Posted on 10/30/2008 8:38:46 AM PDT by andrew roman
Last night’s well-edited, technically proficient, dreary prime-time Barack Obama infomercial probably could be expanded into a five disc DVD set, complete with bonus interviews featuring more downtrodden Americans, detailed liner notes, transcripts of old law lectures, his personal revisions to the Constitution, and “never-before” seen footage of Mr. Obama healing the sick, raising the dead, feeding the hungry and personally redistributing wealth door-to-door.
“Self indulgent” is far too mild a phrase to describe Obama’s thirty minute excursion into his super-ego – as I continue to hear Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain” playing in my head – so I’ll just say it was somewhere between disturbing and an intestinal blockage.
The United States is a heartless hell hole and moral garbage dump, if you were to subscribe to the Obama portrayal. It is a nation crumbling, losing its very soul, filled with a subjugated and exploited citizenry denied their slices of the American dream. In Obama-speak, despair and disillusionment linger like grim death over a nation desperately in need of rescue from the metastasizing cancers of free markets, rugged individualism and unfettered opportunity. Morph all of that with the oppressive policies of an eight-year long George W. Bush regime and you’ve got the makings of an irresolute, frightened country in need of real change.
And those were the high points.
The program itself was a technical laxative - complete with soft focusing, inspirational music, amber waves of wafting grain, and slices of heartbreak from struggling Americans. It was sulkily tiresome.
At the risk of a cold-hearted bastard label, let me assert (for the record) that I do not attack those who are genuinely having a hard time getting by. That isn't my point. To deny that there are Americans struggling is to deny reality. Indeed, there have always segments of the population who have struggled at any given time in this nation’s history. These days, I am among them, believe me.
But the Obama “brother-can-you-spare-a-dime” approach was more than a bit too much. About ten minutes into the program I started receiving hate mail from my stomach, begging me to give it a break. Twenty minutes in, I was looking for something to settle it down – like pop rocks or hydrochloric acid.
Frankly, the only thing missing last night in Obama’s “Let Me Save You” pre-World Series "America Sucks" showcase were images of bread lines and men holding “Will Work for Food” signs across their chests.
The program was depressing. It was meant to be. And it won’t make a damn bit of difference in the outcome of the election.
If only Barack Obama were President during the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe ... He could have stood on top of the crumbling levees himself, with the slashing wind and rains battering him, holding back the mighty floods with one hand and lifting people onto hovering helicopters with the other.
Messiahs do things like that.
LOL!
I was laughing and the kids heard me, so of course I had to tell them your line. The eight year old says, “..and an ear replacement.”
The infomercial reminded me of a TV show in the 1950’s called “Queen for a Day”. Hosted by a guy by the name of Jack Bailey there were four contestants on each show trying to convince the audience that theirs was the worst hard luck case of all. The winner was chosen by the members of the audience via a device called the applause-o-meter.
That’s what I was reminded of. Let’s trot out all of these hard luck cases. Obama will make everyone “queen for a day”. What ever happened to “Morning in America”?
abnegation: to deny or refute
dolorous: causing grief
insipid: lacking in qualities that interest
There, now we are all enriched. Thanks for challenging our vocabularies.
I’ve seen 26.3 million viewers across broadcasters CBS, NBC and Fox, according to preliminary Nielsen ratings.
LOL!
What a conservative columnist thinks about the informercial is irrelvant since he’s not the target audience.
Who’s consuming all the stupid TV shows, pop music, grocery tabloids, etc.? The author would be similarily dismisive of that kind of fare as well.
did the station run the obligatory message up front...
the following is a paid infommercial when you see the messiah, bow down and send money.
i didn’t watch... thank goodness...
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Along with millions of other conservative Christians I was in church on Wednesday evening.
Something tells me we weren’t BHO’s target audience.
I didn’t see a drop or a drib of the ad. I’ve heard a bit on morning radio and also on Fox, but I’ve got no details. So far, everyone seems sort of unexcited about it, barely mentioning it, and the morning radio host is a bit of a liberal.
You mean like this from our beloved PUMAs?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlOT9olqbew
Copland voted Communist in 1936.
I'll reserve judgment until I hear your piano.
You know it tanked if CNN wasn't yelling about superior ratings.
I've gotten to the point where I can't even stomach to look at Obamatrash even during a quick TV ad. The ego coming from this man is repulsive. I personally think he looks like a corpse and he is so highly aware of the cameras he's constantly twisting and turning for them. They just need to add Madonnas song Vogue to the mix of pics of him and it's laughable.
It's a bit sad to watch someone get so caught up in themselves they don't realize how foolish they look. Along with Madonna's Vogue lets just add in a sound bite of Sally Field saying.. You like me! You really really like me! Cut to a bunch of anoerexics sticking their fingers down their throats LOL
Who cares? Did you watch it?
It was used AGAINST the Marxist in that one from the PUMAs.
Wow, maybe I can get it from Netflix and I can watch it as often as I want/sarc
Well, the first thing they could do is a make-over on the Naked Archaeologist.
That, and he should have a dog. After all dogs have a nose for bones.
Wow, with my crew, I should have thought of that!!!
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