If anything’s gonna dislodge Rudy Giuliani as the Great White Hope (emphasis on white) of the Republican Party, maybe this ad can do it:
What’s dismaying, though, is the comments on Robert Greenwald’s site, where I originally found the link to that website, show a dismaying lack of intelligence or humor on the part of my fellow lefties. Like GWB-level stupid. For instance:
who made this video? Who is gays for giuliani? I guarantee none of those guys are for giuliani. Why would they do that, and who paid for it? Does anyone know? Atticus Finch is right. the sight isn’t even a working site. [By the rightly-named poster Wha?]
Or this, from M. M. Fitzpatrick:
GAYS FOR GIULIANI is like JEWS FOR HITLER! Are you guys NUTS??? Please – crawl back into your log cabin!
Somebody do us a favor and ship these people to Bush country.
Chris, this is great. I saw the same “not quite getting it” going on when I posted about the Washington Defense of Marraige Alliance lobbying for a bill that would require all people who get married to reproduce within a certain number of years or risk having their marriages nullified.
Makes it hard to do good guerilla-theater-politics when your own side doesn’t seem to notice the irony.
True, that. But on the other hand, sometimes that blurring of the line can be useful in itself. From the bad old days of the Reagan Administration, I remember the guerrilla satire group Ladies Against Women which sent up the anti-feminist right in such a spectacular and accurate fashion that they were often reported on by the MSM as a real group. I even remember a Bloom County strip that mentioned them in passing as Phyllis Schlafly’s new group. If that was a deliberate mistake on Berke Breathed’s part, he wasn’t the only person to make it. The genius of web sites like Landover Baptist Church, Betty Bowers (“So close to Jesus, communion tastes like leftovers.”), and WhiteHouse.org is that they skewer their respective targets so thoroughly that you really do have to take a close look to make sure that they’re not the real thing. But that being said, there’s a point where you really should be able to spot a fake. I worry about the number of people who never caught on to what Black People Love Us was trying to say, for example. And just as I don’t think that any of the people on Black People Love Us who are shocked — SHOCKED! at the ignorance and insensitivity of the site are black themselves, I’d be willing to be that the loudest squeals of outrage on Greenwald’s site are from hetero liberals who have memorized the proper stances, but don’t have any thoughts about queerness or gender that goes any deeper than that.
Chris! You’re smart. Thanks for getting it.
always,
Ryan
You’re smarter than I am, Ryan, for making the damn thing. But much as I enjoyed this, I’m really looking forward to seeing “Chickenhawks for Clinton.” As I’ve said before, I don’t think that, at the end of the day, the Republicans are our real enemies. Our real enemies are the Democrats who are either cowardly or unprincipled or a combination of both. Getting a Democrat back in the White House won’t do bupkiss unless we can get the party’s soul back as well.