“These Hands”
2012 Election, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Personal Responsibility, Political Commercials
Latest Romney Ad.
Game of Thrones Attack Ads
"Game of Thrones", Humor, Political Commercials
From Mother Jones (even Commies, at least sometimes, have a sense of humor):
Daenerys Targaryen: Wrong For Dragons, Wrong For The Realm
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Joffrey Baratheon: Where Is The Birth Certificate?
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Robb Stark: The Biggest Celebrity in The North
GOP Reply: “Obama Wears Prada”
2012 Election, Anna Wintour, Political Commercials
Hat tip to Glenn Reynolds.
From the Obama Campaign: the Opportunity of a Lifetime
"The Devil Wears Prada" (2006), 2012 Election, Anna Wintour, Community of Fashion, Inadvertent Humor, Political Commercials, Vogue
Attention, bitter clingers leading out-of-it lives in fly-over states, It’s not too late! Vogue editrix-in-chief Anna Wintour is descending from Olympus to offer you a (very, very small) chance to rub elbows with her and other prominent fashionistas at an Obama Campaign fundraising dinner being held at Sarah Jessica Parker’s Manhattan manse. All you have to do is donate $15 (or more) to the 2012 Obama Re-election Campaign.
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Alas! The economy is so bad that you probably don’t have $15 to spare. You probably don’t read Vogue. And many of you hopeless hillbillies out there may not even have heard of Anna Wintour.
This trailer for the 2006 film “The Devil Wears Prada,” in which Meryl Streep plays a slightly fictionalized version of La Wintour, will serve as a quick introduction.
Hat tip to David Burge.
The Life of Dominique
2012 Election, Ayn Rand, Barack Obama, Political Commercials
She eventually stopped talking to her friend Julia.
From Roark Wolfe:
Julia, Barack Obama’s Latest Composite Girlfriend
2012 Election, Barack Obama, Political Commercials
David Harsanyi asks: Who the hell is “Julia,” and why am I paying for her whole life?
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Donald Douglas replies: Meet Julia: The Big-Government Dependency Robot and Dream Woman of Leftist Ideology.
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James Taranto explains that Julia really represents the Obama Administration’s new model for society’s fundamental relationship: the union between the dependent individual and the administrative state.
In 1999 Lionel Tiger coined the word “bureaugamy” to refer to the relationship between officially impoverished mothers of illegitimate children and the government. “The Life of Julia” is an insidious attack on the institution of the family, an endorsement of bureaugamy even for middle-class women.
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Nicole Gelinas describes just how Julia’s choices subsequently impact her son Zachary and what ultimately happens to Julia.
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Iowahawk swings at the Obama Campaign’s low, hanging curveball, offering his own version of Julia’s life, which ends with a a characteristically left-wing bang.
Mitt Romney: Memories to Last a Lifetime
2012 Election, Conservatism, Mitt Romney, Political Commercials
In attempting to create an attack ad, the Obama campaign has inadvertently produced an ad that the Romney campaign ought to be broadcasting all over America.
Works for me.
Rather Strange EU Commercial
European Union, Political Commercials, Racial Politics
The advertisement in favor of the European Union, first of all, takes a surprisingly negative, and decidedly politically incorrect, view of European relationships with China, India, and Africa.
Not every European country, I would tend to think, likes to see itself as a red-headed woman in a yellow leotard. And the proliferation of meditating broads seems to this viewer at least to represent a strikingly ineffective response to a series of martial arts challenges. Of course, donning yellow leotards and assuming the lotus position, it could be argued, is not an entirely inaccurate way of depicting the European approach to defense generally, but there really should be some reference to relying on the Americans to come in and kick those wogs’ butts for them if they attack the pretty red-headed girls.
Hat tip to Kaj Malachowski.


