The Onion imagines Obama’s next attack ad: Did Romney kill JonBenet?
posted at 6:01 pm on August 9, 2012 by Allahpundit
A small but maybe significant sign that awareness of Team Hopenchange’s sleaziness is breaking out from political media to the wider culture. E.g., Obama campaign spokesman Jen Psaki, who yesterday lied brazenly in claiming that the campaign didn’t know Soptic’s story, was forced to acknowledge today that he, er, once appeared on one of their own conference calls to tell it. A minor retreat, but proof that Obama’s brain trust is starting to feel some heat.
Can the inevitable more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger “Daily Show” takedown be far behind?
“I think this is a fair ad, and I think Mitt Romney owes an explanation to the American people as to why he murdered JonBenét Ramsey,” said Obama campaign manager Jim Messina, who called the commercial’s black-and-white reenactment of Mitt Romney carrying a kicking and screaming child to her death “accurate.” “Ultimately, voters need to know who they’re getting with Mitt Romney: a job- and child-killing businessman who is so deceitful he won’t release his tax returns or admit to a senseless murder that shook the nation to its core.”…
Moreover, at the end of the spot a smiling Romney is seen at a campaign event saying, “I killed her, and I had a good time.” Sources from the Romney campaign were quick to announce that the audio and video had been cobbled together from different statements he made during that particular rally.
“Personally, if I killed JonBenét Ramsey, I would have come clean and told the American people that on day one,” Obama’s communication director David Axelrod said on Sunday’s installment of Meet The Press. “But I think that’s a key difference between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Barack Obama never murdered a child, and Mitt Romney did.”
Pitch-perfect on Ax. All that’s missing is Bill Burton in “these aren’t the droids you’re looking for” mode, insisting that the ad in no way accuses Romney of murdering JonBenet despite what your eyes and ears might have told you.
Speaking of Burton, you’ll be pleased to know that he’s proud of how “wildly successful” his smear has been. Four years ago, he thought “false and mean-spirited attacks” polluted politics. Keep on trucking, Bill. Exit question: Where’s all this headed? The campaign’s bound to get nastier but I’m not sure how. I can’t quite believe they’d go after Mormonism, even obliquely, just because it’d be so glaring a betrayal of Bambi’s cuddly 2008 persona that it really might dent his image permanently. Assume they won’t cross that line, if only for fear of blowback. Which other lines will they cross? Via the Daily Rushbo, here’s Rush Limbaugh imagining the final spring in battleground states.
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Now there’s a dusty old name…I haven’t seen that sketch for at least ten years. Still remember it was funny!
MelonCollie on March 16, 2013 at 7:35 AM
Cheers:)
There is some amazing irony in your commentary – someone who sounds remarkably like a spoiled child calling me “juvenile” and “deliberately obtuse” for not being able to make sense of your delusional fantasies. I’ll have to leave it to others to make sense of your blatherings – which begin with the false premise- that the narcissistic Marxist grifter Obama and Romney are like ideological fraternal twins. It then wanders off into something I can’t comprehend. I gather it has something to do with being pissed off that Sarah Palin didn’t run as a third party Tea Party candidate, and thus being left with no choice but to stomp your foot, pick up your ball, and stay home? Or maybe you had Ron Paul in mind? Who the hell knows. I’m not going to waste any more time trying to make sense of your nonsensical ‘analysis’.
Buy Danish on March 16, 2013 at 8:37 AM
Romney did not rise to the occasion in the election, so why expect him to do so here?
Sherman1864 on March 16, 2013 at 11:40 AM
He lost by 3%, not a blow out, but a loss is a loss. He is a good and accomplished man who would have been a far better president than Obama who had no real accomplishments before his political life began. Romney isn’t a conservative and maybe that is why he lost but he is a respectable and humble man.
Dollayo on March 17, 2013 at 2:05 AM
He should be sorry he lost because he passed on the opportunity to unseat the Liar of Benghazi (oh, yes, where is that report now? What has the admnistration discovered?).
In a sense, this lack of political judgment disqualified him. We should have known not to nominate a person unable to beat McCain.
virgo on March 17, 2013 at 3:55 PM
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