Video: Mary Katharine Ham on putting down the bong and voting for Obama
posted at 9:19 am on June 17, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Referring not to herself, of course, but to the junior Doug Kmiecs of America, a.k.a. the youth vote. Surprisingly, O’R gives them more credit than either Nauert or MK: Odious though it may be, is that “Blue Balled” video I posted last week really going to convince any kids to vote Democrat who might not otherwise do so? That’s the intent, sure, but the more self-conscious an attempt at hipness is, the less hip it is in fact. You might as well run an ad for Obama gear with the tagline, “It’s what the cool kids are wearing!” Dead on arrival — although if you added some scare quotes to “cool kids” to denote irony, you might be able to salvage it.
Exit question: What exactly is it that makes Senator Arugula “cool” anyway?
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Exit Answer: Cause the media says he is, moron.
gryphon202 on June 17, 2008 at 9:23 AM
Heather in a blue dress? Gross.
Brian Paasch on June 17, 2008 at 9:26 AM
I think Bill is right here. I doubt it changes votes.
Spirit of 1776 on June 17, 2008 at 9:29 AM
Re exit question, what makes him cool? Nothing but the color of his skin. But that’s enough for half of the country.
jgapinoy on June 17, 2008 at 9:29 AM
Obonga.
Akzed on June 17, 2008 at 9:30 AM
stooooopid. After the big lead before watching the video, I thought she was running off “in time to vote” so the McCain picture through that for a loop.
“brilliant way to do it”???
Easy come, easy go.
DEMOCRATS F*CK YOU.
Some like it hot.
Some like it cold.
Some like it in the pot,
Nine days old.
maverick muse on June 17, 2008 at 9:32 AM
threw it through*
maverick muse on June 17, 2008 at 9:32 AM
Did we watch the same video?
Naurt calls it “brilliant.”
MKH says the bottom line is more guys will go to McCain rallies looking to meet chicks.
O’Reilly says it’s “not going to influence anybody.”
And I gotta say while MKH might have a point, I have to go along with O’Reilly. It’s amazing how many people see this nonsense as “brilliant” but it’s the opposite. It’s the techon-geeks who are already for Barry patting each otehr on the back for “getting it” and being cool.
But they’re already voting for Barry. To anyone who isn’t, the more they try, the more they’re not going to build a message that he’s cool, rather, they’re going to build a message that they’re obnoxious, and he is an unserious candidate in serious times.
Typhoon on June 17, 2008 at 9:33 AM
She was afraid he’d see she had a herpes outbreak going on.
Burn, baby, burn!
maverick muse on June 17, 2008 at 9:34 AM
Er, MKH says they’ll go to Obama rallies, obviously.
Typhoon on June 17, 2008 at 9:34 AM
By credit, means, the youth vote won’t get flipped by a few sex ads. Ie Bill gives them credit for being smarter then that.
Spirit of 1776 on June 17, 2008 at 9:38 AM
*Chuckling…*
Man, guess I’m a little slow on the uptake this morning.
Typhoon on June 17, 2008 at 9:41 AM
I remember being influenced by visual media when I was 17. A man acquired 30 minutes of TV time on a Saturday afternoon and used it to sit behind a desk in front of the camera and tell where he stood on the issues and why. When he was through, I knew I would back him all the way. That was in 1976. The man’s name was Ronald Reagan.
And full blown liberal females wouldn’t have much chance of getting into my bedroom.
backwoods conservative on June 17, 2008 at 9:44 AM
Actually, please keep holding the bong. Kids, voting day this year is November 11th. Write it down somewhere because I’m sure you’ll forget by then. Remember, vote for The Obamassiah on November 11th.
rbj on June 17, 2008 at 9:46 AM
Heather talks too much saying the same thing.
Wade on June 17, 2008 at 9:54 AM
Comrade Obama is one cool Marxist, who happens to be black — I wonder if Democrat voters even know what that is? In the old Soviet Union’s planned economy one of the top production priorities was to produce eneough vodka. The theory being …
tarpon on June 17, 2008 at 9:55 AM
Did I miss something, or did my office switch to decaf? I watched the whole video and didn’t see or hear one reference to the obama bong video.
Allah whats up?
infidel2 on June 17, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Let’s see, what kind of woman would put political beliefs so high in a relationship they would relegate whatever other qualities their boyfriend had to the garbage heap, even in the middle of a make-out session, if they disagreed with their choice of candidate.
Oh, yea — Hillary Clinton, circa 1968. After the recent campaign, do the Obama people really want to infer that all their young, female supporters are going to grow up to be like that?
jon1979 on June 17, 2008 at 10:04 AM
Like, he approves of terrorists getting Constitutional rights, dude!
Far out!
profitsbeard on June 17, 2008 at 10:07 AM
The girl in the commercial had a date with Eliot Spitzer.
Steve Z on June 17, 2008 at 10:15 AM
Well, if I was going to date a Dem, she had better have big ones.
Syd B. on June 17, 2008 at 10:23 AM
“Will this work?” Not to those that use their brain when voting.
pb5000 on June 17, 2008 at 10:26 AM
That’s right Dude. Save the McCain photo until post-coitus when you want the b*** to get the hell out.
Kasper Hauser on June 17, 2008 at 10:28 AM
I heard it said that the ‘hipness’ lifespan ends when Katie Couric mentions it.. Get her to report on this add and the others..
DaveC on June 17, 2008 at 10:28 AM
Counter ad: A right wing Doc volunteering his time at the free clinic, walks through the STD section to find every patient wearing “Yes We Did… Obama ‘08″ buttons and shirts (cue the Friday the 13th music, wide eyes and abrupt camera zooms).
christophercube on June 17, 2008 at 10:41 AM
Raise your hand if you keep a 8×10 glossy of McCain on your nightstand.
christophercube on June 17, 2008 at 10:42 AM
Yeah, I was thinking that this doesn’t tell me that Democrats are “cool” - it simply tells me that they’re shallow.
Of course, I already knew that…
psrch on June 17, 2008 at 10:51 AM
If we legalized m-j for 24 hrs, from 7 PM Monday before election day to 7 PM election night, J-Mack would win 49 states (Massachusetts is constitutionally prohibited from electing a repub prez).
demsdelendaest on June 17, 2008 at 10:54 AM
That video cost $10,000 to put together? Holy cow! For what?!
aero on June 17, 2008 at 10:55 AM
Because Barry says he is, and the media and the idiot portion of our population believe it, just like they believe everything else this tool says.
AZCoyote on June 17, 2008 at 10:59 AM
I think it’s high time (no pun intended) that we repeal the 26th Amendment!
Special K on June 17, 2008 at 11:05 AM
Hookers aren’t cheap and it wasn’t even a happy ending.
Syd B. on June 17, 2008 at 11:16 AM
Well lemme’ see. How about a list?
1) His wife is ashamed of America.
2) All of his spiritual mentors hate whitey.
3) All of the bitter Bible totin’ gun slingers cling to their antipathy for him.
4) He is friends with members of domestic terrorist organizations, and he wants to negotiate with the members of foreign terrorist organizations.
5) He is totally inexperienced in virtually all facets of government administration.
6) He wants to tax “the rich”.
7) He is all about “hope” and “change”.
8) He eats arugula (and waffles, too).
9) He knows how to read a teleprompter.
10) He makes Chrissy’s leg tingle.
11) He may be the most liberal member of the Senate.
12) He wants immediate withdrawal from Iraq.
13) He’s mulatto — so that pretty much makes anyone that disagrees with him a racist.
14) He’s a lightworker, which makes him divine.
15) He has a cult following of groupies that faint at his political rallies.
16) He beat HRC in the primaries, single-handedly creating a whole new class of bitter clingers.
How cool is that? What did I leave out?
My collie says:
CyberCipher on June 17, 2008 at 11:17 AM
Exit question:
No idea whatsoever….nerdy scammer from Illinois is what I see.
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Unless of course you buy into marxist liberation theology from a ‘community organizer’ who weaseled his way thru Chicago politics to “get all the way to .the .F.B.I.”….
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Just one step away from poor white trash.
shooter on June 17, 2008 at 11:25 AM
John McCain = skank repellent
whitetop on June 17, 2008 at 11:29 AM
OBAMA SUPPORTERS: Bong vivants.
Dr. Charles G. Waugh on June 17, 2008 at 11:33 AM
It’s not just that. He’s young, good looking and is an incredible speaker. Add to that, the fact that he’s running on a liberal platform of change (that his supporters really do believe in) and the fact that he’s black, and you’ve got young people thinking they’re apart of something big, something historical.
And that’s what’s so cool about him.
If he weren’t black, he probably wouldn’t have been seen as cool, but the same would be true if he were ugly, conservative or spoke like Bush.
It’s already popular to be a liberal. Everyone in Hollywood is doing it. All the Indie bands and mainstream bands are doing it. What’s more popular than the most liberal Senator who looks the way he does and speaks the way he does?
Esthier on June 17, 2008 at 11:55 AM
the ad itself is echo chamber weak, and the Hip Hammer vs. Culturally Clueless Bill-O schtick is now well past it’s expiration date.
Mike D. on June 17, 2008 at 12:11 PM
He smokes.
Entelechy on June 17, 2008 at 12:12 PM
I like it.
p40tiger on June 17, 2008 at 12:17 PM
BO has given some rousing speeches, but when he is speaking without prepared material he is below average. He pauses A LOT with every 6th or 7th word an “uh” or “uhm”. Sorry, but if you look at the real BO, not so impressive.
Snidely Whiplash on June 17, 2008 at 12:37 PM
Heh.
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Only the most important reason of all: He hates Chimpy McHitlerburton.
misterpeasea on June 17, 2008 at 12:58 PM
Obama is so corporate.
VolMagic on June 17, 2008 at 12:58 PM
The blind following of the Marxist Messiah reminds me of those German B/W reels pre 1939, when everyone was supporting Hitler….If the Germans knew he’d be gassing Jews a few years later, I don’t think Hitler would have had the support he did…Now in Fauxbama’s case, nobody seems to know anything about him, other than he is a “light-worker” and the “messiah”…When do the Saul Alinsky connections come to light on the MSM???? That’s what I’d like to know in any case………….If he started screaming about George Bush, screaming like Hitler did, maybe he can pick up more support….Then again, he does the “nose in the air like Joseph Stalin” way better and he is a communist afterall….
adamsmith on June 17, 2008 at 1:01 PM
Not that I like mccain, but if you put up a picture of him - the same age as obamassia - mccain is far and away the best looking. So I don’t think he is good looking. If you watch bho with is wife, she is twice his size. He is a puny pup. When did we stop liking real men?
Ok, I might have to vote for mccain depending on who he picks for vp.
Bambi on June 17, 2008 at 1:03 PM
When I was at Harvard Law School, I was surrounded by young versions of Barack Obama. Their arguments and philosophy are grounded in neomarxist theory and are driven by emotion. Some of these leftists are really fiery — i.e. Jeremiah Wright — and their arguments come out as screeds titled “God Damn America!!!” Others fancy themselves more “contemplative,” and their constant search for “meaning” yields the constant verbal tics you complain of. I assume Obama is a contemplative leftist.
Outlander on June 17, 2008 at 1:04 PM
So here’s what the entire self-congratulatory hip Left is missing:
This country has a tendency in certain areas to be traditionalist and anti-hip. And the more we’re sold “change” that’s “beneficial” by being told we’re out of step or unhip, the more we resist.
Remember those ridiculous but hailed-as-hip ads showing an animated George Washington touting the Sakagewea dollar?
How about the metric system? We’d be so much more with it on the world stage if we’d just worship at the altar of ten instead of being so backward and benighted.
And of course we’re scolded from time to time by the enlightened for our money which is all the same size and color and just so outdated looking compared to the currencies of our betters throughout the world.
So just keep this stuff comin’ morons. It never works.
Typhoon on June 17, 2008 at 1:12 PM
I might be inclined to give him a break on this one. She’s twice the size of Rhode Island.
When she sits around the house, she really sits around the house.
She got a flesh-eating disease, and the doctor told her she only had 87 more years to live.
On a scale of 1 to 10, she’s a 747.
If you poke her leg, she bleeds gravy.
She keeps Euros in one pocket, and pesos in the other.
misterpeasea on June 17, 2008 at 1:14 PM
I really didn’t mean to insult michelle, but to draw a comparison to his svelte girly figure.
Bambi on June 17, 2008 at 1:28 PM
They make quite a pair, and she makes quite a pear.
misterpeasea on June 17, 2008 at 1:35 PM
I certainly don’t disagree. I’m just explaining his appeal. The “cool kids” don’t look at the real BO.
Those were some classics.
Esthier on June 17, 2008 at 1:55 PM
87 more years to live….Good one…………
adamsmith on June 17, 2008 at 2:00 PM
They forget that young people have brains.
Mojave Mark on June 17, 2008 at 2:09 PM
He’s only incredible if you don’t listen to the words. And most people don’t. The only quotes of him talking are, “hope . . . change,” stupid thing he denies is stupid and then later tries to fix, and “That crook/idiot/hatemonger is not the wise man I knew.” His incredible speeches are as memorable as those of Millard Fillmore.
snaggletoothie on June 17, 2008 at 2:18 PM
I’m not disagreeing with that. In fact, I literally mean speaker, as in his presentation rather than the script. Even still, he moves people. That much is obvious.
Esthier on June 17, 2008 at 2:25 PM
Didn’t you listen to John Kerry?? It’s because he is a black man!
BONG HITS FOR BARRY-O!!!!
lsutiger on June 17, 2008 at 2:40 PM
Brilliant is in the eye of the beholder, I guess.
I gather we’re to infer that the girl would have stuck around if there were posters of Obama and Che’ instead. I don’t see how this helps Barry with his attempts to get woo mushy middle, but maybe I’m out of touch.
Buy Danish on June 17, 2008 at 3:27 PM
Yep! Gonna put a McCain sticker on my car ASAP!
Chakra Hammer on June 17, 2008 at 3:45 PM
Vote Obama get a STD..
Chakra Hammer on June 17, 2008 at 3:46 PM
Is Heather a lib, or was she just doing her job? (Seriously, I don’t know. I haven’t had too many chances to catch her before my TV view started its current, dramatic decline.)
urbancenturion on June 17, 2008 at 3:52 PM
The Republican response that BOR asks about is a series of women saying, testimonial-style, “Yeah, I got gential herpes from a Democrat!” and to the doctor, “Oh, yes! Of course he was a Democrat! But what was his name.” and “Look, you’re going to get herpes anyway, so why not get it from a Democrat? For your country, you know?”
Then a full-page ad showing an attractive teenager wearing a donkey pin, smiling and saying. “Got Gardisil?”
It’s a winner.
flicker on June 17, 2008 at 5:08 PM
What’s next? Obama house parties turning into Roman orgies?
Zorro on June 17, 2008 at 8:15 PM
Don’t have one of those but I do have a framed handwritten letter from H.W. Bush (41). It’s hanging proudly next to my honorable discharge from the Marine Corps.
srhoades on June 17, 2008 at 10:36 PM
I could never let politics come between me and a good lay.
Democrats apparently do.
Feh! She was gonna steal his wallet anyway. LOL!
44Magnum on June 18, 2008 at 6:15 AM
I still just love the line ‘just like the last one’
Does she keep a list?
Reaps on June 18, 2008 at 7:57 AM
Young republicans are hipper. Wearing a tie to a pig farm doesn’t make you hip it is elitist. Guilt by ass ociation. Is it hip to wear ties all the time even when throwing back shots to show how cool you are, while your opponent (Hitlery) is chugging beer with the good ol’ boys.
The new ads imply that Demoncrates only have sex on their mind, but prefer inbreeding to natural evolution.
MSGTAS on June 18, 2008 at 9:56 AM
Electing a president because he’s “Cool”& “Hip”?
Democrats have such high standards. Amazing!!
gboy63 on June 18, 2008 at 12:27 PM