I must've missed the Nuba tribesmen.

Check out the big brain on TNR: The McCain ad, which essentially criticizes Obama for demagoguery, is just like Riefensthal's work, which was demagoguery.

Brilliant.

Pu-leeze.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it wasn't McCain who told The Messiah to speak at that column.

Featuring Paris Hilton as Eva Braun?

/I thought Charles was Eva Braun

It's such a tame ad... they must really be worried to be raisin' such a fuss.

Well, the chanting Germans do remind me of Hitler.

Are leftists capable of refuting criticism without dragging nazis into it?

re: #5 Killian Bundy

/I thought Charles was Eva Braun

Beat me to it.

They said I look funny! They said I'm a nazi!

No, tool. YOU said it.

I can see why this ad makes them so nervous- it's not the celebrity angle- it's the fact that they can't refute the energy claims. So they're raising a fuss over the small angle to distract from the larger one in the hopes the American public won't notice.

But utterly talentless (but well off) skanks were unfairly compared to an Illinois Democrat!

/sarcasm

Imagine when we finally get around to making fun of his ears. When some people ask me why I will not vote for Obama, I just tell them that I think he has funny ears. That usually ends the discussion.

re: #15 rawmuse

Imagine when we finally get around to making fun of his ears. When some people ask me why I will not vote for Obama, I just tell them that I think he has funny ears. That usually ends the discussion.

Of course, that just mirror-images most peoples' reasons for supporting Obama.

The ad struck a nerve. A raw nerve.
But whose?
Obama's or the media's?
Both?

Ross Douthat nails a reply:

Here's a tip for liberals: If your candidate is going to stage enormous rallies in front of tens of thousands of chanting Germans (with monuments to Prussian military might in the background) in the middle of his Presidential campaign, it isn't the GOP's fault if the footage comes out looking a little like Hitler at Nuremberg.

re: #19 buzzsawmonkey

I tell people I won't vote for him because he's white. That throws 'em.

I am going to start telling them that Bob Beckel thinks he's half cracker.

Thanks for the idea.

Should I carry tissues, or just let their noses bleed?

Well time to call it day. Have a good one Lizards.

L8R

My only problem with the McCain ad is that it treats Obama's "enormous popularity" as a given.

It isn't.

Seriously how many of those Germans would have been at that rally had it not coincided with a rock concert?

re: #10 buzzsawmonkey

You can go on YouTube and hear the gutteral chants of "O-Ba-Ma, O-Ba-Ma" if you want to be reminded of that.

Actually, I don't want to be reminded of that. The "O-Bam-Ma" in the McCain ad is enough for me thank you.

/somewhat disconcerted by chanting Germans

re: #22 Dirk Diggler

My only problem with the McCain ad is that it treats Obama's "enormous popularity" as a given.

It isn't.

Seriously how many of those Germans would have been at that rally had it not coincided with a rock concert?

Listen half of them thought it was Tiger Woods, who's kidding who?

re: #22 Dirk Diggler

My only problem with the McCain ad is that it treats Obama's "enormous popularity" as a given.

It isn't.

Seriously how many of those Germans would have been at that rally had it not coincided with a rock concert?

Would it be unfair to have an Obama rally after the next Malcom X reading day at the SF library at zombietime?

As a sanity check, I mean.

re: #22 Dirk Diggler

My only problem with the McCain ad is that it treats Obama's "enormous popularity" as a given.

It isn't.

Seriously how many of those Germans would have been at that rally had it not coincided with a rock concert?

Leni Riefenstahl didn't need a concert to get a crowd to film.

Have liberals no shame?

re: #15 rawmuse

Imagine when we finally get around to making fun of his ears head handles.

/caution

re: #22 Dirk Diggler

Seriously how many of those Germans would have been at that rally had it not coincided with a rock concert?

I thought they were there for the beer.

re: #27 The Other Les

Leni Riefenstahl didn't need a concert to get a crowd to film.

No, 3 armored divisions worked for her.

re: #24 buzzsawmonkey

Whichever gives you more amusement.

When they start protesting, I blandly point out that voting for him merely because he's "black," as they clearly propose to do, is just as ridiculous as not voting for him because he's white.

I think arguing about his degree of whiteness just muddies the issue.

re: #28 Noam Sayin'

Have liberals no shame?

Yes, but it's inverted and cross-threaded.

re: #28 Noam Sayin'

Have liberals no shame?

Nope.

Obviously, TNR hasn't fixed their little fact-checker problem.

re: #28 Noam Sayin'

Have liberals no shame?

Shame is a concept embraced solely by moral people who cling to God. Didn't you get the memo?

Okay, but how does this help Britney's kids?

/has anyone asked that yet?

re: #12 loppyd

They said I look funny! They said I'm a nazi!

No, tool. YOU said it.

Barack has a magical way of working his crowds into a frenzie...speech after speech...who else in history could do that while seeking political leadership?

I won't vote for him cause he's from Hawaii and Chicago two hot beds of socialists democraps/kleptocrats (pardon the redundancy). That article is a hoot. McCain can't get an article published in the paper, and has a twenty second commercial that shows the Obamanation to be a bubbleheaded anti american bimbo, whereas the press throws laurel leaves at the Obamanation and sixty percent of the public thinks the press is doing everything to get the Obamanation elected President, but we are supposed to believe that spot is a Leni production, rather than the 99.9 percent saturation adoration coverage being given to an empty suit who sharpened his teeth on the most radical socialist thinkers around. Just when you think libs can't od on more koolaid, we are amazed that they are bottomless pits of vapidity and idiocy.

Eva Braun didn't wear underwear? Who knew?

re: #22 Dirk Diggler

My only problem with the McCain ad is that it treats Obama's "enormous popularity" as a given.

It isn't.

Seriously how many of those Germans would have been at that rally had it not coincided with a rock concert?

And FREE BEER, and FREE BRATS! Even with that bait for Germans, reported one the scene estimates of the crowd was 20,000, or 1/10th of the claim (unchallenged) of the Obama Campaign.

re: #28 Noam Sayin'

Have liberals no shame?

No. They have a crapload of nuance, though.

Let's see...

The democrats nominate a glamorous empty suit...

The republicans point that out...

... therefore the republicans are nazis!

Sheesh!

Michael Savage is a dope, but he's right about this: Liberalism is a mental disorder.

re: #28 Noam Sayin'

Have liberals no shame?

You're joking, right?

Off to play poker...

re: #45 Noam Sayin'

Off to play poker...

Go all in!

re: #40 HelloDare

Eva Braun didn't wear underwear? Who knew?

Horny Hitler

re: #37 Slumbering Behemoth

See- what separates Brit from obama is that she set aside her selfish wants to do what was in the best interest of her kids. obama is not capable of setting aside his selfish wants, period.

I just drove by three of those idiotic HOPE posters.
If anybody is Riefenstahling it's Obama.

Of course, The New Republic itself would never stoop to using Nazi-reminiscent imagery on its cover to smear someone it didn't like.

Heavens, no.

M. Bensson-Levi,

And FREE BEER, and FREE BRATS! Even with that bait for Germans, reported one the scene estimates of the crowd was 20,000, or 1/10th of the claim (unchallenged) of the Obama Campaign.

20,000? That's it? There are more people on Obama's foreign policy team.

You know you're over the target when you start taking fire!

re: #24 buzzsawmonkey

Whichever gives you more amusement.

When they start protesting, I blandly point out that voting for him merely because he's "black," as they clearly propose to do, is just as ridiculous as not voting for him because he's white.

Good one.
I got "caught" w/ a McCain sticker on my car a couple of days ago at an academic meeting. After I resuscitated my colleagues from their itty bitty heart attacks, I explained that I could not vote for Obama because he is not Hispanic.
The extraordinary thing is that they accepted this.............at least long enough for me to make my escape!

re: #45 Noam Sayin'

Off to play poker...

Be careful how you bet.

/hat tip: someone from yesterday

re: #41 M. Bensson-Levi

And FREE BEER, and FREE BRATS! Even with that bait for Germans, reported one the scene estimates of the crowd was 20,000, or 1/10th of the claim (unchallenged) of the Obama Campaign.

They weren't Johnsonville Brats.

/I think that's a local joke.

WTF is going on with the window bar? I don't see "lgf" or rotating titles anymore, just "Little Green Footballs."

re: #51 Dirk Diggler

M. Bensson-Levi,

20,000? That's it? There are more people on Obama's foreign policy team.

:-) And that's just the Palis.

This is what we're going to see from the O machine. They won't respond to the specifics. They will frame whatever McCain says or does about O as racist (1st choice) or fascist (an old liberal standby).

They won't answer because they can't answer and their base doesn't care. All they have to do is put a question in the Indys and Mods heads about what McCain was saying between the lines.

13 sharmuta-- exactly! A feint to distract. That way they can suck al theair out of the news cycle on a trivial matter.
M'Cain better take a page from these skanks. Look back and see how they getting people to focus on Michelle, or on celeb issues of on the excuses for not going to Landstuhl (as opposed to blowing them off for some 3 pt baskets).
The donks always pick a trivial pt as you said to distract and here again same thing.

re: #53 wolfie

Good one.
I got "caught" w/ a McCain sticker on my car a couple of days ago at an academic meeting. After I resuscitated my colleagues from their itty bitty heart attacks, I explained that I could not vote for Obama because he is not Hispanic.
The extraordinary thing is that they accepted this.............at least long enough for me to make my escape!

So can I say that I can't vote for Obama because he's not a disabled Jewish Lesbian?

re: #55 The Other Les

They weren't Johnsonville Brats.

/I think that's a local joke.

Must be. :-)

re: #45 Noam Sayin'

Off to play poker...

better stay away from blackjack.

re: #60 The Other Les

So can I say that I can't vote for Obama because he's not a disabled Jewish Lesbian?

Can you prove that?

re: #43 stevieray

Michael Savage is a dope, but he's right about this: Liberalism is a mental disorder.

Here ya go. Documentation:

The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness by Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., M.D.

re: #60 The Other Les

So can I say that I can't vote for Obama because he's not a disabled Jewish Lesbian?

You better believe it! And anyone who messes w/ that is obviously an anti-semitic, homophobic, heartless goon!

re: #63 Occasional Reader

Can you prove that?

He's not disabled. He's not Jewish. And he's certainly is not a lesbian.

re: #60 The Other Les

So can I say that I can't vote for Obama because he's not a disabled Jewish Lesbian?

He's NOT!?!? I thought that he was all things to all people.

re: #48 Sharmuta

I was thinking more of the WAB, but I take your point.

Noam Scheiber links to Rick Perlstein who links to a blog called The New Disease, where a guy who calls himself gomonkeygo says

Postscript: So far, I've only seen Rachel Maddow and Keith Olberman go at this ad from any perspective other than "Huh? What?" And they see the racism inherent in it, too, enough so that Rachel tore Pat Buchanan a royal new one, basically calling him a racist to his face albeit very tactfully. They cut to commercially immediately after she did it. And even Keith was scared of really going for it in his analysis. This is a disturbing place John McCain is taking the election and it's on his head, his heart and his conscience assuming he still has one.

So I had to google and see who Rachel Maddow is. She's on Air America (as well as this appearance on MSNBC, apparently). So a hard core lefty is calling Buchanan a racist over McCain's ad. WTF?

The idiot at TNR makes the comparison to Leni Riefenstahl based upon the use of certain camera angles, war monuments and chanting throngs of people.

The problem with that criticism is the camera angles, war monuments and chanting throngs of people are all products of the Obama campaign. If they don't want their candidate to remind people of Hitler, maybe they should avoid campaign rallies in Berlin!

Project much, Obama?

58 -jcw-- right> get the mem or statement/attack for the day out there to hang out there. then It is quoted over and over as if it was true.
Worked well with Katrina and I am still 'debunking' these phoney stories and lies.
No one spoke out agaisnt these lies and they keep being repeated...Same with Obama's half wit rebuttals.

The left say - 'stop calling him vapid" but they cannot explain to us why Obama isn't vapid.

re: #69 wrenchwench

Noam Scheiber links to Rick Perlstein who links to a blog called The New Disease, where a guy who calls himself gomonkeygo says:

Postscript: So far, I've only seen Rachel Maddow and Keith Olberman go at this ad from any perspective other than "Huh? What?" And they see the racism inherent in it, too....

Well, gosh -- if Olbermann and some other uber-lefty see inherent racism in the ad, then it MUST be there. Seeing as how they're, like, superior beings and all.

re: #51 Dirk Diggler

M. Bensson-Levi,

20,000? That's it? There are more people on Obama's foreign policy team.

mmmm. i dunno about that..I looked at the crowd.. I'm guessing 100-150k easy..that's just my estimate..

re: #24 buzzsawmonkey

You just don't get it: Obama is post-racial. By voting for him you prove you're post-racial, too. Therefore, if you don't vote for him you're a racist.

re: #55 The Other Les

They weren't Johnsonville Brats.

/I think that's a local joke.

I hate Johnsonville! They used to make Cajun Brats that I swear were laced with crack, they were that good. The stopped making 'em a few years back, and now I can't even stand to look at the name Johnsonville.

/because a taste of cajun's worse than none at all

Classic libral speak. Accuse your opponent of exactly what your tactics are.Real shit pot stirrers to use the vernacular.The Obama is a passive aggressive narcissist.

re: #72 FrogMarch

The left say - 'stop calling him vapid" but they cannot explain to us why Obama isn't vapid.

"This is the moment we give back to our children their future." -BHO, Berlin.

And you say he's vapid?

Trite, meaningless, and cliched yes, but vapid implies a level of profundidity Obama just can't manage.

This is the time we stopped the oceans from rising.We are the ones we've been waiting for.Nah, no demagoguery there.

re: #79 vagabond trader

"I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions"

That's a heck of self-regard you got there, Barack.

Oh Mama
Oh Mama
Oh Mama

re: #5 Killian Bundy

/I thought Charles was Eva Braun

Why of course!

Google stats:

Results 1 - 10 of about 128,000 for obama +narcissist.

Results 1 - 10 of about 269,000 for obama +narcissism.

People are beginning to notice.

When the MSM late-nights start honing in on you, even gently, you know that they're not so secretly ticked off. The press is getting irritated at his prima donna schtick, and I just hope they will get irritated enough to stop slobbering all over his every word.
It's too bad that McCain will be too hands-off to get creative and use that Ludacris song in a tasteful but expository way.
You can bet Reagan would have.
And they'd better make some use of Barry's stripping the flag off of his fleet of planes so he could paint them with his YesIAmAlreadyPres symbol..

If Riefenstahl were around today, she'd be directing videos for Britney Spears.

re: #78 Kenneth

Trite, meaningless, and cliched - well that's true.

re: #85 Pastorius

If Riefenstahl were around today, she'd be directing videos for Britney Spears.

If she were around today she'd be on George Soros' payroll.

Drive by y'all but - I thought The New Republic stopped publishing after that Scotty whatisname scandal?!

re: #85 Pastorius

After the war, and a brief prison term, Riefenstahl travelled to Africa and took photographs of "noble African warriors". She admired their muscular beauty. She lived to be 99, dying only a few years ago.

re: #83 Kenneth

Google stats:

Results 1 - 10 of about 128,000 for obama +narcissist.

Results 1 - 10 of about 269,000 for obama +narcissism.

People are beginning to notice.

4,800 for Nyarlathotep+Obama

re: #88 realwest

They didn't stop publishing but more & more people stopped taking them seriously anymore.

re: #74 HoosierHoops

mmmm. i dunno about that..I looked at the crowd.. I'm guessing 100-150k easy..that's just my estimate..

20,000 is the actual number sited HERE, other articles claim"Huge", "Enormous", 100,000, and the Obama Campaign's claim of 200,000. I wasn't there.

Even if the number was 200,000, they came for the FREE CONCERTS, BEER & BRATS. I have it on good authority that only 32 came to see Obama. They were bussed in from the local shelter for people with "Special Needs."

i have said before we needed an ethiopian jewish converted lesbian transexual woman that we can all get behind and get So Over this crap

sorry for leaving all significant others out : }

re: #38 jorline

Barack has a magical way of working his crowds into a frenzie...speech after speech...who else in history could do that while seeking political leadership?

He's a lot of things, but a Nazi? No.

But he is the one that seems to draw the comparison.

re: #9 Sharmuta

I don't want a president who responds to criticism with ' Izzat all you got'?
I can get that from my kids.

re: #6 Capitalist Tool

It's such a tame ad... they must really be worried to be raisin' such a fuss.

"C-T" -

It wasn't only TAME - it was LAME! The "Anointed One" has the cellular thickness of an amoeba where it comes to criticism. would I were running the GOP Campaign, My background includes knowing and admiring the late TONY SCHWARTZ of 1964 LBJ fame. Bet I could NUKE Sen. Obama.

-S-

You're not going to believe this.

[Link: necrobamacon.blogspot.com...]

In all my years I cannot recall a more whining self absorbed candidate.Bet the Obama practices in front of the mirror at night.

re: #96 tradewind

I don't want a president who responds to criticism with ' Izzat all you got'?
I can get that from my kids.

"t-w" -

My ONLY critique of your position is the number of letters and syllables that you used. My responses would be more like "AND" or "SO!" That is all.

-S-

Obama Mia
There he goes again...
My my, how can we resist him?

re: #98 The Other Les

HP used to scare me out of my wits, and now we have the Obama.

re: #98 The Other Les

That website is serious nuts:

But now I've seen the writings of Barack Obama in the Necronomicon. And I know the power of the darker cult, the Cult of Cthulhu, the members of which he commands while being led by an even darker and more sinister power. Now I fear that fouler things are at work, and that the audacity of hope is a mask for a terrible plan that will lead to the destruction of mankind.

A little over the top, isn't it?

re: #103 Kenneth

lol, some of his groupies do seem to be pretty near the mountains of madness.

re: #103 Kenneth

That website is serious nuts:

A little over the top, isn't it?

I did this as a joke.

[Link: lesbates.blogspot.com...]

re: #103 Kenneth

A little over the top, isn't it?

I'll say it is, I've got nuthin' to do with Obama.
/

Gross, but I'm beginning to think that...

When Obama picks it
The Media eats it

We'll know they've had their fill when it starts showing up on E-Bay.

OT

How about Wal-Mart stop manufacturing its goods in China, that ought to cut pollution by half.

[Link: www.iht.com...]

re: #92 M. Bensson-Levi

20,000 is the actual number sited HERE, other articles claim"Huge", "Enormous", 100,000, and the Obama Campaign's claim of 200,000. I wasn't there.

Even if the number was 200,000, they came for the FREE CONCERTS, BEER & BRATS. I have it on good authority that only 32 came to see Obama. They were bussed in from the local shelter for people with "Special Needs."

If you look at the crowd between the trees, that's all there is. There wasn't much overflow. The ZDF (German TV network) Special showed a lot of asphalt where the crowds should be. They said about 100,000 tops. On the sides and in the back of the podium were where the police cars were parked. Channeling the crowd down the street made it easier for security.

A lot of young people and plenty of Americans in the crowd. Many in the crowd stayed to watch Obama to see IF HE WOULD COMPARE to John F Kennedy.
He didn't even TRY to say anything in German.

"Ich bin ein Dussel !" would have been a good phrase for him.

Speaking of Leni:

Small Dead Animals posted these two videos in March. The trick is to 1) turn down the volume on the top video and turn up the volume on the bottom video and 2) play the two videos in sync: listening to the bottom video while watching the top video.

It's spooky.

We Are The Ones

I watched Triumph of the Will a while ago and it did not come to mind when I watched the McCain commercial. I agree with (Sharmuta?) that the Obama campaign is using this type of bogus comparison as a distraction from the real issues.

Obama is the one who is setting himself up as the saviour of the world. He is scary. He is an empty vessel, waiting and wanting to be filled and proved to be more special than the rest. His huge ego craves...

re: #89 Kenneth

After the war, and a brief prison term, Riefenstahl travelled to Africa and took photographs of "noble African warriors". She admired their muscular beauty. She lived to be 99, dying only a few years ago.

She lived to 101.

re: #109 right_on_target

Yep, yuppies, drunkards, losers, security and police and bussed in special needs folks- that's obama's 20,000 crowd.

The way the Obama campaign ripped off the work of Leni Riefenstahl he should be paying royalties to her estate. The pencil necked big eared lip flapper is so full of horse shit that he has mushrooms growing out of his ass.

re: #110 Josephine

Thank you.

re: #114 lifeofthemind

You're most welcome.

My husband showed me the videos tonight after he watched the McCain ad via LGF.

re: #113 gymnast

Well said!

All hell has broken loose. When liberals feel cornered they go into a wild eyed frenzy, especially when their ascension to power is threatened. So, sit back and enjoy.

The leftard arcane fascist seimotics are fascinating.

Paris is Himmler (skinny, former chicken farmer).
Britney is Goering (weight issues)
Obama, Goebbels (the ears).

Seig Freud!

re: #89 Kenneth

True story, an aquaintance of my daughter's who was infatuated with her, also knew Leni and procured a poster with Leni's signature on it as a gift for my daughter. I mean the woman signed it for my kid. Is that yucky or what? She doesn't know what to do with it.

On Kudlow tonight, Keith Boykin said that McCain / Republicans were using "secret words" to degrade BHO and play the race card.

I guess we'll have to wait for the cigar and the duck to figure out what those words are.

re: #9 Sharmuta

Are leftists capable of refuting criticism without dragging nazis into it?

It's kinda hard for 'em to avoid THEIR first principles, you know... :)

re: #119 pbird

True story, an aquaintance of my daughter's who was infatuated with her, also knew Leni and procured a poster with Leni's signature on it as a gift for my daughter. I mean the woman signed it for my kid. Is that yucky or what? She doesn't know what to do with it.

Wait until the economy is booming and sell it on ebay.

Here is what I think might be an intended consequence of McCain's ad - oh very sneaky or I am just thinking too much. What are the odds that Britney Spears and Paris Hilton come out and disavow the ad and endorse Obama. Perhaps their endorsements will not be viewed as positive.

re: #123 zionblog

Here is what I think might be an intended consequence of McCain's ad - oh very sneaky or I am just thinking too much. What are the odds that Britney Spears and Paris Hilton come out and disavow the ad and endorse Obama. Perhaps their endorsements will not be viewed as positive.

As the LLL's love pointing out; the Hiltons are behind McCain.

They view this as a snub to one of McCain's supporters and are taking that approach to attack the ad.

Obama's campaign squeals like a pig when it's poked. No offense to pigs.