Video: Mike Gravel covers “Helter Skelter.” Yes, really.
posted at 8:12 pm on April 2, 2008 by Allahpundit
Obnoxious, and not just because he’s ruining a Beatles song (again). Those campaign ads of his that got so much attention were cheeky and harmless as a bleat for attention from a guy who’s otherwise off the national radar screen. His subject here is deadly serious, though, and yet it’s played as camp — grandpa mugging along to Charles Manson’s favorite song intercut with images of the Trade Center collapsing, then capped with a cutesy-poo “Number nine, number nine.” The military-industrial complex is a dire threat indeed. Would Mike Gravel be making electronic remixes if it wasn’t?
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Move over William Shatner…
trubble on April 2, 2008 at 8:16 PM
Fool, must we suffer you.
silverfox on April 2, 2008 at 8:18 PM
Arrrggghhh.. !
Chakra Hammer on April 2, 2008 at 8:19 PM
Performing for the next week at the Ramada East Apple Tree Lounge…..
moxie_neanderthal on April 2, 2008 at 8:20 PM
Dear gawd….
He should really just stick to standing there silent for a while, and throwing a rock in a pond. Paul/Gravel 08! Just imagine…
JetBoy on April 2, 2008 at 8:23 PM
Hellish.
But (at least for me) the side of your page shows Van Morrison has a new album – to which I say, “YES!”
emailnuevo on April 2, 2008 at 8:23 PM
Don’t speak blasphemy. His performance of “Rocket Man” made music history.
MadisonConservative on April 2, 2008 at 8:23 PM
I’m left thinking his grandson must have just finished a class project for a new media class.
moxie_neanderthal on April 2, 2008 at 8:24 PM
Since I couldn’t discern a clear point from that jumble, I was able to enjoy it as a music video. It would have been pretty cool without Gravel’s smug leer and grating voice popping in and out.
joewm315 on April 2, 2008 at 8:28 PM
Performing for the next week at theRamada East Apple Tree LoungeLuby’s…..Fixed.
psrch on April 2, 2008 at 8:28 PM
I’m gonna need a real palate cleanser now…
OneGyT on April 2, 2008 at 8:28 PM
I’d rather listen to a Yoko Ono song than this s***! And I hate Yoko Ono.
mram on April 2, 2008 at 8:33 PM
Mike Garvel is a Liberal Democrat National Treasure,
he should get ready for Denver and make a movie of it.
His videos are Liberal clever,but Gravels artistic behaviour
borders sane/insane,orderly Mikes loose again with his camera!haha
canopfor on April 2, 2008 at 8:34 PM
HA! Nice video cap, AP!
Cuffy Meigs on April 2, 2008 at 8:35 PM
Interesting. I guess I missed the part where he showed the effects of Saddam’s invasion of Iran & use of chemical weapons, Saddam’s campaigns against the Kurds and Marsh Arabs, Saddam’s attempted annexation of Kuwait, and the 5000 Iraqis dying each month due to sanctions and the Oil for Fraud program.
And I didn’t realize Sept. 11 was the result of our attack on a peaceful, kite-flying Iraq.
He could have shown the beheading of Daniel Pearl too.
rbj on April 2, 2008 at 8:38 PM
When Mike Gravel STOPS making electronic remixes….you know that the sh*t has hit the fan.
malan89 on April 2, 2008 at 8:39 PM
I’ve got blisters on my eardrums!
Jack M. on April 2, 2008 at 8:41 PM
Another truther,,just what we need….Jeeeeeeeezzzzz.
beachkatie on April 2, 2008 at 8:47 PM
I could only make it through to 52 seconds.
asc85 on April 2, 2008 at 8:49 PM
hope he’s really proud of himself.
what a demented psycho, doddering old fool, demorat presidential candidate.
the party of change (my diaper).
jimmer on April 2, 2008 at 8:50 PM
I am starting to like this guy. His ads make you think there is a lot to this guy that we can’t understand. How amazing would it be to have a president who ran a campaign ad where he just threw rocks into a pond?
muyoso on April 2, 2008 at 8:52 PM
I am starting to like this guy.
muyoso on April 2,2008 at 8:52PM.
muyoso:Me too,for the love of all thats wrong with the
Liberal Party,Gravel is their mascot,ya I know
the donkey is,but he needs to be out there front
and centre!
Maybe Gravel and Ron Paul could get together
for some bi-partisan Kook,Truther movies!Haha.
canopfor on April 2, 2008 at 9:18 PM
Rocks in his head.
ZK on April 2, 2008 at 9:18 PM
Sick pupparoni.
profitsbeard on April 2, 2008 at 9:22 PM
Oh you didn’t hear? He joined the Libertarian Party a few days ago. I assume it’s part of a concerted effort by the LP to drift ever further into irrelevance.
I’ve been checking out Mike Gravel’s ads lately, he’s got a few things like that. Like there’s one where he raps, “Why won’t you let me say what I want to say? Power to the peeeople. Give peace a chance!” And still another where he was trying to do a spoken word to The Times They Are A-Changin’ but ran out of time so he answered a letter asking if he’d run with Ralph Nader.
His answer? Ralph Nader is a friend of his and he’d love to. And if he became president two people would be in his cabinet. Ralph Nader, and Noam Chomsky.
This guy is a never ending source of hilarity and I hope that he becomes another Ralph Nader. It’s not like he has many supporters anyway.
Keljeck on April 2, 2008 at 9:26 PM
Oh by the way, the guy who made that video is obsessed with putting politicians to popular songs. There are some dumb ones like Bush singing Sunday Bloody Sunday, or Bush singing Imagine. But he has this absolutely awesome vid of Tony Blair singing Should I Stay or Should I Go? With David Cameron and Gordon Brown dancing along.
A bit late, I know, but still hilarious.
Keljeck on April 2, 2008 at 9:28 PM
Honestly…that’s gotta be the screencap of the week.
JetBoy on April 2, 2008 at 9:30 PM
I’m going to hear Ron Paul speak tomorrow night. If I get the chance to ask a question, I think I’ll ask why he doesn’t videos as well as Mike Gravel–unless anyone else has a more absurd for me to ask.
thuja on April 2, 2008 at 9:47 PM
How ironic that he’s a Beatles fan. They had a song that pretty well describes his last ad.
29Victor on April 2, 2008 at 9:47 PM
My guess is that Dr. Paul still has some semblance of dignity.
Keljeck on April 2, 2008 at 9:49 PM
Someone tell his nurse he’s been palming his meds again.
- The Cat
MirCat on April 2, 2008 at 10:05 PM
How about: “What will be your first act as president?”
Jim Treacher on April 2, 2008 at 10:06 PM
So ridiculous. what’s the purpose, what’s his purpose?
AprilOrit on April 2, 2008 at 10:17 PM
Painful.
Dr. Manhattan on April 2, 2008 at 10:28 PM
I’m surprised no one else has said this, but “Give Peace a Chance” is not a Beatles song. Lennon recorded it while a member of the band (something not true of his other solo works), but released it under the Plastic Ono Band; it was their first release (and thus, in retrospect, John’s first solo release). The songwriting was originally credited to Lennon/McCartney due to their collaborative agreements, but the music itself was never credited to “the Beatles.”
calbear on April 2, 2008 at 11:14 PM
…where by “solo” I mean without the Beatles and without Yoko (for nitpickers who’d call the John and Yoko albums “solo”).
calbear on April 2, 2008 at 11:18 PM
it’s like having a Doberman gnaw on your dangly bits
shaken on April 2, 2008 at 11:46 PM
Why is it that so many leftists live for the 60s? The country has moved beyond the lame 60s, okay? It’s time to move on, let the past go, you can’t relive it. Most of us were never there and looking back at the films, we see a bunch of morons wanting to make a difference rather than actually making one. Its a new world and a new generation who must pick up the pieces and clean up the mess left to us by an over hyped, media driven, generation who takes themselves far more seriously than history ever will.
Dollayo on April 3, 2008 at 12:26 AM
BTW, did he get permission to use the song?
- The Cat
MirCat on April 3, 2008 at 12:31 AM
Well it was interesting in a scary-campy kinda way. This man is certifiable.
HawaiiLwyr on April 3, 2008 at 2:07 AM
Ya know, I’m just not going to give this video the views on Youtube to even bother with it. I’ll go to DKos or DU if I want another talking points memo.
specialkayel on April 3, 2008 at 2:20 AM
Ya know, I’m just not going to give this video the views on Youtube to even bother with it. I’ll go to DKos or DU if I want another talking points memo
specialkayel on April 3, 2008 at 2:23 AM
Ack…double post :(. I thought teh internets were acting up for a second there :)
specialkayel on April 3, 2008 at 2:24 AM
you hippie
libertytexan on April 3, 2008 at 5:11 AM
That was scary. Let’s hope that Gravel’s teleportation powers are confined to poorly edited greenscreen video.
NeoconNews.com on April 3, 2008 at 8:50 AM
Right on Mike!
You Dah Man!
They can’t stand the truth!
Drive on!
Drive on!
…drive on! …and on! …on!
Airborne Mike!
J_Gocht on April 3, 2008 at 8:57 AM
That HALO action at 1:57…brings back memories!
J_Gocht on April 3, 2008 at 9:03 AM
Just shows that politicians are not good at anything, nor do they fully understand their roll, speak when spoken to.
I also must admonish those he claims to represent that either they have no taste, were bullied, hog tied, or too busy to elect someone with leadership capabilities to speak for them.
MSGTAS on April 3, 2008 at 9:18 AM
Is he wearing brown pants, or are those chaps?
p40tiger on April 3, 2008 at 9:47 AM
He reminds me of Charles Manson.
saiga on April 3, 2008 at 1:47 PM