Talking babies cry over ObamaCare, debt
posted at 2:35 pm on March 10, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
Okay, I have to admit that I’m not a big fan of the Talking Babies commercials on television, but this satire from the Republican Study Committee made me laugh out loud. The Obama administration and Democrats in Congress continue to create mountains of debt for these toddlers; why wouldn’t they be crying? Heck, most of us are already in tears over the wild deficit spending run up by Democrats over the last couple of years:
Of course, we were also in tears over the Republican spending binge, too — something the GOP had better keep in mind when they return to power. Put simply, we’re tired of getting stuck with Congress’ dirty diapers and getting fed nothing but pablum. If they want these babies to grow up conservative, the GOP needs to ensure that they don’t betray the trust of the Tea Party movement.
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Take that back you shankapotomus.
MarkTheGreat on March 10, 2010 at 2:36 PM
The Empire Continues to Strike Back: Team Obama Propaganda Campaign Reaches Fever Pitch
MB4 on March 10, 2010 at 2:37 PM
OK, that’s a talking baby ad I can get behind.
Republicans running this November need to emphasis just how much debt the Fascist-Democrats are piling on to future generations. And then get to cutting spending once they’ve won.
rbj on March 10, 2010 at 2:38 PM
I love it when lefties deride Tea Partiers by calling them dumb because their taxes have not gone up yet they are protesting tax increases…
HELLO! Someone is going to have to pay for all this at some point! Why don’t they get that?
Joe Caps on March 10, 2010 at 2:38 PM
LiLo is suing the RSC now, too.
Abby Adams on March 10, 2010 at 2:39 PM
I’d say you’re easily amused.
AnninCA on March 10, 2010 at 2:39 PM
Get the sporks…and sippy cups.
Bishop on March 10, 2010 at 2:40 PM
Cute!
Diane on March 10, 2010 at 2:40 PM
If anyone thinks the current crop of Republicans will actually attempt to reverse the spending spree in DC, they are delusional. Even if they sit there and do not obligated one dime more, our debt is already out of control and will take some serious cuts to big programs that nobody is going to like. When someone starts talking about reining in Social Security and Medicare, then maybe we will have a chance.
Johnnyreb on March 10, 2010 at 2:41 PM
Hope an’ what?
SouthernGent on March 10, 2010 at 2:42 PM
A talking baby would be a better president than what we have now.
Or exactly the same, on second thought.
NoDonkey on March 10, 2010 at 2:42 PM
Bunch o’ milkaholics.
OhioCoastie on March 10, 2010 at 2:42 PM
Mr. Morrissey, how can you not like “Milkaholic” or “Shankapodimus”?
Cindy Munford on March 10, 2010 at 2:42 PM
I laugh out loud every time I see Battlefield Earth, so yeah, you’re probably right. ;-)
Ed Morrissey on March 10, 2010 at 2:43 PM
Pot, meet kettle. Paint drying confuses you, Ann.
Frank!
HornetSting on March 10, 2010 at 2:44 PM
In America, political ads have to be targeted at the low-IQ crowd, or almost nobody will get them.
Dark-Star on March 10, 2010 at 2:44 PM
Clumsy execution.
Count to 10 on March 10, 2010 at 2:44 PM
…….Democrats to sue for a hundred million in 5…4…3…2…1
HornetSting on March 10, 2010 at 2:44 PM
Thread winner!
viviliberoomuori on March 10, 2010 at 2:45 PM
Isn’t Battlefield Earth Mitt Romney’s favorite movie?
Back to topic, I really don’t like the E-trade commercials, either, but this approach on this issue really does drive the point home.
DaydreamBeliever on March 10, 2010 at 2:46 PM
You’re a jerk-off and a perfect example of what is WRONG in America.
HornetSting on March 10, 2010 at 2:47 PM
OT but slightly related, Lindsay Lohan is suing ETrade for their talking babies commercial… one of the babies mentions a “milkaholic” Lindsay and she’s claiming she owns “Lindsay” like Madonna owns the Madonna name.
El_Terrible on March 10, 2010 at 2:47 PM
In America, political ads have to be targeted at the low-IQ crowd, or almost nobody will get them.
Dark-Star on March 10, 2010 at 2:44 PM
AnninCA on March 10, 2010 at 2:47 PM
Oh yea, I read hot air and celebrity gossip… which one is my guilty pleasure? both?
El_Terrible on March 10, 2010 at 2:47 PM
Anyway, so not worth discussion.
AnninCA on March 10, 2010 at 2:49 PM
Which means you’ve actually watched that flick more than once? Wow.
Bishop on March 10, 2010 at 2:49 PM
Spike Lee tried to prevent “Spike” channel from using that name, saying that the name had become synonomous with him.
MarkTheGreat on March 10, 2010 at 2:50 PM
That kind of dissolved into a foaming-at-the-mouth diatribe against the normal operation of banks.
Count to 10 on March 10, 2010 at 2:51 PM
I love kids in commercials…
Seven Percent Solution on March 10, 2010 at 2:51 PM
Toodles then!
Johnnyreb on March 10, 2010 at 2:51 PM
The truth hurts, doesn’t it?
This is pretty damned accurate. These babies, and babies to come, are going to get stuck paying off what some so selfishly want NOW, because they don’t want to work harder for it. Pathetic.
capejasmine on March 10, 2010 at 2:51 PM
Who gives a flying flaming rat’s patootie in space what Lindsey Lohan is doing these days?
She’s put the H in Has-been!
pilamaye on March 10, 2010 at 2:52 PM
You’re swimming in De Nile, bug.
The majority of voters are not exactly Mensa canddidates and the situation is not getting better. Look at MaObama’s popularity with the HS dropout!
Dark-Star on March 10, 2010 at 2:52 PM
Thanks for another winner, Ed: I’m forwarding this link everywhere!
Good laughs are essential in the midst of all this ominous news.
Cybergeezer on March 10, 2010 at 2:52 PM
I had read that yesterday. Talk about frivolous. I seriously doubt Lindsey has a case, when every 5th child, mostly girls, are named Lindsey.
capejasmine on March 10, 2010 at 2:53 PM
Ya got that right.
Chip on March 10, 2010 at 2:53 PM
Point taken, look who’s president…but, you are putting all of us in that bucket when you say, ‘In America’…
HornetSting on March 10, 2010 at 2:53 PM
Under the spreading Chestnut tree
They bought them and they sold me
Cheshire Cat on March 10, 2010 at 2:54 PM
Dark-Star on March 10, 2010 at 2:44 PM
You seem to be under the impression that Americans are of lower intelligence than the rest of the world.
I’ve lived overseas – Americans are neither more or less intelligent than any other people. In fact, the least intelligent and the most prejudiced people, I met OCONUS.
Although people who talk with a British accent sound more intelligent . . .
NoDonkey on March 10, 2010 at 2:54 PM
D-S has managed to convince himself that he is the intellectual superior of just about everyone.
MarkTheGreat on March 10, 2010 at 2:55 PM
Just don’t get all pissy at me for pointing out the general rule, that’s all I ask.
Dark-Star on March 10, 2010 at 2:55 PM
She puts the “hor” in horrible?
Abby Adams on March 10, 2010 at 2:56 PM
Newsbusters reports both David Shuster and CBS have resorted to interviewing 11 year old ObamaCare proponents.
Marcus on March 10, 2010 at 2:56 PM
D-S has managed to convince himself that he is the intellectual superior of just about everyone.
MarkTheGreat on March 10, 2010 at 2:55 PM
He’s still in college. He’s in for a major reality check.
kingsjester on March 10, 2010 at 2:57 PM
Related photo satire: http://optoons.blogspot.com/2010/03/debt-trek-next-generation.html
Mervis Winter on March 10, 2010 at 2:58 PM
He’s still in college. He’s in for a major reality check.
kingsjester on March 10, 2010 at 2:57 PM
As in the unemployment line. How any of these poor college kids are going to get a job is beyond me.
NoDonkey on March 10, 2010 at 2:59 PM
General rule? You don’t know squat, slick.
HornetSting on March 10, 2010 at 3:00 PM
Hilarious statement, coming from a self-proclaimed ‘Great’. You probably have an array of mirrors by the monitor.
I will grant you that most of my peers are uninformed…but I know just how badly I and my nation are screwed already. My peers either watch the ‘news’ channels that show slanted garbage and celebrity junk, or bury their heads in the sand entirely.
Dark-Star on March 10, 2010 at 3:00 PM
These comment threads are the revival of the virtual comic strip!
Cybergeezer on March 10, 2010 at 3:00 PM
If the American public had a scrap of sense, Obama’s media saturation would have bought him nothing, people would have researched his past and found him to be a spineless Marxist wanna-be.
Dark-Star on March 10, 2010 at 3:01 PM
Plus, come on. She sees a character named Lindsey with a substance problem and automatically thinks they’re talking about her.
Maybe it’s time to get help.
Esthier on March 10, 2010 at 3:02 PM
Come on, children
Follow Me
I’m Obama the Piper
And I’ll show you where Hope and Change is at
Come on, children
Can’t you see
I’m Obama the Piper
Trust in Me
Children
Don’t be worried about your parents payin’ big bucks to help Me move and grove
Hey, children
What do you think I’m tryin’ to prove
It ain’t true
That My Michelle would like to punch and rob your parents and you
It’s just in your mind
And that’s all that’s trickin’ you
So behind all My celebrities step in line
Come on, children
Turn in your evil racist parents for Me
Come on, children
Trust in My Teleprompter and My Pills and My Candy and Me
Come on, children
Can’t you see
Come on, children
Follow Me
MB4 on March 10, 2010 at 3:02 PM
These comment threads are the revival of the virtual comic strip!
Cybergeezer on March 10, 2010 at 3:00 PM
Cybergeezer:Do tell!!:)
canopfor on March 10, 2010 at 3:02 PM
Well put, Ed.
The GOP got their last “gimme” (see: golf term) with McCain.
I’d just add one teeeeeeeeeny tiiiiiiny thing:
They’ve got one more chance – just one.
Screw that up with more “pablum” and debt at this point in our history and never again GOP.
Lockstein13 on March 10, 2010 at 3:03 PM
Out of the babes mouths,they know
their getting screwed by HopeyCare!!
canopfor on March 10, 2010 at 3:04 PM
I think this picture sums up best how the children should feel about Obie.
Dire Straits on March 10, 2010 at 3:04 PM
You might get less crap if you’d just said “in general” and left it at that instead of implying that America is a special case and that other nations don’t have equally clueless voters.
Esthier on March 10, 2010 at 3:05 PM
You know, you’re right.
But, guess what, slick? You know those people that you rally against, calling us ‘you people’, we figured out obama’s game, despite the media saturation. We knew he was a marxist wanna-be. The people that you disdain, as you blather on this blog, are the people that worked so hard to defeat the marxist wanna-be.
So, don’t lecture me…save it for your friends on campus.
HornetSting on March 10, 2010 at 3:05 PM
I’ve already explained why I adopted this name, it drives liberals bonkers. Thank you for proving the point.
MarkTheGreat on March 10, 2010 at 3:06 PM
Did you know that almost half of all Americans are above average?
Cybergeezer on March 10, 2010 at 3:06 PM
Was your message simple enough to be understood? ;-)
Hawthorne on March 10, 2010 at 3:07 PM
Obama better be careful!
The Baby Coalition for a Better America
will back the Republican Party!
canopfor on March 10, 2010 at 3:07 PM
For some reason, D-S reminds me of Obama. So utterly convinced that if only people would listen to him, everything would turn out right.
It’s no wonder that they both want govt to make all of the important decisions.
MarkTheGreat on March 10, 2010 at 3:08 PM
We went from Republicans spending like “drunken sailors” to Democrats spending like “shopaholics high on Crystal Meth”
J_Crater on March 10, 2010 at 3:08 PM
Yes, yes, how very clever.
Now what is ‘average’? Depending on how high the bar is, just being in the 50% above it may not be much of a compliment.
The written one or the unwritten one? The latter is “I’m no different from a libtard elitist.”
Dark-Star on March 10, 2010 at 3:09 PM
Last word on the subject, I promise: If you want to know what the living, breathing, walking, talking epitome is of everything that is wrong wrong wrong with that part of the Cosmos known as Hollyweird, I’ve got two words for you:
LINDSEY LOHAN!!!!!!
Ok, I’m off my soapbox. Back to topic at hand.
pilamaye on March 10, 2010 at 3:09 PM
I think this picture sums up best how the children should feel about Obie.
Dire Straits on March 10, 2010 at 3:04 PM
Dire Straits: I’ll raise you one!:)
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Big Brother is Talking
http://diversitylane.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/big-brother-is-talking/
canopfor on March 10, 2010 at 3:10 PM
My eyes just popped out of my head when I read about the “Slaughter Solution” over on Michelle Malkin’s site.
un-freaking-believeable
kooly on March 10, 2010 at 3:11 PM
Crying, whining babies are always appropriate in liberal representations.
Speakup on March 10, 2010 at 3:11 PM
“That Obama is a spendaholic!”
“Spenda whaaaaaaa?”
search4truth on March 10, 2010 at 3:12 PM
Hey; Dark:
Check your blood sugar!
Cybergeezer on March 10, 2010 at 3:12 PM
Until I see a baby reading off a teleprompter – I will cordially disagree with this character assasination of children.
Odie1941 on March 10, 2010 at 3:12 PM
…jumping catfish.
If they go through with this, our government can officially be declared illegitimate.
Dark-Star on March 10, 2010 at 3:13 PM
Beware the Obamawock, my toddlers!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Objubobjub bird
And shun the frumious Obamasnatch!
Cheshire Cat on March 10, 2010 at 3:13 PM
Barrack Hussein Obama; Boogety, boogety, boogety, shoo!
Cybergeezer on March 10, 2010 at 3:15 PM
Don’t let the door hit ya on your way to someplace less contemptible.
Midas on March 10, 2010 at 3:17 PM
Yeah, it would’ve been much funnier if they’d used Sasha and Malia.
SouthernGent on March 10, 2010 at 3:21 PM
The Democrat Governor of my state of Illinois, when refering to issues about raising the income tax rate in my state, today used what has to be the #1 All-Time, Well-Worn/Time-Honored Favorite Expressiion of Liberal Democrats everywhere:
“CRISIS OF EPIC PROPORTION”!!!!
I mean, they just LOVE this expression!
pilamaye on March 10, 2010 at 3:23 PM
Wrong again. The fun of the baby ads is that it’s talking babies using a vocabulary that is probably over your head.
The fun of this is one is that you don’t have a good rebuttal, so you resort to your tried-and-true tactic of misdirection.
Go somewhere and pout a while; you’ll come up with something.
hillbillyjim on March 10, 2010 at 3:25 PM
BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Diaper Rash Epidemic has hit an all time high,
Liberals refuse to remove diapers until HeathCare passs!
Meanwhile,Pelosi complains of the smell!
Rahm,says to stinking Democrats,just take a shower,
the shit will rinse off!
Harry Reid,says,he can’t remember the last time
he was changed!
Meanwhile the EPA are stepping in,and will declare all
Liberal offices need to be fumigated,do to the over-
whelming reek!
President Obama’s statement stands,as long as were all
covered in shit,we might as well stink together!!
(snark).
canopfor on March 10, 2010 at 3:27 PM
Ah, but a great many did precisely that. The ones that voted *for* Obama, however… what does this all say about *them*? Aren’t they largely on your side of the fence?
Midas on March 10, 2010 at 3:27 PM
Yeah, it would’ve been much funnier if they’d used Sasha and Malia.
SouthernGent on March 10, 2010 at 3:21 PM
SouthernGent: Z____I_____N____G, hehe!:)
canopfor on March 10, 2010 at 3:29 PM
I must say, you have an excellent ability to disguise schoolyard taunts as adult arguments.
In the first place, I highly doubt that many people seriously researched Obama’s background from worthwhile sourves. More likely than not they got their ‘facts’ from some slanted blog or from whatever collection of soundbites they happened to see/hear.
Remember – I’m not actually on either side of the fence, although the Democr@p’s recent actions have me tilting right. I’m waiting for either party to come up with good reasons to support them…and so far the only ‘reasons’ are being ‘because the other side doesn’t do X’.
Dark-Star on March 10, 2010 at 3:34 PM
Yep! D.C. is probably stinking like a dairy farm at sunset.
Cybergeezer on March 10, 2010 at 3:38 PM
Well-done, but will anyone who sees this check out the Republican Study Group? BTW, why is it stuck at 9,028 views? I saw this hours ago and the number hasn’t changed.
Buy Danish on March 10, 2010 at 3:40 PM
I keep forgetting that you have evolved beyond mere mortal categorization.
MarkTheGreat on March 10, 2010 at 3:40 PM
Hey Dark: Just curious: What age group are you in?
Cybergeezer on March 10, 2010 at 3:41 PM
canopfor on March 10, 2010 at 3:27 PM
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Yep! D.C. is probably stinking like a dairy farm at sunset.
Cybergeezer on March 10, 2010 at 3:38 PM
Cybergeezer: I know what you mean,a high school buddy had
to clean the cow stalls,and wheel barrel the
doo-doo to the pile,before he could go out!!:)
canopfor on March 10, 2010 at 3:42 PM
I don’t subscribe to partisan pigeonholing myself. Deal with it.
20-somethings.
(oh joy, now here come the ageists and the bitter old men…but I’ll be truthful anyway.)
Dark-Star on March 10, 2010 at 3:43 PM
You’re not the first 20 something to comment here and out your age. Plenty of people know how old I am but don’t make a big deal out of it, but I also don’t insult them.
When you talk about American problems, again as though they are unique to America, and admit your age, you may also be admitting something else about yourself that age might teach you.
I don’t know though, as I don’t know you personally. It just seems odd that you don’t seem to understand why you struck a nerve with Hornet.
Esthier on March 10, 2010 at 3:51 PM
That definitely qualifies as a “Dirty Job”.
I commend you for your persistent dialog.
I reflect on my gullibility and choices I had to make at that age due to economics. And union influence.
It’s not easy being true to oneself, and keeping your close friends. Even your family.
A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.
Cybergeezer on March 10, 2010 at 3:53 PM
That totally sucked.
Highplains on March 10, 2010 at 3:55 PM
You lie to yourself, as well as everyone else.
Okee dokee.
MarkTheGreat on March 10, 2010 at 3:58 PM
I don’t like those, and I didn’t like this. All annoying.
RightWinged on March 10, 2010 at 4:01 PM
If I might proselytize a little more: And then I promise to quit:
If you sidestep adversity, you’ll never learn to handle it.
You need to go through adversity, to learn to deal with it.
Adversity creates character.
Cybergeezer on March 10, 2010 at 4:01 PM
I am not questioning what you (probably) intended to say. I am questioning what you did say. You claimed that the message needs to pander to the low IQ in order to be understood by most Americans. That is an inherently false assumption. The term “low IQ” is a relative measure that automatically assumes a number that is less than the mean IQ. That means by definition the “low IQ” group must be less than half of all Americans. However, the term “most Americans” implies a majority. In truth, your statement is an oxymoron.
You probably should have said that the message needs to be kept simple because of the inferior educational system we now have in America. Then we could have surmised that Americans are not comparatively stupid, but have been handicapped by how our government uses education to indoctrinate rather than educate. When you wish to control people the first thing you must remove is the ability for critical thinking. I feel our government is doing an excellent job of that, and I hold your own statement up as evidence. Did you even realize that you had expressed yourself incorrectly?
Hawthorne on March 10, 2010 at 4:17 PM
Must be effective as it’s brought out the trolls who have been missing for a while.
jeanie on March 10, 2010 at 4:22 PM
Pretty lame…agree totally with the message, though.
Dr. ZhivBlago on March 10, 2010 at 4:30 PM
And where were Republicans when Bunning filibustered the Unemployment extension for not having the funds to finance it? They left him dangling.
It’s not just the Democrats that need their feet stuck in the fire.
Oopsdaisy on March 10, 2010 at 4:35 PM
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