Sometimes a Tower is Just a Column

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Mon Aug 4, 2008 at 2:44 pm PDT • Views: 223

New York Times columnist Bob Herbert is seeing racist phallic symbols in John McCain’s campaign ads: Obamania Has Herbert Hallucinating. Beyond parody.

Herbert says the McCain “Celeb” ad shows two phallic pieces of architecture: the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and the Washington Monument.

But he didn’t even get that right. Both of the clips in that McCain advertisement show the same building: the Victory Column in Berlin.

Oops.

UPDATE at 8/4/08 3:16:00 pm:

Also see:
Hot Air » Bob Herbert: Why is everyone missing the phallic symbols in McCain’s Britney ad?

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 Frank says:

Throwing objects such as this are capable of damaging expensive musical equipment and musicians. Any more of this and there will be no more music. -- FZ, Autumn 1981 at Northrup auditorium in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After someone threw a plunger on stage about two-thirds of the way through the show, he stopped the band with a wave of his hand speaking in the general direction that the dangerous object was thrown, while holding it in his hand. This did not prove to be an amusing act and Franks mood hardened. - It was, however, an evening of excellent, serious musicianship around the release of 'Shut up and play your guitar'