New McCain TV smear ad leaked: "The REAL Real Barack Obama"

Posted by Xeni "Hussein" Jardin, October 13, 2008 1:56 PM | permalink

Video Link (By Jay Smooth, Thanks, Jesse Thorn!)

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#1 posted by bardfinn , October 13, 2008 2:00 PM

I suppose his next attack ad will be entitled "NO U"

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#2 posted by pduggie , October 13, 2008 2:01 PM

Oh that's a hoot.

So is the implication that McCain's *actual* Ayers ad is just covert racism?

Are we really at the point where all criticism of Obama is racism?

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#3 posted by SamF , October 13, 2008 2:19 PM

LOL @ Will Smith == "Gangster Rap".

Also, yet more evidence that the two-party system is fatally flawed. Nobody even has to talk about issues anymore. They just have to put out ads about why the other guy sucks.

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#4 posted by Nick D , October 13, 2008 2:22 PM

Can you imagine a white Senator being accused of being a terrorist because he served on a board with Ayers? I can't.

In Middle America, Barak Obama is just a shade away from being Arab. McCain and his pet poodle know this full well.

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#5 posted by anthony , October 13, 2008 2:22 PM

This might be more in response to McCain's ad that positions images of Obama and Jim Johnson so that they corner an elderly white woman:
http://time-blog.com/swampland/2008/09/mccain_plays_the_race_card.html

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#6 posted by coldspell , October 13, 2008 2:34 PM

"Barack Obama is not a black man. He's long-legged mac daddy! ... He even *admits* his mother is white!"

http://obamastillnotablack.ytmnd.com/

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#7 posted by Talia , October 13, 2008 2:37 PM

haha, cute.

There's also a swipe in there about Palin being so critical of community organizers in that speech of hers a while back, I think.

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#8 posted by coldspell , October 13, 2008 2:37 PM

I recall (black) people on TV last declaring that Obama was neither "black" nor "African American" because he was not the descendant of African slaves. And now he's Arab?

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#9 posted by dbarak , October 13, 2008 2:40 PM

That's it! I'm voting to Nalph Rader.

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#10 posted by wolfiesma , October 13, 2008 2:44 PM

I'm not sure everyone is getting this... The cue for me was the cast of What's Happening, followed by George Clinton. C'mon people, its funny.

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#11 posted by cstatman

, October 13, 2008 2:50 PM

Atomic Dog for VP

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#12 posted by Gadgets123 , October 13, 2008 3:06 PM

Colbert hosts a woman who claims Obama is not black...

http://www.jwharrison.com/blog/2007/02/10/the-colbert-report-barack-obama-isnt-black/

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#13 posted by Phikus , October 13, 2008 3:13 PM

Xeni: Brilliant! Love your new middle name too!

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#14 posted by wshane , October 13, 2008 3:24 PM

I work for an American comedy theater in Amsterdam. We've just opened our new election show, "Bye Bye Bush," and we've created several videos for it that I think you might like if you enjoyed the excellent Ill Doctrine one.

Attack Ad against Obama:
http://www.boomchicago.tv/node/2289

Obama responds:
http://www.boomchicago.tv/node/2283

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#15 posted by Connie H. , October 13, 2008 3:30 PM

This made me laugh and laugh. I sure needed that.

"I'm John McCain and I just don't care anymore."

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#16 posted by philipb , October 13, 2008 3:40 PM

How can you all be so stupid? Any fule kno he's an Arab, look at his middle name.

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#17 posted by minTphresh , October 13, 2008 3:43 PM

i wonder why nobody ever harps on the fact that "Barack" is a hebrew word meaning "lightning", or "prosperity". odd. not the name, just people's 'tudes.

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#18 posted by dbarak , October 13, 2008 3:48 PM

Actually, in his case, I'm not sure "Barack" means that. However, "Barak" (my last name, no "c") does mean that. I could be wrong though - maybe both do.

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#19 posted by Stefan Jones

, October 13, 2008 3:51 PM

#16: Bozo the Clown and Attila the Hun also have the same middle name, but the former isn't likely to conquer Asia.

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#20 posted by nerak , October 13, 2008 3:57 PM

haha loved this link! Also,

One other thing: It's lost on me how anyone's name, let alone middle name, has anything to do with his or her qualifications to be President.

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#21 posted by Antinous "Hussein" of Bithynia , October 13, 2008 3:59 PM

Hmmm. It's much harder to add a middle name when you don't have a last name.

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#22 posted by Takuan , October 13, 2008 4:03 PM

"Barack" done mean "light'ng in jeew-talk? Damn!
He'z a Mooslim-Jew-Black! and them's the worst kind!

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#23 posted by Takuan , October 13, 2008 4:20 PM

it's a funny old world I tell you, but when's all said I done I just got to say that at least I don't have to work for Thracians.

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#24 posted by Phikus , October 13, 2008 4:38 PM

ANTINOUS: hahahaha!

Stopped over at the O campaign hq today and picked up a button that says: "ThatOne'08". -Fer real! Names are overrated. =D

TAKUAN: Damn Thracians. Splitters!

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#25 posted by zuzu

, October 13, 2008 5:00 PM

Colbert hosts a woman who claims Obama is not black...

The Dave Chappelle paradox? “Too black for white people; too white for black people."

Some days I grow impatient for everyone completely ignorant of genetics to hurry up and die off so this social construction of "race" can finally be permanently put down.

The resurgence of identity politics is like Friday the 13th movies; you keep thinking this one has to be the last time Jason comes back... but oh no, then they make another stupid sequel with an even more ridiculous plot.

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#26 posted by Tom Hale , October 13, 2008 5:23 PM

Didn't a white group sing The Roof is on Fire - The Bloodhound Gang.

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#27 posted by Phikus , October 13, 2008 5:30 PM

Yeah, the Talking Heads did Burning Down The House too Tom, what's your point?

I think we need a little serious relief right about now.

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#28 posted by Lauren O

, October 13, 2008 5:53 PM

I am so in love with Jay Smooth. I thought this video was great, but most of his stuff is even better.

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#29 posted by AirPillo , October 13, 2008 6:34 PM

I giggled like a little girl, how embarassing.

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#30 posted by fungible , October 13, 2008 6:35 PM

These all still "pale" in comparison to his latest latest ad:

Truly shocking. The man must be stopped.

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#31 posted by Anonymous , October 13, 2008 6:58 PM

@pduggie while Mccain himself may have not said anything blatantly racist he certainly hasn't been stopping his supporters from saying things of a similar nature(including his running mate) if you don't believe me check this out:http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/13/about-those-lynch-mo.html
Truth is Mccain knows that he has little chance to no chance of winning so he preys on his only real loyal constituents(senior citizens) fears and to be brutally honest, their mental "absence". I am a proffesional caretaker, and politics often come up in the conversation. When I ask them " why do you like Palin?" they reply "Oh shes just so cute!" or they'll ask me "Don't you know Obama is a muslim/terrorist/babykiller/Natzi?" and when I ask where did you hear that they say "oh somewhere" or "i dont remember" or they'll try to change the subject. Truth is they are simply afraid of having a black man above them. Racism is an ugly thing and its far from being dead.

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#32 posted by anthropomorphictoast , October 13, 2008 7:42 PM

That was awesomesauce. XD

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#33 posted by flytch , October 13, 2008 8:10 PM

and the hood comes... I mean the gloves... the gloves come off...

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#34 posted by jay smooth

, October 13, 2008 9:08 PM

Phikus: "The Roof Is On Fire" most definitely did NOT originate with The Bloodhound Gang, it's much older than that. :) It dates back to at least 1984.

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#35 posted by Xeni "Hussein" Jardin

, October 13, 2008 9:12 PM

Woohoo, hi Jay Smooth!

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#36 posted by RPC , October 13, 2008 9:30 PM

Damn you Lee Atwater! As if Willie Horton wasn't enough!!

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#37 posted by Phikus , October 13, 2008 10:56 PM

Hi Jay:

I think that comment should have been for Tom Hale, actually. I'll stick with the nice Clinton reference you made, or the T-Heads, personally. Thanks for tearing the roof off the sucker! =D

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#38 posted by mc

, October 13, 2008 11:18 PM

Try this Obama/McCain debate satire:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gONmgieY-o

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#39 posted by zuzu

, October 13, 2008 11:53 PM

@ Jay, Re: Economics and Annoying Smart Guys

Step 1: Stop listening to Paul Krugman.

Step 2: If "gimmie all your money right now or the world is going to end" sounds familiar, that's because it was the same bullshit scare tactic used to pass the Iraq War Resolution and the USAPATRIOT Act.

Step 3: Start listening to Max Keiser.

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#40 posted by Kieran O'Neill , October 14, 2008 3:10 AM

*shudder* Once again I'm reminded of how vicious U.S. advertising can get.

But lol at this satire, anyway.

And lol again at Xeni and Antinous "Hussein"!

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#41 posted by eti , October 14, 2008 8:02 AM

0:32 the "CHANGE" sign says "HANG"

Scared of that! Let's hope the radical right doesn't catch on.

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#42 posted by Anonymous , October 14, 2008 10:57 AM