in play, but I’m voting for McCain and Palin. I never guessed when Hillary was taken from the list of options how enthusiastic I would be to vote Republican.
Thanks for sharing this review of the infomercial. No way I was going to watch it.