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TheHype The One? It's all Jet Li's fault...
'The One': Blame Oprah?
Ben Smith's Blog —
... The round of chatter today about whether McCain's "The One" ad is portraying Obama as the anti-christ is well above my pay grade, and if Amy Sullivan takes it seriously, it's probably worth chewing on. ...
McCain's Footsie with the Outer Fringe
Talking Points Memo —
Keep an eye on this nutjob meme, one McCain is stoking: Obama as harbinger of anti-Christ.
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Slightly Paranoid McCain Ad Theory Of The Day
TPM Election Central —
... But heck, we're posting this anyway, because with so many other McCain ad theories going around on other sites, we were starting to feel left out. ...
McCain Ad Suggests Obama is the Antichrist?
Little Green Footballs —
... Some “progressive” Christians are upset that John McCain’s campaign ad called “The One” is trying to paint Barack Obama as the Antichrist. ...
Leftards: McCain Ad Suggests Obama is Anti-Christ
Stop The ACLU —
Should we laugh this one off? The tin foil hats are shining bright on this one! Is there really anyone that thinks Obama is the anti-Christ? It’s not easy to make the infamous Willie Horton ad from the 1988 presidential campaign seem benign. But suggesting that Barack Obama is the Antichrist might just do it. That’s just what some outraged Christian supporters of the Democratic nominee are claiming John McCain’s campaign did in an ad called “The One” that was recently released online. The Republican nominee’s advisers brush off the charges, arguing that the ...
McCain's Low Road Antics: Obama as Anti-Christ?
The Washington Note —
... When I first saw this video put out by the McCain camp, I thought it was an attempt to create a viral Moses spoof of Obama's uplifting oratory skills. I hadn't thought it might be an effort to tag Obama as a guy "with two horns and a tail" as Time's Amy Sullivan writes. ...
Obama as Antichrist?
The Swamp —
... and via email for several months now. Thousands of people, she said, are trying to catalogue Obama's similarities to the Antichrist.
This speculation is based in a large part on the fictional Left Behind series, which sold 70 million copies worldwide. In it, the Antichrist is a junior senator who speaks many languages, is beloved by the press, and who becomes famous after just one speech.
Sound familiar?
See the full column here.
Obama the Antichrist?
Ross Douthat —
... ... actually, no, I don't think I have much to say about this nonsense, except that the people who think Obama might be the Antichrist and the people who think the McCain campaign is cannily designing its campaign ads to exploit fears that Obama might be the Antichrist deserve each other. (The difference, of course, is that the former group consists of minor-league kooks, obscure bloggers and ...
New theory: McCain wants Christians to think Obama’s the Antichrist
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... Their racial paranoia having earned them ridicule even from “The Daily Show,” the forces of progress shift gears. Karl reminds us in the comments to our Headlines item that author Amy Sullivan comes to Time mag from the Washington Monthly (see ...
Satan Never Accounted for the Voting Power of the Southern Evangelical Bloc
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
I'm not sure what's more amusing about this; the notion that Barack Obama is the Antichrist, or the idea that the plots of the Antichrist (and presumably by extension the Apocalypse) can be foiled through the electoral process.
War and Piece — ... August 08, 2008 Time 's Amy Sullivan : McCain ad portrays Obama as -- the antiChrist. Posted by Laura at August 8, 2008 01:21 PM
Not Such A Subliminable Message
Swampland —
Our colleague Amy Sullivan looks at one possible subtext of that "humorous" McCain ad:
It's not easy to make the infamous Willie Horton ad from the 1988 presidential campaign seem benign. But suggesting that Barack Obama is the Antichrist might just do it.
That's just what some outraged Christian supporters of the Democratic nominee are claiming John McCain's campaign did in an ad called "The One" that was recently released online. The Republican nominee's advisers brush off the charges, arguing that the spot was meant to be a "creative" and "humorous" way of ...
No More Mister Nice Blog — BEYOND PARODY I bet when you read this you thought it was wildly hyperbolic satire. Not really.
Carol Platt Liebau: They're Joking, Right?
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
As reported in The Wall Street Journal and Time , some Obama partisans are trying to assert that the McCain ad mocking Barack's egomaniacal tendencies is somehow suggesting that he's the antichrist. Amy Sullivan at Time compares the ad to the 1988 Willie Horton commercial (forgetting, apparently, that it was Al Gore who first raised Horton as a critique of Dukakis). But how silly is this? How thin-skinned and desperate must some of Barack's supporters be to claim that John McCain is essentially speaking in code to warn against Barack as Satan? Look ...
DAY'S END ROUNDUP
News —
... . Though Christian backers of Obama say that a McCain ad featuring references to "The One" portrays Obama as the Anti-Christ, those suggestions are nonsense, writes ...
This Week in God
Political Animal —
... a few days ago, and was elevated to a national issue by Time’s Amy Sullivan yesterday, who noted that the ad’s suggestion of Obama as the Antichrist might actually made the Willie Horton ads “seem benign” by comparison. ...
Obama the Antichrist?
Outside The Beltway | OTB —
... Here’s one of John McCain’s recent ads: You would think that the rational response to this ad would be to chuckle to yourself, as it does do a nice job of making fun of some of the messianic fervor that some of Obama’s fans have. (Yeah, I’m voting for him, but I’ve no illusions that Obama is anything more than an above-average politician.) Amy Sullivan , however, feels differently. But even this innocuous interpretation of the ad — which includes images of Charlton Heston as Moses and culled clips that make Obama sound truly egomaniacal — taps into a ...
Stoking the Fire (and Brimstone)
Taylor Marsh —
... stuff is out there. The emails continue to circulate. It’s a real concern and dismissing it as pure fringe would be a mistake. There are millions of people in our country today who would not be surprised if the literal Antichrist emerged in their lifetimes. The McCain camp is apparently aware of this, and have released a web-only ad called "The One" which appears to capitalize on it. It currently has over a million views.
It was enough for Time to ask
"An Antichrist Obama in McCain Ad?": ...
The Devil is in the Details: MSM Misses McCain's Pandering to Paranoid Christians with Tall Tales of Obama as Antichrist
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
... , a Web site dedicated to "analyzing and discussing" the religious right, was not amused."I don't think it bodes well," Wilson said of the political implications of McCain's new ad. "It means a specific form of Christianity is becoming the idiom of politics." While the media dutifully pointed out that the quotes from Obama used in the McCain campaign ad were actually jokes taken out of context, they failed to acknowledge the religious subgroup for which the ad was created. In an analysis of the ad, Time Magazine got a little closer to the mark, pointing out the religious ...
Obama-Carpathia '08
Ross Douthat —
That's the RedState response to Amy Sullivan's Time piece. Andrew, no doubt, is not at all amused. He wrote, in response to this post (and this shirt): Ross thinks
it's "(ahem) a joke," which it is. A harmless joke, given the legions
of evangelical Christians waiting for the Rapture and convinced that
only the Republican party represents the will of God? I guess it's just
as well that Ross thinks the religious right is entirely a function of
the liberal media's imagination. Um ... I ...
Time Accuses McCain of Evil 'Antichrist' Ad Against Obama
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... Time magazine writer Amy Sullivan, the former Tom Daschle aide, has been one of the media elite’s most enthusiastic evangelists for the implausible idea of Democrats closing the "God gap" among Christians (including a book titled The Party Faithful). This leads to all kinds of aerobically biased writing. But the latest article was truly ridiculous, headlined "An Antichrist Obama in McCain Ad?" ...
Obama, McCain And Rick Warren: Calculations At The Intersection Of Faith And Power
Firedoglake —
... Obama might be the antichrist. Nothing like an ad cooked up by Ralph Reed pal Fred Davis which was just meant in good fun with no underlying manipulative message for the paranoid among us, I'm sure. McCain has also been ...
Obama The Antichrist: It’s All About Scaring The GOP Base
Firedoglake —
... seem like a serious theological problem -- one that could then be debated further -- rather than the scurrilous nonsense it really is.
That story in turn was sparked by the discussion that followed the release of the McCain campaign's anti-Obama ad, "The One", which was just chock full o' nutty images that clearly were intended to lead viewers to wonder whether there was a sinister, even diabolical, side to Obama's celebrity.
Back when the ad first aired, Amy Sullivan in Time pointed out: ...
Obama The Antichrist: It’s All About Scaring The GOP Base
The Hollywood Liberal —
... deserve. It made the question seem like a serious theological problem — one that could then be debated further — rather than the scurrilous nonsense it really is. That story in turn was sparked by the discussion that followed the release of the McCain campaign’s anti-Obama ad, “The One”, which was just chock full o’ nutty images that clearly were intended to lead viewers to wonder whether there was a sinister, even diabolical, side to Obama’s celebrity. Back when the ad first aired, Amy Sullivan in Time pointed out: ...
McCain Campaign Blasphemes The One, Again
Weekly Standard Blog —
... that the McCain campaign wasn't merely poking fun at the messianism of the Obamaphiles--Team McCain was calling Obama the Antichrist. Exit question: Remember Mr. " ...
Time's Sullivan Sees Another Free-market Failure: Campaign Advertising
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... . And even if voters do hear the refutation of an ad's claims, studies show that may not alter their perceptions created by the original ad. It may well be that the standards for commercial advertising have worked too well, instilling in many viewers the belief that what they hear on television is mostly true. ...
Eric Shutt: Which One? Anti-Christ vs. Committed Christian Campaign Rhetoric
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... When McCain's campaign released its original "The One" ad comparing Obama to Moses, any notion of its absurdity quickly parted when pundits suggested it portrayed Barack Obama as the Anti-Christ. "An Anti-Christ Obama in McCain Ad?" asked Time Magazine's Amy Sullivan. ...
