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Posted on 08/18/2009 6:28:26 AM PDT by Timeout
RIDICULE is the best weapon against narcissists like Obama. This video is pitch perfect.
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This is very good. Linked at top.
Ordinarily I wouldn’t have taken the time to watch it.
It was the “LOL” poster that drew me in.
IOW, it was the iconography that got me to listen to the message!
ARE YOU LISTENING, GOP?!
Interesting.......
Where can we get this for a bumper sticker. I have never placed a bumper sticker in my life....but I would put this one on my car and my pickup.
When you respect and honor an individual -- a bedrock conservative principle -- you don't try to pick his emotional pocket. You engage him in charity and truth.
Talk about a strategy for "rinos." As if image really were everything, conservatives jump on the icon bandwagon 20 years after the left did; the left which has perfected it and moved on to its logical successor: outright fraud, legal subterfuge and coercion.
This is one of the few 8-minute videos worth watching. He is dead on. But I like my “OOPS” bumpersticker better, with the zer0.
‘ROFL!’ would be better than ‘LOL’
Oh, for pete’s sake.
The whole point is that the left has made the ICON itself their ultimate principle.
There’s a snowball’s chance of herding a bunch of conservatives to follow an icon. THE POINT OF THE ICON is simply to draw people in long enough for them to hear our message. If all they get is MediaCrats and the DNC, then why should we be surprised when they don’t “get” conservatism.
http://www.zazzle.co.uk/lol+obama+gifts
But I like the ROFLMAO with both O’s being the 0bama logo better.
Bill Whittle worth reading and watching, period.
It seems a lot of people here don’t understand satire.
Do we want to engage in intellecutal arguents (yes, becase intellectually we’re right.) It’s the left that wants to deal in imaage instead of substance. So how do you counter that?
Make fun of their images. When you do that you knock the legs out from under their “arguments” (which are really just feel-good symbols) and force them to defend their positons logically (which is our strong point.)
The left creates posters and logos for their politicians because it makes them larger than life. Ridiculing them brings the person down to earth.
Satire is a powerful weapon to bring the “mighty” down to earth.
LOVE it. Do you have any of those?
Excellent.....I agree!
‘ROFL!’ would be better than ‘LOL’
Could you make one that says:
SLOW DOWN !
with the Obama O’s?
Same company as the ‘lol’ sticker
Wow. I am trying to get ready for work, but I must say that was masterful. Glad I watched it, LOL. Now I keep imagining that Obambi logo in every three-letter combo!
Good video, BTTT
Oh, for pete’s sake.evoking a subconscious emotional response is intellectual fraud.When you respect and honor an individual -- a bedrock conservative principle -- you don't try to pick his emotional pocket. You engage him in charity and truth.
Talk about a strategy for "rinos." As if image really were everything, conservatives jump on the icon bandwagon 20 years after the left did; the left which has perfected it and moved on to its logical successor: outright fraud, legal subterfuge and coercion.
The whole point is that the left has made the ICON itself their ultimate principle.
There’s a snowball’s chance of herding a bunch of conservatives to follow an icon. THE POINT OF THE ICON is simply to draw people in long enough for them to hear our message. If all they get is MediaCrats and the DNC, then why should we be surprised when they don’t “get” conservatism.
Iconography is one thing; Newspeak is another.At the start of the Twentieth Century the term "liberal" meant the same in America as it still does in the rest of the world - essentially, what is called "conservatism" in American Newspeak. Of course we "American Conservatives" are not the ones who oppose development and liberty, so in that sense we are not conservative at all. We actually are liberals.
But in America, "liberalism" was given its American Newspeak - essentially inverted - meaning in the 1920s (source: Safire's New Political Dictionary). The fact that the American socialists have acquired a word to exploit is bad enough; the real disaster is that we do not now have a word which truly descriptive of our own political perspective. We only have the smear words which the socialists have assigned to us. And make no mistake, in America "conservative" is inherently a negative connotation just as surely as marketers love to boldly proclaim that the product which they are flogging is NEW!
"Liberals" want to be called "progressive." Yet price controls on medicine/medical services - price controls on anything inherently stop progress in the development of quality in that thing. The government could even stop the progress in the development of computer chips by setting the price for them low enough. And "liberals" might be stupid enough to do it! They actually subvert the predicates of progress.
"Liberals" have aggressively latched onto another word which we as truly liberal and progressive people should own - "society." As "liberals" use the term, "society" is a synonym - actually a euphemism for - government. But of course, that could only be true in the absence of freedom. Society is the people - and the government, pace the socialist, is not.
also these (some are really good)
http://www.zazzle.com.au/moewampum/antiobama+gifts?ps=15
i don't think the proposition was satire.
If you mean the proposition in the video, of course it isn’t satire. It’s called “advertising”.
The point is NOT to boil your principles down to a bumper sticker. It’s to attract someone who might not have become curious about your principles without an attention-getter.
Obviously, “LOL” or “OOps” aren’t a political philosophy. It’s WITTY and EYE CATCHING. It says in just three letters: Obama’s not what you thought you were getting”.
And it says so much more. Obama opponents aren’t those stick-in-the-muds depicted on Comedy Central. And-—something’s changed; all of a sudden it’s OK to make fun of Obamamania. And so on.
It’s BRILLIANT!
The intent is to get the viewer to question his assumptions. Get him curious about this movement that dares laugh at the Most Exalted President Ever! We know that, once we get him curious, our principles will win him over.
But we’ve got to get his attention first.
have you seen this?
You’ll love it.
Some great ideas for D.C. protest signs.
During the Florida recount, mocking HUMOR worked wonders for us. We could use a little of that right now.
Repubs and conservatives need to pay attention to what is called “production value.” It goes way beyond just making things look nice and professional. Every well “produced” venue and event tells a story that supports, confirms and extends the story and the themes that you want to have the audience leave with. Without it you are amateur at best.
A perfect FAIL example is from Newt Gingrich who had incredibly good ideas with American Solutions and then presented it to the world with such poor production values that it looked like we were watching a garage sale hosted by incompetent homeless people.
American Solutions never garnered any respect despite the intellectual validity of the enterprise. Handled correctly - well produced - it could have driven the republican party to victory but it failed. Miserably. Who could take that trash seriously? Did you?
Conservatives have mocked the left’s reliance on “hollywood” for their message but, as we see with zer0, that well produced message is extremely effective even when the product itself is flawed.
We need both the conservative message and the highest quality production values we can achieve IMO.
This was no accident. Mike Deaver was a smarmy little drunk but he was a genius whose job was to place Reagan in front of backdrops that enhanced the visual effect.
Good example.
Was it manipulation? Maybe.
But it only works if there’s an honest message to back it up.
I agree totally. Reagan knew what the heck he was doing on many, many levels. He also had hollywood experience and understood how to tell a story verbally and visually.
Now think about both Bushes. Can you think of a single visually striking moment besides the "Mission Accomplished" banner debacle? There was one, when W was on the pile of 9/11 rubble with the megaphone. But that wasn't staged. That was powerful visually and happened also to be impromptu. And John McCain? Pathetic. The whole republican bunch were frumpy losers, except for Romney who was plastic. 0bama was really exceptional in this way. He had it all. Message and production values. Well, everything except that whole honesty and integrity thing, you know.
Obama overstepped a bit with the whole temple thing in Denver but it was forgiven and forgotten.
True. And funny, at the time. :0)
I saw it this morning. “LOL!” I love it!
Extremely effective....ESPECIALLY when the public is starving for it. I've never seen an environment so ripe for the right political message...even exceeding the '94 Contract with America.
The Dems have left the door wide open for a well-produced, time-released campaign built around fear of government ineptitude, bankrupting the country, and rationing of care. All that balanced with the conservative message of fiscal responsibility, individualism, and limits of government power. It would be so easy to permanently paint Obama and the Dems as Lords dictating to the serfs.***
Use themes built around: "Do they work for us? Or do we work for them?". And it's not just health care. Start talking about those outrageous public pension plans and "members-only" privileges like private jets and manned-elevators. Elitism is their weak link. Populism is now the GOP's for the taking---if they will grab it.
But---as you pointed out with Newt---the message is only effective if the production value captures attention.
If the GOP doesn't use this Fall to capture a ready-made audience, then I think it will be the end of them. To waste this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity would be a failure of epic proportions.
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***Hmmm. Perhaps one line of commercials depicts a Middle Ages or Colonial Era theme: ordinary Americans are hard-working "subjects" suffering the Lords of the Manor who declare what the serfs are allowed to do/not do---even live or die. And the Lords tax away their productivity with an attitude that it all belongs to them; THEY will decide what the serfs get to keep. Then spend the people's wealth on the ruling class' expensive and exclusive privileges or give trinkets to their loyal entourage. The Lords are always shown looking down their disdainful, dainty noses at the peasants' complaints about the heavy boot on their necks.
Over time, out of the oppressed masses, a William Wallace-like hero emerges: FREEDOM! I think it works.
This is so very true. We will have to wait and see if a Republican (or better yet, conservative) group takes this ball and plays it for what it's worth.
Of course, this takes lots of time and lots of money and lots of consistent follow through. Again, zer0 did this very well. He's still trying to do it now that he's won and the real people see the fraud that he and his campaign message constitute.
He can't govern. We can. But we have to get elected and to do that we must act like devoted professionals and adults beginning yesterday. I don't see either dedication or professionalism in the pubbie leadership with one exception, but she has her own battles to fight right now.
Since I'm not personally able to do it myself I can just FReep and hope that some true conservative leadership shows up pretty d@mn soon.
Remember the quaint “old days” when a White House was expected to conduct only official government business? Partisan politics was handled by their party headquarters.
Now they run political campaigns straight out of the WH and every other gov’t department. Using our money in the process.
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