Courtesy of Snowflakes In Hell, I have seen the most incredibly dadaist political advertisement ever:
I was mildly disappointed that a flaming midget clown on a tricycle never pedaled furiously through the meadow yelling "Verboten!". Other than that, it was very nearly perfect.
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Nice ad, but the candidate it's supporting (Carly Fiorina) did her best to destroy HP while she was CEO. Not sure she has the best track record for financial responsibility.
I'm on the opposite coast, so I'd like to think I don't have to care. But given O's propensity for bailouts, I'm not so sure.
Samsam
Now I lay me down to sleep, save me Lord from Demonsheep.
BTW, Demonsheep now has a twitter feed:
http://twitter.com/demonsheep
So...is Fiorina saying Kali voters are just a flock of sheep who need to be protected from DemonSheep? Not sure that's a message I'd include if I were writing a political ad. Which I'm not, so whatever.
Seems as though the whole thing could have been done in half the time.
I blame medical marijuana.
You see, Wookie Suiters, when you legalize the goofy weed, the guys sitting in their mom's basement now run political campaigns.
Shootin' Buddy
OMG, I watched just the sheep bit with no volume and I (silently) laughed so hard that now my head hurts.
W. T. F.????
Let's see, I'm supposed to vote FOR Carly after that commercial?
Somehow I can't seem to forget that she took a respected R&D company and turned it into an also-ran that made most of its profits from INK!!!
Good thing I don't live in kommiefornia - I would have left long ago.
That's a real ad? Come on!
Living in Komifornia I know I don't want to vote for Tom Campbell and I'm pretty sure I don't want to vote for Carly Fiorina.
I liked the add though. It reminded me of the movie "Black Sheep". Try it, you'll like it.
Ted
That's not Dada. It's barely surrealism.
Dada eschews (explicit, clear) meaning and rationality, after all.
That ad's surreal, but it's all a rational, targeted message.
That ad's surreal, but it's all a rational, targeted message.
But targeted at who? And rational in who's universe?
Do androids dream of demon sheep?
A cute ad, but what family I have left in Kali intend to vote for Chuck DeVore.
While Fiorino talks up her opposition to gun control she has no track record and she's from a gun control venue. (And she made a lousy fit at HP, which is not really a point against her. She did not select herself for the job.)
Campbell also talks pro-gun but his track record puts him at best a D-. We do not like his positions on other matters, either.
DeVore has the better track record, and an A from both Gun Owners of California and the NRA.
Stranger
I just said it was a crazy ad. I have no opinion on the candidates mentioned.
...except that the one with the ad is crazy, of course.
Seems as if I've seen this somewhere before.
Wait, here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVJ-W6LioB8
What's the acronym, "FCINO" actually mean? Fiscal Conservative In Name Only? Naw.
F#C& if I kNow.
That first sheep looked familiar. Nah, couldn't be. Never mind.
"Sheep lie!"
Pretty people with good haircuts in the advert.
It just amazes me that every candidate for every office- especially a state wide office in California- doesn't just offer a $10,000 prize for the best campaign advert, then sit back and watch the great commercials roll in.
There are 36 million people in the state, and probably five million people with movie skills desperate to be discovered.
I thought it had its Felliniesque moments. The guy with the glowing red eyes in the sheep costume on his hands and knees certainly could have been in Casanova...
You know how Noh theater has all sorts of strange symbolism and unintelligible cultural references that only make sense to the Japanese?
Maybe this ad is only understandable if you're a Californian.
Seems the very soul of "oddvertising."
gvi
I was disappointed at the lack of a "Fenton the Demon SHeep" soundtrack.
http://www.tomsmithonline.com/lyrics/fenton.htm
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