• February 14, 2012

Beware. John McCain’s BRUTAL NO-HOLDS-BARRED RESPONSE AD OF DEATH about TONY REZKO is out, and you better be SCARED. Ha ha just kidding, it sucks. The ad distills Obama’s naive but benign relationship with Rezko into a more familiar, corrupt politician’s narrative: (1) Rezko bought Obama a house, so (2) Obama returned the favor by giving him $14 million in taxpayer money! Since this is a horrible lie, the narrator doesn’t actually say this, just chooses words that sound like he’s saying this. Too bad no one will ever care about this. [YouTube]

{ 65 comments }

The Incomparable Tiny Valdez August 21, 2008 at 6:44 pm

With that brilliant piece of advertising, the McCain camp can just demand keys to the White House right this minute.

Rodney Badger August 21, 2008 at 6:47 pm

I’m biased, but that’s a pretty bad ad.

shortsshortsshorts August 21, 2008 at 6:47 pm

Where is Tony the Tiger and his Rezko rants when you don’t need them?

BobLoblawLawBlog August 21, 2008 at 6:48 pm

I especially like the unattributed quotation marks. Hillz?
And, really, congratulations on staying above the fray, you maverick dickhead, you. Can someone please just take Biden/Webb/who-the-fuck-ever off their goddamned leashes so the Dems can seem like they have a pair for once?

Gopherit v2.0 August 21, 2008 at 6:50 pm

OMG! Obama = Ted Stevens! Only he’s black, and the story in the commercial is bullshit.

ManchuCandidate August 21, 2008 at 6:53 pm

[re=65679]shortsshortsshorts[/re]:
Wait, Canmon will comment.

I’m still waiting for the “Why’d he” aka “Whitey” tape.

chitownlib August 21, 2008 at 6:54 pm

Is it just me or does the guy say “billion” instead of “million”? Is there any house in the world worth a billion dollars? Sadly, many people will think “billion” is correct.

Also, his house is not really a mansion. I’ve seen it many times, I used to work down the street.

Whiskeybaby August 21, 2008 at 6:54 pm

[re=65679]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: But he went to law school with Barry!! And refused blow jobs from him every day!! Ah, I miss Tony sometimes…

BobLoblawLawBlog August 21, 2008 at 6:54 pm

[re=65682]Gopherit v2.0[/re]: Are you implying Ted Steven is NOT full of bullshit?

The Incomparable Tiny Valdez August 21, 2008 at 6:55 pm

Can you imagine what is going on over at the Obama mansion right now? Michelle probably just got home from her “job” and is busy weeding the arugula garden while Malia and Natasha are busy trying on Mommy’s makeup for the video crew from their blog. They wish everyone was hammered like at Meghan’s party

Dave J. August 21, 2008 at 6:55 pm

Lame add. Too complicated. Walnuts looks like shit at the end. C-

Whiskeybaby August 21, 2008 at 6:57 pm

The great thing about this is that the American public don’t give a shit about the Rezko “scandal”. It’s way too hard for them to understand or get outraged about. They do understand now, however, that McCain is an elitist pansyass who loses count of how many homes he owns. As easy-to-follow storyline that even a toothless hick can understand!

The Incomparable Tiny Valdez August 21, 2008 at 7:06 pm

Plus damn, wen u add up the cost to the us taxpayer of crashun five airplains, he may o us muney back.

tonashideska August 21, 2008 at 7:08 pm

Two words: KEATING Five!

Gopherit v2.0 August 21, 2008 at 7:08 pm

[re=65688]BobLoblawLawBlog[/re]: No,I’m saying that the story about Stevens taking kickback for his house has legs. The Rezko thin is the lamest political scandal in this election.

shortsshortsshorts August 21, 2008 at 7:12 pm

[re=65711]Gopherit v2.0[/re]: I really hope Barry grows a set and just smears WALNUTS all over the floor with dirty laundry. The guy wreaks of old Washington. DO IT Barry.

Cicada August 21, 2008 at 7:17 pm

Ooh! Ooh! Does this mean Barry can run ads about the Keating Five? I think the 125 billion dollars we spent to bail out WALNUTS’ S and L friends is a wee bit more than the 14 mil Rezko got.

AxmxZ August 21, 2008 at 7:19 pm

That’s going to cost “Seven Houses” McCain some decimal points on the Truth-O-Meter.

Not_So_Much August 21, 2008 at 7:19 pm

[re=65717]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: I’m with you.

I know they keep saying they’re going to play nice and all. But the Rove playbook is in full bloom right now. If it’s going to be personal attacks, let the shit fly.

Advocatus_Diaboli August 21, 2008 at 7:29 pm

[re=65710]tonashideska[/re]: The Ketting Five is Barry’s ace in the hole. No need to use it just yet – I think mid-October would be a wonderful time to start hammering Walnuts! with that little “taint”.

Whiskeybaby August 21, 2008 at 7:30 pm

[re=65728]Not_So_Much[/re]: The great thing is, McCain just cannot win with this tack of trying to air Barry’s dirty laundry and pretend he hasn’t got any of his own. He’s corrupt, does dirty deals with lobbyists, fucks lobbyists, and doesn’t believe in god or fidelity or any of the things that necons and evangelicals supposedly care about. Barry has one minor piddling skeleton in his closet that no one besides Walnuts and Tony the Tiger cares about. The ONLY thing he can use that’s effective is reminding people that Barry is a secret Muslim and a black man. I’m sure he and his fine people will go back to that shortly.

Keram2 August 21, 2008 at 7:31 pm

I love the logic of the McCain Rapid Response Team:

Step 1: Release a crappy video at like 6:00 p.m. after all the good journos have gone to bed.
Step 2: No one watches.
Step 3: ????
Step 4: Profit?

AngryBlakGuy August 21, 2008 at 7:34 pm

…I just don’t get Obama’s strategy? I would figure that he would be aggressive toward McCain in every AD, not attack but aggressive. Barry has the money advantage so every cent that WALNUTS! is forced to spend rebutting or counter striking an AD is another cent that cant be used to organize his campaign or put out another AD. At some point WALNUTS! is going to be forced to decide where he is going to invest his money and Obama should be putting that pressure on him NOW!

Not_So_Much August 21, 2008 at 7:37 pm

[re=65745]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: I could be wrong (again), but I believe that if you include the RNC cash barge, they actually have more money to spend.

I could look it up, but that would require effort — and that’s not how I roll….zzz

The Hispanic Buddy Holly August 21, 2008 at 7:38 pm

Why does the music playing when McCain’s name appears sound like something from a Nintendo Wii game? Also, Rezko sounds like a badass supervillian name!

The Real JR Revisted August 21, 2008 at 7:40 pm

[re=65682]Gopherit v2.0[/re]: lolol…

The Incomparable Tiny Valdez August 21, 2008 at 7:41 pm

[re=65748]The Hispanic Buddy Holly[/re]: You like Rezko? Wait ’til you meet Reverand Wright! And believe me, you will.

anabellum August 21, 2008 at 7:56 pm

personally speaking, im ready for the gloves to come off…..

any real fight with McCain has to be dirty…its the nature of the beast…

its time for the DNC to hit him hard everyday…lord knows theres plenty of info to pull out……

ChatteringClass August 21, 2008 at 7:59 pm

[re=65741]Keram2[/re]: One minor problem with your steps. After 6 p.m. all the journos have gone to [b]bars[/b] not bed.

The Hispanic Buddy Holly August 21, 2008 at 8:00 pm

[re=65750]The Incomparable Tiny Valdez[/re]: I can’t wait. That Wright guy seems like a nice fellow. I mean, he is a reverand and those guys are always nice.

regisgoat August 21, 2008 at 8:03 pm

You guys are all wrong. Walnetto’s going to win the presidency with this tactic.
!st: foreign-sounding name Lord Darth Rezko. Rezko rhymes with Negro, if you accent it right.
Second: terrifying crypto-tintype shot of billion-dollar Satanic Amityville Horror mansion (you can dub in the image, Vincent Price-wise: “This is the house where the bodies are buried….”).
Third: Walnutzoids’ air of real-manliness by counterpunching from the hip: “You want to talk houses, upstart Negro? Let’s talk about your ill-gotten Chicago gangster paradise!” Swing voters will achieve tuminescence when they see how fast McCain’s crackerjack team of character assassins got this crap on-line.
Zogby says it, I believe it and that settles it.

The Incomparable Tiny Valdez August 21, 2008 at 8:03 pm

[re=65759]The Hispanic Buddy Holly[/re]: Yes sir, He is a rustic concerned about the chickens coming home to roost, that’s all.

shortsshortsshorts August 21, 2008 at 8:03 pm

[re=65759]The Hispanic Buddy Holly[/re]: I’m onto you.

Volumptuous August 21, 2008 at 8:06 pm

The .ae file for this ad took FIVE AND A HALF!!! hours to render.

KittyKatMan August 21, 2008 at 8:06 pm

Oh man, those 25%ers are going to hate Obama even more. Then they’ll be moved up to Advanced 25%ers.

Gopherit v2.0 August 21, 2008 at 8:10 pm

[re=65762]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: You smellin’ Tiger in the air?

Honor and Dignity August 21, 2008 at 8:21 pm

My favorite part of the McCain ads is always near the end–just after the narrator finishes giving some bullcrap. It’s like I’m always waiting with anticipation to see if John McCain approved that message or they just slipped it by him.

And then… he always comes through. And I’m all “I can’t believe he approved that shit,” to my bro sitting next to me.

I think they are making the brief pause a little longer each time to keep people like me excited.

qwerty42 August 21, 2008 at 8:35 pm

[re=65740]Whiskeybaby[/re]: “…The ONLY thing he can use that’s effective is reminding people that Barry is a secret Muslim and a black man. I’m sure he and his fine people will go back to that shortly.”
That is where the campaign is going. See Sullivan. I doubt McCain controls “the American Issues Project”, but I’d expect more of this.

erymanthian bore August 21, 2008 at 8:42 pm

Wait. What does John McCain got in his cheek? Baccy? Or is that just his wattles?

TexasCowGirl August 21, 2008 at 8:46 pm

Oh goody, now Barry can bring up the Keating 5 Scandal that cost the bitters $160 bilion in tax dollars.

TexasCowGirl August 21, 2008 at 8:48 pm

[re=65786]erymanthian bore[/re]: Silly it’s a WALNUT!

SayItWithWookies August 21, 2008 at 8:49 pm

(brush, brush…)

The Incomparable Tiny Valdez August 21, 2008 at 8:55 pm

WTF? I am totally voting for McMansion after that little number.

lawrenceofthedesert August 21, 2008 at 9:23 pm

If McNovocain can reduce the campaign to the usual Rove s-storm level, it covers his platform’s lack of substance. If he can whip things up to the point where we all are sick to death of both candidates, then he figures more Dems will stay home than Repubs, because Dems have a life. Apologies to Ronald, but I’m not lovin’ this campaign so far. This ad is bait I hope Obama doesn’t take.

AxmxZ August 21, 2008 at 9:31 pm

[re=65745]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: Why bother? McCain is already spending like a sailor, because he needs to burn through his funds before he can accept public financing on September 4th. Why do you think he’s been inching up in battleground states everywhere? He’s flooding them with TV ads! If he were smarter, he’d invest in infrastructure, instead of trying to get bumped in the polls 2.5 months before the election. But he’s John “Seven Houses” “894th out of 899 students” McCain. He doesn’t do smarter.

shortsshortsshorts August 21, 2008 at 9:33 pm

“purchasing part of the property he couldn’t afford.”

OHHH SHIT Barry must have had like 80 billion bucks!!!!1!
Or WALNUTS has failed. Amazing that his response to the “look how rich WALNUTS is ad” is “this black man is totally broke so he needed help” thing. Yes it is acknowledged that Barry has tons of money now, but STILL not even slightly/nearly/assfuckingly as much as McMoneybags’ wonderful cunt-trollip.

[re=65771]Gopherit v2.0[/re]: Definitely. See how the troll stopped posting…
curious it seems.

MargeSimpsonsBlackFriend August 21, 2008 at 9:38 pm

I give this ad an F minus. I could have created a better attack ad on my little Mac with some fucking sock puppets. One of the socks could even have a hole in it.

AnnieGetYourFun August 21, 2008 at 9:51 pm

[re=65745]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: So, I feel like it would be good if the Obama camp reacted with a bit more scorn-bordering-on-pity. Like, “Well, that’s a really sad tactic, but if that’s what he needs to do to feel good…” followed by lots of eye-rolling and a sighing explanation of why nothing John McCain has ever said has been true.

[re=65686]chitownlib[/re]: The narrator totally makes it sound like ‘billion’ and I’m sure it’s no accident.

nedflanders August 21, 2008 at 9:51 pm

“naive but benign relationship”?
GMAFB

Quacker August 21, 2008 at 10:01 pm

Aren’t you supposed to run attack ads that contain zero truth only at the very end? What a waste this one is. It’s incomprehensible and two months early.

Walnuts is cracking…

fishcanoeski August 21, 2008 at 10:07 pm

No no no. See the liberal media is doing this all wrong. When McCain was whining about not getting equal coverage with Hopey he didn’t mean that they should actually report on things he said in real life. They were just supposed to repeat the taking points of his Clown Hall meetings.

AxmxZ August 21, 2008 at 10:08 pm

[re=65828]Quacker[/re]: Better question is – if they’re whipping out Ayers, Rezko and Wright already – all of whom failed to do shit for Hillary in the primaries – what the hell are they even going to have *left* for the next two months?

“This young boy is Jimmy Johnson. Barack Obama once punched him in the shoulder at Punahou prep school after a kerfuffle on the basketball court. It bruised, and Billy was sore for a week. Obama is a violent, dangerous negro. Vote McCain.”

shortsshortsshorts August 21, 2008 at 10:24 pm

[re=65831]AxmxZ[/re]: Remember:
He’s a MOOSlim!
His wife is anti-American!
He voted present 8 billion times in the IL Senate!
He smoked the pot!
He isn’t white!
He voted against the Iraq War!
He doesn’t have experience!
He isn’t umm, PRESIDENTIAL!
He is the anti-Christ!
He didn’t wear a FLAG PIN!

More of the same shit. Thank you middle 30 states (minus MI, IL, and maybe MN) for making this so easy. I hope Childers says something about you.

snig August 21, 2008 at 10:25 pm

I think the Keating/Rezko should be done. I’d love to see a graph showing what 125,000,000,000 looks like next to 14,000,000 but that would look like Hopey was admitting there was validity to the Rezko story.

Franklin Pierce & Pierce August 21, 2008 at 10:35 pm

Chigurh: You married into it.

McCain: …If that’s the way you wanna put it.

Chigurh: I don’t have some way to put it. That’s the way it is.

texette August 21, 2008 at 10:43 pm

Oh honey, if this is the best they can do I’m feeling a whole lot better about this little contest moving forward.

What really scares me is that this is the kind of crap THE ‘MERICAN PEOPLE use to make a decision?

This place gets creepier every day…

Oscar Folsom Cleveland August 21, 2008 at 10:49 pm

McNopoly!

Olbermann nails it again.

shortsshortsshorts August 21, 2008 at 10:50 pm

[re=65844]texette[/re]: Another Rezko beneficiary? What are these elitist doing to our country?

You can only hope that Barry will create a long video simply displaying WALNUTS losing track of his thoughts in oh-so-many of his press conferences. He’s like George Jr., but really, really old.

VomitComit August 21, 2008 at 11:11 pm

[re=65838]shortsshortsshorts[/re]:
This is from the NY Times in March. I think it proves your point.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/images/photo/2008/03/19/0320-PENN/22497807.JPG
“But Peter Contacos, 42, the fourth generation of his family to own and operate Coney Island Lunch, said he would not vote for Senator Barack Obama ‘because his name is Barack Hussein Obama — case closed.’”
This is from the NY Times in March. I think it proves your point.

Whiskeybaby August 21, 2008 at 11:18 pm

[re=65783]qwerty42[/re]: OK, that was actually quite chilling. There really is no shame or limits with this stuff is there? Must go look at LOLcats now.

shortsshortsshorts August 21, 2008 at 11:23 pm

[re=65783]qwerty42[/re]: Thank you for that video. Thank you so very much.

gurukalehuru August 22, 2008 at 1:00 am

They changed the photo of Geezer McFlyboy there at the end, where he says “I’m John McCain, and I approve this message” from a profile to a face shot.
Somebody must have told them that the profile looked retarded. The new one does, too, a little bit. John boy just doesn’t look natural.

Cathangover August 22, 2008 at 3:21 am

I considered myself pretty educated on this whole Obama/Rezko thing, but after this ad I don’t even know if I was thinking about the right guys. If I was Obama I would have just kept the 14 million dollars.

AfghanVet August 22, 2008 at 9:30 am

Hello…time to go for blood:

Keating Five anyone?

The ad should run something like this:

McCain wants you to think Obama is an elitist out of touch with REAL Americans…but by his calculations, Obama is merely upper middle class since he makes less than five million – what McCain thinks rich people make.

McCain thinks the economy is doing just fine – which it is if you have some many houses you can’t remember just how many and your wife just made a mint to support you by selling yet another American company to a foreign corporation.

And lastly, McCain wants you to think that Obama is mixed up in some shady financial dealings…really? Hmmm…can you say Keating 5? The last time we were in such a financial storm, there was one Senator sitting right in the middle of it all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five

Can we really afford to have someone so confused and out of touch in charge of America’s recovery from the last 8 years?

Miller August 22, 2008 at 1:42 pm

So Obama bought a house from those fire spitting triceratops things from Super Mario World? The rotten fucker, they worked for Bowser.

http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

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