This is funny, but probably not for the reasons Mike Huckabee thinks it is. The GOP prez hopeful is launching this ad in Iowa today.
The 60-second TV ad, called ‘Chuck Norris Approved,” features Norris’ endorsement of Huckabee as a “principled, authentic conservative.” The ad also discusses Huckabee’s support for the Fair Tax, securing the border, and the 2nd amendment.Some comments at the Huckabee site about the ad are below the fold.“My plan to secure the border. Two words: Chuck. Norris,” says Huckabee, who stares into the camera before it cuts away to show Norris standing beside him.
“Mike Huckabee is a lifelong hunter who’ll protect our Second Amendment rights” on gun ownership, says the tough-guy actor, who takes turns addressing viewers.
“There’s no chin behind Chuck Norris’ beard, only another fist,” Huckabee says.
“Mike Huckabee wants to put the IRS out of business,” Norris adds.
“When Chuck Norris does a push-up, he isn’t lifting himself up, he’s pushing the earth down,” Huckabee says.
“Mike’s a principled, authentic conservative,” says Norris.
In closing, Huckabee says: “Chuck Norris doesn’t endorse. He tells America how it’s going to be. I’m Mike Huckabee and I approved this message. So did Chuck.”
For those who don’t know how Norris became an of-the-moment celebrity again:
1.)Master martial artist
2.)Appeared in lots of what are now cheesy martial arts films
3.)Appeared in the Walker, Texas Ranger TV show
4.)Suddenly became of the subject of internet jokes of the like seen in this ad, mainly making fun of his cheesy films (search for Chuck Norris jokes and you’ll find a ton).
5.)Conan O’Brien (a fav of college students and young adults) has been running clips of Chuck Norris films to make fun of their cheesy nature.
-But-
6.)He’s actually a well-spoken Christian conservative.
7.)WorldNetDaily (wnd.com) picked him up as a columnist and he’s since been writing lots of great serious commentaries.
Chuck has managed to turn what were jokes about him into a platform to talk about serious issues and be taken seriously by some because of his mind.
Promoting Chuck Norris for Secretary of Defense would catch on fast and make this ad really take off.
Once Again Mike has shown the character I feel is vital to be President.
He puts his focus on telling the American People who his is and what he stands for instead of trying tear down his oponents.
Yep.. I Like Mike!
Chuck Norris for vice president 2008!
Mike Huckabee for president 2008!
We need an unbreakable team of strong Christian men who can secure our borders and put an end to terrorism.
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Words cannot even describe how hard I laughed at this.
After watching that, I have the urge to watch the Roman Colosseum scene from Return Of The Dragon where Bruce Lee kicks the crap out of Chuck Norris.
How is it that Chuck Norris is tapped for an ad campaign, but the DNC balks at Stephen Colbert?
So, how long before we’re not electing actors, but actual fictitious characters?
Didn’t Mr. Rogers take out Chuck Norris in The Ultimate Showdown?
What I am to do with yet another busted Bullshit Detector? Recalibration is out of the question. Nobody brings the pomo confusion like the Modern Republican Party.
And such a brazen in your face to Shirley Ellis — huckchuckfacts. Up with huckchuckfacts!
Working Shirley Ellis link.
I just want to know how Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman will endorse.
The Onion should sue.
Nobody brings the pomo confusion like the Modern Republican Party.
Like I said over at Shakesville, “I wish Baudrillard were still alive.” He’s the only one that could make this even crazier.
“Before Chuck Norris goes to bed, he checks the closet for Molly Weasley.”
Okay, so they are gay lovers. They got that out up front before it could become a scandal.
What next?
Ms. Kate: No, Mr. Rogers didn’t actually appear until the end of the ultimate showdown. Chuck Norris was taken down as recounted in the verses:
I’ve now shown myself to be the ultimate nerd. Thank you.
As for the more important subject, I think its amazing that the Republican party is seemingly devoting a major effort into preventing anyone from making ironic or mocking comments about it by the simple expedient of doing stuff so bizarre, so stupid, so self-parody, that you literally *can’t* make fun of ‘em.
Remember the Statue of Liberty holding a Cross? When I first saw the picture I thought “man, some lefty with a copy of Photoshop doing yet another United States of Jesusland type parody”, but no, its real.
And now this. They aren’t even pretending that they’re not about playing the “its all about who has the biggest dick, and yes I mean that literally, no women need ever apply for public office” card.
Sheesh.
Pretty funny.
And, let’s face it, that’s more than you can say (favorably) about 99% of all political ads.
“There’s no brain behind Chuck Norris’ eyes, only another fist.”
Mike Huckabee just secured the 20/30-something, apathetic apolitical white male geek vote.
Considering that this is a good chunk of the Republican electorate (the other chunk being the 30+ embittered white male reactionary vote), this should make for an interesting primary.
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I could almost admire the cheekiness, but I believe he is serious.
Sweet Christ, these people are insane.
“Chuck Norris doesn’t sleep, he waits.”
Every time i hear about Mike Huckabee I think of CBC’s “This Hour has 22 Minutes” special “Talking to Americans” where he appeared and congratulated Canada on preserving our national igloo…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhTZ_tgMUdo
I was never able to figure out if he was really serious. I mean, would he really believe that Canada’s capitol building is a downscale replica of Arkansaw’s capitol building which is a downscale replica of *the* Capitol Building? And that it was made of ice and needed to be preserved from the ravages of global warming? At that point, Canada was the largest trading partner of that state (and quite possibly still is).
Huckabee’s known for his sense of humor. I guarantee you he wasn’t serious.
“http://www.goats.com/store/rfv.html”
I meant more along the lines of voting for Stephen Colbert the Persona or Kiefer Sutherland-as-Jack Bauer. I mean, I’d hate to get Chuck Norris the dude as a Secretary of Defense–it’d be almost as bad as electing or Arnold Schwarzenegger-as-the Terminator, forgetting to specify which movie, and getting an evil killbot instead of the protector of the new messiah.
I prefer Bill Brasky jokes.
I suppose the tried + true Repub tactic of running washed-up actors for Preznit (Reagan, Thompson) must’ve gotten a little shopworn. So what do the GOP strategerists do? They decide to run an ad of a washed-up actor endorsing another guy for Preznit. Well, points for originality, guys. (”Originality” being in this instance something it would never occur to a Democrat to do.)
“Pretty funny.
And, let’s face it, that’s more than you can say (favorably) about 99% of all political ads.”
We’re not laughing with him, we’re laughing at him.
As a Texan, I can assure everyone that George Bush is a fictional character. In real life he is a Connecticut born Yale legacy cheerleader with absolutely no interest in global politics.
Matt
You might be right. But most ads make me want to run screaming from the room in agony. Laughing is better (for me) whether I’m with him, or not.
I’m not voting for the guy in any event. At least he gave me a laugh.
I meant more along the lines of voting for Stephen Colbert the Persona or Kiefer Sutherland-as-Jack Bauer.
Before now I’ve wished Martin Sheen was president because he can at least act like a half-decent one. Not seriously, obviously.
God, I hated this internet fad. in no small part because I was profoundly aware of just how unoriginal it was. Vin Diesel Facts, which are the same jokes with a different name attached, predated this fad by about two years. And Bill Brasky was basically the same as that, and substantially older.
and morons act like it’s the funniest thing ever. It’s like idiots suddenly discovered knock knock jokes, but worse because they won’t believe you that every last joke they’re repeating is in fact older than dirt and wasn’t that funny to begin with.
And THEN, Chuck Norris finds out about them, and starts using them for shameless self promotion. He would not be writing for WND, or been in that mountain dew commercial, or appear in this add, if he wasn’t the butt of these jokes. And he’s using it to stump for evangelical christianity, or in this case, Bill Huckabee.
Film career aside, this is basically regarnered fame on no merits at all. He didn’t DO anything. It’s Paris Hilton-worthless fame, but being used for profound evil instead of just making money and being obnoxious.
OH MY GOD.
Huckabee, seriously, stop it, you’re making my home state look bad!
Arkansans aren’t all he-men Republicans, I swear.
If Chuck Norris becomes Vice President, does it mean that the House and the Senate get a Total Gym on the floor, and the Speaker gets to yell “give me 20″ when someone doesn’t show up to vote?
And what will Christie Brinkley say?
The Dems should run Barberalla for preznit.
“And THEN, Chuck Norris finds out about them, and starts using them for shameless self promotion.”
After originally denouncing them.
Because they’re all accomplishments that should be credited to Jesus. Or something.
TECH ISSUE: PANDAGON WEBMASTER: the white background (which has always loaded heinously slow) now STOPS at post #12 above on my machine (Firefox).
The black type on the dark green background is then impossible to read. (To read the text, you have to “select all”.)
When I first started reading Pandagon it loaded quickly: at some point the background started loading much more slowly. Since it could conceivably be one pixel tall (then tile) WTFIUWT?
Funny how all the “Hollywood folks” should shut up about politics, ‘cause, gosh durn it, it makes Bernard Goldberg upset.
Unless the said Hollywood folks are Republicans or endorsing Republicans. Then it’s OK.
Not to spoil the fun, but…:
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee rejects letting states decide whether to allow abortions, claiming the right to life is a moral issue not subject to multiple interpretations.
“It’s the logic of the Civil War,” Huckabee said Sunday, comparing abortion rights to slavery. “If morality is the point here, and if it’s right or wrong, not just a political question, then you can’t have 50 different versions of what’s right and what’s wrong.”
“For those of us for whom this is a moral question, you can’t simply have 50 different versions of what’s right,” he said in an interview on “Fox News Sunday.”
“For those of us for whom this is a moral question, you can’t simply have 50 different versions of what’s right,” he said in an interview on “Fox News Sunday.””
1st Huckabee Constitutional amendment - Unfermented grape juice only at communion. Drink wine at communion (can no longer legally be called “eucharist” either) and the punishment for violation is death…
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee rejects letting states decide whether to allow abortions, claiming the right to life is a moral issue not subject to multiple interpretations.
There they go again, reinterpreting their own rules to fit the crime. When it comes to integration, its all about ’state’s rights’. When it comes to paying taxes, its all about ‘individual rights’.
When it comes to a woman’s rights, they can wait to put on their Fed-hats and have look inside our vaginas.
“When it comes to a woman’s rights, they can wait to put on their Fed-hats and have look inside our vaginas.”
Come on! Nobody could look in there and live, right?…
I found the ad embrassing and not the least bit funny
Chuck might as well said he approves of letting convicted rapists and murders go free
I’ll respectfully disagree. You’re welcome to your own opinion, of course, but I thought it was a clever ad. I think if the shoe were on the other foot and it was one of our candidates who had come up with something like it, we’d be applauding the creative way of reaching out to candidates.
Which doesn’t mean I’m voting for him, of course. Also, I think the ad would be much more difficult to pull off if he were a frontrunner instead of a dark horse. Though I know he’s polling much better in Iowa than he is nationally, so maybe that’s not a fair way to put it.
Re #12: Okay, so they are gay lovers.
WTF? Did I miss something here? That strikes me as an odd way for a Pandagon regular to slander someone.
Charlie my son said the same thing . . .but I guess no one counted on my viseral dislike of chuck norris (not like little ole me really mattered in the grand scheme of things any way) … really, I watch “Return of the Dragon” just to see Chuck get his but kicked.
He could do this with any other candidates and I still wouldn’t like the ad. The fact that Mr. “let’s get back to the 50’s when life was sweet (for white men)” is campaigning for someone else I dislike and if I am not mistaking is a dominist to boot, really makes this ad rub the wrong way for me.
But everyone else thinks it’s funny, that’s fine. I don’t think any less of people who think this is fuuny. I don’t think it is.
So what, I shouldn’t comment because I’m swimming against veryone else?
I’m waiting for Mayor McCheese’s endorsement before I decide on a candidate.
PS -@emerald: As a Connecticut resident, I can tell you, Shrub is no more a Yalie than he is a Texan.
really, I watch “Return of the Dragon” just to see Chuck get his but kicked.
Just for you, Clytemnestra.
le sigh…
Y’know, I thought Bro Gov running his wife for secretary of state while he was still governor was shameless.
This just makes me want to spork people.
And Brad, the Statue of Liberation Through Christ (Memphis’s Newest Tourist Destination!) is very real. I’ve driven by it many times. The preferred term in non-dominionist circles is “Our Lady of Manifest Destiny.”
It’s teeth-grindingly painful to watch Chuck Norris treat Chuck Norris Facts as anything other than slightly amusing. For an antidote, have some Bruce Schneier Facts. (They won’t make much sense unless you’re familiar with cryptography, though.)
“Most people use passwords. Some people use pass-phrases. Bruce Schneier uses an epic passpoem, detailing the life and works of seven mythical Norse heroes.”
You’ve omitted his appearance in several cheesy ’80s war/action flicks such as Delta Force and MIA.
So what, I shouldn’t comment because I’m swimming against veryone else?
At least in this thread, it appears to be me who is swimming against everyone else. But please don’t take my disagreement to mean that you or anyone else shouldn’t comment.
As for myself, I’m a big fan of the over-the-top version of Chuck Norris from the Chuck Norris Facts, so that probably explains my reaction to it. I’m very neutral on Chuck Norris the actor, and I roll my eyes at Chuck Norris the pundit. And for the record, no, I hadn’t really run these facts before either in the form of Vin Diesel facts, nor the Bill Brasky sketches for that matter, since I was never a big Will Ferrell fan.
I know, I know. Where’s my sense of humor? Down with Chuck Norris Facts but not with Will Ferrell. Go figure.
Having conferred with the various Barrens General Chat on several servers, the Horde has decided that Chuck Norris owes us payment for each mention of Chuck Norris Facts.
Hey, we pretty much started the damn fad, we get to own it.
>Re #12: Okay, so they are gay lovers.
>WTF? Did I miss something here? That strikes me as an >odd way for a Pandagon regular to slander someone.
So you think being called gay is a slander? You’re a Republican, then?
Frankly, I think calling Chuck Norris’s films cheesy is a slander to cheese.
I…it…who…Chuck Norris?!
Good thing I’m already sitting on the floor–the fall from a chair would be painful. The giggles from this direction have a slightly mad tinge to them, though….
Mind you, I did just recently watch a couple of episodes of Walker: Texas Ranger, and decided that they are actually kind of good. Walker is a little bit of a Gary Stu, but otherwise it seems to be an okay cop drama, with more people of colour casually cast than in most such shows. But I am led to believe that this was the least cheesy of Mr Norris’s roles, which does not make me want to take his political advice particularly seriously….
It would be an honestly funny ad, I think, if it weren’t for the very strong odor of “Me big strong manly-man: you vote 4 me!” wafting from it.
Incertus Brian, Nacho Daddy -
Thank you!
Chuck shows why “manscaping” has become popular/ I like hairy chests, but please.
I dunno why I like to see a great white macho tough guy American exceptionalism cheerleader, chest and Bible thumper get his butt kick by a smaller, Asian, non-Chirstian (yeah I know it’s just the movies), but I do.
Bruce Lee’s daughter Shannon Lee could endorse one of the democratic candidates…
A smart move to appeal to the electorate that made Jesse “The Body” Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger governors of their respective states.
Oh my God, Brad Jackson, I only couldn’t place one of those. Just who is Doc Ock?
Lo Pan and Bill & Ted? Kirk and Vader? Whow. Still laughing over this one.
Back OT: So who does this make even more rediculous, Chuck or Huck?
Sheesh, my spelling is awful today. Sorry.
Helen: Presumably, Spider-Man’s nemesis, Otto Octavius, better known as Doctor Octopus, or Doc Ock to his friends.
Dontcha love the Internet? A dork is always on hand to explain the dorky.
If Chuck Norris’ chin is a fist, what’s his fist?
Where’s that bit that George Takei put out? I remember him parodying every single gay stereotype and it end up with “but we LOOOVE you, we love you very much!” I remember we all found it hysterical.
Need similar here.
Breaking News: another macho man is endoring Huckabee. Ric Flair.
I’ve heard of Charles Bronson facts.
Ric Flair? Pfft. Flair has man-boobs. He’s almost 60. Even if I were impressed by macho-ness I would be unimpressed by Flair.
I also think that his judgment might leave a lot to be desired; IIRC, when he was head booker for WCW (that’s the guy who decides who wins and loses and what kinds of storylines there will be) he mainly used the position to build himself up without focusing as much on giving other wrestlers air-time and championships so that they could have a chance to win fans over and become stars themselves.
Which, now that I think of it, is a pretty Republican way of doing things. Look out for #1 and fuck everybody else, right?
I thought man-boobs were called moobs
Not according to Fight Club, they aren’t.
God, I hated this internet fad. in no small part because I was profoundly aware of just how unoriginal it was. Vin Diesel Facts, which are the same jokes with a different name attached, predated this fad by about two years. And Bill Brasky was basically the same as that, and substantially older.
Yeah, the background of this whole thing is very odd. It started off–like practically every other internet meme, like Lolcats and AYB–on the SomethingAwful forums, when the release of The Pacifier prompted people to start posting absurd facts about Vin Diesel.
(”He was the first man to ever successfully bowl a perfect game using only his MIND POWERS”; “Saying the words “MOLAKUM, VORADEUS, GLORKANO” will turn his skin bright green for 20 minutes”; “Vin Diesel donates 90% of his useable blood to the red cross every other tuesday, but insists it go to starving vampires”. You know, factual stuff.)
Then it got turned into a website by the 4Q.cc guys. It was very successful, as SA-generated memes usually are, and they had a write-in contest for the next fact generator character. Norris won by a landslide.
The Norris stuff really took off (at least from what I saw) with the World of Warcraft crowd, who are something like half the Internet these days, so now here we are.
Me, I kind of liked the ad. It’s clearly aimed at the “south park republican” set. Not sure if it’ll take, I personally doubt it, but it shows Huckabee has more of a sense of humor and eye for popular culture than 99% of Republicans I’ve ever encountered.
Oh, lovely. Chuck Norris has joined the David Hasselhoff “I apparently don’t realize my newfound popularity is just an extended joke about how pitiful I am” club. So, logically, I guess he should be a McCain shill.
Haha … Chuck is the Best