Right Wing Parodies Itself. The advertisement now being promoted by a right-wing group calling itself the Club for Growth is hilarious. So funny, that I assumed it was a parody when I first heard about it. But no, it seems that these folks are serious. Let's all hope that the boys and girls in this club will someday grow up. [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]
Check out the ad; it is hilarious. It looks like it cost about 8 cents to make. The script for the ad reads like something out of the Onion:
Announcer off-screen: WHAT DO YOU THINK OF HOWARD DEAN’S PLANS TO RAISE TAXES ON FAMILIES BY NINETEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS A YEAR?
Husband: WHAT DO I THINK?
WELL, I THINK HOWARD DEAN SHOULD TAKE HIS TAX HIKING, GOVERNMENT-EXPANDING, LATTE-DRINKING, SUSHI-EATING, VOLVO-DRIVING, NEW YORK TIMES-READING . . .
Wife: . . . BODY PIERCING, HOLLYWOOD-LOVING, LEFT-WING FREAK SHOW BACK TO VERMONT, WHERE IT BELONGS.
Husband: GOT IT?
Announcer: CLUB FOR GROWTH PAC IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENT OF THIS ADVERTISING.
Notice how it targets every invisible enemy of the Right. The idea that liberals are "government-expanding" doesn't even hold true: The Bush administration has created 721,000 new government jobs since 2000.
Just whom is being targeted by the "latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving" remarks? As if Republicans don't live in big cities and drink coffee, or eat sushi, or drive Volvos? I have to think this is some kind of euphemism for "gay" in the everyday parlance of ignorant old conservatives like the ones in the commercial.
And the New York Times? That paper may still be considered "liberal," but it is anything but. Paul Krugman's the only marginally progressive columnist they have. If the NYT is what passes for radical liberalism in the U.S., then things are crazier than I thought. I have to wonder if the NYT reference is a euphemism for "Jewish" in the lingo of your average midwestern conservative.
"Body-piercing, Hollywood-loving Left-wing freak show" doesn't even make sense. I suppose "body-piercing" is signalling some kind of counterculture. Or maybe conservatives just don't like strippers? I don't know. Every suburban teenager in the country has a tatoo and/or body piercing at this point. And does "body piercing" include earrings? Because the old lady in the ad is wearing earrings.
"Hollywood-loving" is downright nutty as a slur. Are they suggesting Right Wing folks don't watch Hollywood movies? Hollywood is one of the most conservative forces on the planet. Once again, I think this is a code for "Jew-loving," since conservatives no doubt believe all of Hollywood is run by Jews, and their product is Jewish too. Even if "Hollywood-loving" is just your basic euphemism for "liberal-loving," it's not very effective since many of the biggest conservatives in the country come from (or came from) Hollywood: Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ronald Reagan. It's not as though Hollywood is this homogeneous thing; but for the most part Hollywood is composed of liberal people making very conservative movies.
It would have been much cooler if they had just used Tool's "Aenima" as their anthem.
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