Oh Greg Abbott, You Are So … I Dunno, Weird?
Okay, Greg Abbott made his first YouTube commercial.
Go look at it. And then come back for a test.
1. Do you see any faces in that commercial that aren’t white and pretty damn old?
2. Whose bright idea was the wall of cuckoo clocks? They need to be fired. I intend on using that wall every time I talk about Greg.
3. German? Really?
One of my customers watched it and was pretty darn sure that they were trying to make Abbott look like a wounded veteran. He was never in the military. A tree feel (more commonly known as fell in non-typo world) on him. He turned it into a multi million dollar judgement.
Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.
I’m old enough and white enough to be in that commercial, but I don’t believe in cuckoo overkill. Abbott is cuckoo without a pendulum.
1It was the cuckoo clocks that gave it away for me. If Ab-butt wasn’t doing what he is doing he would be at home in the attic all day long playing with the toys in his head.
Seriously!!!!!
2You’re right – he’s doing his best to encourage the misconception that he he a veteran. And I have *no* idea what he intended those cuckoo clocks to signify.
Don’t forget that after that big judgement, he pushed for tort “reform.” IOKIYAR.
http://bpicampus.com/2013/08/06/furthermore-greg-abbot-tort-reform-and-pulling-up-the-ladder/
3He’s touting how freedom must be fought for, but he doesn’t mean freedom for all. He’s busy denouncing the brave women who protested for their freedom and jailing them as well. Another Repug ignoranus!
4ignoranus= stupid+ a**h**le
5So he feels up trees in his spare time? For money? For real?
I know what you meant, but those republicans in Texas are so weird that I did wonder for a second!
6What is he running for? Some kind of Army General position?
7Just what was he talking about? I heard the word “freedom” so may times, I was wondering if I am living in the same country as he is.
8A wood plank roof, wooden signs, wood tables, floors, and paneling. Cuckoo clocks carved from the Black Forest. Then, near the end, a wall of taxidermy animal heads, probably all friends of the forest. But not a tree in sight. Guess he won’t be asking the Sierra Club for their endorsement.
9If I were a 90 year old veteran I’d prolly like him too. I wonder if anyone asked him why he’s in a wheelchair.
10If I didn’t know the man as well as I do… if I were not aware of the darkness residing in his heart, I’d have to say it was a might good production job.
But I do know him and that of which he is capable, so I call baloney. Unfortunately there are a very large number of Texans who like moths will be attracted to the spinning lights, the glitter and the whistles. He is going to be a difficult dragon to slay.
11Might have been a better commercial if I hadn’t had to strain to hear what he was saying over the saccharine music. Don’t tell him he needs to fix it, though!
12How to be perceived as a patriot: Say “freedom” a lot. And “America” and connect them together a bunch. Reverse order and say it all again. And focus on bar-b-que and other non-ethnic (that is to say, white folks’) food.
And ludly sing cukoo.
13Did you notice that all the “discussions” he posted video links to were with FOX news?
14Governor wannabe butthead has a promoted Facebook post crying about the horrible San Antonio ordinance that would discriminate against good Christian folk like him who just want to be able to legally hate and hurt gays. I can’t wish enough bad things for him.
15“The greatest people to inhabit the earth– the people of the great state of Texas.”
I’m reminded of Mark Twain’s remark: “Man is the most wonderful work of creation…. Now, who found that out?”
And the quotation he screwed up is that the arc of history bends toward justice, not freedom.
… Well, after consulting GoodSearch (rather than Google), I see a lot of people have used “freedom,” but I think the original was “justice.” Not sure how interested Abbott is in justice.
16sorry, I couldn’t finish watching it.
17I’ll look at the test in a minute. What an off-putting political ad. It had no energy. What was the one guy walking? Like he was leaving? And CUCKOO clocks? It looked like an amateur camera person filmed it. And is there a reason we needed to see the wire running down his back?
No, I’m NOT being critical. This is my normal self.
18Watched the video. Oh man, am I inspired! I’m inspired to gag myself with a spoon. Don’t have one handy, however, so I’ll just go ahead and stick my finger down my throat.
19Oy, vey. They had an article about Abbott’s visit to Fredericksburg in our local paper. He so proudly talked about suing the Obama administration 28 times that it sounded like he was running against him for president.
And you’re right, that crowd was pretty white and pretty damn old. We got a lot of that here in F’burg.
20Matter of fact, my cat has croaked up better hairballs than what Abbott tried to get these poor people to stomach.
21I watched that thing four times, thinking I missed the part where he explained how the Guv Lite leads warriors fighting for freedom. Then finally I realized (1) that’s not in the video, and (2) now I have the brain damage.
22I see a man running for POTUS, who wants to use Texas as a steppingstone to get there. He sure does know how to step on Texans. He’s had enough practice, he should be good at it. I’m d***d tired of being used by our government. They waste money and squeeze middle class, stomp on lower income folks, but by God, they go into raptures about fetuses. Which they refuse to grant medical care.
Here, Abbott says nothing of substance, and not much with actual meaning. It’s verbal flag-waving. He gargles with it every morning.
It is a skeezy attempt to equal the brilliance of Ronald Reagan’s campaign ads with “Proud to be an American” (and he did run a great media campaign) where the only thing folks remembered was the song, Reagan’s face, and a waving American flag. Here we had sickly sweet music even an elevator would reject, Abbott babbling two words over and over, and a white audience with cuckoo clocks. Is he a secret White Supremist?
23BB. 4 TIMES!! My, you are a courageous soul!
Once was soul shriveling enough for me!
24A lot of real warriors and patriots both male and female, of all ages, races, sexual orientation are standing up to fight for our own freedoms and for the freedoms for others as well, while Abbott and the rest of his accomplices stand against us.
25Well, I assumed that the cuckoo clocks were a subtle–and strange–reference to the part of Texas that was settled by Germans. There is a part of Texas that was settled by Germans, right? Anyway, cuckoo clocks, wheelchair, arc of history, bending toward *freedom*, music…. The experience was like taking a bad combination of cold medications. I hope nobody decides to show it on the big screen teevee; that would be so cruel.
26Freedom. If you repeat a word enough it loses its meaning. If you stretch it around to cover not caring for other people, not standing up to bullies, but talk about ‘being warriors’ for freedom, it begins to sound like a mush mouth placebo word.
27And the damn cuckoo clocks. And the restaurant signs. Kind of a reverse travelogue- where not to go in Texas- if you are ever there.
28And the Cabaret moment- the future belongs to me…
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30Y’all, just to entertain you, you gotta google Gail Collins and read her Sept. 2 article titled “Stand By – You May Need to Run for the Senate”. All you have to do is fill out a form and mail it in.
31Oops. After many years of eating at that Fredericksburg restaurant, I’m done with it. It’s tainted now. Good thing there are plenty more to choose from in that little town.
Boerne has a really sweet Tex-Mex restaurant we happened upon one day. It serves such good food that we even found real Tex-Mex folks eating there, like those to whom Spanish comes naturally. (That’s always a good sign.) Funny how ol’ A-Butt didn’t stage his dog-and-pony show THERE, ain’t it?
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I watched that damn thing (the video) three times, and the only thing I got out of it was blah-blah-blah-white noise-blah-blah-blah…
I guess that “progressive Democrat” vaccination I got when I was just a young whippersnapper doesn’t need a booster shot here in my old age, does it?
A-Butt: What a sheepdip.
32(That word was altered to protect the innocent ears of Mama.)
Zyx-according to uses for peroxide,it works as well as bleach to whiten clothes,is maybe more effective as a disinfectant and doesn’t #@&%-up the environment like rethuglicans.
33This is just appalling. He is worse than Perry. At least. Perry is a smart politician. He did not say one thing about the duties of the office he is seeking, and TEXANS ARE THE GREATEST PEOPLE SINCE THE WORLD BEGAN?????? What the hell is he smoking?
34And I am as old and white as they come. I hope lots of Latinos see this ad. It would make a great bad example for a government class.
Koch Written and performed by a puppet. I see this crap as a call to war, Right up there with Palin putting Bulls-eyes on Dems Backs..And you can be sure the Other side is NOT melanin challenged. Although I did chuckle that he made a point of making sure most of the folks in the room were women, of course Post menopausal women, but women none the less. Think he can get the women vote that way? Bless his shriveled little heart….
35Abbott knows his audience! Jim
36Sorry, my family knows about freedom, and fear..and Abbott has made mockery of them… My roots go into Texas long before it was part of the US. They were also here long before the US was a country.
37People like Abbott, Cruz, Gohmert make me consider ‘renouncing’ my Texas citizenship… I taught History and Government and Texas Civics/History in Texas. These guys apparently neglected to attend class or were too busy playing with themselves in junior high (which many junior high boys are wont to do) to pay attention.
Sweet Crabby @23
“music even an elevator would reject”
LOL! I love it!
38TexasEllen: Abbott is a cuckoo without a pendulum. [Yes, he has a little dinky pendulum.]
and
Maggie: If Abbott is playing with things in the attic, it’s probably his little dinky pendulum!
Sweet Jesus … I’m so glad I don’t live in Texas!!
39Eek! I have family in all those towns.
But what the !*(&^@#!? Is this the ad for an upcoming Beer Hall Putsch?
I mean, I was expecting salutes at the end, not applause.
Maybe that would be over the top, even for Abbott. Perhaps he does have some limits.
40Talking about fighting for freedom has been a mainstay of texas politics as far back as when Repubs were still called themselves Democrats. It is hard to be against fighting for freedom. No one has ever run for office saying they are against frighting for freedom. Against war or against this war but not against fighting for freedom. If you want to see the same speech, delivered better, go to Youtube and search for Charlie Wilson political commericals.
41These type of commericals are called feel good commericals.
Abbot is in a wheel chair because he was in a car accident and he received a settlement worth several million dollars. This was before he became a fighter for limiting the dollar amount in tort cases.
Greg is sitting on $20 million in a war chest for this race but so far he has been making some serious mistakes. Greg’s twitter mistake about retard Barbie will come back to haunt him. Greg’s position on why it is okay to discriminate against minorities is going to be fun to use in the upcoming campaign. Now ads like the one above reinforce the belief that the GOP intends to win the upcoming election by relying on white voters only and trying to disenfranchise non-white voters with voter id laws and other games.
I may be mistaken but Goodhair never seemed to be this sloppy in his governor campaigns. Senator Kay Bailey threw every thing that she had against Goodhair with no real effect. Here Greg is making mistake after mistake. I hope that Senator Davis is able to take advantage of these mistakes
42@ Elise, I’m with you, all I heard was like when adults talked on the Charlie Brown shows – Waa-Waa-Wha, Wha-Wha. All I got out of that commercial was Abbott went to these towns with a bad video guy and nobody threw rocks at him. And he said something without actually saying anything. And old, white people clapped.
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