Video - Fan Club - White House '08

Fan Club (video) (flag)

www.youtube.com — Have you joined The One's fan club yet?

White House

vote down Jonathan Martin's Blog found this 8/11/2008

1 Comment

Erin

+1

Someone has a major man-crush.

Posted 8/12/2008 respond (flag)

Leave a Comment

33 Blogs Link to this Story

McCain inflates Obama celebrity more, raises sex appeal
Jonathan Martin's Blog — John McCain's campaign will release a new web ad today that continues to portray Barack Obama as a bigger-than-the-Beatles celebrity but that also directly raises the matter of his sex appeal for the first time. "Fan Club" is designed as a parody of an 80s-era album compilation ad, with testimonials from starry-eyed supporters and some conventional jabs at Obama. At the end of the ad, though, there is a pivot to paint Obama as not just a celebrity, but a boy band heart-throb who makes the girls go weak in the knees. Calling Obama "dreamy," the spot features a ...

The Taco Bell Ad
pandagon.net - these things don't just blame themselves — by Jesse Taylor People eat food when they see Barack Obama. This is unlike all other instances of human existence ever. The real problem here is that we’re getting past the “Obama’s shallow but popular stage” to the ...

Bump It Up
Talking Points Memo — Having found most pundits to be incorrigible morons on racial/sexual messaging, McCain decides to push a bit further ... ...

McCain: 'Fan Club'
Ben Smith's Blog — Jonathan Martin writes of McCain's new webad: At the end of the ad, though, there is a pivot to paint Obama as not just a celebrity, but a boy band heart-throb who makes the girls go weak in the knees. Calling Obama "dreamy," the spot features a woman praising "the aura around him" and another the Democrat's "very soft eyes." A man then summarizes, "Hot chicks dig Obama," before Wayne and Garth of "Wayne's World" fame are shown on their knees doing their signature "we're not worthy!" routine. A cynic might see this ...

New McCain Web Ad: "Hot Chicks Dig Obama"
TPM Election Central — The latest McCain Web ad takes the "Celeb" tag to a whole new low -- it proclaims that "Hot chicks dig Obama": "We know he doesn't have much experience, and isn't ready to lead, but that doesn't mean he isn't dreary," says the announcer, followed by footage of two women at rallies -- both of whom are white, mind you -- complimenting Obama's looks. How long until "Barack, call me" ends up in a McCain paid TV ad? ...

New McCain ad: Hey, did you hear that Obama’s a celebrity?
Hot Air » Top Picks — New McCain ad: Hey, did you hear that Obama’s a celebrity? posted at 4:28 pm on August 11, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly Their internal polling on this meme must be stupendous to justify playing the same tedious note over and over and over. Not as clever as the Britney ad, not as funny as the Moses ad, and apparently misleading to boot: According to FactCheck , the only tax hike Obama’s supported for people earning $42,000 a year was a $15 increase, and that would have applied only to single taxpayers, not “everyone.” Why they’re going after him on this point when there are ...

Another McCain Video Mocks Obama's Celeb Status
The Atlantic Politics Channel — This one has a Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy tone to it... arch and ironic. I'm not sure of its purpose, other than to get folks like me to notice it and write about it. Do people at McCain's headquarters really have this much contempt for Obama? Or are they exaggerating their contempt for comedic effect?

McCain: 'Fan Club'
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — A new web ad from McCain: I think this strikes a better tone than the infamous Paris-Britney ad -- much more light-hearted and, for me anyway, funnier. (I mean, a Wayne's World shout out?) Best of... ...

We're Not Worthy
Weekly Standard Blog — Above is John McCain's entertaining new internet ad. Will Joe Klein find it scurrilous? Will Andrew Sullivan be gobsmacked? Will Barack Obama show a heretofore hidden ability to laugh at himself? You'll have to stay tuned.

Campaign AdWatch: Hot White Women Like Obama
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — Just when you thought the real world concerns coming out of Eastern Europe might send the Presidential campaign winging back in a more adult direction, John McCain hangs out his douchenozzle flag again, returning to his juvenile "Celebrity" meme. He'd have been wise to drop this theme, since the Obama campaign's decision to try to mine the same territory was the "Celebrity" attack's definitive shark-jumping moment. I guess the McCain camp just couldn't resist adding a Surge of race-card jujitsu for spice -- this new, painful, offering practically begs the Obama camp to draw the obvious "Harold, call me!" ...

New McCain Ad Mocks BHO's Celeb Status
Hyscience — Have you joined "The One's" fan club yet? Marc Ambinder takes a dark view of the "light" ad (as in humorous for those who drink the same Kool-Aid as Mark): This one has a Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy tone to it... arch and ironic. I'm not sure of its purpose, other than to get folks like me to notice it and write about it. Do people at McCain's headquarters really have this much contempt for Obama? Or are they exaggerating their contempt for comedic effect?Whoa ...

New McCain Ad “The One’ Rockstar
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —

McCain Keeps Hammering 'Celebrity' Theme in New Web Ad
The Hill's Blog Briefing Room — McCain Keeps Hammering 'Celebrity' Theme in New Web Ad John McCain has continued his assault on Barack Obama's allegedly star-like popularity with his latest web ad, released today by the Arizona senator's campaign. Expanding on the previously established "celebrity" theme, the latest ad begins with satire and mockery: "You too can join 'the One's' fan club right here in America," the narrator explains, then the ad cuts to a newsanchor describing her town's reaction to an Obama visit, explaining, "You'd think that Elvis or the Beatles had come to town." Next, the ad says, "The perks are amazing…like a tax increase for ...

Another Racist Attack from McCain
Ace of Spades HQ — Another Racist Attack from McCain So where's the racism? Surely you know. But if you missed it, let Talking Points Memo explain it: "We know he doesn't have much experience, and isn't ready to lead, but that doesn't mean he isn't dreamy," says the announcer, followed by footage of two women at rallies -- both of whom are white, mind you -- complimenting Obama's looks. How long until "Barack, call me" ends up in a McCain paid TV ad? That last bit about "Barack, call me" is a reference to another putatively "racist" ad, that one about Harold Ford's partying it up with Playboy Bunnies, which ended with an actress playing a ...

Just Curious.
Little Miss Attila — Just Curious. Has the McCain campaign produced any non-racist ads whatsoever? Via Ace, who delineates the mental hoops the lefties had to go to in order to interpret the ad as racist, and remarks, ...

What the hell is wrong with John McCain?
Shakesville — How is this an actual campaign advert? [Transcript below.] Not to put too fine a point on it, but, if this were put through a "Straight Talk" filter and actually translated into genuine straight talk befitting the mavericky delicious conductor of the Straight Talk Express, it would just show a picture of Obama next to a white girl with the narration: "Your idiot starfucking daughters and faggoty sons want to do sexay times with this black man, White America." Cut to a picture of McCain: "No one wants to fuck this. Vote ...

Barack Obama Watch: The One’s Fan Club
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — John McCain’s latest ad: The One’s Fan Club Team McCain is up to the ridicule of Barack Obama’s celebrity status again. The comment about the eyes is priceless. Of course, Obama is NOT ready to lead America and he ...

The latest in The One ad campaign
The LLama Butchers — The latest in The One ad campaign Courtesy of the fine folks at the McCain campaign and YouTube: Posted by LMC at August 11, 2008 08:16 PM | TrackBack

Video: John McCain “Fan Club” Ad
(Obsolete Feed) — John McCain’s team continues to deliver the funny. Yes it’s silly, but then so is the notion of an unaccomplished junior senator running for the presidency. Join the Blogs of War Readers Facebook group and meet cool conservative thinkers ...

Video : "The One"
The Jawa Report — August 11, 2008 Video : "The One" I've gotta hand it to McCain's guys. They're running circles around "The One" when it comes to viral/online video projects. h/t: Allah . By Ragnar Danneskjold, Typical Bitter Gun-Clinger at August 11, 2008 09:11 PM | | l digg this

No More Mister Nice Blog — DID HOLLYWOOD JOHN GET A FAVOR FROM ONE OF HIS HOLLYWOOD FRIENDS? In what I believe is his 837th ad in the past two weeks accusing Barack Obama of being a big silly celebrity, how did John McCain get permission to use the final clip, which is apparently from one of the Wayne's World movies? I'm guessing he wouldn't use the clip without permission, not after Frankie Valli's record label forced him to pull an ad that featured "Can't Take My Eyes Off You." So how did he get the rights? Perhaps from the producer of the movies, ...

Imagine a Graph, with Demeaning on One Axis, Stupid on the Other...
Discourse.net — I dunno. I suspect it’s not the single most demeaning ad ever put out by a major party presidential campaign, and I’m prepared to believe it’s not the most stupid (although I wonder), but is this new McCain (web only) ad Fan Club the most simultaneously demeaning and stupid ad ever put out by a major party Presidential candidate? Could be. TPM says Having found most pundits to be incorrigible morons on racial/sexual messaging, McCain decides to push a bit further … (the key point, ...

alicublog — HYSTERICAL BLINDNESS. I go off the grid for a couple of days, and come back to find I've lost my bearings. Though I'd covered the spectacularly dumb "Celeb" McCain spot, I was totally unprepared for his latest goofy ad. It seems to me that as Russia invades Georgia, the market convulses, Kashmir heats up, Musharraf falls, and our President, after fucking off to the Olympics all weekend, makes obviously toothless grimaces over South Ossetia while much more effectively sabotaging the Endangered Species Act, that even the Republicans would find it hard to tell people that their ...

New McCain ad: ‘Hot chicks dig Obama’
Political Animal — At this point, I’ve lost count of exactly how many ad/videos the McCain campaign has released mocking Barack Obama’s so-called “celebrity” status. I suspect we’re approaching double digits by now, and the problem with diminishing returns is rather obvious. It’s one thing for a campaign makes a spot or two to make a point, it’s another to go back to the well five or six times, hoping to beat the same foolish point into the ground. And yet, there was yet another “celebrity” spot, released yesterday afternoon. ...

Today's Campaign Contest: Count the Young White Women in McCain's Anti-Obama Video
Political Punch — Pelosi Will Allow Vote on Off-Shore Drilling; Rejects Idea that Edwards Cost Clinton Iowa | Main Today's Campaign Contest: Count the Young White Women in McCain's Anti-Obama Video August 12, 2008 9:30 AM How many young white women professing adoration for Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, can you count in this anti-Obama web video that the campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, was sending out yesterday? One...two...three...four...sure are a lot of young white women in this thing.... Why do you think they put so many young white women professing their love for Obama in what is clearly an anti-Obama video? What ...

Opening the Day: Russia To Cease Fighting?
Open Left - Front Page — It is ridiculously nice out in DC. So says the Russians. Skirmishes continue. Apparently the US tried to warn Georgia not to give any reasons for Russia to engage militarily, which I suppose speaks well of US strategy. McCain has a new ad out called 'fan club'. The McCain campaign is really hitting their groove, media-wise. They are committed to being a bunch of bullying assholes, the kids throwing the most popular and most hated frat party on campus. Obama has a 'problem' with older Americans. "Kids ...

McCain’s Celeb Strategem
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — Here’s the latest from the McCain campaign’s “Obama is a celeb” campaign ads: (via TPM Election Central): The problem I see with these ads is that while it does raise the experience question ...

"The aura around him is just really nice."
Althouse — LOL. But grumpy old TPM says: "The latest McCain Web ad takes the 'Celeb' tag to a whole new low — it proclaims that 'Hot chicks dig Obama.'" Huh? The ad didn't "proclaim" "Hot chicks dig Obama." The ad showed that various fools love Obama — including some lunkhead who said "Hot chicks dig Obama" and some ditz who said "The aura around him is just really nice." If you think it's offensive to say "Hot chicks dig Obama," then you should do what the ad invites you to do: Discount the support for Obama and think for yourself. ...

"Hot chicks dig Obama," a new John McCain ad proclaims
Top of the Ticket — Another day, another John McCain Web ad that depicts Barack Obama as an air-headed creation of celebrity culture. References and images include Elvis, The Beatles, Bono, Wayne and Garth (of "Saturday Night Live" fame) and, most improbably, a Taco Bell (!). Most controversially, the spot features one young woman complimenting Obama's "aura," and a second young woman singling out his "very soft eyes" for praise. And then there's a fellow saying of the 47-year-old U.S. ...

Join The Hussein Fan Club - McCain Ad
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —

John McCain's "Hot Chicks Dig Obama" and "Celebrity" ads racist? Stop overreacting
Shakesville — 1830s: Racist --- 1860s: Racist --- 1906: Racist --- 1915: Racist --- 1917: Racist --- 1920s: Racist --- 1950s: Racist --- 1975: Racist --- 2006: ...

Confidential To B O'M, C.O., Others
The Atlantic Politics Channel — You protest: how could I not see racial undertones in McCain's web ads? All those white women lavishing praise on Obama? The specter of black man preying on white women? Well, the view that McCain hasn't gone there is shared by Barack Obama, for one. And those who see racial imagery in these web ads (black woman, white man, older white woman, younger white woman, white woman, white woman, white man, Wayne and Garth) are racializing the web ads and drawing attention to them. Be very careful with arguments about latent appeals to this or that; by happenstance, an entire class of voters is deemed to be ...