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So. Through the magic of Gmail’s infinite contact list, John Hawkins of RightWingNews gets invited to everything I ever join as soon as I click the “invite my Gmail contacts.” Thus it is that Mr. Hawkins is my friend on Facebook, and I am his follower on Twitter. For now. And it was through Twitter that I got the notice that he had created a new anti-Obama commercial which he had posted at RightWingNews…and which I hesitantly embed below. I’m not going to link to the post itself, because I’m unusually conflicted about putting eyes on this, but it’s fucking awful, and I figure bigotry needs airing.

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I mean…really?

For those not in the know, or who can’t see the video, it’s a direct homage to Jesse Helms’ “Hands” ad, but with Hillary Clinton as the job-seeker and Barack Obama as the shiftless underqualified black guy who took her job.

It was racist then, and it’s racist now, John.

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Posted by Auguste on 08:15 PM • (15) Comments

Not to mention that they completely co-opted Clinton’s presidential run. She is not a tool to get people to vote for John McCain. Ick!

Comment #1: Lauren O on 08/18 at 08:43 PM

Um ... I somehow don’t think that Hilary Clinton would be too fond of this ad.

Maybe felt that way in private for a while, but publically?

Yet another Imagination and Vision Fail on the right. If McCain is so damn qualified then why don’t they ever list his qualifications and let him run on them without all the racist bullshit? Oh yeah, he’s a BushClone and they know it!

Comment #2: Ms Kate on 08/18 at 08:54 PM

Whoever did this is no friend of Obama or Clinton. It’s crap.

Comment #3: Hattie on 08/18 at 09:07 PM

I liked it as satire till that whole “vote for John McCain” thing came from out in left field. John Hawkins apparently has read Lesson 2 of Michael O’Donoghue’s How to Write Good:

Lesson 2 - The Ending

All too often, the budding author finds that his tale has run its course and yet he sees no way to satisfactorily end it, or, in literary parlance, “wrap it up.” Observe how easily I resolve this problem:

Suddenly, everyone was run over by a truck.
-the end-

Comment #4: Hector B. on 08/18 at 09:10 PM

I thought it was like a not-very-funny SNL commercial parody, but it’s real, isn’t it?

Such a shame PUMAs aren’t real.

I’m still just amazed at how racist this country is. And why are the Repubs continually allowed to get away with saying Obama just talks about change and has never done anything?

Well, that and then blaming him for all the crime in Chicago.

You know what? I’m gonna blame B. Hussein for Carly Anthony, too.

Comment #5: Caren-Sun-blocking Creator of Animorphic Pancakes on 08/18 at 09:31 PM

So, he’s pitting one flavor of affirmative-action-stereotype against another? My head asplodes - I just don’t get it. Had it gone the other way, he could have just as easily shown “Barack’s” hands beating a picture of Hillary because, don’t you know, she got the nomination on account-a she’s a woman, when clearly the better candidate was a man.

Comment #6: cycles on 08/18 at 09:45 PM

Holy fuck. What a fucking douchebag.

Comment #7: Incertus, Nacho Daddy on 08/18 at 10:15 PM

The really weird thing to me is that the message is only directed at Hillary Clinton. The narrator is talking only to her… not people who would vote for her, or claim they’d switch-vote, nope, just her.

It’s like they had an idea but couldn’t figure out how to make it work… does no one have a kid in grade 11 or 12? Make it a creative writing assignment “in twelve sentences or less, update this template to reflect the Hillary/Obama meme we’ve given you.”

Is this honestly the best they can do??! Man, it’s so sad to me that people could be influenced by this piece of badly-written tripe (ok, not really, they were already in the McCain camp to begin with… but that anyone would find it interesting enough to film and post when it’s so…. juvenile, astounds me)

Comment #8: kodiak on 08/18 at 10:52 PM

Huge douchebag.

And speaking of doucebags, can I just say that I sick as fuck of that scary, surgically altered pam anderson ad that’s always there. Hasn’t that expired yet? It’s really disgusting.

Comment #9: ice weasel on 08/18 at 10:55 PM

IIRC, Mr. Hawkins conflated the mustard gas discovered in Iraq a year or so ago as proof that Saddam had WMDs.

If that is indeed the case, +1 for douchebaggery.

Comment #10: Paulie on 08/18 at 11:24 PM

No. Fucking. Way.

They’ve sunk this low, and we’re not even at the conventions yet.

Dis. Gust. Ing.

Comment #11: hbsweet, empress of ice cream on 08/18 at 11:29 PM

Whoever did this is no friend of Obama or Clinton. It’s crap.

You think?

And speaking of doucebags, can I just say that I sick as fuck of that scary, surgically altered pam anderson ad that’s always there. Hasn’t that expired yet? It’s really disgusting.

Not to mention the fact that I can’t really read from work anymore.

Comment #12: brenda on 08/18 at 11:36 PM

Wow. Just wow.

No reason to explain why anyone who thought that Hillary was the most qualified candidate should vote for McCain, other than “he’s not black”.

You know, if I was a Republican, I’d be switching to Obama now, I think. Just because McCain’s campaign offers nothing, absolutely nothing, other than the most shallow criticisms of his opponent.

Comment #13: Samantha Vimes on 08/19 at 05:13 AM

For the love of Eris, people, keep Javascript off while browsing unless you need it for a specific and limited reason.

Comment #14: hf on 08/19 at 05:17 AM

and what’s with the captain kangaroo jibe? because hope and change are for naive children, and we, as adults, should be comfortable with getting screwed - and like it, dammit?

*sigh.* all these criticisms of this blatantly awful ad presuppose a level of critical thought present in the viewer. that may be too much to ask for from the masses.

*deep sigh*

Comment #15: mad inscriber on 08/19 at 12:05 PM

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