Subliminal Message In McCain's New Ad?
By Nicole Belle Saturday Jul 19, 2008 11:00am
UPDATE: There appears to be a coding problem with the YouTube. The original video is at John McCain's campaign website.
Or try this: 
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Did you catch it? At the beginning of the ad, the title burns onto a picture of Obama, but the order is striking.
A L Q D C MT RY
(screengrab courtesy of JedReport)
al Qaeda Commentary? al Qaeda Cemetary? al Qaeda Documentary? Who knows? But it's not accidental. In fact, Alex Castellanos is reportedly now working for the McCain campaign. Who is Alex Castellanos?
There is speculation in the blogosphere that Alex Castellanos is behind this video. Who? This guy:
The Republican media consultant Alex Castellanos has been called the father of the modern political attack ad — an appellation he might not offer up himself, though we suspect he’s kinda proud of it. Although Castellanos has served on the GOP media team in every general election since 1988, his most infamous spot ran in the 1990 North Carolina Senate race between Jesse Helms and Harvey Gantt, the former mayor of Charlotte, who also happened to be an African-American. The commercial was called “Hands,” and it showed a white guy sitting at a table, the camera trained on his mitts as he crumpled up a job-rejection notice. “You needed that job and you were the best qualified,” intoned the voice-over. “But they gave it to a minority because of a racial quota.” Ugly? Sure. But it won reelection for Helms. In this year’s Republican race, Castellanos worked on Mitt Romney’s primary bid, but today he sits on what’s known as the McCain Ad Council, a group of A-list Republican admen serving as outside media advisers to the GOP standard-bearer.
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Disgusting - we HAVE to beat these guys - God almighty, we have to....
One has to be cautious about accusations of subliminal manipulation.
Most studies I've ever read question it's effectiveness.
The unconscious mind is not all that sophisticated to see things not quite there unless directed to.
The Obama/Osama slip-ups are likely more effective.
more proof that republicans cant run on issues...
hmm.... im so shocked to the core so I must go mow my lawn now...
If you follow a politicians name with (R) does that mean reichmarshall
Or that he's a registered trademark?
It's like buying a cd for your retirement
Only to open your safe as a palsied old man and find out it's a Jonas Brothers cd.
And your IRA account was signed by Bobby Sands.
Yes, OT, I know. But it is what of those once in a life thing you know. A friend of my son on meeting Obama.
_____________________________________________________________________
yeah, everyone was pumped to see him. there was a lot of security in
the area, guys in civillian clothes as well as marines and airmen all
with high powered weaponry. he was smiling and looked genuinely glad
to be here.
he asked where i was from and when i said pittsburgh, he asked if i
was a steelers fan. hell yeah!
what impressed me the most was how he arrived. he came in on a c-130.
as i'm sure you know, the seating in a c-130 is probably worst ever.
basically cargo netting and steel tubing. we unloaded a big airstream
looking trailer from a c-17 one night. it was for the joint chiefs of
staff. whenever they fly around, they get to ride in the air forces
most advanced cargo plane in a private, luxurious trailer. they had 2
chairs worth 14 grand each and a couch that was 25 grand. over fifty
grand was spent for seating maybe five people. that's over ten
thousand dollars per ass. i sat on the $25,000 couch and it.. felt..
like a couch... i think that obama traveling around a war zone in the
cargo hold of an aircraft thats been in our fleet for over 50 years
shows an incredible amount of humility. thats how we move between
bases and thats how he moved. i'm sure he could have arranged to fly
in on a 747 or any other, more comfortable, plane but he didnt. thats
a dude right there.
and yeah, i got a little military mustache going. Thats where most of
my authority comes from!
Link to ad is down.
Did he tell your son he memorized the entire Steeler's offensive line on the plane ride over?
Besides, its safer on a C-130 than on a C-141 or a C-5, as it likely "corkscrewed" before landing as a safety precaution, and its easier on a smaller plane. But I'm guessing.
Subliminal messages dont work on Republicans, they get subliminally confused easy. You need bright lights and shiny objects for those folks
Garcia - I've transferred to bases across the Pacific in a C-130, so I know what he means. If Obama did that, quietly and without fanfare, then it does say a lot about him. But most people wouldn't get it if they hadn't spent that time strapped into cargo netting in the belly of one of those beasts.
Was it intentional? Probably. However, Alex Castellanos, although vile in his methods, may be regarded as a smart man. I think the left blog-sphere would be playing into his hands by making a big issue of this. You know that if the media wants to run with this how many views that video will get? It is powerful and well made, I would not want to share it with anyone. There are some 'ouch' moments in it :o
Just now when I came to the C&L home page, a pop up appeared on my screen telling me I had to install some sort of "plugin". I didn't do it so now the video is unavailable to me. I don't like to install things when I don't know what they are. Better safe than sorry.
Alex sounds like a perfect Republican fit. Down and dirty!
Don't know if you have glitch in your system or more hackery, but the video is not in a viewable format for me and I am running the latest Mac Leopard operating system.
Also I've never had this problem with your site before either.
hope you can fix it.
[I'm having problems too. I think it's a code error. There is no plug in to download. I sent an email to the fixers-Sitemonitor]
They are going to have to sink to depths never seen before; even by republicans.
They know its going to take a hercullean effort to distract the morons from the damage of the catastrophic Bush/GOP years.
Batten down the hatches, the repuke spin machine is going to be raining down shit till election day.
"Pay no attention to your dire financial condition Amerikuhns, look at this!!!"
"This commercial was brought to you by the people who benefitted from your economic destruction. Just don't remember that until after election day!"
Can you imagine the level of disdain you'd need to have for the public to use techniques like this? You'd have to see people as stupid cattle-- just gullible fools. This sort of tactic says a lot about the group using it.
What plugin do I need?
[There isn't one. I think the URL for the vid has an error in it-Sitemonitor]
Can't view the video, but this comes as no surprise. The science on subliminal suggestion might be iffy, but the mere fact that a campaign would make the decision to use it is a good indication of the character of McCain.
As if we needed additional examples to prove the point.
E. Skyhawk @ 11:
That's the embed code that the McCain campaign put up at YouTube. I'm not sure why there's a problem with it. You can see the video at McCain's campaign site: http://www.johnmccain.com/
Anyone noticing that it also reads ba al? Possibly a reference to the demon Baal from christian lore.
I believe it's supposed to be a YouTube so no additional plugin should be needed.
It plays fine at the FDL link.
I think the embed code got broken somehow.
In my half coffeed half mast eyes with a slight headache and a 12 pound barking machine running around in the background, I alsmost saw 'Taliban' It's a fill-in thing. Like Wheel of Fortune. Or a crossword puzzleYou throw a bunch of letters with spaces and certain people will automatically try to finish the words.
17 Sam Nancarrow Says: Anyone noticing that it also reads ba al? Possibly a reference to the demon Baal from christian lore
Baal is a Semitic (Arabic) word that means Lord, although I'm quite sure the title is listed in the Pseudomonarchia where much of these Demonology texts are derived from. The funny part is the Pseudomonarchia was meant as a joke, but no body got it.
Of course the reference could've been that Obama's throwing an orgy and everybody's invited.
nobody.
They are fascists, bigots, and nazi extremists. They have no substance...just hate.
This ad is pointless because the Prime Minister of Iraq has already supported Senator Obama's plan therefore any rdiculing of the Obama position is like hitting a brick wall with a toothpick, it ain't gonna work.
I wouldn't put this past them - we're talking about the kind of desperate morons who cannot win a debate so they photoshop their opponents pictures to make them look zombie like.
We are focusing on subliminal messages in the ad without actually giving the ad credit for pointing out contradictions in Obama's position. Though not as much as McCain, Obama has had plenty of flip-flopping himself, and should not be trusted. This year, I'll support the Green Party.
Grasping at straws. There's nothing more than a coincidental string of letters that sorta hint at words...maybe. There's no subliminal message, no grand persuasive effect created by this. Come on, folks, with all the REAL stuff being done by the Rethuglicans, let's not waste time on this kind of junk. Geesh...
I mean, look at the first four letters in the image on this link-- "ba al." Does the presence of those letters mean this ad is suggesting a connection between Obama and the anti-Yahweh god of old, Baal? (Actually, it's an I, as in "Iraq," but y'all want to see it as an L, so...fine...even though it's an I...but whatever...)
No wonder the Reich Wing gets away with so much; we're all chasing shadows and looking for subliminal crap that simply is...not...there. Period. We need to get a lot sharper-minded than this if we're going to overcome the fascist conservatives, folks.
Sam Nancarrow @ 17:
Talk about demonizing someone.
I caught "ba al" too, that coupled with the image of Obama large against a stormy cloud filled sky is a perfect image aimed at the Apocalypse fan club. I have an Aunt who has been waiting for "the rapture" for about fifty years now, and she's not alone, think of the best selling "Left Behind" novels, this is a BIG demographic. They're never going to vote for Obama in the first place, but getting them riled up will ensure their support in the form of donations, vitriolic attacks on Obama, and proselytizing for McCain.
Phantom @ 25:
You're trippin on the good shit if you believe that.
Obama did waffle on FISA. No doubt, and he caught hell for it.
The rest of it is bullshit. His stance on Iraq has NEVER changed at all, not one bit and theeir cherrypicking snippets to make it seem so is oh so very swiftboat.
17 Sam Nancarrow Says: Anyone noticing that it also reads ba al? Possibly
It could also be Peg critiquing Al's sexual performance.
No doubt "al Qd" was intentional:
Watching the whole video (which was quite long) on the (linked-to) McCain site is a bit depressing. There is definitely some useable ammo against Barack in it and I'm sure many will be swayed by it. Both Obama and McCain are vulnerable due to their trail of changing positions (although McCain much more so).
The only candidates who were right about Iraq and/or Afghanistan were Kucinich, Gravel, and Paul; and they were eliminated by the media (and some primary rigging). I'm afraid Obama, once president, will need constant pressure to do the right thing (possibly with very limited success). I hope I'm wrong, but his rhetoric about Israel, Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq is very worrisome. He, like McCain, is a corporatist but, unlike McCain, seems to have a conscience.
Every minute spent in Iraq without beginning an unconditional withdrawal is profoundly immoral as hundreds of Iraqis are killed every day, millions having been disabled and many millions more experience horrific suffering. The surge and the arming of all sides have ethnically cleansed areas where Sunni and Shia lived peacefully as neighbors prior to Bush. It has also purged the reporters and journalists from most of Iraq, taking away our eyes and ears, which is why McCain and the other Rethugs can make the false claim that there has been benefit from the escalation (Surge).
Obama’s team will have to be right on top of McCain and match the negative ads tooth for tooth. Much more emphasis needs to be placed on the Supreme Court which is teetering on tyranny and fascism making a McCain presidency an existential threat to our country, democracy and liberty. Most of the public seems unaware of this.
Peace, JK
I want some of what you're smoking.
Phantom @ 25:
go for it.........do what you believe is good for you but don't ruin my hope dawg
You can point out the introduction all you want. The video is clear, G.W. McObama is a flip flopping politician just like his republicat WWE opponent.
JK @ 29:
Yep. If Obama doesn't like ads like this, he should not be flip-flopping in the first place.
Or, admitting he was wrong. Except he was not - the onlysurge that is working
is the one made of money. As long as we, and/or Malikai, keep handing out the cash
Iraq will remain relatively calm. Maybe Obama will figure this out while he is there.
But, even I know it, just from reading the AP. Duh!!
I'd love to see the FISA edition of this ad (though I doubt it will ever be made).
ysbaddaden @ 20:
Baal was a god worshipped by the tribes near the Israelites. They dedicated high places to Baal and sacrificed there. In the Torah, Yahweh Himself refers to Baal when conversing with Moses.
If one really wanted to get the attention of Christians who had formerly voted republican and are now sitting on the fence, all you would need to do is put "ba al" or something that looks like it in a clever fade-in over a pic of Obama. They'll catch on right away. Dirty trick, but do we really expect better?
On a happier note, I was behind a van yesterday that had a couple of Christian bumperstickers, and as expected one for Bush in '04 as well. But right in the middle... a huge Obama '08 bumpersticker. Kinda gave me hope.
I do hope that the flip flopping meme is played by both sides with equal vigor.
Bah, my parents eyesight isn't good enough to catch that
I think that's a stretch to say the least. I think you're trying to find something that doesn't exist. This kinda has a Don Quixote feel to it, minus the windmills (though McCain has promised them) I think this is something that will make everyone look foolish rather than "reveal the truth". I suggest you pick you fights when you know you're on solid footing, not when whatever you have will be viewed as crack-pot by most of the public.
34 Gretchen
Right, like Xian's call their God Lord.
Danny C @ 9:
So where's the Obama campaign's documentary on McFlip-Flop? His entire run for the presidency has been defined by 'ouch' moments. The only problem would be condensing them into a 6 hour hit-piece.
Gretchen @ 34:
^What she said, with a little extra commentary from me:
Ba'al is not Arabic, it comes from an extinct group of Canaanite languages. Ba'al simply means Lord, as a reference title to a group of deities, not one. Ba'al was about as either vague or specific a term as theos in ancient Greece, it could refer to a lesser spirit, a full-fledged god, or to a monarch. And most Christians probably haven't read Tanach enough to recognize the name anyhow.
Phantom @ 25:
Sucker.
Usually something follows Baal, like Baalat (which means Lady), Baal-Berith (Caananite lawgiving deity which means God of the Covenant, represented by two stone tablets), Baal-Gad (Goat Lord a Semitic Pan), Baal-Hadad (Caananite Lord of the Hunt), Baal-Hamman (Lord of the Brazier a Tyrian version of Herakles), Baal-Peor (Lord of the Cleft a Phoenician phallic god.) Some scholars even the Beelzebub was originally Baal-Zebub (Lord of the Flies).
Phantom @ 25:
This year, I’ll support the Green Party.
I already got the green underwear
They used to be white.
ysbaddaden @ 38:
The term LORD, in the Bible is usually a euphemism for the Tetragrammaton, only in small caps is it a translation of the Hebraic term for Lord, Adonai. Ba'al is a term given to the Canaanite deities by their conquerors, much like Christians referred to the old ta Theia religions and the tribal deities of Europe as "paganus" a term equivalent to "g******* redneck" in modern-day culture. It would have been interesting to hear the Canaanite perspective on that conquest, like we Americans are starting to listen to Indian perspectives on our conquest.
ysbaddaden @ 42:
Beelzebub as a reference to Satan is the religious equivalent of calling the Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota the "lesser adders" or the Ishak natives of my parish "maneaters", or as their common names: Sioux and Atakapa. The Canaanites in all likelihood had different names for the deities than the ones recorded in the Bible, much like in the days of Rome many gods would receive a Latin or Greek name over their native name, often the former recorded against the latter. It's similar to how Yehoshua Hamaschiach became Iesous Christos became Jesus Christ.
The Tetragrammaton was Ye Hod Vo He (YHVH), where many derive Yahweh, and Jehovah from. The only problem is there is a god in the Middle Eastern region already called Jehovah, he was a god of barley and volcanoes. Additionally, it sounds like the Roman god Jove, another name for Jupiter.
Using euphemisms is not uncommon, for example the Greeks called the Fates complimentary names like the Gracious Ones. Additionally, some have seen a link between the Greek lover of Aphrodites Adonis, and Adonai.
Aglai, Tetragrammaton, Adonai and Yehovah are chalked into the magical circles of ceremonial sorcerers.
"Bash Al Qaeda into cement - rly!"
Hard to think this is benign.
I suppose it would be useless to suggest that continuing to watch television is feeding the beast.
Because you're not, you know, addicted to it or anything, and you always see right through everything so nothing gets by you. You're not a dupe, oh no. Everything on that screen, you watch very carefully. You don't miss a thing, you watch it every second.
ysbaddaden @ 46:
Eh, the God of the Jews was originally the "pagan" God El, hence the name Isra-El as opposed to Isra-yah. Considering also that the worship of YHWH was spread to nations besides Israel and that as Judaism was an older, exotic religious tradition, it comes as no surprise that Romans hoping to do a little hoodoo on somebody would use Yahweh's name as sorcery, which they did. Jehovah is an inaccurate translation anyhow, as Samaritans today in the Mideast preserve what is the closest to the original prenunciation of Yahweh, Yahwe (no 'h'). The use of sorcery involving Yahweh's name was also the common practice for much of European history among the peasantry, who due to worries about the next crop didn't give two shakes of a rat's ass what was and wasn't magic, so long as they fed their feudal lord and themselves.
justabill @ 27:
He has stabbed progressives in the back on not just FISA, but on gun control laws, the Patriot Act, NAFTA, his faith-based initiative, the death penalty, Israel, and yes, even Iraq. If you want to paint Obama as a "true progressive," you are setting yourself up for a big disappointment.
Phantom @ 50:
That's sadly true, I was hoping for a socialist candidate, not merely a progressive. America needs a Leftist economic theory jumper cable, as the engine's not working.
49 General_Rennenkampf
The kind of sorcery rite I was referring to was practiced by the educated, who could read and write Latin.
The peasants were more likely to not recite magical formulas but perform magical acts, like burying coins in cow shit, because somehow the cow flop was equated with fertility and would "grow" the money. It was the magic practices of the American Old South that you can read about in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
The use of Christian elements for peasants was more talismanic like the wearing of crosses and saint medals, praying to saints as one once did to gods etc. Frankly they saw little difference between the bells, books and candles of the priests or the witches.
ysbaddaden @ 52:
Yes, I'm aware of that, that elite sorcery is what I was referring to.
Unfortunately, what the Church allowed to survive of pre-Christian Roman religion was often the practice of the elite, and that also of pre-Christian Germanic religion. I'd love to know how the average Roman did things, as opposed to the rich, wealthy patricians.
This is ridiculous. There's no need to resort to subliminal messages. Most Americans are dumb as rocks, ill-informed and easily manipulated by blatant images and bald-faced lies.
Subliminal who?
Oh yeah the cow/coin thing only mushrooms, and if you want to cite history and religion tread lightly (I hear it gets subliminal).
I just finished watching the ad. It took a LONG time because I still have dial-up. But I wonder, does the McCain group know how impressive the ad is? How much it only backs Obama? It clearly shows him protesting the war, yet responsibly supporting the troops. I say Bravo to a job well done, even if it WAS meant for the other side. (Laughing)
Who watches ads on TV anyway? I hit the mute button as soon as one starts.
*shrug*
all things being equal that was a pretty amatuerish job for a subliminl. someone's got change coming back from that job.
:23 Hamas over Baghdad on the dark background
2:45 Babylon replaces Baghdad on dark background
6:23 Baghdad over Babylon on dark background
Curiously IRAQ is not in full view EVER, but IRA is.
someone above said they thought this ad was effective. i watched it. it's effective if you forget sentence A by the end of sentence B. granted, there are a lot of people who will do that.
but what occurred to me as i watched this very well produced ad is how completely annihilating this ad would be if the clips of mccain were substituted for the clips of obama.
mccain's campaign is setting him up once again to be pwnd by obama's campaign. i'm perfectly happy to have the media obsess about obama's trip, even when it's mostly a discussion about whether the amount and type of coverage is "fair," because all one has to do to shut that door is play the 10 second clips of mccain challenging obama to go.
although obama's fisa vote "softened" my support of him, every time i watch or read "the news," my "satisfaction" with obama becomes more solid and my opposition to and visceral repulsion against mccain, not to mention republicans, "conservatives" and the rightwing, increase exponentially.
i swear on all that is good in the world, if mccain ends up in the white house i really will abandon home and hearth and become a bag lady.
Does anyone really watch those ads? The only time I see them being shown is during the news shows.
But for those of you who think they show him 'flip-flopping', look again.
The dates of each statement are there. Those were his position at that time. The White House forced the issue, not Obama.
Should he have NOT voted to support the troops? Not spoken out against the war? And what's with all this crap about the surge working? Sure the surge worked, but what about all the time BEFORE the surge? I remember what was happening, do you?
One person, one lone person, a mere Senator, can not force the White House to change. But that person can and did have the nerve to speak out when the rest of the country was still being cowed by the idiots in Washington.
So give the man credits for speaking his mind. AND for doing the best he could while in a situation that was impossible for him to change. (At the time)
"White Hands" ad http://youtube.com/watch?v=KIyewCdXMzk
Ruthless People @ 62:
...note the wedding band. Not only was he white and "slighted" by a racial quota, he was a married, heterosexual who was slighted by a racial quota. Helms gets in a dig at both blacks and gays with this ad.
Phantom @ 25:
I would have expect that, however I know for sure one of those claims was a lie, that Obama voted against supporting the troops. That bill was not satisfactory because it gave Bush the right to spend the military fund however he wanted to spend it, and we lost 3 billion dollar, and numerous no-bid contract to KBR. What he voted for was specific money to be spent on military protection and benefit for those with medical needs in light of what was happening to the troops when they came home.
It was such a blatant lie from this ad, that I would scrap the whole message. Interesting enough the one issue (FISA) that he did flip flop wasn't even in there. Also did you think the surge work? are we more safer because of it? Just because McCain says it is, don't make it so. To this day Usama Bin Laden is still not on the wanted list by the govt, nor has he been charge with the crime or resulted in any incrimination to lead for his capture or arrest. No complete investigation, nor any indictment leading to his involvement, and the FBI have still not concluded that the video tapes of Usama threats are valid. I am not saying that they aren't, just saying that this administration is negligent in carrying out any form of justice as prescribe by the constitution.
This ad is the product of uplifting the fairness doctrine, nobody can really watch anything on the American media and have any confidence of what is valid. I think having approval from outside our national media tells me much about our candidates.
I think you have really missed the message, it smacks you in the face, on the scrren shot of this article. BAAL, meaning (wikipedia definintions)"Nevertheless, few if any Biblical uses of "Ba'al" refer to Hadad, the lord over the assembly of gods on the holy mount of Heaven, but rather refer to any number of local spirit-deities worshipped as cult images, each called ba'al and regarded in that context as a false god."
I've really noticed Nicole Belle posts mountains-out-of-molehill stories. Either deliberately misunderstanding something, or being obtuse beyond all reasonableness in an effort to chase and demonise the Republican boogy-men.
It's not like there's any shortage of things to go after the Republicans about, but Nicole chases the sort of rubbish that makes her look like a left-wing version of Fox News.
Subliminal messages? Only if we pretend the i in iraq is an l, and start making crazy assumptions and leaps in logic. But hey, if leaping to conclusions was an Olympic sport, I'm sure Nicole could jump for America.
Reverend J @ 37:
I agree. This reminds me of the "subliminal cross" in Mike Huckabee's ad. There are so many substantive issues to go after McCain on, this kind of thing seems counter productive and makes the left look like tin-foil hat wearing loons.
No wonder the word de jour for the republicans is "psychological"!!!! From Bush to McCain to every rightwing talking head, we are told that they are delving into our psyche's. Our economic problems are "psychological". We are whiners.
Apparently they think the only way they are going to win this election is with some psycho babble, hypnotic charlatanism. "Look into the crystal ball"
This is a bunch of crap and I hope that whoever did this for McCain charged him through the ass for this.
Sure, if you give people a bunch of salty popcorn, show them a movie with lots of desert scenes and hot suns, turn the temperature up in the theatre and then show them nano seconds of colas spliced into the film, you MIGHT sell a few more drinks at the refreshment counter, but a lot of work has to go into subliminal messages, and just showing this commercial with these letters intermittently appearing, ain't gonna do jack squat.
I hope the charlatans who came up with this bullshit took McCain for a wad!!!!
John @ 66:
Noel Sheppard, is that you?
John, I'd be happy to address your concerns with this post, if you could manage to give me what you think has been deliberately misunderstood or too obtuse for your obviously superior reasoning skills instead of your insults.
I don't know if you've noticed, but the post originated from Steve Audio, I merely relinked it, because I think it's interesting and because Alex Castellanos is notorious for these dog-whistle ads that play to the prejudices and bigotry of the GOP. See the FDL link on Castellano's Helms "Hands" ad.
Of course, maybe your intent is merely to insult. I'm sure that if you were a front pager on C&L and responsible for 5,000 posts every one of them would be Pulitzer Prize - calibre.
Nice post, Nicole. I felt it was more than worthy news ... especially on a Sunday when we have time to review the previous week and WATCH the machinations of the Republican Propaganda Team at work.
I also cannot wait for Brave Films to create a McSame version of this lying advertisement.
That was perhaps the dumbest ad that I have seen to date. It would generally be a good idea when accusing an opponent of having a position and then showing a clip of the opponent speaking, if the opponent actually says what you are claiming.
That was the most rambling, incoherent ad that I have ever seen. If there was a subliminal message, it would be the only message.
Hey what's wrong with an Al Quesadilla Cemetery? It's where the flour tortillas go to die man! Fucking Repugnic--ts.
Oops, that's "Repugnicants", my bad!
It does not matter if they flash, "Where the white bitches at?" The FAIR model says it's over.
ysbaddaden @ 2:
I think you're right. For analytical minds which are more conditioned to see through and disregard obvious manipulations like this and can easily sort out truth from fiction, lies and slander -- subliminal suggestion is ineffective and silly at best.
Playing on the fears and the desires which are inherently inside the mind of the viewer is what can make subliminal advertising sometimes effective.
pissed off patricia @ 10:
use the open source video player VLC to watch video clips, available from sourceforge.
I can't understand why my little comment is still awaiting moderation :(
I invested a lot of time into thinking out that message, lol
VitaMind @ 70:
McCain is bad for bunnies
I'll throw my hat in the guess-the-subliminal message game. I think the letters are supposed to convey:
"AL QaeDa CoMe TRY"
...to feed the right-wing hysteria that:
(a) if a non-Republican is elected, Al Qaeda will attack again, or
(b) Obama is a secret muslim (false) and thus "one of them" instead of "one of us"
"Help Mr. Wizard, I can't stand it no more!"
"Swizzle, Drizzle, Drazzle, Drone ... time for grandpa McCain to go home!"
(Ba Al spoke to me and made me do that!)
The repukes are despicable excuses for human beings. I am sure the anti-African-American racial attacks will be ramping up to a fever pitch very soon also.
Cryptic text: ba A L Q D C MT RY
decoded:
Barack Obama al Qaeda See Me Try
What an amazing bore this video is! I tried to watch it but holy crap! If I can't get through it without wandering I can't imagine any right winger who can.
Most of it is just a droning mess. Obama said this then, is saying this now: blahblahblah. These supposed flip-flops are minor deviations that have happened over the five years of this occupation. Big deal. Nothing even close to the rotating, vibrating opinions of McCain.
This mess is far less powerful than the 24 style music playing in the background (even that is bland as a backdrop noise).
Plain dumb.