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44: RNC Presents Hasselhoff and Obama, in Living Color
Pat Dollard | Young Americans: Searing New RNC Ad: Obama And Hasselhoff In Berlin, Fans Spout Bullshit
Shakesville: Read These Now Because Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves
Crooks and Liars: McCain, RNC Attack Ads Scrape The Bottom Of The Barrel
Attack Ads of the Day
Swampland —
From the RNC, with German disco vibe:
From Media Matters, with JibJab vibe:
RNC Presents Hasselhoff and Obama, in Living Color
44 —
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Searing New RNC Ad: Obama And Hasselhoff In Berlin, Fans Spout Bullshit
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
Read These Now Because Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves
Shakesville —
The "Gay Car Blog" at Vanity Fair. The Top 10 'WTF?' Bodybuilding Routines (urlesque) R.N.C. Deletes Comments on Obama Parody Site (The Caucus) The R.N.C. are also complete idiots. (YouTube) Massachusetts is one step closer to allowing out-of-state gay marriage. (Reuters) Wow! A leader has to face WAR CRIMES. Radovan Karadzic is on his way to the Hague. (NY) Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) told reporters that China has “carefully plotted to take advantage of the situation of having thousands of foreign visitors on its soil” and ...
McCain, RNC Attack Ads Scrape The Bottom Of The Barrel
Crooks and Liars —
The above attack ad “What An Obama Ad Might Look Like In Berlin” (warning, this video is awful) from the RNC is, as C&L contributer Jamie put it — sick. The ad is billed as a parody, but as with pretty much every attempt by conservatives to be ...
Videos of the Day: Do You Want Paris Hilton and Britney Spears in the White House? How 'Bout Hasselhoff?
Debbie Schlussel —
By Debbie Schlussel
Here's how I'd have ended this ad:
Just curious:
When he gets to the White House, will he
* bring one of Paris Hilton's hair extension kits?
* fight with K-Fed over the kids and date a Muslim photog hanger-on-er?
This one is better, with the Baywatch dude:
Is Obama Really a Superstar in Germany?
Weekly Standard Blog —
Barack Obama may have left Berlin more than a week ago, but the political repercussions of his speech to about 200,000 people there can still be felt. First came John McCain’s controversial Barack-Obama-Is-The-Biggest-Celebrity-In-The-World-But-Is-He-Ready-To Lead?
ad. Then the Republican National Committee launched a parody-type campaign spot that mocks, among other things, the Obama supporters in Berlin by comparing their Obamania to the fondness of many Germans for Knight Rider and Baywatch “star” David Hasselhoff during the 1980s. While the RNC ad seemed to gain only little traction in the United States, ...
