Friday, June 02, 2006

Ay caramba!

I have nothing to ad to this gem from The Carpetbagger Report, so I will just cut and paste for your horror amusement:

A few weeks back, I mentioned a campaign ad so bizarre, it was hard to believe it was true. The candidate is North Carolina's Vernon Robinson, and if you weren't paying close attention, you'd swear the guy was a parody of a loony right-wing candidate.

Except he's all-too real. Last month, it was Robinson's desire to turn back the clock in the hopes of making the country more like a silly episode of Leave it to Beaver. Literally.

This month it's a hilarious radio ad. Here's the link to the audio and here's the transcript:

Announcer: This ad was paid for by Air Force Academy graduate Vernon Robinson.

Every night, 7,000 aliens rush into our country illegally and your ultra-liberal congressman, Brad Miller, refuses to guard the border. Instead of deporting them, he votes for amnesty and throws them a party with your tax dollars. (Mariachi band music starts playing in the background)

Brad Miller gives these aliens welfare, drivers licenses, Social Security, free health care, free lawyers, free public education, even free school lunches. These aliens pay no income tax and pay their money back to Mexico. Then, they take to the streets, waving the Mexican flag and demanding more. Unbelievably, Brad Miller voted to allow these illegals to burn the American flag while waving the Mexican flag.

Brad Miller supports gay marriage and sponsored a bill to allow American homosexuals to bring their foreign homosexual lovers to this country on a marriage visa. (assorted noises of shocked people gasping plays in the background)

If Miller had his way, America would be nothing but one big fiesta for illegal aliens and homosexuals. (Mariachi band music starts playing in the background again), but if you elect Vernon Robinson, that party is over.

Robinson: I'm Vernon Robinson and I approve this message because Brad Miller is out of touch and soon, he'll be out of Congress.

Now, Robinson is obviously mad as a hatter. But I can't help but wonder how anyone, anywhere, could take an ad like this seriously.

(Thanks to Bill for sending)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dang Kenneth, unfortunatly, for the target demographic (poorer whites, of a fundamentalist bent, for whom illegal immigration has meant s supression of wages and having to work with people of color (brown) that you can't understand, and who have been on the receiving end of propaganda telling them gays are gonna take over, take their guns/masculinity/kids/churches, in this NC district, and whose sense of cultural inferiority has been nurtured by the poison of Southern identity politics) it probably makes a lot of sense. I know, for they are my people.

Anonymous said...

Check out wonkette - she's got Vern's tv ad - a twilight zone take off that is truely bizarre. I honestly believe that Vern's got some guys in white coats trying to find him right now.

Lavi Soloway said...

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