And, his advertisements are even more insulting. C.J. Box at Ricochet discovers an Obama ad by Lena Dunham of GIRLS fame, which equates a young woman’s first time voting for a presidential candidate with her first time having, well, you know what. Don’t you want your first time to be with…(gush!)…Barack Obama? It seriously says just that.
Oh, its charming and ironic and knowing and all the things, dear young thing, that Obama’s handlers think you’re shallow enough to be tickled and pacified by.
As for Dunham, we already knew she has no shame regarding the public display and discussion of things “sexual,” but I had been led to believe there was some intelligence behind it, led to believe she had some sort of artist’s integrity. I think I might have about as much respect for a girl who signed a ridiculous S+M play-acting “dominance” contract with some guy, which I’m told happens in GIRLS, as for a writer who agreed to lend her literary cache, such as it is, to this sort of ugly (yet ironic! ironic!) complacency. You insult all young Americans and you subject them to the demeaning of the office, for the sake of…what? Talk about degradation. My desire to ever watch GIRLS just went down several notches.
And as for our President Barack Obama who approved of this message and wheedled gobs of cash out of well-meaning decent Americans to pay for it, well, nothing surprises me anymore.
Someone shoot me if I ever vote for a Republican this rhetorically loathsome.
October 25th, 2012 | 8:31 pm
Yes. I can’t believe it, but I’m getting shocked at the descent of the president’s rhetoric these last few weeks. Two years ago it was Slurpees. Okay, one bad hipster political joke is no big deal. But now Romney Hood, Big Bird, Romnesia, the condescension about aircraft carriers, the bulls****er remark in Rolling Stone, etc. It keeps on coming, and the president can’t restrain himself. Did you see the Samuel L. Jackson ad (which I think actually wasn’t sponsored by the campaign)?
Now the Lena Dunham ad. I’ve never seen Girls, but a few people whose opinion I respect (including Peter) have mentioned some good things about it. So I’ll probably check it out.
I did see Dunham’s movie Tiny Furniture. At the time, I didn’t realize that it was made by the maker of Girls. At any rate, it had some decent parts, but it was was not good.
I suspect we’ll get more examples of the president’s clever irony in the campaign’s waning days. Yuck!
October 25th, 2012 | 8:36 pm
Holy, moley that’s creepy and silly. As I was watching that, I was thinking it was just some celebrity on their own. Was it really an Obama campaign production?
October 25th, 2012 | 9:34 pm
The Obama campaign’s Putinism?
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/331710/re-lena-dunhams-awkward-ad-patrick-brennan
October 25th, 2012 | 9:36 pm
Apparently the Obama campaign is “Forward” in more ways than one.
October 25th, 2012 | 9:55 pm
Guys. This is what a campaign in meltdown looks like. Obama should be careful because this kind of stuff is going to destroy what future political viability he may have left.
Douthat’s own wise observations on the spectacle of the media bubble that is Obama bursting before us.
http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/obamas-aura-of-defeat/
October 26th, 2012 | 10:00 am
Pseudo’s right. They’re reduced to silly “jokes” about Romnesia and getting celebrities to make insane ads like this. This is not the behavior a campaign that thinks it even has a chance of winning anymore. Cranking up base turnout to avoid a colossal blowout is obviously what they’re going for now.
October 26th, 2012 | 12:46 pm
Her next ad features a voting booth with a condom dispenser attached. In that vid she says, “Uh, he forgot to wear one of these and I caught siph.”
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