SwiftKids for Truth

Newsweek ^ | 11/15/07 | Andrew Romano

[teddyballgame]

Well, cms, because they're hilarious. In fact, I'd say they're the best bits of political comedy we've seen so far this cycle. The "SwiftKids" videos don't "attack" the candidates--they attack the media for obsessing over Clinton's femininity, Obama's name and Edwards' haircut, and the rest of America for listening. That they manage to do so while amplifying the manipulative tone and texture of low-blow swiftboating--see: the children--is what elevates them from snark to satire. Anyway, watch 'em now and decide for yourself.

[teddyballgame]

This made me laugh.

[gridlock]

To me they are far more evocative of the United We Fail ads from AARP, which use kids to advocate for more handouts for Senior Citizens than they are of the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth campaign.

And, of course, the SVT campaign was factually based. These are just appeals to emotion, like the AARP campaign.

[rockabyebaby]

LOL, arrak orama,,,,,,,,

[teddyballgame]

I thought they were funny.

[enough_idiocy]

Yeah, check this one out...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Iky_GXWlLQ

Notice Gen. Petreus is listed as a useful idiot.

[DManA]

I took a look ath this web site - 236.com. They’re trying to be a leftwing answer to The Onion.

They’ve got the stink but not the flavor.

[STARWISE]

Brit Hume just played the Hillary version ... funny and quite cutting .. LOL!

Here they are .. Swift Kids for Truth videos on the
candidates, etc.

http://www.ablogistan.com/archives/2007/11/swift_kids_for.html

[jveritas]

On this one we disagree this is in fact it is stupid beyond belief and it is the creation of Hillary Clinton campaign and/or their sycophant lunatics to accuse the Republicans of doing it and then accuse them of using kids in political attacks.

[STARWISE]

You think the Clintons did it
to marginalize the truth brought
out by the SwiftBoat Vets?

I hadn’t thought of that ..

You know for sure?

[potlatch]

Thanks STARWISE, I saw it on Brit Hume today too and got a kick out of it!

[Yardstick]

These kids are cute and funny but I suspect there are angry libs behind the camera. This just looks like part of the leftist push to establish Swiftboating as a kind of new McCarthyism.

[jveritas]

The Clinton camaign is doing so to marginalize any real attacks on her in the present and future.