If You Watch Only Four (4) Political Ads This Season, Watch These Ones

Nick Gillespie | October 6, 2008

Don't Vote (Rational Ignorance Remix):

Obama Kids: Sing for Change (Pyongyang Remix):

Who Do You Hate '08?:

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Comments

SIV|10.6.08 @ 1:50PM|#

Re-runs

Naga Sadow|10.6.08 @ 1:59PM|#

Throw in another episode of "Pimp my Walker" and maybe I'll watch these as well.

|10.6.08 @ 2:09PM|#

SIV,

It's playoff season. What you you expect?

The_Chef|10.6.08 @ 2:24PM|#

The Pyongyang version wasn't playing yesterday, now that I can actually see it today ... HOLY SHIT! Creepy as fuck!

|10.6.08 @ 2:48PM|#

This is more fun than the political ads.

|10.6.08 @ 2:48PM|#

Joke handle arrghhhh

|10.6.08 @ 2:53PM|#

Don't vote has the most teeth in that it actually makes a legitimate point.

I like Obama Kids best. Obama is not even in the same tectonic plate as Kim Jong-il. But the indoctrinate-the-children is genuine creepy.

The other two are just dumb. Maybe good for a giggle for some (not me). But they're just two more YouTube videos. Of the thousands (x10? x100?) of election related YouTubes, I don't know why Reason saw fit to show us these. And they get more annoying every time they show up at the top of H&R.

The Wine Commonsewer|10.6.08 @ 3:10PM|#

Nacho, you are right, that is more fun. And I don't normally go in for that stuff.

Orange Line Special|10.6.08 @ 3:12PM|#

Those videos above are meant to be watched by you. Here's the political video that Reason staffers watch, in some cases several times a day.

|10.6.08 @ 3:54PM|#

Here's another "commercial". It uses the Bob Barr appearance in Borat as a metaphor for the current state of our government.

lunchstealer|10.6.08 @ 4:13PM|#

So is Whitaker a foreigner because he played Idi Amin, or because he's from Longview, Texas? I mean, they keep going on about how Texas is a whole other country, so maybe that does mean that Texans have a foreigner taint about them.

Also, if they're going to get a bunch of foreigners doing their music, couldn't they have just gotten Foreigner? Who could stop Obama if he commanded the power of Foreigner? Just don't get confused and accidentally book Loverboy. That just won't work.

PS - Holy Crap, Ian McDonald, left King Crimson to co-found Foreigner. That means that Foreigner has one degree of Bill Bruford, making them a prog band. Who knew?

|10.6.08 @ 4:59PM|#

GREEEEEENMAAAANNN!!

economist|10.6.08 @ 5:34PM|#

The parents of the kids in the Obama video shouldn't be surprised if their kids come back when they're adults and strangle them in their sleep.

economist|10.6.08 @ 5:37PM|#

The original "Don't Vote" ad, from which the reason version was constructed, was actually a Get Out the Vote ad. A very stupid, very annoying, Get Out the Vote ad. I personally never tell people that it's their "right" to vote. It's kind of like telling a 3-year-old that it's okay to piss in the swimming pool.

Orange Line Special|10.6.08 @ 6:32PM|#

Here's a video I watch every day before getting dressed.

The Wine Commonsewer|10.6.08 @ 7:27PM|#

LOL

JMR|10.7.08 @ 8:16AM|#

Gavin, the Bob Barr & Borat thing is hilarious. WAY too damn funny to be used, though...