Standing four-foot-something with a metal hook in the place of a left hand, Oregon US Senate hopeful Steve Novick certainly doesn’t look like your typical candidate… and he certainly isn’t running your typical campaign ads. I don’t know if these ads are effective in terms of actually getting votes, but damn do I love ’em.
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Novick’s ads are the funniest I have ever seen – taking political cliches and turning them on their head…..
I want to see him elected just to see more ads.
What eklse can you tell us about him?
Does he still drink Rai nn eeeee rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Bir!
Roger Rabbit’s campaign ad …
Republicans are evil. If elected, I will ban the Republican party. I will make America into a one party state. I will also build gas chambers to kill anyone who ever voted Republican. Also, any who doesn’t think like me, or anyone who disagrees with me will be killed. But I’m the good guy. It’s Republicans who are bad.
@3: Troll
All you have to do is add that the terrorists are bad guys and the constituion doesn’t matter when we face islamofacism – and you have the perfect republican campaign ad.
constitution – my keyboad is acting up!
I honestly believe that if Roger Rabbit ran this country, and had unlimited power, he would make the holocaust look like a slap on the wrist. He would make Pol Pot look like Mother Teresa. I really believe he would round-up and murder tens of millions of people. I think he is that hate-filled and twisted.
You make the Rabbit sound like he is a Republican. No wonder he hates you a holes.
To you guilty asses and treasonous America hating loathesome fuckers:
A Brief Message to America
Posted: 27 Jan 2008 08:45 PM CST
by Roger W. Gardner. Crossposted from Radarsite.
http://radarsite.blogspot.com/.....ssage.html
America — it’s time to stop what you’re doing for a minute and take a good long look in the mirror.
You have allowed other people to delineate your image for too long now. You have uncritically accepted their skewed portraiture as truth and bought into their self-serving lies. You have been bullied by cold-hearted cynics and wrong-headed critics into believing that you are something that you are not, and never could have been.
It’s time to stop all that now, America. It’s time to remember who the hell you are. In the words of our late great Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick, “Americans need to face up to the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.”
You seem to have forgotten that the world is weak and envious of your strength. They want what you have and deride you because they need you. But your detractors are small and petty and vicious; and you are great and beautiful.
You are nothing less than the light of the world, and the hope of all its people. Without your stalwart protection and the selfless sacrifice of your courageous fathers and sons who have fought and died on foreign soil to protect other people’s liberties, the glorious achievements of this whole wondrous Western Civilization would have long ago crumbled into dust and been trampled under the feet of the barbarians.
So listen up now, America. The world needs you once again. Take a good hard look at yourself. And stand tall and be proud. You are quite simply the bravest, most noble, most generous, most high-minded and judicious nation the world has ever known.
And we love you.
http://www.seatlejew.blogspot.com/
Maybe this fellow needs to spell “Seattle” correctly?
@6: I think with RR it is mostly hyperbole – but a little anger is due for the embarassment, corruption and ineptness of one GWB, for example the following:
supporting torture
creating the largest budget deficit in history
unnessary war in Iraq
Making our counrty a laughingstock in the world
Ruining our ability to after terrorists in a true worldwide coalition.
ruining the worldwide trust in the US.
lying about intelligence
appointing cronies like Brownie at FEMAS and gonzalez at Justice
illegal wiretapping and spying on americans
signing statements that subvert the constitution
Outing a CIA agent and compromising our security (cheney not bush)
failing to go after Osama bin Laden
and on and on …which is why only 33% of the people in our country like the job he is doing.
@8: Nice try – but the world doesn’t envy us too much anymore – that is why the dollar is sinking, the trade deficit is the largest on the planet and we are still the most dependent on foreign oil.
try actually getting out in the world – turns out europe and Canada are kicking our butts on technology as are Japan and Korea.
Our cars stink, our airplanes are falling behind, our energy policy as written by cheney and the oil companies is a joke, our health care system is the lowest ranked in the industrial world – the only thing we lead in is infant mortality.
It is time to stop patting ourselves on the back and get to work fixing this country and to stop fighting unnecessary wars that make us weak and drain our economy.
dear fucktard at 11…you ooze the slime of the shit you lie in… you didn’t actually click the link, did you?
shit slime oozing fuctard@ 11….tell us, in what country does the author reside?
shit slime oozing fucktard @ 11do you speak the same whey when your father farts or when your mother has bad breath or when your slut daughter overdrwas her checking account or when your drug addled bastard son is strugn out on crack?
of course not: they are your FAMILY.
How about treating the country of your liberty the same way you shit oozing slime fucktard festering ass pustule.
I’d like to know what taz payer stealing bastard is posting on MY DIME from this address.. wa.gov Olympia, Washington 1:04:48 pm 1 0:00
GET BACK TO WORK YOU LAZY SON OF A BITCH THIEF
Don’t have time to watch the ad right now, but if that is him on the first frame, then I say, give him an eyepatch and he’d be one cute pirate! Rawr!
@13, 14: Dear maroon
Not only can’t you get your point across without incessant vulgarity – I did click the link and the entire piece is already copied here.
Again – it (the writing) is shallow (like you) and contains no (read zero) facts.
If you are satisfied with the direction of this country – then you are in the small minority. Less than 25% of people say we are on the right track – that is because most people can open their eyes and see the big problems we have to deal with.
Real patriots (unlike the false jingoists, like yourself) understand that to fix the problems we have will take hard work and committment – not a simplistic laissez-faire everything is great attitude – because it Ain’t great. The incompetents who are running this country have screwed it up – that is why our econnomy is in shambles, why we have the largest trade deficits and budget deficits in history.
If you want to close your eyes and pretend everything is great and read some pathetic blog on how great america is (or was) then go for it – but it simply isn’t reality.
Wake up! Our great country is being sold down the river and it is the republicans and coporations that are doing the buying and selling.
He probly had his hand removed and had the gear installed simply to make a good ad based on sympathy instead of issues. This is what them dang librals do, ya know.
Probably had to pay for it himself.
Dang libral.
Uhh Jim – I hope you were being tongue in cheek here:
“Novick was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1963. His parents, a waitress and a union organizer, moved his family to Cottage Grove, Oregon in 1973.
Novick was born with significant physical disabilities which include a missing left hand and missing fibula bones in his legs. As a result he uses a hook prosthesis and stands approximately 4’9” tall.[1] His unusual physicality has prompted him to use the slogan “The Fighter with the Hard Left Hook.” His levity about his physical stature has drawn both positive and negative reviews from the press.”
From Wikipedia
Correctnotright,
The world doesn’t envy the USA much anymore? Let’s see if you’re right. What percentage of third worlders who want to leave their home countries to pursue a better life want to move to the USA vs, let’s say, Korea? Would you say it was 99.8% or 99.9%?
And with that, I believe I just won this argument.
When a nation gets to the point where it has to keep reminding itself how “great” it is, it generally means it’s teetering on the rim of the garbage pail of history.
Well, regardless of the humor and creativity of the adverstisements, the Novick v. Merkley campaign engagement has really started to take a toll on some of my friends (and bloggers) south of the Columbia. I can only hope that when it is all said and done, they can once again join hands, break bread, raise a good hearty pint of ale, and put all the acrimony and bitterness behind them. If this is any indicator of 2008, we are in for a vile and hideous upcoming year. Here are two basically good guys, with similar ideas and heartfelt positions, bashing one another for the chance to take down Agribiz’s best friend and puppet.
#3 Troll says:
The sad thing is most of the happy hooligans would vote for him just on that alone.
@23 – Every Republican should know and understand your sediments – you don’t have to try and convince them. To know oneself is to understand thy self.
Stand by your sediments? My sentiment is to stand on soils, personally. Sediments can be rather gooey.
I went to Novick’s Wikipedia article. Amazing. Not only is he smart and progressive, he has great positions on the issues, and by some strange coinkydink he and I were born a day apart. And he’s cute! Give him an eyepatch and I’ll loan him a parrot! Arggh!
twizzeltool thanks for the correction – I must have been using you buddy Bush’s vocabulary.
I laughed and LOVED both commercials that I’ve seen. He clearly has a sense of humor and is smart about presenting himself to stick in a voter’s memory. Got my fingers (on both hands) crossed for him. If I were in his turf I would be giving him a vote. The position he’s running for requires BRAINS, not so much of the brawn.
Tlazolteotl: Most of what your side the 16%ers posts here are sediments! With “evolution” we’ll see sedimentary rock form in a “little” while. Most of it will be Pelletizer commentary with some Clueless streaks mostly at fault lines.
Or is that bilge?
Or is that sewage?
Maybe global warming excretions?
Goldy: Your first YouTube I felt worthy to send my children…