People with stuff written on their hands! It's a Tea Party campaign ad! Two snaps UP, Tea Party!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Run time: 02:11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62zufrMneFw   Posted on YouTube: February 16, 2010 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: February 18, 2010 By DU Member: Amerigo Vespucci Views on DU: 1469

 
The most alarming hand in the ad? The one with "Fair Tax" (a.k.a. "The National Sales Tax") written on it. JUST what the country needs in the current economy...a consumption tax to kneecap whatever is left of the "middle class."

:grr:

Palin provides Tea Partier with handy bit of inspiration
A Web ad from one congressional candidate uses an embarrassing moment for the former governor as inspiration Video
By Alex Koppelman

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/02/16/palin_ad/index.html

One thing liberals sometimes miss when they mock former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin: It's often the very things they're making fun of that endear her to her supporters.

Take, for example, the crib notes that were written on Palin's hand for her speech to the National Tea Party Convention earlier this month. To her detractors, the notes were more evidence of her not-ready-for-primetime intellect. To her supporters -- especially after they saw the criticism -- they were more evidence that she's a normal person, just like them.

All this would explain a new Web ad made by Donn Janes, a Tea Partier who's running for congress in Tennesee. The video, which stretches for a little more than two minutes, features various people showing off messages written on their own hands.

"She has been criticized over the past few days for the use of last minute notes she scribbled on her hand during the Tea Party event in Nashville, Tn earlier this month," Janes has explained. "While at a meet and greet party at a supporter’s house in Atoka, we came up with this idea. We thought since we don’t have a voice in Washington, what would we say, and the idea for the video started from there."

The district in which Janes is running, Tennessee's 8th, is currently represented by Democrat John Tanner. Janes seems to have very little chance of knocking Tanner off; the incumbent's job is safe enough that he ran unopposed in 2008 and won in 2006 with 73 percent of the vote to his then-opponent's 27 percent.

The video is below. Be warned; the background music -- apparently it's "Hands," a song by Jewel -- is just awful.

[XemaSab]

1. Correction: White people with stuff written on their hands!

:P

[vaberella]

2. Dear God...I've seen it all. America rewards cheaters. n/t

[WhoIsNumberNone]

3. Only right wing cheaters

This was just too schmaltzy for me- Had to bail after about 40 seconds.

[Grassy Knoll]

4. How Repugs play with their ass wiping hand !!!

[asdjrocky]

5. I can't imagine that Jewell gave permission for them to use

her beautiful song.

That's a shame that they are all such blatant thieves.

[DrZeeLit]

6. I hope she sues their asses. Other musicians have done so.

Wonder if she knows?
We should give her a hand, and let her know.

[asdjrocky]

7. It's called a cease and desist.

A judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity; "injunction were formerly obtained by writ but now by a judicial order"

She will be made aware of it soon I'm sure.

[quark219]

8. Derrrrrr.....

I love the director's brilliant decision (NOT) to use red ink, so it looks like they're all emos who've been cutting themselves.

Wouldn't you think that anyone with at least two brain cells to rub together would've viewed the first clip and seen the problem?

[Autonomy]

9. "To her supporters --

especially after they saw the criticism -- they were more evidence that she's a normal person, just like them."

When are these people going to get over the "vote for someone as dumb as yourself" syndrome, which is a comorbid corollary of the "resent anyone smarter than you" syndrome. There's something wrong with anyone who wants to elect even an 'average' intellect as president.

Socrates was right.

[bfealk]

10. Not one hand of a minority

Interesting, there wasn't one minority person in that ad.

[lumpy]

11. Treacle

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