Did the GOP in Oregon really send these PSA scripts out to be made? UPDATED
By John Amato Thursday Apr 16, 2009 3:00pm
I'm in the process of verifying that the GOP in Oregon is in the process of having these new PSA's/commercials made.
UPDATE I called the The Oregon Republican Party and was told that they had no comment.
I redacted the company letter head that the bids went out on. Check out these docs. They are a series of PSA's designed for Oregonians to be "Thankful" that the Republican Party has been so good for the country. They are even taking credit for ending racism in America.
The main question about these scripts is whether they were created by someone at the Oregon GOP, or at the Portland advertising agency that it came from. We'll be trying to find this out.
The opening line of the first PSA that is titled "Thank You" says it all. Check out the coded language they use. It's pretty unbelievable.
OPEN ON A YOUNG MULATTO FEMALE DOCTOR. Thank you for ending slavery.
Here's the first one called " Thank You"
OPEN ON A YOUNG MULATTO FEMALE DOCTOR.
Thank you for ending slavery.A WOMAN EXECUTIVE STANDING IN FRONT OF HER DESK.
Thank you for giving women the right to vote.A MAN ON CANNON BEACH WITH HIS KIDS AND THEIR DOG PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND.
Thank you for opening our State beaches to the public.AN OLD COUPLE IN THE PARK.
Thank you for lowering our taxes.A THIRTY-SOMETHING WHITE MALE STANDING OUTSIDE HIS STOREFRONT.
Thank you for helping me start my own business.A BLACK FEMALE JUDGE IN FRONT OF A COURTHOUSE.
Thank you for passing the Civil Rights act of 1964.A FAMILY STANDING OUTSIDE THEIR FARMHOUSE.
Thank you for making America the land of opportunity.A WOMAN SMILING DOWN AT HER NEW CHILD. PUSH IN ON CHILD’S FACE. BURN TO WHITE.
FEMALE VO: There are so many things we have to be thankful for, thanks to the Republican Party.SUPER: THANK YOU REPUBLICANS.LEGAL:
PAID FOR BY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF OREGON.
Yes, the GOP has even cured cancer. I've listed the titles and a screen grab of each different segment.
"The Party"
"Become a Believer"
"School Play"
"What He Started"
And of course. "Thank You"
They are counting on Lincoln to help save them in this series. What happened to Reagan? Strom Thurmond?
Check out these docs and go have some fun making some videos based on them. I bet the blogosphere can do a really bang-up job.
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Micheal Steele must be smoking that hashish again ...
of naive ignorant suckers they can screw over again.
For all your talk of Southern secession. You really want to make Obama look like Lincoln, don't you?
The Republican party where the Liberals when all those wonderfull things happened in case anyone forgot.
Thu, 04/16/2009 - 16:08 — HC4BO
Micheal Steele must be smoking that hashish again ...
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He keeps choking on the boiled potato chunks.
yes, but can they decaffeinate their tea-bags?
And what have they done for you lately?
They've done nothing of which they could be proud.
That's what I was thinking. Except that they are going too far already claiming that the Reps were responsible for all these things.
Did they really just use the word "Mulatto"?
Actually, I'm kind of surprised that they used "back" instead of "negro" at this point.
As in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V7DjWIQRxQ&fe...
?
What's a mulatto again?
I'm not up on my old-timey racial terms.
Mixed race I think. I don't know if they still have it but I remember a couple of years ago Dairy Queen was advertising a coffee drink they were calling a moolatte. I couldn't believe it. SOunds like something they'd have a Sambo's if they were still around.
Yes, "mulatto" is a vaguely foreign-sounding word that was used in the pre-Civil Rights era to refer to children of mixed-race parents. It was spoken with a similar hushed tone as the word "bastard", which was used to stigmatize children whose parents were not legally married at the time of their birth.
You'd have to be completely tone-deaf to the history of racism in the USA to be unaware of how demeaning and archaic it is to use this word today. It's in the same league as calling Obama the "Magic Negro".
I'm surprised they didn't just go with "half-colored".
is a polite ending to a conversation.
Republicans: You're welcome, I'll get back to you if I ever want to hear from you again.
The GOP has become the party of self-parody. Stephen Cobert may have to start looking for work.
I love how the first woman actually thanks the GOP for ending slavery.
WOW, the Republicans actually had a single moment of humanity... once... like, a hundred and fifty years ago.
At a cursory glance, it seems they're trotting out only dead guys from yesteryear. Where's the praise for Bush I and Bush II, Ronnie Raygun, and a host of modern-day and "esteemed" (yet, oddly embroiled in non-stop scandals) Senators and Congresscritters?
progressive party and the Democrats were the slavery-loving racist wingnuts.
Lies then, lies now, lies forever.
My, aren't we modern!
I haven't heard that term since I was 5.
This is like watching Monte Burns (Simpsons) try and be nice. It just doesn't work.
A mulatto
An albino
A mosquito
My libido
Yea
Well at least they didn't say octaroon.
macaroon? Or would I need to wear a kilt too. And speaking of killing...
You know what a Scotsman wears under his kilts?
His shoes.
I was (almost) surprised by that too.
GOP = The Party of Ignorance
How about...
EARLY 50'S BLUE-COLLAR WORKER: Thanks, for destroying the economy.
TEENAGE BOY: Thanks, for making more enemies for the US.
YOUNG MOTHER: Thanks, for climate change complacency.
Wow, they really write themselves.
THANKS for shipping all the jobs overseas.
THANKS for killing hundreds of thousands of innocents and creating more terrorists.
THANKS for pissing away a budgetary surplus.
the list goes on and on...
you forgot....
THANKS for nothing
and was told that they had no comment...
nothing of value to say now, so they have to sell themselves on their mythical (or outright fictional) past. Considering what they've helped do to America's public schools, I don't think references to the Civil War are going to help them.
Thank you for ending slavery.
Duh, tanks for helpin da slaves make a living dats good.
Thank you for giving women the right to vote.
My old lady voted back in uh, uh when wuz it?
Thank you for opening our State beaches to the public.
Big boats and beer da best ting dat happened for da beaches.
Thank you for lowering our taxes.
Dis one I like now I can buy more chew and beer.
Thank you for helping me start my own business.
Bidiness is pretty good. I got one customur last month.
Thank you for passing the Civil Rights act of 1964.
Da what?
Thank you for making America the land of opportunity.
Yea I like dat. I git to watch Nascar, and hunt critters.
There are so many things we have to be thankful for, thanks to the Republican Party.
Ma damn kid wuz beaten up, so I beat em up some more cuz he lost.
Is dis a great countree or what?
The last thing i'll do is becoming a believer in the republican party. I rather believe in a god myth instead.
Thank you for making me laugh today. (twats)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfuBREMXxts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfuBREMXxts
And for you teabagging repugs out there:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URb8h4dLKps&fe...
you know what folks, there is a lot of truth to these ads. Of course, it is a far from complete picture of the party, but all in all, what did you expect? At least they aren't trying to fire up the hate mongering that is so prevalent in other states.
This we can discuss in the public forum, and this we can counter with a commercial that points out the more negative effects of their recent leadership gaffs.
I am okay with this, at least its not the fucked up racist secession bullshit coming out of the south.
We can discuss this, and let people make up their own minds. Kudos to the Oregon Rethugs for trying to act human again - in a lying bastards sort of way.
If you put out the meme that the Republican party is THE party for minority Americans it would drive whatever few hold-outs they still have away.
So there's that.
And I would be the first to admit the Republicans have done great things...
100-150 or so years ago.
I hadn't thought of that, but this commercial does a GREAT job of ridding the Oregon Republican Party of their racist "friends". We look at it as a sleazy way to illicit votes from people of color, but in reality, what this does is slim down their base.
points out how catastrophically they've ruled the country for the past 30 years.
Dem President in office for 10 of the last 20 years?
You're a fucktarded asshole.
First off, the office of the president is put up for election every 4 years. 4 does not divide into 10.
Since 1980, we have had 2 terms of Democratic presidency. Clinton and 2 months of Obama. If this is 10 years in your fucktarded prepubescent brain, then you need to learn to fucking count.
Seriously, jimborefucktardedbob, do the world a favor and rapture yourself.
Asshole at times I'll give you that. But yes 4 does divide into 10 it equals 2.5 simple math. And since 1980 we have had 2 years of Carter(.5) and 8 years of Clinton(2). 8+2= omg 10.
I actually messed up in my other post. One was a typo of 20 instead of 30. The other was going by 1980. Should of went from 1978 which would be 30 yrs which would be 12 years of a Dem president.
if you really want to make the game fun, factor in the congressional majorities that were in force and what the Supreme Court looked like.
That's a pretty major typo. 10 of the last 20 years would be half the time. Also only one year of Carter since 1980.
As I was replying to the comment above mine, and he referred to 30 yrs, yes it was a typo my finger hit the 2 rather than the 3. From 1980 is that better?
Although since is actually valid.
Per Websters
1 : from a definite past time until now
with *this* Republican party.
We need to understand that the state Republican parties are starting to splinter away in the belief that a third party will be created (my theory anyhow). With the creation of a third party they get to shed some of the sins of their past and redefine themselves in a way that is less odious. It is a brilliant strategy, but they forget that village idiots are now in charge.
the realignment began when LBJ pushed through the Great Society and finished when Reagan pulled in the disaffected unemplyed workers without jobs from the 70's de-industrialization of the US.
We were them and they were us. Or something like that.
They never got to that part, did they?
Jon Stewart & Colbert must be messing their pants writing bits about these ads. The Republican Party is like gov't cheese for comedians: free and hard to digest.
3rd GEN FAMILY FARMER STANDING BEHIND BARS.
Monsanto put me in jail for using my own seed.
TRUCKER HOLDING CUP ON A STREET CORNER
Exxon put me out on the street.
OLD WOMAN EATING DOG FOOD FOR LUNCH
George W Bush stole my life savings.
Have I ever mentioned how much I hate fucking Exxon and Monsanto?
Wednesday, 15 April 2009
Snip - "Over 1,500 farmers in an Indian state committed suicide after being driven to debt by crop failure, it was reported today. "
> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/...
Ha ha ha ha ha...
Stop, please! You're killing me!
I like that "College student" is spelled *Collage Student*...
Morans
for my advanced education.
That are students that like to make collages, or something.
I see I'm not the only one who caught that.
teh stoopid... it burns...
"Cut to a collage student on campus."
Must have been part of the No Child Left Behind program.
REPUBLICAN.
Each one needs to include "...until we threw out Teddy Roosevelt and sold out to Big Business, Big Oil and Big Banks."
I'd swear I was drunk, after reading that. Maybe I walked into a weed cloud or there was LSD in the rain this afternoon because I must be altered in some way. Really Republicans? Really? As my best friend in high school used to say, they are on some ole monkeyball shit.
who has leukemia thanks you for bogging down stem cell research to a near halt.
my father has leukemia, albeit CLL, and my mother-in-law, a saint of a woman, had Parkinsons, from which she passed.
...in the development of modern art. Dada, surrealism, the work of Picasso and the cubist movement are all indebted to this art technique. Even the writings of William Burroughs were influenced via the cut-up technique of Brion Gysin.
Republicans are stupid.
Could they've influenced Sergei Eisenstein's montage editing techniques?
I think you're right... I'm thinking the Eisenstein needs to thank them for the Odessa Steps sequence in Battleship Potemkin...
shoot elderly women and everybody else they could.
...but, I would have to say so.
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Repubs are fond of saying that there should not be public funding for the ARTS. Collages or not.
Do these PSA's come with pepperoni?
(No pineapple or jalapenoes, that's an unnatural act).
I'm a firm believer in the strict segregation of ethnic foods.
...to let my peas touch my mashed potatoes.
Shameless. Absolutely fucking shameless.
I just threw up a little in my mouth.
Yeah, chicken pinapple pizza does that to mean too.
What's next, Sweet and Sour Chicken chili?
Oh, wait. Republican Party.
OK, believable.
that it was Republican was "mulatto".
Actually, I'm kind of surprised it didn't say "high yellow negress".
...I just wanna grab one and hug the little buggers. I mean really, they're the epitome of sweet!
Wait, what?
I think was the name of the Party that Lincoln joined to run for his second term NOT the Republic Party
John Wilkes Booth was a republican?
Amazing... the only thing the GOP didn't cure is hypocrisy, but they have perfected it.
The only public service the GOP might perform that I would sanction would be to die... to go away forever.
Mulatto is an extremely offensive and outdated word for them to use in these papers. Classic GOP.
...won't get fooled again.
because you won't have the Republican Party to kick around anymore! WAAAAAH! (Cue a giant teabag being lowered into their mouths to pacify their sobs of self-pity)
The Republican Party is not allowed "PSA" time for these types of spots. These are ADS and will have to be paid for, same as any other commercial.
If there was a notice about a Republican potluck or Democratic bake sale, those types of spots could be submitted for a Public Service Announcement.
Like I said, for clarity.
I gotted my mule, and I gotted my forty acres...
Then I gotted my ass whipped,
Then they stolt my forty acres away from me,
Then my boy gotted hanged,
Then they burnt down my house,
Then they ran me out of the county,
Then I voted for a Democrat,
And that's when the Republicans shot me dead on the side of the rode,
And then I went to Heaven...
And that's where I met Obama... before God annointed him and sent him down there to clean up that mess.
Them Republicans were RIGHT... he IS THE ONE.
ignoring intel warnings and allowing 9/11 to happen;
lying us into a senseless war in Iraq that had nothing to do with 9/11 and has killed or maimed thousands of people and driven us into bankruptcy;
torturing;
shredding the constitution;
undermining the very fabric of our democratic system;
ruining the economy with your neocon fantasies;
co-opting the religious right and bastardizing religion;
ruling by dogma rather than common sense;
destroying the environment and accelerating climate change; and,
leaving your own party in a hopeless shambles, with dipshits like Limbaugh, Boehner, Beck, and Bachmann left to tear whatever else remains into itty bitty shreds.
Go screw yourselves. You've already screwed the rest of us enough.
that arises from the TEA-BAG events of yesterday: With any luck, it will SPLIT the Republicans right down the middle!
It listed Lincoln's numerous failures before he was finally elected to office the first time, and listed his admirable qualities, such as perseverance and belief in his own abilities.
I thought it was going to turn out to be similar to one of these PSAs, but there was no overt GOP connection. Still, I was curious enough to google The Foundation for a Better Life, which led to Philip Anschutz. Although the Foundation's "Pass It On" ads are nice and warm and fuzzy, this leaving me feeling a little oogy.
I'm sure that I heard these phrases read on an OPB morning show (was it "Think Out Loud" at 9 am in Portland?) a few days ago.
It sounded as if they were replaying an actual circulating Republican commercial.
I laughed but didn't stick around for the conversation.
I've also seen (online or in real life?) a "Martin Luther King was a Republican" billboard.
Shrug. If they want to compete to be the civil rights party, happy days. Of course it is probably more about providing cover for racist policies by helping people not feel race guilt over associating with and voting for the Republican party... in other words aimed at the ambivalent middle, and trying to shift the background thoughts that people have when they think about the Republican brand.
Ultimately it's a reaction to the culture gestaldt created by a black President.... claim civil rights, use a black RNC figurehead, don't let the Democrats seem special for having nominated a black man to be President..... normalize the difference that they have created over HERE, so that over THERE you can accentuate the difference that you want to emphasize....
What the hell did the Republicans have to do with getting the Civil Right's Act passed?
Thank you for your representation over the past few centuries. Thank you to the Democratic Party for their centuries of representation too.
Think the people on April 15th were thankful?
event for some afternoon t-bagging until they realized it was something entirely different. They were prepared to issue written thank yous, but alas.
to the one here in town and am still editing the video. I decided not to take anything seriously.
Next up 2M4M.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CkFGe3JJDc
Thank you, GOP, for stopping at "mulatto" to describe the doctor. You didn't just take Rush's lead and refer to her as "halfrican."
The Civil Rights Act of 1964...1964...hmm...The Beatles came to America...New York World's Fair...and the Civil Rights Act was signed...by LBJ! A Democrat! Thank HIM!
By the way, legend has it that when he signed it, he turned to an aide or someone and said, "We have just lost the South for half a century." And just as he predicted, the Dixiecrats - the racist, southern wing of the party - jumped ship to the Republicans. Thank you, Strom Thurmond, for associating yourself with the other party!
"Opening the public beaches" - thank you for providing the ONLY EXAMPLE of you doing the opposite of privatizing something. I didn't know there was one! It's probably bullshit, though. Can I get a check on this?
Thank you, scriptwriter, for leaving the phrase "BURN TO WHITE" in the stage directions only.
And...this isn't a thank you, just a point, but - the GOP evidently thinks the American people are so retarded that they can get away with the "party of Lincoln" shit STILL - even though the parties in 1860 were almost opposite versions of what they stand for today. It's like thinking, "That's the film company that made Fantasia, so I guess I can't miss Treasure Planet! I think the claim "Lincoln was a liberal" is waaaaaay more credible than "Lincoln and today's Republicans are like peas in a pod."
Tom McCall was a Republican, but today's GOP wouldn't let him within 100 yards of their not-very-big tent.
Get back to me when they turn water into wine and feed the multitude.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCFBndlScBc
I had to call my sister on this one. Her answer, who the hell used the word Mulatto?
Mulatto is specific to having a black and white parent. Interesting how they used that term for their description? Mestizo is a later insult from their conquests in the new world. The latter being of mixed parentage with one being American Indian, which they described all of the new world.
Real scumbags in the tea party.
Mulatto? I thought the GOP called them Half-ricans. Should be a law requiring actual political supporters to appear in ads, not actors. The few non-white republicans could become stars, appearing in all the ads.
it's so sad that the best they can do is revisit high water moments from 50 years ago.
those republicans are not these republicans. looking forward to the rebuttal of everything that's happened since say, 1994...
Thank you for pointing this out.
...and I wrote about its happy absurdity, here at Loaded Orygun. Funny people, those OR GOPsters! Must be lonely for attention.
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