Comments on: Worst political ad award honors NC’s Vernon ‘Twilight Zone’ Robinson http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/27/worst-political-ad-award-honors-ncs-vernon-twilight-zone-robinson/ Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:21:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Julian Elson http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/27/worst-political-ad-award-honors-ncs-vernon-twilight-zone-robinson/#comment-519248 Wed, 28 May 2008 22:23:57 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/27/worst-political-ad-award-honors-ncs-vernon-twilight-zone-robinson/#comment-519248 FNORD! FNORD! FNORD! FNORD!

]]> by: MikeEss http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/27/worst-political-ad-award-honors-ncs-vernon-twilight-zone-robinson/#comment-519145 Wed, 28 May 2008 07:22:27 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/27/worst-political-ad-award-honors-ncs-vernon-twilight-zone-robinson/#comment-519145 <i>"Don’t the conservatives ever look at stuff like this and think “our leaders think we’re this stupid?”"</i> Apparently, many of them are too stupid to notice. They're probably too busy saying to themselves, "Now that's my kind of guy!". "Conservatives" may not understand the rest of us very well, but they usually understand their base all too well... “Don’t the conservatives ever look at stuff like this and think “our leaders think we’re this stupid?””

Apparently, many of them are too stupid to notice. They’re probably too busy saying to themselves, “Now that’s my kind of guy!”.

“Conservatives” may not understand the rest of us very well, but they usually understand their base all too well…

]]> by: angryyoungwoman http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/27/worst-political-ad-award-honors-ncs-vernon-twilight-zone-robinson/#comment-519135 Wed, 28 May 2008 02:11:15 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/27/worst-political-ad-award-honors-ncs-vernon-twilight-zone-robinson/#comment-519135 Wow, I think the blatant manipulation factor is pretty offensive in and of itself. Don't the conservatives ever look at stuff like this and think "our leaders think we're <i>this</i> stupid?" Wow, I think the blatant manipulation factor is pretty offensive in and of itself. Don’t the conservatives ever look at stuff like this and think “our leaders think we’re this stupid?”

]]> by: karpad http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/27/worst-political-ad-award-honors-ncs-vernon-twilight-zone-robinson/#comment-519127 Tue, 27 May 2008 22:56:12 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/27/worst-political-ad-award-honors-ncs-vernon-twilight-zone-robinson/#comment-519127 Did they actually get permission to use that in their ad spot? I wouldn't think CBS would be so keen on their Intellectual Property being used for political partisanship. I think the fact that it's being used for gain like that, and that it's explicit, not just a reference, with black and white scenes with a twiddley background music, but using the exact song and title image. so, yeah... Did they actually get permission to use that in their ad spot? I wouldn’t think CBS would be so keen on their Intellectual Property being used for political partisanship. I think the fact that it’s being used for gain like that, and that it’s explicit, not just a reference, with black and white scenes with a twiddley background music, but using the exact song and title image.

so, yeah…

]]> by: hbsweet, empress of ice cream http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/27/worst-political-ad-award-honors-ncs-vernon-twilight-zone-robinson/#comment-519122 Tue, 27 May 2008 22:26:16 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/27/worst-political-ad-award-honors-ncs-vernon-twilight-zone-robinson/#comment-519122 Um-- what came in second? Um–
what came in second?

]]> by: hbsweet, empress of ice cream http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/27/worst-political-ad-award-honors-ncs-vernon-twilight-zone-robinson/#comment-519121 Tue, 27 May 2008 22:13:43 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/27/worst-political-ad-award-honors-ncs-vernon-twilight-zone-robinson/#comment-519121 See, I didn't think he *was* black: I thought it was just the bad lighting. Wow, that just makes it... worse? Funnier? Sicker? Can't decide... See, I didn’t think he *was* black: I thought it was just the bad lighting. Wow, that just makes it…
worse? Funnier? Sicker? Can’t decide…

]]> by: El Cid http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/27/worst-political-ad-award-honors-ncs-vernon-twilight-zone-robinson/#comment-519030 Tue, 27 May 2008 15:03:10 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/27/worst-political-ad-award-honors-ncs-vernon-twilight-zone-robinson/#comment-519030 <blockquote> All white. Stuck in the past. Headed backward. </blockquote> Winner?

All white. Stuck in the past. Headed backward.

Winner?

]]> by: paul http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/27/worst-political-ad-award-honors-ncs-vernon-twilight-zone-robinson/#comment-519020 Tue, 27 May 2008 14:35:46 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/27/worst-political-ad-award-honors-ncs-vernon-twilight-zone-robinson/#comment-519020 So all the things you see in the ad are bad, except for the black man sitting in a creepy low-contrast studio? So all the things you see in the ad are bad, except for the black man sitting in a creepy low-contrast studio?

]]> by: The Opoponax http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/27/worst-political-ad-award-honors-ncs-vernon-twilight-zone-robinson/#comment-519016 Tue, 27 May 2008 14:27:33 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/27/worst-political-ad-award-honors-ncs-vernon-twilight-zone-robinson/#comment-519016 <i>I like how he just stuck a full-on photo of some gay men kissing in there - isn’t that very thing these sort of people don’t want to see..?</i> Hey, it's better than last week's ad against "San Francisco Values" that used totally heterosexual heterosexuality as a "tasteful" stand in for gay issues. I like how he just stuck a full-on photo of some gay men kissing in there - isn’t that very thing these sort of people don’t want to see..?

Hey, it’s better than last week’s ad against “San Francisco Values” that used totally heterosexual heterosexuality as a “tasteful” stand in for gay issues.

]]> by: Tina H http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/27/worst-political-ad-award-honors-ncs-vernon-twilight-zone-robinson/#comment-519008 Tue, 27 May 2008 13:50:08 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/27/worst-political-ad-award-honors-ncs-vernon-twilight-zone-robinson/#comment-519008 <i>Yep. All white. Stuck in the past. Headed backward.</i> *applauds* Yep. All white. Stuck in the past. Headed backward.

*applauds*

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