Stock photos & stolen music & recycled attacks
Too, too funny! Campaign McCain recycles stock photos for Republican National Convention iconography.
As Hunter reports:
This was sent in by a reader: apparently, the Republicans couldn't find very many African American supporters to show on the Big Screen Of Triumph, when introducing McCain (see 6:45, 7:02)... so they simply put up stock photos of black people. You know, riding bicycles and appreciating their moms and stuff. Both these images appeared in McCain's introduction, but you can also buy them for a buck or two from iStockphoto.com
Even firefighters!
And soldiers saluting fallen comrades
It was a video that was supposed to elicit soaring patriotism and real emotions about the Pledge of Allegiance. But to do that, it used fake soldiers and a staged military funeral instead of the real thing.
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Latest Copyright Scofflaw? -- Meet the GOP
Seattle-based rock band Heart on Friday informed the GOP it was not amused with the John McCain-Sarah Palin ticket. Late Thursday, the group's hit song "Barracuda" was blaring in the background when the presidential hopefuls kicked off their campaign at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. Heart's publishers -- Universal Music and Sony BMG -- sent the Grand Old Party a cease-and-desist notice, marking the third time in as many months the GOP has been accused of hijacking copyrighted works as it jockeys for the White House.
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Rudy recycles his attack on John McCain (during the primaries):
"I can't say that I do," Giuliani said. "But I do know a lot about intensive questioning and intensive questioning techniques. After all, I have had a different experience than John. John has never been — he has never run city, never run a state, never run a government. He has never been responsible as a mayor for the safety and security of millions of people, and he has never run a law enforcement agency, which I have done."
This week at the Convention:
...he's never run a city, never run a state, never run a business. He's never had to lead people in crisis.
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And of course John McCain himself offers up a shallow stupid lie about that corporate jet:
"You know what I enjoyed the most? She took the luxury jet that was acquired by her predecessor and sold it on eBay -- and made a profit!" McCain declared in Wisconsin at a campaign stop on Friday.
But!
One of the compelling anecdotes about Sarah Palin is that she auctioned off the Alaska governor's jet on eBay after taking office -- a swift move made by a reformer hoping to clean up the excesses of her predecessor.But in fact, the jet did not sell on eBay. It was sold to a businessman from Valdez named Larry Reynolds, who paid $2.1 million for the jet, shy of the original $2.7 million purchase price,
Clowns! The GOP is being run by Clowns!
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John McCain . . . has never run a city, never run a state, never run a government . . .
But since Rudy has always been at war with Eurasia:
Barack Obama . . . has never run a city, never run a state, never run a government . . .
and this from the Republican KEYNOTE speaker?
--Fence post turtles -- They don't get up there by themselves, some moron had to put 'em there.
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)Reminds me of 1984 and 1988.
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)Now that song well represents McCain values!
--Fence post turtles -- They don't get up there by themselves, some moron had to put 'em there.
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| parent )There are no property rights -- only conservative property rights.
--It's impossible to debate if people simply hold beliefs that have no grounding in reality.
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| parent )I blame it all on the Internet
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| parent )Next!
Boy, sniping these memes is like shooting ducks--deeply stupid ones.
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| parent )Heh, My entertainment attorney, Gordon Firemark, was one of the guys they interviewed for that article.
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| parent )what kinda "entertainment" do you pursue that requires you to seek legal advice?!
Want any company?
--Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. - W. Somerset Maugham
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| parent )When you're making the big bucks and lighting illegal cigars with hundred dollar bills like me, ya need a consigliere to help you bury the dead hookers!
Gordon just negotiates and looks over my writing contracts -- and, fortunately for me, he does it on commission. I could never afford to pay real legal fees. Anyway, this is pretty much a standard requirement for screenwriters (though I think the established writers have their agents do the negotiating and the attorney mainly just verifies legal details on the contracts).
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| parent )of the trained philosophers here (me, hobbesist, vint.) and Harley?
That makes you the *ultimate forvmite*.
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| parent )- and D&D player -- like MSE! This is my quest for iconic nerd status.
Though, to complete that I'd have to write fan-fic... or furry fan-fic.
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| parent )Into that realm I will not venture. There are some things that should not involve a risk of hairballs, and I refuse to write about contingencies where they do.
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| parent )Like more + different types of Buffy written by amateurs
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| parent ). . .and Justice League, and Harry Potter, and Star Trek. . .but who's counting?
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| parent )Traveller
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| parent ). . .to Larry Niven's notorious essay about problems with Superman's sex life, only reversing the genders and dialing the power level down several orders of magnitude. How many bruises and cracked ribs would *you* put up with to regularly sleep with a hot superheroine, Traveller? You've always seemed the adventurous type. ]:-)
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| parent )Why do most kids do anything?
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FanFic
There appear to be entire sub-genres devoted to writing homoerotic scenes (slashfic & femslash), hetero versions of same, writing excessively heroic versions of yourself into stuff (MarySues), etc.
--The ultimate result of shielding man from the effects of folly is to people the world with fools. -Herbert Spencer
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| parent )and came across some of it.... the writers, some of them very nice folks, come to a forum for Alexandrian Studies...Stone's movie inspired it's own sub-genre.
I'll never look at Ptolemy the same again!
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| parent )who harrumphs over my contracts for a few minutes, then lets me sign them, makes sure the indemnification clauses won't land me in court, heh.
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| parent )Bruce Springsteen...ask yourself why the GOP has to shanghai good music.
--Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. -JH
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| parent )But this is the sixth time this has happened that I know of. Seven if you count two songs by Mellencamp. No, make that eight songs. Browne, Valli, Heart, Mellencamp x2, Wayne's World (if you count "We're Not Worthy" as a song), Rocky, Van Halen...am I missing any?
There are a couple of cease and desist orders and a lawsuit. Having the legal right might not the best answer to these. The press on it isn't a positive for the campaign.
You'd think after the first couple times they'd get a clue. Perhaps ask the artist first or find a song that has the appropriate lyrics. I don't think "Barracuda" means what they think it means. Are there no rousing songs by conservatives..besides "Cat Scratch Fever" (I like it! they should use that) or "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang" from Nugent. Sammy Hagar leans right I hear..how about "I Can't Drive 55", something from Kiss?
But it's fine with me. Keep it up and there'll be enough for a compilation album of all the songs!
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--Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. -JH
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| parent )http://news.yahoo.com/story//afp/20080905/od_afp/usvotemccainschooloffbe...
Were they confused by the name?
--Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. -JH
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| parent )who lifted stock imagery from public sources.
One version I've read is that the folks preparing the montage simply googled "Walter Reed" and liked the picture they saw.
Which is very very funny AND emblematic of John McCain's "shoot first and clean up later" mentality.
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| parent )he'd visited, back in June
Back when it was all the rage to pay attention to it, after the WaPo interviewed those poor servicemen, the Republicans couldn't harrumph loudly enough about it. And there was that business about Obama not going to Landstuhl.
There's a good reason why he didn't visit Landstuhl: that's where they send critical injury casualties who won't make it all the way back to CONUS on a single hop.
Support our troops. Yeah, buddy.
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| parent )These are such stupid things to lie about, so easy to check, and we really are dealing with sociopaths. They will simply lie about any*&^%$%$%thing.
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)Reminds me of 1984 and 1988.
--To think is not enough; you must think of something -- Jules Renard
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| parent )I see Reagan any where around, I'll start worrying. Cripes. I see Bush the elder, I'll start worrying.
McCain and the Wasilla Weasel? Not so much.
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