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Category: Weirdness
Posted on: October 11, 2008 11:27 AM, by PZ Myers
He's already got the zombie vote and the fundiebot vote locked up, now he just needs to capture the teenaged male vote with a little violence in short-attention-span theater.
I'm over fifty. I can't watch that without my head hurting.
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Comments
Posted by: Saddlebred | October 11, 2008 11:40 AM
Hilarious
Posted by: Matt7895 | October 11, 2008 11:48 AM
Funniest thing I've seen for a while.
Posted by: Joel | October 11, 2008 11:55 AM
LOL @ the bit with Bristol Palin.
Posted by: Patricia | October 11, 2008 12:01 PM
That should do it.
Posted by: Brian D | October 11, 2008 12:04 PM
If this wasn't an entry in the Make McCain Interesting greenscreen challenge, it should have been. It would have won, hands-down.
The cameos with a roaring Leonidas and that photoshopped Palin-in-flag-bikini-with-shotgun image were nice touches. Still working on placing the other cameos (the chainsaw lady looked familiar).
Posted by: Capital Dan | October 11, 2008 12:12 PM
Ooof... Funny concept, but yeah. It can make the head hurt a bit.
The ending was the best, though. For some reason, that just fit perfectly.
Posted by: Skippy | October 11, 2008 12:41 PM
It was good but I couldn't watch it all because I was too easily distracted. What? FunnY!
Good one PZ.
Posted by: Burning Umberella | October 11, 2008 12:45 PM
I can't help feeling bad for Bristol Palin. The bit about her was probably the funniest of the whole "preview", but still.
Had I a vote it would go, in sympathy of Bristol Palins everywhere, to Obama.
Posted by: LisaJ | October 11, 2008 12:47 PM
Ha, that was awesome. Hilarious!
Posted by: RoaldFalcon | October 11, 2008 12:51 PM
I accept that video with gratitude, humility, and confidence.
That was funny.
Posted by: Alex | October 11, 2008 1:11 PM
"...now he just needs to capture the teenaged male vote with a little violence in short-attention-span theater."
Somehow I doubt if Palin was in an ad that included stereotypes for females, you'd make the same type of comment. Stop acting holding males and females to different standards, seriously.
(Example: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/09/once_again_into_the_assumed_si.php )
People should be seen as individuals. Their sex shouldn't matter at all.
Posted by: scooter | October 11, 2008 1:19 PM
I went to my weekly KKK meeting this morning up in Tomball TX, and a McCain rally broke out!!
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Posted by: JayMagoo | October 11, 2008 1:23 PM
A nice touch at the end would have been McCain and Chuck Norris shaking hands at the end as true buddies. On another subject, I wonder how the shotgun wedding of young Miss Palin and her self-proclaimed redneck beau is going now that mama has been wrist-slapped for abusing her office in Alaska.
Keep watching Russia out your kitchen window, Sarah.
Posted by: The Chimp's Raging Id | October 11, 2008 1:24 PM
Biggest laugh of the day so far! Love it.
Posted by: BMS | October 11, 2008 1:25 PM
My sides hurt.
Didja click some of the thumbnails at the bottom?
I dubbed this one A Campaign Named Desire.
Posted by: Rahne | October 11, 2008 1:26 PM
LOL
@Brian D
The robot from "Beware the Believers" is in the scene with the cars driving across the desert.
Posted by: Jynx | October 11, 2008 2:15 PM
What film is that taken from?
Posted by: J | October 11, 2008 3:08 PM
It has Buddy Jesus. I approve.
Posted by: Jadehawk | October 11, 2008 3:30 PM
oh wow. and I kinda feel bad for Bristol too. that was funny though
Posted by: trj | October 11, 2008 3:46 PM
He's targeting the rockabilly demographics too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rOF-j1L0vE&NR=1
Had me in stitches.
Posted by: Pyroclasm | October 11, 2008 3:57 PM
Check out the "Dawkins Rap" robot at 0:42.
That has to be the funniest thing I've seen all day.
Posted by: JM Inc. | October 11, 2008 4:35 PM
Awsome video. Bristol Palin in a sex scene... excellent touch.
How's this: "My friends, the first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club...."
Posted by: Sili | October 11, 2008 5:25 PM
Oh, I get it.
The exploding cars and the truck going over the cliff represent the Republan campaign, right?
Posted by: andyo | October 11, 2008 5:30 PM
PZ, from your post, I don't know if you're aware that this is from Stephen Colbert's Green Screen Challenge (make McCain exciting). It is supposed to be over the top. Basically, Colbert caught some footage of McCain talking boringly in front of a green background and commanded his minions to "make him exciting". There are many of them, search for "make McCain exciting" or "green screen challenge" on youtube.
For instance, this one is THE BEST SUBMISSION BAR NONE so far
Colbert has done it before with himself, he filmed himself in front of a green screen acting like Star Wars Kid (i.e. like an idiot with a broomstick) and told everyone to put a suitable background, to hilarious effects.
So yes, it's a sort of Poe on McCain.
Posted by: Ichthyic | October 11, 2008 5:39 PM
"make McCain exciting"
I took a look at several of the top contenders.
damn, some real talent out there!
I liked them all, but my other than the one PZ posted here, I rather like the McEmporer version.
Vader: "The emporer is not as forgiving as I"
Posted by: andyo | October 11, 2008 5:40 PM
BrianD #5
There's Jon Stewart there too (the bad guy of course), and as the description of the video tells, it was indeed an entry to Colbert's challenge. But it's not the best, the best is the one I linked above. I mean, this one is great editing and all, but the other one, is pure genius.
Posted by: Dr P | October 11, 2008 5:52 PM
The youth will like this too http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2008/10/08/flashy-bible-seeks-to-inspire-the-adhd-generation/
Posted by: Dancaban | October 11, 2008 6:16 PM
Class!
Posted by: cousinavi | October 11, 2008 6:34 PM
This shit ain't over.
As Bootsy slapped and George (the GOOD George) intoned, "SHIT...GODDAMN! GET OFF YOUR ASS AND JAM!"
http://cousinavi.wordpress.com/2008/10/12/promoted-from-commentsme/
We have not crossed the line.
Ignore the polls.
Do not settle into the MISSION ACCOMPLISHED photo op.
For FUCK sakes...don't do THAT.
There is no time for praise or congratulations.
On Guy Fawkes Day...but not before.
I'm warning you.
I'm begging you.
Alaskan Palin distractions vs. swing state voter purges.
If you sleep, they will come.
If you SLEEP, they WILL come.
Posted by: scooter | October 11, 2008 11:16 PM
Here's a great little road Video from the Dr. McCain Strange Bus that came out yesterday. These are some of my wife's insane Art Car Maniac friends. It's great check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX9oeALhz0U
Posted by: Ichthyic | October 11, 2008 11:21 PM
Very nice Scooter!
well done.
Posted by: IBY | October 12, 2008 2:41 AM
That thing is way too funny. Now McCain is really exciting. :)
Posted by: andyo | October 12, 2008 7:24 AM
Did you look at the one I linked to ("Gray Ambition")? It took me a second view to notice then, but did you listen to the lyrics? It freaking rhymes! It's easy to miss, but I think that one is just unbeatable.
Posted by: Plutonious Monk | October 12, 2008 3:31 PM
Ah, there's good news from Alaska! The wedding of Bristol Palin and Levi(I'm a fuckin' redneck)Johnston will be held before the November general election and will be a formal affair, i.e., with a white shotgun clearly on display should the young buck suddenly get cold feet.
Posted by: Carlie | October 12, 2008 4:34 PM
I figured the wedding would be held after the election, so that if McCain doesn't win they don't have to go through with it. If it is scheduled for before, it's probably because they think a wedding will get enough publicity and warm fuzzy feelings to gain a few more votes, and I predict this will backfire when photogs manage to catch one picture of Bristol and/or the boy looking scared shitless, and that is the one that gets broadcast across the country. I expect to see them divorced in something less than three years, as soon as the boy gets over the fear of Mom and no one is paying attention to them any more.
Posted by: Arnosium Upinarum | October 13, 2008 2:59 AM
Hmmm...I wonder if Tricky Dick and Ronnie Raygun make cameo appearances as resurrected Angels of Death.