VIDEO: GOP commercial uses Twilight Zone & ALL GOP hot buttons (funny)

[yurbud]

What's amazing about this is it doesn't mention one single issue that will put food on the table for average Americans, but takes time to hit gays, the pledge of allegiance, blacks(using a mugshot of Jesse Jackson), terrorism, and illegal immigrants. After a Twilight Zone presentation of all the evils the GOP sees in the world, it ends with a call to return to the Leave It to Beaver world.

The guy who put this up had to pull it because he got too much flak, but the effort shows a media and pop culture savvy that Democrats could weild even more effectively if they did it with substantive issues instead of having some old fart in a tie talking to an audience or just a camera.

Well worth a watch.























http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/03/09.html#a7458

[Canuckistanian]

1. I liked the "Leave it to Beaver" reference - nice touch

As if the 1950's were some kind of social Utopia...

Rampant racism, Communist witch-hunting, stifling cultural uniformity.

Another fairy-tale myth.

[yurbud]

3. that's what made it really Twilight Zone, and for people here...

the Leave it to Beaver era ended at the 2000 election.

[Devlzown]

6. That part makes it twice as funny.

The candidate is black and he's longing for a return to the 50's? If this was the 50's, he wouldn't even be able to vote for himself.:crazy:

[yurbud]

8. He's black? I thought he was just mediterranean. Why use Jesse Jackson

as a whipping boy then?

[hyphenate]

7. Yeah, for a lot of these bozos

The 50s were jam packed with fun and innocuous activity.

Never mind McCarthy, never mind bomb shelters for a nuclear bomb attack, never mind women in subservient roles, never mind illegal abortions and subsequent deaths, never mind the Korean War (another bad ass "war" we shouldn't have gotten stuck in), never mind the fact that if you were gay, you couldn't ever say it or admit it and lived your life in the closet, never mind the "uncles" or the "friends" of your father who tried to molest you, and of course, never mind the fact that people were already being lied to by big corporations like tobacco manufacturers who said smoking was not harmful to your health, and dumping nuclear or chemical waste was not dangerous to the water supplies.

[wtmusic]

2. I like the part about little rednecks being forced to STFU

Start 'em off early.

[gekeeley]

4. Wow...

Wanna talk about batshit insane? I did enjoy the old school picture of Rev. Sharpton though, subtle touch of class.

[ContraBass Black]

5. Priceless.

Spread it far and wide.

[yurbud]

9. they should do a new version of "Morning in America"

show mushroom clouds over Iran, cops beating the crap out people living in shanty towns with no running water or electricity, and a shining gated community on hill.

VOICE OVER: America, with a place for everyone, and everyone in their place.

Then cut to an Abu Ghraib-like prison with blacks and Latinos doing the naked pyramid.