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  Huh? That was one of most counter-productive ads i have ever seen for the McCain campaign. And what does "Lead" in this sense mean? Brainwash + scare the public into invading yet another middle east nation?

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McCain: 'The one'; DNC: 'Proud of that Commercial'
Ben Smith's Blog — Ye Web ad mockery for the Friday afternoon: McCain paints Obama as a biblical wannabe; and the DNC wonders how McCain can be proud of his Britney spot.

McCain Web Ad: The One
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — The McCain camp puts the pedal the metal, with another ad that is sure to create chatter and controversy heading into the Sunday shows:...

McCain Video Mocks “The One”
The Page by Mark Halperin — Web video spoofs Obama’s celebrity, supposed arrogance. Click above to watch. Announcer: “He can do no wrong… Can you see the Light?” *Get The Page delivered to your inbox.* Sign up for ...

More of the "Low Road"
Swampland — The Democratic Party hits back: And the McCain campaign doubles-down, with a new online-only Messiah spot, the most explicit so far: UPDATE: Note one of the quotes used on screen in the McCain ad is under dispute ...

New McCain ad: “The One”
Hot Air » Top Picks — New McCain ad: “The One” posted at 3:06 pm on August 1, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly A logical progression from the “celebrity” ad, which, as I said yesterday , was just a polite way of calling attention to the (benign) cult of personality on which The One’s appeal rests. McCain can’t accuse Obama of leading a “cult” so he dialed the adjective down to a lower grade of worship. Today he dials it up, accusing him of believing he’s the Messiah while taking care not to accuse his supporters of (necessarily) agreeing. An occasional goof on Obama every few weeks as part of an ad mix ...

The McCain campaign doubles down
Betsy's Page — Friday, August 01, 2008 The McCain campaign doubles down Rather than slinking away shamefacedly as the media and Democrats would like them to do, the McCain campaign has doubled down on the bet that laughing at Obama's messianic appeal will have some effect in the election. They've created a funny, new web ad ...

The One
Classical Values — [image] previous entry | main August 01, 2008 The One posted by Simon on 08.01.08 at 03:16 PM TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: http://classicalvalues.com/cgi-bin/pings.cgi/6973 Comments Post a comment You may use basic HTML for formatting. Name: Email Address: URL: Remember Me? Yes No Comments: (you may use HTML tags for style)

The Gloves Come Off
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — By Patrick Appel McCain strikes again:

McCain Camp Mocks Prophetic Obama
The Atlantic Politics Channel — Just  "a little Friday fun," according to a McCain aide.  The campaign hopes it goes viral.  The Obama folks on the trail here admit that the ad is amusing. But, says one, "we are basically running against the NRCC" -- (which is known for these type of personality-based media creations).

McCain Web Ad Mocks "The One"
Weekly Standard Blog — Via Tom Bevan: "The Moses part made me laugh out loud," writes Rod Dreher.

The One
The Next Right — The One Good ad, good strategy.

"The One"
Power Line — Today the McCain campaign continued to skewer Barack Obama for his pomposity and self-regard with a video called "The One." Here it is: It's amusing, and some people will think it's highly effective. I'm not so sure this line of attack is a good idea, however. People are catching on to Obama on their own. I think McCain is better served to let Jay Leno et al. mock Obama's empty-suit pretentiousness, and stick to the issues.

New Ad Mocks “The One”
Flopping Aces — On Wednesday, we chronicled the growing chorus of “news” media figures, mainly on the left, growing weary and wary of Obama’s evident arrogance. John McCain picks up on this theme in another hard hitting ad that gives it all to you in Obama’s own voice: &&&id; ...

Senator Small’s version of ‘Friday fun’
Political Animal — A McCain campaign aide described this new web video as “a little Friday fun,” hoping, desperately, that major news outlets will pick this up and air it for free. So, why am I playing along? Featuring the latest inanity from the single most annoying presidential campaign in modern history? For a few reasons. One, I’m not CNN, so it’s not like my post on the subject will necessarily lead to a viral web sensation. Two, I think it’s always worth noting what the McCain is up to. And this is what they’re up to. For ...

Barack Obama: ” What I Said is What Everybody Knows”
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — +++++BREAKING+++++ Twittering the House Revolt in the Right Sidebar—> John McCain’s latest television ad, “The One” Barack Obama today denied he ...

"The One"
The New Editor — Update: A commenter at Hot Air wrote the following: Now, all we need is Bobby Jindal or JC Watts to come out to speak at the [Republican] convention and have a light shine down on him, a choir of angels begin singing, and ... several cherubs flit around him to which he says “You guys are at the wrong convention.”

"The One"
Ace of Spades HQ — "The One" The ad is racist because it insinuates that the Messiah cannot be black. Besides knocking the Lamb of Chicago for his presumptuousness (racist attack) and arrogance (racist attack) and narcissism, it also might usefully piss off some religious voters, because, in all seriousness, Obama's semi-serious belief that he is sent by a Higher Power to grant us Salvation does have a bit of blasphemous edge to it. How serious is that last bit? I have no idea. I don't know how seriously to take Obama's messianic posturing. I don't know how seriously he takes it. And I don't know how seriously annoyed a religious person might be ...

John McCain compares Barack Obama to the original celebrity
Top of the Ticket — They went there. John McCain's campaign earlier today emailed supporters a new minute-long video called "The One," which opens like a Hollywood trailer: "In 2008, the world will be blessed," giant letters promise. "They will call him, The One." It then cuts to shots of Barack Obama at his most messianic: "We are the ones we have been waiting for" and the by-now standard photos of hundreds of thousands of cheering Germans. The spot ends with footage of a bearded and robed Charlton Heston in "The Ten ...

McCain Ad Mocks Obama as 'The One'
The Caucus — August 1 0 comments McCain Ad Mocks Obama as ‘The One’ The Republican candidate offers up a new commercial, this one tackling his opponent’s soaring words. August 1 0 comments House Dem Chief: Don’t Get Complacent The chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee counseled that Democratic House candidates still have a tough road ahead between now and November. August 1 0 comments When the Lights Went Out House Republicans are staging a protest, staying in the dark chambers to continue their fight for lifting the ban on offshore drilling. August 1 9 comments The Political Revival of George ...

There is No Spoon: Obama is THE ONE
The Jawa Report — August 01, 2008 There is No Spoon: Obama is THE ONE obama_matrix_the-one.jpg Obama contemplates The Truth: There is no spoon . I don't like commenting on the elections because a) it's done to death & b) it's as boring as hell with gaffes, tiny changes in polling data, and endless talk of strategy replacing anything of substance. Wake me up when it's over . But this McCain video? That's some funny stuff right there. Funny in the Jon Stewart The Daily Show kind of way--you know, a hacky partisan observation about "the Truth". But it's really only funny to partisans on your side of the aisle. But since I'm this side of the ...

McCain: Our Campaign Isn't "Negative In The Slightest"
TPM Election Central — John McCain just held a presser in Florida. Here are the, er, high points: * Said "I don't think our campaign is negative in the slightest." There are negative McCain ads running as we speak, and in the very same presser, he attacked Obama for injecting race into the campaign again. * Blamed Obama for bringing up the issue of race in the campaign, and repeatedly said that Obama had "retracted" his charge that McCain is using race. It was obvious by the repetition of "retracted" that this was a cooked up talking point, and it was apparently a reference to the fact that the Obama campaign said it ...

John McCain’s Ad Ridiculing Obama Called “The One”
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'The One'
JammieWearingFool — Heh. Just words, just speeches, used very effectively against The Messiah. Won't be long until the baby starts whining about it being racist or that he's being smeared . Via LGF . By the way, Barry O, what happened to that lead ? Update : The whining has already begun. Good luck selling the notion of a 71-year old McCain as childish, dipshits. Labels: Barack [deleted] Obama , humor , John McCain

John McCain Is A Bitter Old Man
Open Left - Front Page — There, I said it. Really, it is getting difficult to think of McCain is any other way. McCain complains about feeling "left out." He doesn't like new food. He doesn't like young celebrities. He is sensitive about his age. The dude is just bitter. I mean, really bitter: Matt is probably right that the "Obama is arrogant" narrative has probably sunk into the national consciousness by now. In that environment, I think the only thing you can do is turn it around, and make it a positive. One way is to point ...

Praise The One - With Video
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — Politico: Obama camp responds: ’sad…juvenile antics’ Barack Obama’s campaign responded sharply to a new McCain webad depicting Obama as a parody of a biblical prophet. “It’s downright sad that on a day when we learned that 51,000 Americans lost their jobs, a candidate for the presidency is spending all of his time and the powerful platform he has on these sorts of juvenile antics,” said spokesman Hari Sevugan. “Senator McCain can keep telling everyone how ‘proud’ he is of these political stunts which ...

McCain Hates Christians And Jews
pandagon.net - we are the public option — So, when you use overt Christian and Jewish references to attack a politician, does that make you a steely-eyed maverick or a charming, irrepressible scamp?  The weird thing is, this feels more like a Scientology video than the obvious megachurch ...

The New McCain Ad
Balloon Juice — From the comments: This is an atrocity. Obama is now Jesus, or Moses, or something else McCain is not. I was actually Laughing Out Loud at how stupid the ad was. Can I hear an OMFG? ...

Barack — The One He’s Been Waiting For
GayPatriot — Brilliant ad by the McCain campaign. It is odd that McCain is the one who is showing his sense of humor and acting like a real human being — unlike The Chosen One Himself who gets very touchy when anyone dares question his qualifications or liberal voting record. Post-political my ass. -Bruce (GayPatriot)

McCain ads experiments with this "irony" thing that the young people enjoy
Majikthise — The take home message is a little incongruous: Barack Obama is the confident, vital, handsome, and universally beloved candidate. Therefore, vote for John McCain.

How You Look, How You Sound, What You Say
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right — The headline in yesterday’s released Pew survey says it all: “Obama’s Trip: Seen but not Heard.” In an election season where the simplest macros reign (it’s a change election, it’s the demographics, stupid, etc.), another longstanding advertising maxim rules the day: it’s the images and not the content of what you say that people remember. Lesley's Parable from 1984 is not one to forget. Lesley Stahl’s nearly six-minute, hard-hitting CBS piece contained image after image of a smiling Reagan and enthusiastic, flag-waving crowds. Delighted, Michael Deaver called Stahl to thank her. "Nobody heard what you ...

Quick Thoughts on The "Race Card" Issue
Stubborn Facts — Now I'm sure we're all aware of the latest bit of controversy between Obama and McCain, over cooments Obama made about the GOP and race. For a refresher, Obama said this: "What they're going to try to do is make you scared of me," Obama said. "You know, he's not patriotic enough, he's got a funny name, you know, he doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills." McCain took offense, and responded: "I'm disappointed that Senator Obama would say the things he's saying," McCain told reporters in Racine, Wis. The Arizona senator said he ...

McCain Ad: The One
Nice Deb — Someone in the McCain campaign has a brain. This is so perrrrrfect: Hat tip: Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler

The One
Obsidian Wings — by hilzoy Very, very quick note: I am absolutely no judge of these things, but I think this new McCain video truly jumps the shark: It has been reported for a while (though alas I can't find it now) that the McCain campaign refers to Obama as 'the ...

What Has "The One" Done?
Rhymes With Right — Great new video from the McCain Campaign! Damn funny video -- damn serious question. Is Obama ready to lead, with the experience necessary to occupy the Oval Office? Well, let's take this expert on Barack Obama and see what he has to say. I don't think I have a place in history yet. I got elected to the U.S. Senate. I haven't done anything yet. Those are Obama's words about himself ...

McCain Puts Out Another Ad Calling Obama “The Divine Obama”
Comments from Left Field — I just watched the latest McCain attack ad. It starts out with the words “In 2008 the world will be blessed. They will call him ‘The One.’ Praise The One,” and goes on to mock “the Divine Obama” with over-the-top visual effects and by taking snippets of speeches out of context. You really have to see it to fully appreciate how much it degrades John McCain. It’s hard to describe in words how unbelievably scurrilous it is. It’s astonishing, that’s all I can say. ...

The Prophet
PoliGazette — John McCain is finally talking about religion, though perhaps not as many expected he would. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mopkn0lPzM8 I’m getting sick of these character attacks…from both candidates. (h/t Patrick Appel @ Daily Dish) ©2008 ...

The One......(who will wreck the US)
Theo Spark — skip to main | skip to sidebar Theo Spark Saturday, 2 August 2008 The One......(who will wreck the US) H/T Mark Scott Posted by Theo at 06:41 [image] [image] 0 comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Editor: Theo Spark Contributors: Shelly Nebraska Bob Pete Hurrell 45 Govt Thomas Harris Jeffrey Nihart Liz B AJD Shootist John Heinrichs Mark Scott Don Emslie Canis 61 Jackie Gedling Peter Gunn Ted Foster Stormbringer DJ Elliot M Kohl Joker Chad DML [image] The Beer Fund [image] ...

McCain continues his ad theme, making fun of the worship of Barack Obama.
Althouse — McCain takes the risky approach of mocking our love for the other man: Sorry, John, I found myself smiling through all those images — and it was always pretty easy to pick up the humor and the missing context of all the various things Obama was saying. And as for that "10 Commandments" punchline... Althouse did it first. I feel like you owe me a link. But the important question is: Will ads like this and "the biggest celebrity" one work? As I said on the radio show yesterday — listen to the first few minutes — it's risky to show ads ...

Halleluiah! He Has Come To Bestow Great Blessings Upon US!
Gateway Pundit — Messiah Mash-- The new prophecy ad by the McCain Campaign is terrific. There's nothing like using the words of a false prophet against that same false prophet of socialism and appeasement. McCain nailed it on this one: (60 seconds) This 60 second version is so much better than the 30 second version that was on TV last night. Nice touch at the end with Moses separating the Red Sea. The Obama Campaign response was weak- very weak.

Hullabaloo — The One by dday At this point you may have seen this Web ad that the McCain campaign put out, using fabricated quotes and contextless remarks to make some kind of muddled "argument" that Obama fancies himself the Messiah. Seems to be a little projection in there. As far as I know, Obama doesn't open his town hall meetings with a video like this: At many of his events, his campaign sets up a screen and plays for the crowd a three-minute film called "Service with Honor," telling the story of McCain's ...

New McCain ad: "The One"
Wizbang — I have yet to use an Barak Obama pet name. All other names pale in comparison to his glory. Elect him! Elect him with highest Electoral College delegates!...

The World Will Be Blessed
Right Wing Nation — McCain’s latest ad: The One!

The one
The Reaction — by Capt. Fogg One of the things that used to make me wake up in a cold sweat was the Nixon campaign jingle: Nixon's the one, Nixon's the one. Nixon's the one for me. Turns out he was the one to be elected and some of his supporters, like right wing radio crackpot and self confessed criminal G. Gordon Liddy were willing to break any law that got in the way of the process including laws against murdering people who get in your way. It seems a bit ironic for the McCain campaign to be mocking Obama's charismatic personality by ...

I Do Love This Ad
Hyscience — McCain has grown some balls, finally. It shows Obama to be the joke that he indeed is, and not to be taken as having what it takes to be POTUS. And just in case you haven't seen "The One" yet ... The Patriot Room offers some commentary. ...

Obama's "Entitlement" vs. Plain Looking The Part
BAGnewsNotes — In completely undisguised terms, the McCain campaign has been focusing on painting Obama with a God-complex -- as someone who looks upon the White House with a sense of entitlement.  Sadly, many in the media have been infected with the same virus, propagating over-and-over the idea that ("Niccolo," or now, "Moses") Obama has been single-mindedly running for president practically since he was born.  The offshoot has been article-after-article -- like the major Ryan Lizza piece on Obama's political history in the New Yorker recently, or the latest background ...

McCain Ad Mocks Obama as ‘The One’ (Video)
Tennessee Guerilla Women — The One. Moses. Epiphany. The Light Will Shine Down on You. . . Barack Obama may be The One. But is he ready to lead? -- via The Caucus Election Drama News Politics Obama Charlton Heston Democratic Party Humor John McCain Hillary Clinton

Mark Salter And 'The One'
Obsidian Wings — by hilzoy Watching McCain's new video, 'The One', I remembered a recent New Republic piece on Mark Salter: "Salter is still McCain's chief wordsmith as well as a top campaign operative and, for all practical purposes, McCain's brain. (...) "Salter's just spent so much time with McCain ...

Apparently, He Never Played “The Dozens”
The Sundries Shack — The good news is that, today, Barack Obama’s campaign isn’t calling John McCain a racist. That’s a mini flip-flop in itself, but since he’s rowing back from his ridiculous assertion, I’ll give him a pass. The bad news is that he’s descended even farther into cluelessness. ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Saturday that Republican rival John McCain’s campaign has been cynical, not racist, in trying to raise fears about his candidacy. Obama said McCain’s campaign team was “very good at negative ...

New McCain Ad: Barack is 'The One'
The BRAD BLOG — (Hat-tip RAW STORY) That ad most benefits... McCain Obama ...

That’s The Idea
Right Wing Nation — McCain’s latest ad, The One, was posted on youtube Friday. As of right now, it has been viewed 640,426 times (that doesn’t count the views on johnmccain.com), and is: #1 - Most Discussed (Today) #1 - Most Discussed (Today) - News & Politics #11 - Most Discussed (This Week) #2 - Most Discussed (This Week) - News & Politics #55 - Most Discussed (This Month) #5 - Most Discussed (This Month) - News & Politics #4 - Most Responded (Today) #1 - Most Responded (Today) - News & Politics #7 - Most Responded (This Week) #2 - Most Responded (This Week) ...

Obama Anti-Christ? McCain Ad Touches Off Religious Debate
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — A number of progressive religious figures are angry over the McCain campaign's recent ad "The One," which they believe paints Barack Obama as a kind of anti-Christ, specifically to conservative evangelicals: On Beliefnet.com, Mara Vanderslice, founder and director of the pro-Obama religious group Matthew 25 Network, writes: I found this McCain campaign ad "The One" to be one of the most offensive ads we have seen in American politics to date. At best, this ad implies that those who plan to support Senator Obama are looking for a new savior or a replacement Messiah. But many are ...

The Dog Whistle Becomes An Air Raid Siren
Sadly, No! — Today in infamy: The McCain campaign has decided to spread the word among Evangelicals that Barack Obama is the Antichrist. I mean, not that we haven’t seen this before, but the production values are certainly improving. ...

New Low For McCain Campaign: Obama == The Anti-Christ
Discourse.net — Normally I save the anti-McCain stuff for Friday, as don’t want the blog to become a one-note operation. But this … The McCain campaign just released another anti-Obama commercial, The One. Perhaps to most viewers this one will seem like the political equivalent of scoring against yourself as much of it is about how wonderful Obama is, and the attack part involves a clumsy use of Charlton Heston. But there may be a (very evil) method to the madness: SoonerG at Daily Kos suggests that the point of the latest McCain ...

O-pulence
RedState: Conservative News and Community — Living the Good Life on O-Force One "Are These Peanuts? I said ARUGALA!!!!" Senator Obama is flying in style these days.CBS News' Allison O'Keefe reports today on the regal setting aboard "O-force One", complete with a throne for the man himself. ...

I hear their gentle voices calling Old Black Joe
SteveAudio — It's been quite a week in John McMaverickypants' campaign, what with his latest insulting ads. Oh hell, here's the first: Celebrity? Young, vacuous, slutty white women? Of course, serious Villagers like Ross Douthat don't see it that way: That's the takeaway, so far as I can tell, from this Josh Marshall post, which starts with the dubious claim that this McCain ad - which Ramesh and John Weaver rightly call childish - is actually playing on white ...

John McCain: Dealin' the cards
The Swamp — Today marks the debut of Doubletake,a recurring feature here on The Swamp. Each weekday morning, Tribune correspondents James Oliphant and Jim Tankersley will talk about the news of the moment, with the goal of starting a conversation among you, the readers. Check back each morning and leave your comments. Jim Tankersley: Let's talk Crazy Eights -- all this card-playing in the presidential campaign this week. We got the race card, the Britney card, even the Chosen One card (disciple cards sold separately). What do you make of it all? Jim Oliphant: ...

Andrew Sullivan reflects on whether he's "delusional" to say that Obama "had an 'objectively miraculous' fortnight."
Althouse — Fortnight. That's already funny. Imagine if a candidate said "fortnight." He'd lose. Anyway, "objectively miraculous." Even if you think that, shouldn't you quit offering up the raw material for this kind of mockery? It's nice that Sullivan is reflecting on the possibility that he's overgushed. But he stands by his position: What I meant is simply that it's remarkable that a first-term senator's proposals on Iraq, having been decried as defeat and surrender by McCain and Bush, came to be endorsed by the Iraqi "government," and ...

McCain’s Obama is the anti-Christ ad
Crooks and Liars — Sadly, No! The McCain campaign has apparently decided to spread the notion among Evangelicals that Barack Obama is the Antichrist.   Michael Froomkin: New Low For McCain Campaign: Obama == The Anti-Christ ...

Oh brother
BlondeSense — What do you make of this latest John McCain ad? Many have suggested that it depicts Obama as the anti-christ. How will this play out among Christians or evangelicals?

Abominations of the World
Crooked Timber — Scott at his other place blogs about the latest McCain video (which is so staggeringly awful in achieving its purported aims that it doesn’t make sense except as a dogwhistle video). Scott: Maud Newton and I have something in common—something we do not share with most of our colleagues and neighbors and friends, nowadays, at least since each of us moved to Yankee-stan. We both grew up in the South, not just “around fundamentalists” but within the shadow of all those ...

Campaign Video of the Day: "I Have to Vote for Barack"
Debbie Schlussel — By Debbie Schlussel

HuffPo writer: McCain’s “The One” ad portrays Obama as the “anti-Christ”
Sister Toldjah — Check out the video I’ve got on the right side column.  Then read this drivel.  The far left is damn trip, I swear.  The “Celeb” ad was “racist,” “anti-Jew,” had “rape yo’ daughter” undertones,” and possibly deliberately contained “phallic symbols” … and now this about McCain’s latest ad.  These people need to get a freaking grip. I don’t know if the ads are helping McCain any, but I personally think they are catchy enough to get ...

Why Do TV Ads Suck So Much Compared to Web Video?
The Next Right — Ever since the "web video" made its debut in the 2004 cycle, it's been a tried and true tool used to move an edgier message into the earned media narrative without the costs or potential backlash associated with a broad television buy. The McCain "The One" web video is a perfect example of this, rising to over 947,000 views on YouTube, second only to the "Celeb" ad. But with the noteworthy exception of "Celeb" and a couple of evocative McCain bio ads narrated by Powers Boothe, general election advertising has sucked this year. The quality and persuasiveness of web videos on ...

Pundits Begin to Worry About Obama
Pajamas Media — Former cheerleaders express concern over who the "man behind the curtain" really is. [image] In the aftermath of Barack Obama’s overseas trip, the liberal punditocracy has begun to fret. ...

Checking the techPresident Charts
techPresident — It's been a while since I've checked in on our charts tracking how the campaigns are doing on the web, and even though we're now firmly headed into the August doldrums before the national conventions, some interesting trends are worth noting. * Obama continues to dominate the online social network arena, gaining another 125,000 friends on Facebook in the last month. * In terms of site traffic, it looks like July was McCain's best month ever. Hitwise shows him peaking at nearly 30% of all web traffic (with Obama taking the rest); Compete's data shows a similar boost for the Arizona Senator. Keep in mind that while ...

Buyer’s Remorse
Stones Cry Out — The fortress built by pundits on the left are starting to crack … from the inside. In the aftermath of Barack Obama’s overseas trip, the liberal punditocracy has begun to fret. Certainly there is reason for concern. Obama’s poll numbers are within the margin of error in a year in which a generic Democrat would be beating a generic Republican by double digits. And the storylines which dominated the news since the trip have been ones unfavorable to their chosen candidate: his ego, the snub of wounded U.S. soldiers in Germany, a potential flip-flop on ...

Web Videos Take Risks and TV Ads Are For Congressmen
The Next Right — Patrick is right, web ads have frequently been a lot more memorable than presidential TV ads this cycle and there are a couple of good reasons for it.  The campaigns have been much more willing to take risks in web videos and fundamentally, television ads as a tactic are better suited to races further down the ballot. This cycle we’ve seen great web videos and atrocious ones – but the successful ones have all been irreverent, “too long,” hokey or generally different from traditional spots.  In other words, they take risks. ...

McCain's "The One" Attack Video: Does it Have a Deeper Message?
techPresident — "The One," the McCain campaign's YouTube video poking at Oprah Winfrey's reference to Barack Obama's supposed chosenness, recently topped 1 million views (making it McCain's second most viral video). You may think the ad is just needling Obama (and his fans) for some of their more chest-thumping moments (i.e. "we are the ones we have been waiting for), and the general reaction to it from the political pundits was that the ad was amusing, that mocking Obama for being messianic was a bit tough but that mostly this was evidence of the McCain campaign starting to take the gloves off. Next story, please. Well, maybe ...

Dogwhistling the anti-christ?
Ben Smith's Blog — The Christian Democrats over at the Eleison Group, and their allies at the pro-Obama PAC Matthew 25, are claiming that McCain's "The One" ad is (below) meant to suggest to Evangelical Christians that Obama is the anti-christ, and petitioning McCain to pull it down. From the memo (.doc): The makers of the ad chose all of Obama's quotes very carefully and the ad is rife with image after image equating Senator Obama to the anti-Christ, and especially to Nicolae Carpathia, the anti-Christ in the popular Left Behind series. From the title of the ad (that immediately reminds ...

So Senator Obama, When Was The Last Time America Met Your High Standards?
Ace of Spades HQ — So Senator Obama, When Was The Last Time America Met Your High Standards? Gee, I wonder why McCain's " The One " ad resonated with so many people. That video is swiped from Hot Air which has a rundown on the Obama's (Michelle's too) history of pointing out America's deficiencies and The One's manifest ability to heal them. Unfortunately for Obama America has a fairly long history of rejecting African America , arrogant and liberal candidates who run down their country. Just ask Jimmy Carter how he enjoyed his second term or Walter Mondale, Michale Dukakis and John Kerry how they liked being President at all.

The ads are getting better
The LLama Butchers — The ads are getting better McCain ad on Obamessiah as The One as long as we are at it: Posted by LMC at August 7, 2008 06:48 PM | TrackBack

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. But since then, there has been a proliferation of websites on the net pushing Obama as the anti-Christ. Not my thing -- religion. This is all sort of weird for me, and I don't fully understand the anti-intellectual, anti-Enlightenment trends in our society -- but I ...

Obama as Antichrist?
The Swamp — by Amanda Erickson Amy Sullivan of Time has a fascinating column out today on whether the presidential campaign of John McCain (R-Ariz.) is trying to paint likely Democratic nominee Barack Obama (Ill.) as the Antichrist. Her speculation is based largely on an ad called "The One," which the McCain campaign released late last week online. In it, clips of Obama are combined with images of Charlton Heston as Moses. A voiceover begins: "it should be known that in 2008 the world shall be blessed. They will ...

New theory: McCain wants Christians to think Obama’s the Antichrist
Hot Air » Top Picks — New theory: McCain wants Christians to think Obama’s the Antichrist posted at 1:46 pm on August 8, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly 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 his post from March about her take on l’affaire Wright) and the piece itself follows hot on the heels of Democratic consultants circulating a memo that pushes the Antichrist read. Then again, the ...

The auteur
slacktivist — Imagine you are a filmmaker, an auteur who has just released a short film to the waiting public. Every image, every word was painstakingly chosen to convey a single message. This single-mindedness of theme is reflected in the tiniest details -- down to the style and coloring of every letter that appears onscreen. You edit ...

Unsubtle
slacktivist — Yes, I'm slightly side-tracked this Friday. I'd intended to continue our sojourn through the pages of the World's Worst Books, but I find myself distracted by the fact that those books and their awful ideas have become an issue in the presidential campaign. This ad from John McCain's campaign is a disgrace. Brian ...

Antichrist Obama in McCain Ad?
Drudge Retort — Some outraged Christian supporters of Barack Obama are claiming that John McCain's campaign is intentionally stoking fears of the Antichrist with an online ad attacking Obama . Posted by rcade at 07:13 PM | 2 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry |

Hit Me, Voters, One More Time
Daily Kos — In "McCain takes lead on YouTube hits", Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times, in a feat as amazing as squeezing raindrops from a rock, concludes from the number of hits on McCain's YouTube channel that McCain has "figured out the younger generation just fine." Dinan's article echoes what's been chattered about on cable news coverage of McCain's "Celeb" ad--that the ad's YouTube popularity is allegedly evidence that younger voters are "tuning in" to John McCain: Mr. McCain has pumped out a series of brutal yet entertaining attack ads and Web videos mocking the press and Mr. Obama, and the combination ...

Obama the Antichrist?
Outside The Beltway | OTB — Obama the Antichrist? 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 conversation that has been gaining urgency ...

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 BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White The collective eye-roll over Sen. John McCain's religious campaign ad attacking Obama's supposedly grand ego truly misses the point. While many are able to find a laugh ...

GMA Features Partisan Labeling McCain Ad 'Anti-Christ'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — John McCain implies Obama is the anti-Christ as ABC’s Kate Snow reports. On the August 13 edition of "Good Morning America," Snow followed "Time" magazine’s cue, featuring a Democratic hack, Obama supporter Eric Sapp, finding the "anti-Christ" message in McCain’s "The One" ad. On a story on subliminal message in advertising, Snow did not feature McCain supporters responding to the ludicrous charge. She did, however, play sound bites of "Left Behind" fans who did not see any "Anti-Christ" message. Additionally, Snow suggested racial ...

"Left Behind" Authors: Obama Not Antichrist
44 — The Debate Rages On... "Left Behind" Authors: Obama Not Antichrist By Michelle Boorstein This may be a first for a presidential campaign: A debate about whether one of the candidates is the Antichrist. The latest round began with the McCain campaign Web ad ...

Messiah Watch: Pelosi: Obama "a leader that God has blessed"
RedState: Conservative News and Community — In the meantime, Obama says McCain is "devil you know", but Obama just unknown The Messiah thing just doesn't let up. Ben Smith has Nancy Pelosi describing Barack Obama as "a leader that God has blessed us with at this time." Maybe he is the one? In the meantime, Obama says that McCain is "the devil" but that Obama is merely "unknown": “Even when people are having a tough time, sometimes the devil you know may be preferable to the unknown.” Of course, it is a joking point. But it is still telling that ...

McCain Campaign Blasphemes The One, Again
Weekly Standard Blog — New McCain web ad: You may recall that the last ad lampooning Obama as "The One" led to lots of paranoid accusations 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. "I thought it was brilliant. My new messiah.” How long until the McCain campaign unloads that one?

New Ads from the McCain Campaign
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Obama’s stage Thursday night to resemble Greek Temple, possibly even the WH
Sister Toldjah — Reuters reports that Mr. Presumptuous will be kicking things up a notch on Thursday night at his speech at Invesco field. It ain’t just about the presidency any more, folks: DENVER (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s big speech on Thursday night will be delivered from an elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple. The stage, similar to structures used for rock concerts, has been set up at the 50-yard-line, the midpoint of Invesco Field, the stadium where the Denver Broncos’ National Football ...

Phony Outrage
The American Scene — Obama, to his great credit, criticized some of the more tiresome aspects of the campaign back-and-forth. “What their campaign has done this morning is the same game that has made people sick and tired of politics in this country. They seize on an innocent remark, try to take it out of context, throw out an outrageous ad because they know it’s catnip for the news media,” Mr. Obama said. “I’m assuming you guys heard this watching the news. I’m talking about John McCain’s economic policies and I said here’s more of the same, ‘You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig. Suddenly, they say, Oh you ...

Pitney: The Alinsky Ticket
Articles on National Review Online — Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 R adical activist Saul Alinsky has had quite a season, especially for somebody who has been dead for 36 years. The two Democratic finalists had Alinsky links. Hillary Clinton wrote her 1969 senior thesis ...

Let's Visit 'The One' Again
Hyscience — I love this video. It's funny, and it makes fun of a guy that deserves it. So let's watch it again. Just think, the guy actually believes that crap he says. Is that not the worst case of NPD you've ever heard of? Lest we forget just what a clown this guy Obama really is, before November 4 and America does something really dumb - like electing him for "president." After all, we're talking about a guy that's never even been a mayor of a small town and has about as much real executive experience as Mickey Mouse. ...

Obama - The One - video
USS Neverdock — Creepy or what?

Obama's excutive experience takes a hit - video
USS Neverdock — Listen as Obama claims his campaing experinece trumps Palin's executive experience. note how he uses her mayoral experience and leaves out her Governorship. As Governor she had 29,000 employees and a budget of $10 billion. Now you know why he left that part out. ...

McCain and Palin Dehumanize and Objectify Obama -- They Call Him "This" or "That"
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Christine Bowman Will Voters Choose Hate and Fear? Or Hope and Change? John McCain refused even to look at Barack Obama throughout their first debate. His campaign never offered an explanation for that odd reality. Then in the second debate, John McCain pointed and called Barack Obama "That one."At a campaign rally earlier this week, Sarah Palin announced:"I am just so fearful that this is not a man who sees America the way you and I see America … I'm afraid this is someone who sees America as 'imperfect enough' to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country." Her supporters ...

“Chrystal Nacht”: RNC Issues Emergency Security Measures As Obama Brown Shirts Take To Streets, Beat Republicans, Destroy Buildings
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — “THE NIGHT OF THE BROKEN GLASS” aka “Crystal Nacht” or “Kristallnacht. ANOTHER INCIDENT BREAKING: THUGS TAG DOOR, BANNER WITH POLITICAL SLURS, STEAL SIGNS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Press Office October 11, 2008 RNC Announces Emergency Security Measures ...

NOT READY FOR GALT'S GULCH
Dr. Sanity — Lisa Schiffren says she hasn't heard so much about John Galt since...well, ever. I suppose, with all the projections of the Obama administration and its confiscatory tax rates on people and businesses, subordination of the productive to the dependent, public schools turned into training camps for radicals and legions of speech/thought police — i.e. — the end of liberty as we knew it — it might be time to start thinking about the mechanics of Galt's Gulch. Actually, this is probably a great time to buy property in the Rockies. Love to see the video for that... However, I am not ...

God, Obama
BAGnewsNotes — My God that's some shot, right? Given the likelihood of an Obama administration, it's not too early to target how BHO will be framed through spoken, written and visual language. In particular, each of us should be calling out media images that do little more than perpetuate stereotypes and ...

Today in The Nation: Trickle-Down Equanimity
The Nation: Top Stories — The other day I noticed that my husband had for the tenth time ruined the slick seasoned surface of my cast-iron skillet by scrubbing it with Brillo. I started to get ticked off, building up a tiny tornado of fury; boy, am I ever going to tell him. Again. But then I thought, Would Obama let this get to him? That tall cool drink o' distilled water would never blast Michelle for a domestic faux-pas like this, but here I am going ballistic because my spouse tried to clean a pot ? Then poof! (or plouffe!): my anger was gone. Not to get all hagiographic about it, much less to liken the President-elect to "The One" (the name the ...

WaPo love with Obama continues
Sister Toldjah — His ‘blackness,’ according to the WaPo, is causing Al Qaeda problems: Soon after the November election, al-Qaeda’s No. 2 leader took stock of America’s new president-elect and dismissed him with an insulting epithet. “A house Negro,” Ayman al-Zawahiri said. That was just a warm-up. In the weeks since, the terrorist group has unleashed a stream of verbal tirades against Barack Obama, each more venomous than the last. Obama has been called a “hypocrite,” a “killer” of innocents, an “enemy of Muslims.” He was even blamed ...

Republican Values
Weekly Standard Blog — A web video from my friend Justin Germany, who produced some of last year's most memorable ads (including this classic). HT: Ben Smith

Rep. Heath Shuler (D-NC) calls House and Senate leadership on the stimulus a “failure”
Sister Toldjah — Ouch: Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C) has further ingratiated himself with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — not — by declaring that Pelosi and Harry Reid “failed” the bipartisanship test on stimulus. “In order for us to get the confidence of America, it has to be done in a bipartisan way,” Shuler said in Raleigh following an economic forum, according to the AP. “We have to have everyone — Democrats and Republicans standing on the stage with the administration — saying, ‘We got something done that was efficient, stimulative and timely.’” ...

Obama: “Don’t say I didn’t warn you!”
neo-neocon — The war to divide Americans continues, with explicitly and purposely combative language from the no-longer-conciliatory Obama. The Obama who’s showing up now is the same guy who crowed “I won” when challenged by Congressional Republicans during a supposedly bipartisan closed-door meeting about the stimulus bill. Obama has taken the gloves off—the kid ones, that is—and put on the boxing gloves. Now we know that when he said “change,” he really meant it: …[Obama] will fight to change health care, energy and education in dramatic ways that will upset ...

The Persistence of Obama Love
Pajamas Media — Never underestimate the power of cognitive dissonance. [image] The stock market has been tanking steadily since his election, but public approval for President Barack Obama remains high. And this despite the fact that his carefully composed centrist stance during the campaign has been replaced by an economic policy that is at least as strongly liberal as FDR’s New Deal or LBJ’s Great Society, if not more so. Why don’t Americans feel more betrayed, or at least more wary? And if the economy doesn’t show strong signs of recovery, at what point will Obama be blamed and his approval rating start the long downward slide that so many other ...

Obama On Leno
Ace of Spades HQ — Obama On Leno What's more retarded? Making a Special Olympics crack or saying Geithner is doing a heck of a job? obamaurkelam.jpg Gabe had the White House spin in his thread below but in case you missed it, here's the White House spin. "The president made an off-hand remark making fun of his own bowling that was in no way intended to disparage the Special Olympics," White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton said. Anybody but brain dead Democrats and members of the JurnoList (there's a Venn Diagram with perfect overlap) buying that crap? This is so disgusting. It's not healthy for a republic to have a pop star as President. In ...

Guns and Bombs in New Haven
Booman Tribune — Something tells me these guys might not be affiliated with Al Qaeda. Call it an educated guess. Two men were arrested when police found a pipe bomb, two shotguns, bomb-making materials, ammunition, a can of propane and SWAT costumes in their car Tuesday night in New Haven, Conn. So far the police don't have a clear sense of what the pair were planning to do, New Haven Police spokesman Officer Joe Avery told TPM. "They're not talking much," Avery said. [...] The men, John Iannucci, 38, of Branford, Conn., and Jessup Bowllinger, 27, of New Haven, were charged with the manufacture of bombs, illegal possession of explosives, ...

Will Liz Cheney's new group hurt Obama?
The Cable — These days, presidential campaigns begin immediately after the previous election ends, often even before the opposition party has a candidate in mind. So it wasn't too surprising that Republicans opened up a new foreign-policy front aimed at 2012 today, bringing together former Bush administration and McCain ...