Comments on: It’s come to this: ABC accuses McCain of using subliminal messages in Obama ad

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » HuffPo blogger: McCain’s Britney ad actually a secret call for assassination

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:17:17 +0000

[...] That accusation of unconscious racism has been made before but it’s a trip to see it again so soon after the New Yorker cover; we’ve apparently arrived at the point where not only are the conscious intentions of the author irrelevant, but potentially so are the conscious intentions of his audience. If you’re racist regardless of whether you meant to be racist or were taken to be racist — except by the opposition in its eagerness to score points — then “meaning” independent of political utility no longer exists. The punchline is that it’s perfectly obvious what McCain really meant to accomplish with that ad and perfectly obvious what he meant by his choice of symbolism, so much so that Obama himself has used the same reference in the same context more than once before. Even some of Barry O’s big media supporters can’t bring themselves to dive into the sewer on this one: Time media critic (and admitted Obama fan) James Poniewozik tries a half-hearted “they’re calling him a girl” theory, but then waters it down by properly noting that the touchstones of celebrity lightweights these days — Paris, Britney, Lindsay Lohan — all happen to be female, in which case any implication about Obama being effeminate might have been unavoidable and thus unintended. Does that even matter anymore? [...]

By: Think_b4_speaking

Think_b4_speaking — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:43:28 +0000

ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, along with the ten largest newspapers have already admitted they will not be objective during this election. Everyone had better get used to a daily barrage from what used to be news sources – to the tune of ‘if you don’t vote for the messiah, you are a racist’. I still don’t think most on this site yet grasp just how bad the propaganda will be from the ‘press’ this fall.

By: Boot Hill

Boot Hill — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:09:22 +0000

OK, admit it, this is from The Onion, right?
No one with any connection to reality can reach that far into the absurd and keep a straight face.

By: Soccer Dad

Soccer Dad — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:52:06 +0000

Rats redux…

Hot Air observes about the supposed subliminal message in a McCain ad: They’re using the overreaction of elitist imbeciles earlier in the week not as a cautionary tale for everyone to mellow out but as reason to ratchet up the paranoia. Think of it a…

By: cannonball

cannonball — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:06:12 +0000

I can’t imagine how many people and man hours are involved in tracking down this stuff. Imagine if people spent as much time and attention to more productive tasks like curing cancer or developing a new engine…

By: Terrye

Terrye — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:46:50 +0000

Well DC always go for the Democrat. Count on it. I am not sure Reagan even won there.

By: byteshredder

byteshredder — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:40:21 +0000

IMO, what the MSM needs, is to overdose on EX-LAX. They’re way overdo, and in dire need of an enema.

By: 4shoes

4shoes — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:04:51 +0000

Still, in this era of hyper-analysis — and in the very week that a non-subtle New Yorker cover was blasted as beyond the bounds of satire — should something like this have slipped by Team McCain?

Wait, "something like this???! What is this this that this writer refers to? I'm not sure how much more asinine these morally bankrupt idiots can get, but I'm always surprised (I shouldn't be, I know) when the latest comes out.

I don’t think Obama is doing as well in fly-over country as the polls would suggest. Kevin71 on July 19, 2008 at 8:15 AM

I hope you're correct, I live just outside DC as well, and it amazes and irritates me how many intelligent persons around me, my parents included, are voting for Obama.

By: Grafted

Grafted — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:39:32 +0000

Well, the MSM uses non-subliminal advertising for Obama all the time.

By: The Blog @ Spolitics

The Blog @ Spolitics — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:01:42 +0000

Democrat Makes Crap Up. ABC Reports It….

According to ABC’s Political Radar, a “veteran Democratic operative” has found a slanderous message in John McCain’s latest ad: “a l q D.”
“al qD” is meaningless by itself. [And] The “l” is …

By: gekkobear

gekkobear — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:58:16 +0000

Well, there’s only one thing to say to something like this…

zjsh hazb t as u8 seh hs aee ha8 ajer aja ajd etj

Which of course is a coded language that, after days of working by experts to pull the meaning from this, will be found to be…

…

Complete gibberish. Funny that.

I didn’t even know I could type gibberish. Must be all the time I spent with the gibberenians in my youth.

By: Aristotle

Aristotle — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:30:02 +0000

Also, “t y” in reverse is YT (Whitey). Crafty Neocons.

By: evenkeel

evenkeel — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:35:46 +0000

I asked my entire family to watch it with me. Here is what each of them saw:

wife – shopping
teenage daughter – teenage boys
teenage son – teenage girls
grade school son – recess
3 yr old daughter – Barney
me – r-e-a-d-m-o-r-e-h-o-t-a-i-r

By: D2Boston

D2Boston — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:10:35 +0000

Run this over and over and over… don’t wimp out, McCain!

By: Skipper50

Skipper50 — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:44:32 +0000

Were it only true.

By: aikidoka

aikidoka — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:17:06 +0000

The next step:

We’re all racist for not averting our eyes.

By: Rod

Rod — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:50:40 +0000

This is nothing more than an animation preset in Adobe After Effects: you type a sentence, apply the preset, and it randomly grabs each letter and throws it up on the screen. There is no way any editor would manually animate each letter … unless, or course, he was creating a, dum da da dum, subliminal message.

By: gzelmiami

gzelmiami — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:42:14 +0000

SILENT majority folks. That’s what we are. Make sure that in November, we do what has to be done. Nuf said

By: CyberCipher

CyberCipher — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:04:04 +0000

I thought I saw the lost city of Atlantis in there somewhere.

My collie says:

Are you sure it wasn’t Shangri-Lai?

Well, I suppose it COULD have been the seven cities of gold.

My collie says:

I’m pretty sure D.B. Cooper was in there somewhere.

Really, what about the rest of the money?

My collie says:

Well, I DID see the 10s of thousands that used to be in your 401K before this most recent bear market.

Right. As they say on Wall street, “flat is the new up”. I’m glad that I wasn’t imagining that money, anyway. What about the mortgage industry. Did you see any of their money in that clip?

My collie says:

Nope. Just their lost credibility, that’s all. I did see a lot of taxpayer dollars headed their way, though — courtesy of 14-point Nancy.

By: freevillage

freevillage — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:51:59 +0000

I confess. I could immediately. Maybe it’s my Black Racist blood.

By: maverick muse

maverick muse — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:12:29 +0000

If ever there was a forked tongue to beware, a YouTube version of Obama’s speeches and press conferences would photoshop Obama’s malleable face, one side projecting the candidate’s official facade image warping into his innersanctum portrayal as Dorian Grey Expressionism.

Obamarx ‘08

By: maverick muse

maverick muse — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:00:47 +0000

Good Obama vs. Obama ad!

By: Medicated

Medicated — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:54:24 +0000

Why don’t these people try watching Obama’s ads. Just see if you can count the number of times they use the word “Jobs” and “Work.” This, from a man with absolutely no experience or record in job creation.

By: maverick muse

maverick muse — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:47:32 +0000

LOL, the MSM accuses anyone beyond themselves of subliminal messaging? Ha, the MSM in all of its vane pride, feigning innocense on one hand, and holding the monopoly on subliminal messaging on the other. Rich.

Hey, McCain, have at it, by all means. What’s good for the goose works for the gander.

By: petefrt

petefrt — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:14:37 +0000

ABC accuses McCain of using subliminal messages in Obama ad

What this means is that ABC itself is actively engaged in using subliminal messages (in entertainment as well as news programs) to defeat McCain.

If you want to know what the left is doing and planning to do, just listen to what they accuse us of doing.