McCain disses Taco Bell in new anti-Obama ad
(Here's s link to the ad) John McCain attacks Obama in another low brow ad, but uses Taco Bell to attack Obama with. Say, what? Since Rove and his pals have been calling Obama an elitist who eats arugula salads and goes to exotic places---the use of Taco Bell only weakens their argument. And that has been much of what they are trying to do to Obama. Make him a light weight. A fly on the wall of big thinking politicians.
I do disagree with Josh Marshal about the race angle on this ad though. I think we have to be careful because we run the risk of losing the argument if it's not clearer to the American people when McCain's camp actually does use it. (And you know it is part of their playbook.) It will only give Rick Davis the opportunity to come out yelling and screaming to the media that Obama is the one actually playing the race card again and he will win because the media is intimidated by him. By the way, the AFL-CIO in Ohio wants Davis fired because...
The deal was made possible in 2003, when McCain and high-priced lobbyist Rick Davis, McCain's current campaign manager, both pushed to allow the German company Deutsche Post to take over DHL and get around antitrust laws. Davis' lobbying firm, Davis Manafort, was hired to help both companies deal with Congress, where objections over DHL's foreign ownership arose. Davis and a partner earned their firm $185,000 for the DHL-Airborne Express work that year, and $405,00...read on
Perhaps Taco Bells parent corp, YUM, donated to McCain's campaign and received product placement consideration.
video has already been removed, that was quick should we start calling him Lightning McCain?
Is it just me, or is the vapid idiocy of this campaign reaching epic proportions? I mean seriously, we've got campaign ads for the President of the everloving United States slamming his opponent for his eating habits because they either are or are not too lowbrow?
Can someone grab John McCain by the collar and shake the stupid out of him? Is that too much to ask?
Sorry, toad. It cant be done. If you could shake stupid out of people, every kid would be an A student.
Stupid is as stupid does.
The reek of fear from the insanemccain camp is overpowering.
You know, you shouldn’t really focus on the hole, but get the broader context by looking at the whole doughnut, sort of a micro Strain Theory of deviant motivation and a macro Anomie Theory of social disorganization on the structural distribution of deviance, all leavened with a heaping helping of Dada.
For a half-assed decent society to maintain a normal functioning, including fringe elements and all the naughty bits, there must be a balance between half-aspirations and the repressed anger by which to fulfill such ambitions, minus the sucking sound inherent in DC these days. A balance would occur as long as there is an intrinsic payoff, an interior fulfillment that one is playing by suspect rules, and there must also be extrinsic hush money as well, such as achieving goals or assists. But in all things Repug, there is always a disparity between goals and means, or just plain being mean, as too much emphasis is placed on achieving it through unacceptable resources. For some citizens, but mostly those mental midgets we erect to govern us there is a lack of opportunity which leads nankers (Boosh) to seek out the booby prize by whatever means necessary. According to Stanley Merton, crime (conservatism) is bred through this process, sometimes breaded and deep fried in the excess fat of largesse and mendacity. Simply put, overemphasis on material success and lack of opportunity/brains for such material success leads to crime.
Speedy Gonzales jokes were typical 50's racist jokes. Eso es estúpido, McAyn
FREE chalupas for everyone if McSame breaks 100 electoral votes !!!!!!!
so HOLD ON to your GOP convention ticket.
(for those who actually will attend)
Interesting. It says the video is no longer available.
Hasn't anyone figured out we have a bunch of crooked, lying sacks of shit that run this country by now?
Here's the correct link to the youtube video;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0WcnnnnzSc
It is still on Youtube
I've got to stop watching these links. I quit watching TV years ago and have managed to avoid all political commercials. Except when I'm viewing C&L. I know they have to keep track of them but we are all a lot smarter if we do not watch them.
The links in the text take you to the ad.
If you didn't see it because of the broken link, you are lucky.
The level of political discourse in this country takes another huge step toward the cesspool. It's beyond a cesspool. This ad is a mockery of mockery. Double-plus mockery.
Are we a nation of 12-year-olds? Answer: yes.
The direct link to the McCain campaign webiste works. You can view it there.
I think the ad is poor, at best. This isn't goiing to sway anyone. Unless, you're embarrassed that McCain has sunk to a new desparate low, then you may just join the Obama camp.
Wow. That's one of the stupidest ads I've ever seen.
Is this for real?
doctormidnight @ 2:
You can see it if you click on the link to the McCain campaign site. I am not sure whether to laugh or throw up. The stupid oozes out of this ad, and some of the footage they use is of very poor quality. It looks as if some kid spliced it together from video captures and old '70's TV ads.
Seems to me that Obama is good for the economy, based on that ad....that Taco Bell person said that usually things are not busy, but because Obama was in town, they were quite busy!
I watching CNN and they were`showing the president of Georgia speaking at a large rally. In his speech he was quoting John McCain! Why is he quoting John McCain? John McCain is not president!! The fix is in. If there is an election, McCain will win through voter fraud. God help us all........
A little OT but LA times ran an editorial that spoke about Obama's reaction to the Georgia crisis proves he's not ready to be president.
I'm not sure how you can make this point and leave out the fact that George Bush was obviously not ready to be president either.
What difference does it make whether or not they are "ready"? Someone else is calling the shots anyway.
The ad says that Obama's popular, and when he visits it's good for business. Wow. Really effective, GOP...
McCain wants a yob
http://www.videosift.com/video/Get-a-YOB-Joseph-Mencias-7-Days-to-Wetbac...
General Jack D. Ripper @ 17:
To be fair, I heard that grocery store had 3 more people than normal in the cheese aisle when McShame was there. In hindsight, they should have been campaigning in the Depends aisle where he's more likely to find his base.
Now THIS is a Taco Bell diss!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6W2Uh8dA3U
Was Rick Davis a producer for the Jerry Springer Show? The similarities are uncanny.
Is there enough bandwidth to archive all of the McCain ads that have had to be pulled within a few days of being posted because of felony stupidity?
These are questions that task the mind.
A strange ad in that it seems very positive for Obama. They throw in the jab about taxes but the take away is that Obama is popular with a whole lot of Americans.
I guess since McCain can't draw a crowd of tens of people, being popular with the voters is supposed to be a bad thing.
They better watch out. Showing so many of these ads may make undecided voters take another look at Obama if they are wondering why he's so popular. Maybe they might want to hop on the Obama band wagon.
The Taco Bell Chihuahua would make a more popular president than McLame.
Today at one of his speech stops, McCain's bus drove into the hall where the speech would be given. The bus drove in while the theme of Rocky played on the speakers in the hall.
I have no idea the significance of this little show.
Wow!
That'll sure get people to see that Exxon John's the guy to have in the White House -- beautiful point-by-point layout of policy differences and how they will effect the voting citizenry.
Can't argue with facts like that ... no siree Bob.
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You're country will go completely down the shitter if McLame is elected. Bush has it spinning around the rim of the bowl now.
Good Luck!
-- St Marvin Of Wii
These adverts seem really strange. I get they are trying to trivialise Obama, but by putting 'positive' messages in an ad all about Obama, that does nothing to raise McCains profile, arn't they wasting money? Seems a bit like the snarky Apple ads - they don't actually promote anything good about their product, simply poke fun at the other and annoy viewers in the process.
Epic in the stupidity department. You know that these Ad Men have calculated their message target to appeal to the brainwaves of a incoherent, half-wit, who is drunk out of his mind with these ads. And then they accuse Obama of being a elitist? What a joke. This is so condescending to assuming a moron is watching and moved by this "information" if you can call it that.
There is something wrong with the link because the video has not been removed from YouTube. You can get to it by going to YouTube and typing >MaCain Obama Taco Bell< in the Search field.
seems to me that the tone of the ad is ridiculing the people making the statements, rather than Obama. justified or not, it's just not smart policy to make potential voters look stupid. then again, the McCain campaign has never been accused of being too smart.
McCrazy is the next interim dictator....God ordained it. Any other ideas?
Not ready to lead? There is only one thing a leader needs in order to lead, and that is followers. This ad shows ardent Obama followers in droves, enough to even indirectly increasing business at a local Taco Bell. But, yeah, I think I'll vote for the guy who has only corporations and wealthy tax-dodgers for followers, isn't a celebrity, won't talk to crowds overseas until he is president and offers up his wife to bikers at a strip-tease competition. Good ad!
Thanks to "Yellow Elephant Safari" (at #9) for posting the link!
Better a burrito with Obama than a beer with Dumbya (or McSame).
Seems the ad is trying to say that the people who are for Obama are shallow. Is that really the way they want to go? Shouldn't they instead be trying to convince the viewer that McCain is the right candidate rather than saying anyone who supports Obama is simply falling for his popularity? If you insult the Obama supporters, you will never win them over.
I live in Cincinnati( Wilmington is about an hour's drive away) and these shenanigans of McCain and Davis has gotten ZERO play in the local media as far as I can tell. The only thing I've seen concerning it is a radio ad by Obama.
"Since Rove and his pals have been calling Obama an elitist who eats arugula salads and goes to exotic places—the use of Taco Bell only weakens their argument. And that has been much of what they are trying to do to Obama. Make him a light weight. A fly on the wall of big thinking politicians."
hahahahahaha... this from the folks who gave america gw bush!
lmfao
pissed off patricia @ 34:
Absolutely true but I think these ads are directed towards independents who ,by their nature, are unlikely to follow a herd mentality or want to appear to be doing so. Naturally, the point is to make it seem as if only the unthinking herd is supporting Obama
To paraphrase: "If you vote for Obama, young hot girls will have sex with you."
So, if I go to an Obama rally, am I guaranteed groupie action backstage like at a Zeppelin concert? I fail to see how this is supposed to dissuade me from voting for Obama.
This may be the absolute worse ad ever for a presidential campaign. It lacks substance except for the "tax increase" which is an out and out lie. Perhaps the real message was this tax lie.
It would be great to get those women to do an ad for Obama. Remember when McCampaign dissed Paris Hilton? Well... how much better would it be for him to get pwned by a couple ordinary citizens.
They cannot feel good about the McCain ad. I cannot believe he would mock ordinary citizens like that.
why is the ad no longer available?
Where was the part that some might feel was racist? Where ever it was, it flew right over my head.
I don't think that ad is going to have the intended effect for the McCain'ts. I can see millions of teenage girls counting the days until their 18th birthday so they can register to vote for that dreamy guy with the soft eyes. Damn, it works on me and I'm the gramma of a pre-teen who squeals with delight every time Obama comes on TV. She also sneers and fakes vomitting when Bush or that wrinkley white-haired guy comes on.
is it just me or was the taco bell mention (however gaspingly dumb) is a subtle reference to.... *drumroll* mexicans!!! as in, he must have a lot of illegal immigrant support.
evidence: taco bell is busy, even though its raining!!!
meaning: obama has scads of illegal immigrant supporters.
and people wonder why the GOP has become such a joke.
https://www.johnmccain.com/involving/petition2.aspx?guid=4160d817-603f-4...
Yellow Elephant Safari @ 22:
After saying that Social Security is a disgrace and promoting privatizing Social Security, John McCain is losing his "Depends" supporters.
Ummm...well Taco Bell does suck...
Curious side note:
Did the McCain campaign get permission to use that 2 second portion of Wayne's World? Also, is that an endorsement from Mike Myers (who's Canadian, I think) and Dana Carvey of McCain?
Just wondering
Marvin El Canucki @ 27:
If McCain steals the election, I'll be moving to Canada. Do I need a sponsor and if I do, will you sponsor me?
Why would the Media be intimidated by Rick Davis? Doesn't he put his pants on one leg at a time, like the rest of us? He's not God; why should they treat him as such? (or, is it that they're afraid he won't feed them anymore lies to spread about Sen Obama?)
That being said though, I do agree the McCain camp will eventually use the race card and when they do, it won't be subtle. Then we'll wipe the floor with them!
Every time McCain makes an ad like this poo-pooing Obama's popularity, I hear them screaming, we are so damned envious of this guy we just can't handle it.
Why don't they make one showing how popular Obama is and then at the end show Cheney saying, So? McCain might be popular too if he was young, smart, charismatic and of good character. But with McCain you get other stuff.
I maintain that the ad is a Trojan Horse; it's entire point is to insert the lie about Obama raising taxes in a context that's so outrageous that people will talk about everything but that. Meaning that the tax charge will get repeated once more without being adequately rebutted, and will become that much closer to "true" in the public imagination. I think that's the strongest argument for ignoring the dog-whistles. Accurate information is Obama's friend; semiotic analysis of ad imagery is not, and it distracts us from the information wars.
McCain for (high school) president!
Can't play this version, but find it on YouTube and it plays fine.
McCain is just trying to set up a contrast with himself that's all - old, boring, provincal and unpopular. Makes sense to me.
Their ads just keep getting sadder and sadder. If I didn't have to go to the official McCain campaign website to watch it, I wouldn't believe it was official. I think they just encouraged me to join the Obama fan club like thousands of people around the world already have done. Seriously, is saying that Obama is popular all over the world really working for them? So he'll raise taxes on everyone making $42,000+ per year. I'm pretty sure that's not entirely true, but I think there are plenty of people out there who wish they were making enough money to have to deal with that tax increase. I know I'd like to have a real job again. Did it really said "We're not worthy" at the end of the ad? No, you're really not worthy, nor should you "party on, McCain". November can't some soon enough. I'm starting to feel sorry for these guys.
Yep, this ad is alll about mocking people who are inspired by Obama. I guess the intent is to make some of those people have second thoughts about supporting the guy. This ad is easily rebutted by one that's overwhelmingly positive about how for the first time, millions of Americans are taking part in the electoral system. No mention of John McCain needed.
that has to be one of the most amaturish and poorly produced presidential camericals of all time. Stunningly poor production values...
and "we are not worthy"? this thing feels like it was produced by a teenager.
What bothers me the most is that TPM keeps feeding Jake Tapper what he wants, liberal race reactions so he can bring the issue up again. ABC is playing the race card over and over again and too many white liberals are falling for it. Tapper's play at ABC is to "count the white women" in McCain's web ad. The only people going to McCain's website are the networks and outraged Obama supporters. Ignore it. Instead implore the media to play "Count the lobbysists on McCain's campaign staff."
I followed the link to McCain's website.
McCain really has nothin', doesn't he?
He's like a third-grader making fun of the smart kid. His campaign is all about criticism of Obama, and he can't even find anything substantive to criticize. Too much of the American public agrees with everything Obama stands for.
I just watched it again so my girlfriend, the video editor, could see how poorly it's put together. Thanks, McCain campaign, for advertising Obama's official site by showing off his quickly-dropped campaign seal. Just in case anyone takes the ad's advice and wants to join the fan club, they'll know where to go. Yet the ad lacks the address for McCain's own website. I know it's primarily designed for the official website anyway, but how many potential supporters who find the ad via another source won't know where to go to get to McCain's website? I almost wish I were a Republican so I could make these things better for them. Well, not really.
Looked to me the Toco Bell segment showed Obama is good for business. Why would the Repugs take issue with this?
The only thing McCheese got right in this video is that he (McCain) is "not worthy" of speaking about Obama!
When I filed chapter 13 here in NC I learned the GROSS median income for a single filer here is $33,000, so probably about 85% of the folks around here aren't worried about people who have a TAXABLE income of $42,000. (pardon the shouting)
i went ahead and sent a love note to mccain's contact us link on his website.... not that they will even see it- it just feel good to vent a bit...
i am from Arizona so it's extra frustrating- but i hear obama is gaining ground in this traditional red state. let's hope...
so the diss is to call him "the one" as in neo??
as we all live in the matrix??
cool
then i hope obama turns superhero and flies inside of mccain, bush and cheney and blows em all to pieces
he is "the one"
so now we know what happened to the writers after the fox news hour 1/2 hour show was cancelled. (was that what is was called?)
Andrew @ 38:
LOL -- *thank you*
Great observation -- hopefully someone (at least on Comedy Central) will pick up on this too ...
Cheers!
-- Marvin
jakes @ 55:
Like watching Barney Fife shoot himself in the foot ... again.
Uncle Joe Mccarthy @ 66:
Welcome to the real world.
I think a great campaign ad against McCain would be a celebrity angle where it is stated "McCain is a celebrity of his own making in Veitnam, they have even erected a statue in his honor near the lake where he was pulled out". In their culture, a statue is a very important symbol.
It's pretty clear that Obama is in the pocket of 'Big Salad", no matter how you dress it up.
Count Typo @ 72:
OOOoooo. Are we talkin Applebees saladbar? ummmmm Yummmmm. Or is that too elitist?
Only if you use a knife and fork!
Test. For some reason my posts aren't making it on.
now they are
38 Andrew Says: To paraphrase: “If you vote for Obama, young hot girls will have sex with you.”
So, if I go to an Obama rally, am I guaranteed groupie action backstage like at a Zeppelin concert? I fail to see how this is supposed to dissuade me from voting for Obama.
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McCain disses Taco Bell in new anti-Obama ad
Obama's new running-mate?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-HDJihd-2Y
None of this matters. We're going to get a bunch of moronic, sophomoric fraternity boys and there's no question about it. If after all this crap from the Republicans, Obama isn't 10 or more points ahead, we're doomed. The fix is in.
Like young people like Obama; better the nightmare you know, old folks, than fatuous young blonde babes running America. So I sense a Rocky Horror Show type ad from the Obama folks--you know real campy with McCain doing his phony grin and laugh routine and singing, and having the whole audience sing along. America beware the ghoul crowd is just crazy about John McCain.
i strongly agree with race issue. If i hear another Obama supporter cry racism i'm gonna...cry. We need to stop giving them reasons to play the victim. We are better than crying about every little insult. We need be strong and let them play the role of scumbag while we laugh it off and stay on message, responding respectfully but strongly.
You know the USA has a major food obsession when the election boils down to food and beverage choices: salad bars (or lack of), arugula, berry tea, beer, doughnuts, and so on. Good thing the USA doesn't have any problems." (Bu$h in Beijing)
I agree with most of what you had to say, but I firmly disagree with the race card that McCain is playing. McCain has already opened that Pandora's box and have no need to to further disprove what has been proven he is not doing. The media is not going to challenge him in regards to this subject. Although there were some who clearly saw what he was doing, their voices were small and had no real impact. No, McCain has already let that genie out of the bottle and the MSM has been using it as another reason why Obama is not running away with the train so to speak. Forget the fact of the obvious, which is that Obama is black and it is what it is and those that did not plan to vote for him for racial reason will still not be voting for him tomorrow. No McCain is hoping that there are some independents sitting on the fence hoping this strategy will give them (especially if they are white voters) a reason not to vote for Obama, just based off of the implication that there might be something evil about a black man being president where white women are involved.
meanwhile, OldManMcCain.com has a lot of the latest polls.
Gallup has Obama up by 5%
Rassmussen by 3%
CBS by 6%
AP by 6%
Time by 5%
and get this; Obama is up in Alaska by 5%.
The national polls don't really matter, but the state polls and the electoral college predictions do. And they're polling all for Obama.
Anyway, it's time we asked the 2 trillion dollar question; how pathetic is a Republican when he/she plays the race card and it still doesn't work?
Sad.
mudshark @ 74:
AAAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAAAA!!!
Big Salad!!!
Can't forget about all the blood money received from the dreaded Ranch Dressing Lobbyists!
Those fuckers don't play!
The McCain campaign has now pulled this ad.
As long as Obama is just responding to McCain in TV ads or in speeches, it's like a gnat or a mosquito. Eventually all of these criticisms in McCain ads and by TV pundits start to add up. Obama needs to put McCain in the position where he has to defend himself. Not the other way around. These attacks start to add up. It's like what happened to the Bush administration with the constant talk of their incompetence and scandal. They were always on the defensive. Eventually even the supporters of Bush started to wonder, because the constant media attention to those negative stories started to add up after a while.
I have to say that I don’t like the way Obama is running his campaign. I have cable, so I don’t know how it looks on broadcast TV or on satellite dish, but I’m not seeing very many commercials for Obama. I would estimate that I see 8 or 10 McCain commercials for every Obama commercial. Maybe more. And the only Obama commercials are the ones that respond to a specific McCain criticism (like his stance on drilling off-shore). And I watch a lot of TV! I keep hearing about how much money he has, but where is it going? I don’t like to hear the constant criticism in the media and from McCain’s commercials without hearing anything from Obama. This makes no sense. Is he taking it for granted? Is he waiting until after the convention? If he’s doing that, McCain will have made it a much closer race than it needed to be if Obama’s campaign had simply been linking McCain to the Bush administration constantly in TV commercials and highlighting all the scandals of the Bush administration that the Republicans have tried to sweep under the rug. Going to Iraq and Europe and then spending time in Hawaii is not enough. Making speeches is not enough. He has to get in people’s faces more than just making a speech here and there.
appnzllr @ 88:
sooo...ya pasting the same post in every single thread?
McCain is going broke. He's busy wasting money on campaign ads that gives no info on what he's about.
I wish i coulda seen this one
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