Attack Ad

by on October 14, 2008 · 4 comments

Funny stuff:


Precocious Youngster Sells Cookies To Buy Attack Ad

This is, of course, a wildly implausible story. Here in the real world, McCain-Feingold doesn’t allow little girls—or other private citizens—to run television ads criticizing federal candidates in the month before an election. Which, come to think of it, isn’t funny at all.

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  • http://thevitaminkid.blogspot.com autodidact

    I fear that we have moved beyond satire in the political field. Some of Saturday Night Live's “satires” are telling more truth than the nightly network news. The SNL satire on the Bailout Bill was so honest it had to be pulled from their website and edited.

  • Ryan Radia

    That was a great sketch and it's unfortunate it was pulled. My understanding is that the Sandlers, who were parodied in the video, may have been consideration legal action against NBC in large part due to the caption “people who should be shot” appearing on the screen (ostensibly in reference to them).

  • http://thevitaminkid.blogspot.com autodidact

    I fear that we have moved beyond satire in the political field. Some of Saturday Night Live's “satires” are telling more truth than the nightly network news. The SNL satire on the Bailout Bill was so honest it had to be pulled from their website and edited.

  • Ryan Radia

    That was a great sketch and it's unfortunate it was pulled. My understanding is that the Sandlers, who were parodied in the video, may have been consideration legal action against NBC in large part due to the caption “people who should be shot” appearing on the screen (ostensibly in reference to them).

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