Video: “Remember November”
posted at 9:08 pm on April 23, 2010 by Allahpundit
A dynamite little piece of expressionism from Haley Barbour and the Republican Governors Association, aimed at synthesizing the mood of angry grassroots would-be donors. The message is familiar, but between the HD, the F/X, and the editing, the production values are light years ahead of the usual DNC/RNC crap. If they’re looking to get attention, this’ll help.
I was tipped to this, incidentally, by Time magazine, which is pushing the angle that “Remember November” is a deliberate allusion to anti-government British terrorist Guy Fawkes. Which I guess qualifies this as some sort of “dog whistle” to the neo-McVeigh-ish wingnut base or whatever. Unless I missed something, though, there’s nothing in the vid itself nodding at Fawkes; the one and only supposed reference is the name of the website, and even that’s not quite right. The old rhyme about Fawkes is “remember, remember the fifth of November.” If I had to guess why the RGA chose the name they did, I’d inch out on the limb and conjecture that it’s because it rhymes, much like the phrase “We’ll remember in November” that the boss emeritus floated last week. But then, “it rhymes” is a much duller narrative than the GOP playing on “let’s blow up parliament” sentiment. I’d be interested in hearing Barbour’s thoughts on that. If he is purposely alluding to Fawkes, it’s both unwelcome and very politically stupid. Click the image to watch.
Update: An RGA staffer tells the Daily Caller that the clip was made entirely in-house by younger staff members. Video software these days is an amazing thing, my friends.
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Yes, the PARTY OF NO-Vember, toolbox. We will. We will.
HornetSting on April 23, 2010 at 9:08 PM
Laundry Day + Garbage Day!!!!!!
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canopfor on April 23, 2010 at 9:10 PM
Any and all stalling maneuvers must be used until the end of October. However, I am very concerned with what a lame duck session under democrat socialist control may do.
jukin on April 23, 2010 at 9:11 PM
Eh.
I don’t need video to move me.
artist on April 23, 2010 at 9:12 PM
Wow, ego jokes aside, he actually does have an enormous head.
rogerb on April 23, 2010 at 9:12 PM
Funny that you mention that AP. If I remember correctly, during the height of the Iraq war the left took up Guy Fawkes message after seeing V for Vendetta. I guess this is another dissent is patriotic theme that expired on Jan 20, 2009. Go figure.
Lance Murdock on April 23, 2010 at 9:13 PM
Chills. That was perfect.
More please.
Diane on April 23, 2010 at 9:13 PM
Uh. Wow?
LastRick on April 23, 2010 at 9:16 PM
OMG, of course they would compare the video to Fawkes. They never fail to underwhelm me.
hmfearny on April 23, 2010 at 9:16 PM
You’re right. We don’t. But the rest of the sleepy, media addicted culture might get a jolt out of it.
We have to push hard against them in every area, this being one of them.
Diane on April 23, 2010 at 9:16 PM
I can see the line from the White House now: These obstructionist Republicans are using scare tactics to convince Americans to turn away from Hope ‘N Change and back to the policies of the last eight years.
amerpundit on April 23, 2010 at 9:18 PM
So now political slogans that rhyme with “November” are latent terrorist messages. Good grief. Guy Fawkes, TIME? Really?
Weight of Glory on April 23, 2010 at 9:18 PM
We have to push hard against them in every area, this being one of them.
Diane on April 23, 2010 at 9:16 PM
We’re not seeing anything new on the vid.
artist on April 23, 2010 at 9:18 PM
Very well done video.
The comparisons to Fawkes are just ridiculous.
Slublog on April 23, 2010 at 9:20 PM
Kristallnacht happened on November, incidentally.
year_of_the_dingo on April 23, 2010 at 9:20 PM
Heres the birthplace of it all!!
After Nancy gets the Republican vote for the
700 Billion Dollar Bailout,
Nancy strutts to the well,and stabs Team Republican
in the back,and goes on a tirade of 8 YEARS OF FAILED
BUSH POLICIES,even talking about investigations!!!!!!!
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) Floor Speech Before Bailout Vote
http://youtube.ca/watch?v=VMLo7i38D58
canopfor on April 23, 2010 at 9:20 PM
thugocracy
notagool on April 23, 2010 at 9:21 PM
Anybody who reads TIME magazine is an idiot.
tetriskid on April 23, 2010 at 9:21 PM
Hornetsting? Man, I haven’t seen you in ages.
Lanceman on April 23, 2010 at 9:21 PM
Great vid. Should generate a bit o’ buzz
Weight of Glory on April 23, 2010 at 9:21 PM
Sounds to me that some older, over paid, political elite RINOs need to be booted out on their as%ses…
… Loved the video by the way. THESE are the weapons of today! Unleash the ‘younger staff members’ and make it a contest to out do each other.
Greatness awaits!
(going back to watch it again)
Seven Percent Solution on April 23, 2010 at 9:22 PM
Fawkes who? That’s a lame meme because most people won’t know who that is. Quite a stretch for the SRM, but it’s useful for their narrative. Whatever.
Is there a you tube link? Can’t watch vid on the iPhone.
conservative pilgrim on April 23, 2010 at 9:22 PM
I’m trying not to come to that conclusion, but the folks at TIME are making it extremely difficult.
Weight of Glory on April 23, 2010 at 9:23 PM
Well it could be that the election is in November, No?
Well lets hope that the election thing works out. Hummmmmm
whbates on April 23, 2010 at 9:24 PM
Funny how Time equates this to an endorsement of Guy Fawkes brand of domestic terrorism. Fawkes was a far leftest homosexual, which does not seem to be your typical tea partier. But perhaps since they have been calling us teabaggers for so long, in their twisted minds, it makes perfect sense to the leftists.
simkeith on April 23, 2010 at 9:24 PM
I like it. I like it a lot.
Geronimo on April 23, 2010 at 9:24 PM
I believe we have not even seen the tip of the ‘ol ice berg…
… Obowma still has billions sitting around in slush funds for the elections. By the end of the Summer, being a Republican will be an arrestable offense.
Seven Percent Solution on April 23, 2010 at 9:24 PM
RGA puts out some great videos.
therightwinger on April 23, 2010 at 9:24 PM
Comparing the Tea Party campaign to the Catholic plot to blow up British Parliament hundreds of years ago? It doesn’t even really resonate with radicals in the UK anymore so that is quite a leap they are making with that one.
lexhamfox on April 23, 2010 at 9:24 PM
The video reminded me how much I hated hearing “Yes we Can” and “O-BA-MA” over and over again. What meaningless chants.
Slublog on April 23, 2010 at 9:26 PM
Guy Fawkes? Really? Now that’s funny!
95% of Americans couldn’t tell you who Guy Fawkes was if you gave them all week, but TIME takes one quick look at the video and decides that a bunch of Republican geeks in a closet somewhere has suddenly taken him as their idol. Yeah, Right!
Tells you just about everything you ever need to know about TIME magazine, but not much at all about the folks who put that little production out. What a bunch of maroons!
Lew on April 23, 2010 at 9:26 PM
Translation: OMG! We are so scared shitless that the Donks are going to get their asses kicked this fall our reptilian brains are flashing back to arcane sophomore year history class lectures…
Bruno Strozek on April 23, 2010 at 9:26 PM
I remember seeing a lot of “Remember November” bumper stickers when W. was running for re-election ’04. I believe they were passed out at churches as a way to remind parishioners to vote, especially since they were mainly Bush supporters.
Ordinary1 on April 23, 2010 at 9:30 PM
I pledged,done!
canopfor on April 23, 2010 at 9:31 PM
AP: How/WHY do you repeat such unadulterated crap from Time as: “Remember November” is a deliberate allusion to anti-government British terrorist Guy Fawkes.”
Allah, if you’d wake up for just a moment, and stick your head out the front door, you MIGHT bump into the (tea party) sign which says: I Can See November From My House
That HAS to be the single most brilliant political sign in, literally, decades. Yet you apear to subscribe to, and go along with, some completely asshat ‘analysis’ by Time that November has something to do with Guy Fawkes!!!!!!
Allah, please, get a grip and get a life. Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament. WTF does that have to do with the upcoming November elections???? Guess only you (and Time magazine) can answer that qustion.
alwyr on April 23, 2010 at 9:34 PM
GREAT job on that video and web site! I’m in.
Ordinary1 on April 23, 2010 at 9:35 PM
For the record, I support vigorous prosecution of any American attempting to explode the British Parliament.
rogerb on April 23, 2010 at 9:36 PM
The remembernovember website has the V in November in red. It’s a clear reference to V for Vendetta. Which was a great movie, btw, in spite of the loonies who made it.
pedestrian on April 23, 2010 at 9:36 PM
that video is a big effin deal. Nice work whomever put it together.
ted c on April 23, 2010 at 9:36 PM
artist, you’re just being a poopy-head.
uknowmorethanme on April 23, 2010 at 9:37 PM
Post November Impeachment (presuming Republicans gain control) theories are even more tenuous than the Clinton Impeachment. It would take several months for the gutless wonders in the Washington Fever Swamps to work up a complete list of ‘high crimes and misdemeanors. By that time, the 747 would be wheels up on the way to some country with no extradition treaty (think Zimbabwe) where Zero can take claim to President for Life.
Ya gotta think Zero has a post-November escape plan.
SeniorD on April 23, 2010 at 9:38 PM
Ummm… it could just be a check mark.
tetriskid on April 23, 2010 at 9:38 PM
Barbour 2012. Seriously. He beats the hell out of Mittens and Bumblerbee.
GnuBreed on April 23, 2010 at 9:39 PM
Damn impressive and since November is code for Guy Fawkes and crypto terrorism and I was born in November—guess it is time to break out the catapult and lay siege to the neighbors who voted for Obama.
LincolntheHun on April 23, 2010 at 9:40 PM
But that would be downright…logical.
uknowmorethanme on April 23, 2010 at 9:41 PM
I remember the Left being really excited about Guy Fawkes when that stupid V for Vendetta movie was released anyway.
Kensington on April 23, 2010 at 9:42 PM
A red V? Like this one?
http://www.visitorsite.net/abcvlogo.jpg
Do you think they’re pro-alien instead? It’s a clear reference, after all.
rogerb on April 23, 2010 at 9:43 PM
I can’t get the video to play for me… in IE or firefox.
I signed up, but nothing. WTF?
rightside on April 23, 2010 at 9:44 PM
I agree. Cut those kiddos loose on their ideas
ted c on April 23, 2010 at 9:44 PM
Could someone explain to this stupid right winger how this has anything to do with Guy Fawkes? I read the Time article and I still don’t get it… I know the story of Guy Fawkes. Been to the Tower of London and everything… I just don’t get it…
Did anyone read the comments over there? Crazies. They say this shows that the right wants to kill the president?!?!?1 WTF?
Ampersand on April 23, 2010 at 9:45 PM
O.T.P. ( One Term President ) by WOLVERINES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlK_yvO5h6Y
canopfor on April 23, 2010 at 9:45 PM
Hey TIME-
Are you upset that your Messiah is taking some?
You want us to end this?
We’re just getting warmed up.
jjshaka on April 23, 2010 at 9:45 PM
Remember Pearl Harbour,er November!!!
canopfor on April 23, 2010 at 9:46 PM
Guy Fawkes has been a meme on Democratic Underground for years…
Realist on April 23, 2010 at 9:46 PM
Not real. Not enough time to get it done.
platypus on April 23, 2010 at 9:46 PM
Maybe it references the French Maquis habit of slapping red V’s all over France during WWII.
Bishop on April 23, 2010 at 9:50 PM
Out… standing.
GREAT EDITING. GREAT DIRECTING.
John the Libertarian on April 23, 2010 at 9:50 PM
Nicely done.
Inkblots on April 23, 2010 at 9:51 PM
The Guy Fawkes Rhyme was created in response to Terrorism and Treason, not in support of the Gunpowder Plot. Funny how Liberals twist things around to support their narrative.
Holger on April 23, 2010 at 9:52 PM
Yeah, they’re really something. One guy’s calling the video racist because it uses Alcee Hastings and Al Sharpton, WHO ARE BLACK!!!(OMG!!1!!)
Kensington on April 23, 2010 at 9:53 PM
Well done.
It looks like Time is in a race to the bottom with Newsweek.
BadgerHawk on April 23, 2010 at 9:54 PM
Seriously, is anyone on the Left capable of acknowledging legitimate, good faith criticism of a black Democrat?
Kensington on April 23, 2010 at 9:55 PM
Remember, remember, come this November
The festering heat they have brought
‘Tis no reason why their assault on every Tea Party member
Should be forgiven, nor forgot
All you tyrants who lord over us
You who give us the smack of your rod
Soon now we will throw you under your own bus
We will give you the Judgment of God!
PercyB on April 23, 2010 at 9:57 PM
Were they slightly shorter on the left side of the V than the right, just like on http://vforvendetta.warnerbros.com/ ?
And check out the slogan on that movie site:
“People should not be of their governments. Their governments should be afraid of their people”
works for me.
pedestrian on April 23, 2010 at 10:02 PM
really sweet.
the Nancy Pelosi part has a shade of the 1984 Apple spot
from 1 minute on this is deadly…Happy faced Obama out of touch
1:05 the faces of the crowd in back of Obama holding their signs with no expression…another 1984 reference
looks like a movie trailer
sweet..no wonder Time is scared sh**less
r keller on April 23, 2010 at 10:08 PM
I love “V!”
I think it’s an allegory for the Obama régime.
Scary, delicious stuff!
Jenfidel on April 23, 2010 at 10:09 PM
The Founding Fathers, Barack Obama
Would never okay the way you do your Constitution destroying thing
Ding ding ding, ding ding ding
And you’ll get yours, Barack Obama
Ruling as a tyrant like you do
Boo hoo hoo, boo hoo hoo
Where have you gone, Ronald Reagan?
Our nation turns its longing eyes to you
What’s that you say, Barack Obama?
You have sent the Gipper far away
Hey hey hey, hey hey hey
Coo coo ca-choo, Mr. Obama
Mohammad appreciates you more than you will know
Woo woo woo, woo woo woo
Allah blesses you, yes, Mr. Obama
He may grant some mercy to those who their own betray
Hey hey hey, hey hey hey
MB4 on April 23, 2010 at 10:11 PM
An even better allegory is the old TV Outer Limits episode, “Hundred Days of the Dragon”.
MB4 on April 23, 2010 at 10:13 PM
Memo to Time:
November is the month in which the United States holds national elections. No secret message here. The blatant message is, “We’re kicking the thugs and the corruptocrats out.”
NebCon on April 23, 2010 at 10:15 PM
You do understand that by clicking the Facebook ‘like’ button you are exposing all your ‘privates’ to whom ever is running that web site?
Bait….dangled…..
Skandia Recluse on April 23, 2010 at 10:15 PM
My wedding anniversary is November 2-and what a party that’ll be!
annoyinglittletwerp on April 23, 2010 at 10:15 PM
That video was very good. I’m excited by the thought of those folks making more and even better videos as they get warmed up.
The RNC had one or two good videos, and then fizzled out. I hope the same doesn’t happen here.
How do we contact them with input?
neandertal on April 23, 2010 at 10:17 PM
In what sure seems like four score and seven years ago, American voters, deceived by a man of a true nature most foul and his media propaganda ministers, brought forth, upon this Nation, a warped man, conceived who knows where for certain, who is dedicated to the proposition that all men are created weak and subservient to his will and whim.
Now we are engaged in a great battle, testing whether this nation, or any nation so burdened, and so assaulted, can long endure. We are met here on a great internet battlefield, with compatriots at Tea Party Freedom Movement rallies, of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of our lives in honor of our forefathers who dedicated their lives that this nation might live vigorous and free. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
It is for us, the living, to be dedicated to the restoration of freedom, liberty, progress and sanity which our Founders so nobly brought about. It is for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they so long ago gave the full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that our Founding Fathers shall not have labored in vain; that this nation shall have a rebirth of freedom and responsibility; and that this government will once again be of the people, by the people, for the people, and that we will not allow Barack Hussein Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to cause it, and it’s shinning light, to perish from the Earth.
MB4 on April 23, 2010 at 10:20 PM
Very nice. Years from now after we’ve restored sanity to this nation and led the Neo-Marxists to their appointment with oblivion, I predict a national holiday emerging some time in November. It will be the complement to Independence Day. More like the start of the American Renaissance.
EMD on April 23, 2010 at 10:21 PM
Seven Percent Solution on April 23, 2010 at 9:24 PM
Yeah, whatever. Next you’ll be telling me that Obama’s DOJ will subpoena Allahpundit for the IP addresses of every HA commenter, especially those who supported the “crime to live in country illegally” bill AZ Gov. Jan Brewer signed today.
BTW, do you have any duty at all to PROTECT and DEFEND those politicans who stuck their necks out on your behalf to pass that bill? Judging by some of your “old guard GOP need to get tossed out on their @$$e$$” rhetoric, I’m going to guess you will shirk your duty on that front.
BradSchwartze on April 23, 2010 at 10:23 PM
Wow. What a video. Keep ‘em coming. That was awesome.
conservative pilgrim on April 23, 2010 at 10:24 PM
What is the crowd chanting at the end?
conservative pilgrim on April 23, 2010 at 10:24 PM
Penny for the Guy, Mister?
OldEnglish on April 23, 2010 at 10:26 PM
They can catch me if they can. I have a different IP address every time I sign on.
MB4 on April 23, 2010 at 10:28 PM
I think the Fawkes connection is obvious; similar jokes were going around about a month ago. And I don’t see anything particularly wrong with it. Making playful reference to a revolutionary act doesn’t mean one plans to blow up the Senate.
irishspy on April 23, 2010 at 10:28 PM
Remember, remember, the fifth of November,
The gunpowder treason and plot,
I know of no reason
Why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.[21]
nondhimmie on April 23, 2010 at 10:30 PM
FIFY.
IOW. We’ll remember to vote for change…a change back to what we’ve always believed in, and hope that Obambi doesn’t irretriveably drive us off the precipice first.
AH_C on April 23, 2010 at 10:31 PM
Please Emperor Obama and Queen Nancy, may I have another bowl of porridge.
Oh wait! I am getting a little ahead of myself.
That’s what most Americans will be chanting if the democrat party keeps the congress in 2010 and Obama get’s reelected in 2012.
MB4 on April 23, 2010 at 10:33 PM
Democrats are nothing but snakes, and poisonous ones at that. It just so happens that we hold our elections in November. Tying November to Guy Fawkes is an attempt to manufacture some outrage.
Pelayo on April 23, 2010 at 10:34 PM
You claim the right to act morally superior because why?
massrighty on April 23, 2010 at 10:37 PM
Remember November 2008, It could have been stopped from the start but sometime it take a swift kick to know what not to do.
Vote them all out. Remember November
tjexcite on April 23, 2010 at 10:38 PM
I just wanted to revisit this for a moment. It’s not one guy over there. It’s everyone. The entire comment thread is saturated with assertions of racism and domestic terrorism enthusiasm.
Kensington on April 23, 2010 at 10:41 PM
massrighty on April 23, 2010 at 10:37 PM
It’s not “moral superiority” to point out a correct observation. I’ve been in the conservative Republican fold for my entire adult life (back to 1989. Yes, I am a Reagan kid). I’ve seen plenty of examples where my fellow conservatives bailed out on the GOP at the first sign of rough blowback for policies that clearly did not sit well with large numbers of the public.
BradSchwartze on April 23, 2010 at 10:44 PM
Yep. And when that movie was out it was promoted like crazy and in one of the most frequnetly played commercials the titalur character prominently said “People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
I wonder how often this movie is going to be played on TV this year and 2012, or how often the quote will be heard in the commercials. Probably about as much as that Robin Williams movie in which he says something about politicians being like diapers and they should be changed often.
Huggles the Porcupine on April 23, 2010 at 10:46 PM
You assume that they will fail to back up the elected representatives who passed this bill.
And, you sounded kind of…. smug about it.
Not suggesting that conservatives always act correctly (as you might see it, or as I might see it;) just that you start out with the presumptive position that they will shirk some duty that you’ve put in front of them.
massrighty on April 23, 2010 at 10:49 PM
And now I have that “21st Night of September” song stuck in my head. I blame you.
Of course I mention it so that others may share my pain.
Tanya on April 23, 2010 at 10:52 PM
massrighty on April 23, 2010 at 10:49 PM
Absolutely, I am smug about it. I know conservative voting history well enough to know that conservatives will, generally, fail to back up their boys when the heat is on. AND I KNOW the La Raza/MALDEF people know this too.
I’m just sick and tired of hearing conservative twaddle about “Remember November,” when I know those same conservatives will do whatever they can to avoid having to fight back blowback.
BradSchwartze on April 23, 2010 at 10:53 PM
Now if NJ’s Menedez recall works, then we can get a Senate worthwile before 2012.
I know a few states that will start proceedings once its clear it can be done.
Cromagnum on April 23, 2010 at 11:04 PM
Conservatives and Republicans are not the same thing. And it’s independents that bail on the GOP, conservatives, well, the GOP is all we got.
uknowmorethanme on April 23, 2010 at 11:06 PM
AP, if Gov Barbour had a secret message in that vid it’d be Swamp Fox, not Guy Fawkes.
Texas Gal on April 23, 2010 at 11:06 PM
uknowmorethanme on April 23, 2010 at 11:06 PM
The general public doesn’t really know that. They have an expectation that Republicans AND THEIR INTELLECUTAL AND MEDIA COHORTS will defend their people and their bill against the blowback coming their way.
Sounds like you’re another “conservative, not Republican” who will shirk his duties at the first sign of bad press. Are you now going to give me the “substance, not style” and “character” lectures? I need a good laugh, you know.
BradSchwartze on April 23, 2010 at 11:15 PM
Awesome covered awesome with a creamy awesome filling.
holygoat on April 23, 2010 at 11:22 PM
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