How To Be A Dick
In today’s lesson on how to be a dick, we examine a technique that the Roman rhetorician Tacitus referred to as Homo non potest ferre cantus, and which consists of running an attack ad against your opponent that features critical factoids displayed onscreen while a soundtrack plays in the background consisting of your opponent’s tortured, midnight-feline-mating-call, massacre of a beloved patriotic tune:
(VIA: The New York Times)
Romney campaign inserts video of Obama singing Al Green tune. Tries to spin it as “Obama is Un-American” with factoids. No one reads the factoids because they are enchanted by Obama’s singing voice.
Commercial backfires; Obama’s support shoots up by double digits, especially among white females.
@matador1015: And Gay Males, first among them me. And it would shoot up, believe me.
@Tommmcatt May Just Have Some MJ In His System As Well, So What?: So a singing Obama may just be the “log” the Log Cabin Republicans need?
NOJO • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 @ManchuCandidate: Summer definitely disappeared.
MANCHUCANDIDATE • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 BTW, has your favorite fundies gone to Ratpure?
MANCHUCANDIDATE • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Come on dude shut your mouth. Shut your mouth Never like to hear I take bribes Won't you please…
BURR DEMING • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Thank you for this, nojo. He was a wonderful talent and, by all accounts, a wonderful human…
NOJO • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Oh, and there’s a Catholic church across the street. Maybe I can do a little dance for them!
NOJO • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Now that I’m in NYC, plenty of pigeons to poison in his honor.
NOJO • All the Vice President's Men 2025 update: Nothing happened. And here we are!
MANCHUCANDIDATE • Weeping Angel Imagine going from hope to Fascism in less than two decades enabled by greedy ass (millionaire)…
NOJO • Nightmare at the Museum From the last time he threatened to bomb Iran, 2020. Remember that one? All a misty blur now.
NOJO • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @ManchuCandidate: I have birthright citizenship in Cascadia, so I think I’m good.