November 16, 2007

Proving That Liberals Don't Have a Lock on "Stupid"

This little kidploitation video has been making the rounds, claiming to be "just a goof."

It ain't no goof. It's a bit of sleazy politics pretending to be "a joke, just a joke."

Now I'm all for down in the ditches dirty political humor between consenting adults. This isn't it. This is getting a bunch of kids to repeat after their parents or their handlers. For many good and solid reasons I am a liberal no more and haven't been for nearly a decade. This little item of political degradation reminds me why I'm not a card-carrying conservative either.

Don't get me wrong. I think Hillary is just a brand extension of the Classic Clinton Con-Job. That doesn't mean I'm going to start enlisting kids to tell grown-ups about it. That's why I'm give the makers of this bit of merde the "Bad Americans" award of the week.

Posted by Vanderleun at November 16, 2007 9:36 AM
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Kid exploitation is wrong, period, and anyone who engages in it for any reason is wrong, too. Have scorched earth politics become so prevalent that people are willfully disregarding wisdom this deep?

Posted by: askmom at November 16, 2007 10:58 AM

Hold on just a sec. This piece of obscenity appears to be the product of 236.com, a supposedly comedy site started by Arianna Huffington; not exactly the standard bearer of conservative thought or behavior.

Posted by: gwb at November 16, 2007 11:45 AM

Actually, this proves once again that liberals have a lock on stupid. It's from a satire website connected to Puffington Host.

Posted by: Jeff at November 16, 2007 12:03 PM

A particularly detestable example of "kid exploitation" is the current AARP campaign to demand a "solution" to Social Security's long term viability from candidates in the 2008 election. The presenters are all pre-teens or teenagers. The ironic thing about this is that we know the only "solution" acceptable to AARP is more and more tax revenues to compensate for the bleeding. Who will suffer the consequences of higher taxes, you ask? The very youth dragooned into making these nauseating commercials.

Posted by: boqueronman at November 16, 2007 12:22 PM

"236.com is a co-production between the gigantic, vaguely Death Star-like IAC, and The Huffington Post, a progressive news hub where outraged people go in order to get more outraged before going to have dinner at Nobu."

Or is it a send up of a send up? Who cares?

The video is stupid in the extreme. I really, really dislike the Hildabeast but the video is wrong.

Posted by: Robohobo at November 16, 2007 11:07 PM

I haven't heard that it's a "goof." It would be very curious if it was, because the same outfit is doing similar "hits" on Obama and Edwards as well. A goof tends to be something you do one time, and then stop doing...even if your name is Arianna Huffington.

Phil mentions in the comments that the Republicans are next. Which just further cements the reality, at least in my view, that the parody is a parody after all. Furthermore, that the thing being parodied is not Hillary Clinton but muckraking campaign commercials in general.

I would have to conclude from that, that if you want to file this under kidsploitation, then you'd have to fill that file folder with every instance of kids ever doing anything that's scripted, from putting on school plays to selling mint cookies.

Gerard, you're a very brilliant and sensible man and I'm sure there will be some other issue coming along on which we'll agree.

Posted by: Morgan K Freeberg at November 17, 2007 8:59 AM

Oh, c'mon, chill out, Van

Hillary swiped the Whitehouse silver and the china.

Its old news.

Posted by: Mckiernan at November 18, 2007 6:05 PM

It's a lefty parody of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads that took down John Kerry.

Posted by: Harvey at November 19, 2007 8:56 PM