Angelides Campaign Releases Tasteless New Web Animation
Presumed California gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides unleashed a Jib-jab style animated short today that his website says “expos(es) Schwarzenegger’s relationships with some of the most prominent right-wing figures.”
What it exposes is a lack of taste in the Angelides campaign.
In the ad, which knocks off Sesame Street, the “Governor” sings “These are the people in my neighborhood, it’s understood, they’d screw you if they could.” This is accompanied by a forward thrust of the hips.
Why not just say “f*ck?”
Angelides, who told an interviewer in May that “I believe in the high road,” should prove it and take down this garbage immediately.
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Update: Kudos to the Westly and Angelides campaigns, who visited this post within three minutes of it going up! That’s real-time research!.
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The Governor’s “neighborhood” inhabited by the usual liberal bogeymen: President Bush! Vice President Cheney! Fox News! Enron’s Ken Lay! Karl Rove! And others! Too bad most of them have only tenuous connections to Schwarzenegger.
H/t: Dan Weintraub’s California Insider
Technorati Tags: 2006 Election, California, governor, Angelides, Schwarzenegger
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October 25th, 2005 at 7:50 pm
Angelides campaign? Who is this Angelides that you speak of? Never heard of him. Not registering on the dial. A nobody.
October 25th, 2005 at 8:22 pm
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Big ups to our peeps over at Independent Sources for spotting this doozy of [...]
October 25th, 2005 at 11:48 pm
I think they didn’t say f*ck for the same reasons you didn’t say f*ck and the same reason I’m not saying f*ck. Don’t knock them if you can’t/won’t do it yourself.
This is a funny video.
Tenuous connections, perhaps. Oh, except that there’s evidence that during (before? I don’t remember) the California energy crisis, Schwarzenegger was meeting with Enron’s Ken Lay, a major culprit in the fleecing of Californians.
Tenuous connections, perhaps. Except that Schwarzenegger went to Ohio a little more than a year ago, the weekend before the election and helped deliver the state to George Bush.
Tenuous connections, perhaps. Except that Schwarzenegger policies look eerily similar to Bush policies. Bush wanted to privatize social security. Schwarzenegger wanted to privatize public employee pensions.
Bush holds invite only “town hall” meetings. Schwarzenegger holds invite only “town hall” meetings.
Bush has led us into massive debt by cutting taxes in times of fiscal and security crises. Schwarzenegger has led us into massive debt by reducing the vehicle license fee in times of fiscal crises.
Bush has proposed a federal Constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage, pandering to the religious right. Schwarzenegger has vetoed a bill that would legalize gay marriage, pandering to the religious right.
Bush opposes a woman’s right to choose. The allegedly pro-choice Schwarzenegger supports Prop. 73, which would limit choice in California.
Maybe Schwarzenegger has tenuous connections to Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, and Bill O’Rielly (except that he and O’Rielly do like harrassing women), but he is indelibly linked to the Bush administration.
October 26th, 2005 at 12:22 pm
The point is that “screw” is vulgar and tasteless … ESPECIALLY with the hip thrusts. It’s a new low in political advertising.
October 26th, 2005 at 3:37 pm
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