October 20, 2014 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
Worst political ad ever.
Seriously, you won’t know whether to snicker or be mortified.
“I know that black folks have had a hard time with … uh … slavery,” sayeth the man who owes the government a million dollars.
Kamau Bakari is running for congress. He calls Cliven Bundy “a brave white man.”
Thanks to Caroline for the heads up.
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You are correct – worst ad ever. Where do I start? The black guy selling out to racists? The fake cowboy get-up that looks like it came from a cheap movie set from the 50’s? The bad acting? How bravery is connected with saying racist bs and owing money to the government? The bad music from those old spaghetti westerns? How slavery was just a little nuisance to black people?
One thing they did get right – the bad guys always wore black hats.
1Even the horse knows that’s a load of poop (for those who didn’t notice the horse lifting its tail to deposit said load.)
2I hope one of his opponents isn’t another black dude disgracing himself looking for the Cliven Bundy vote. I’m not laughing – I find it sickening.
3Looks like a scene out of “Blazing Saddles.” All it needs is cowboys sitting around the campfire passing gas.
4Yes, I also noticed the horse lifting its tail to poop, Elizabeth. I thought, “Now that’s one smart horse.”
5It looks like an out take from Blazing Saddles, a steaming pile of horse $hit.
6“Ain’t that right, Kemo-sabe. “
7Hell, Bundy probably thinks he’s brave to be near an unarmed black man!
I spent the weekend far from my MA home down in Charleston SC. Lovely place, but with niggling differences. I could be pulling this from my posterior, but the blacks I passed on the street did “feel” angry in a way they don’t up where we live (except in NYC, and that is for street protection). It was truly weird to look up from my dinner and think “wow, this place is really white”: Every patron and almost everyone else was Caucasian, and the music was only by white artists from the 80s and 90s (though not country or ethnic European). In short, subtly jarring enough for me to look for what was missing.
In a weird way, I guess what I want to say is that I was just missing my neighbors. These folks want to dwell on a war of “Northern Aggression”, nah it was a war of “Southern Succession”. Somehow it’s always easier to tear things down than properly build them up…
8I saw this so-called “ad” just yesterday [Sunday] and at first I thought it was a joke and then I knew it actually was … both a so-called “ad” and a joke! Whut the what?
Yes, Elizabeth, I also noticed the lift of the horse’s tail! And, I laughed when I saw that rear action!!
As for sitting around a campfire passing gas … hell, they didn’t need no campfire ’cause those two jokers were passing gas right there in the barn!!
9If I had my way, Cliven Bundy would be in jail. The other guy–would not get my vote.
10Yeah, the horse definitely had the best commentary about this ad.
11I’m a little unclear on the target market for this ad. Is Bakari trying to garner the racist white vote–’cause I see a problem with that.
Or is he going for the African-American vote–’cause I also see a problem with that.
His proposed constituency would appear to be faux African-American cowboys who love white racists. It’s sort of an updated political version of Brokeback Mountain.
12I smell a rat, or maybe a squirrel with this ad.
Squirrel! Benghazi! Squirrel!™ As repulsive as Cliven Bundy and this ad might be, it serves as a distraction from the leading man of repulsive politics in California and Nevada, Shelly Adelson.
Anyone wondering where the money comes to support the unemployed militia members? And, Cliven? Does anyone really think that man has had an original thought since the Eisenhower administration?
13The inmates are in charge of the asylum.
14That ad looks to have been assembled from extra film shot for Blazing Saddles. That was Cleavon Little and Burton Gilliam? Right? You gotta be kiddin’ me.
15Have to admit I missed the horsetail action; I was too busy watching and listening to the horse’s butts in the black hats.
16LynnN, you’re right. There is really no target market. Sell-outs still won’t appeal to the people that they are trying to pander to – and the people they sold out will dump them.
17Crazy attracts crazy. Nuff said.
18betty@Georgetown: I was watching the horse because that was better than watching either of the others. Admittedly, people don’t have to be as icky as those two–I nearly always watch the horse rather than the humans. I like the way they talk with their ears, their nostrils, the angle of the head…and of course, the timing of poops. That horse was definitely commenting on how long it’d had to stand there and how it felt about the people beside it. A well-mannered horse, but a horse with a personality.
19Hell, I’d sooner vote for the horse!
20Let’s see here — vote for the horse or vote for the horse’s ass. Not too tough a choice. I want to believe that the horse will win as a write-in candidate.
21How much money did he get?
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