Re-Elect Obama, America Becomes The Walking Dead?

There are scary ads, like the LBJ "Daisy" ad, and then there's this. Rick Santorum takes the fear mongering so far, it becomes a Saturday Night Live Digital Short. I chuckled at the spinning merry-go-round. Some of the imagery cause WTF moments, and what's with the smiling old dude in the preview there? Does he LIKE "Obamaville"? Anyway, it's mostly hilarious.

The Latest Health Care Reform Scare Ad

Be afraid! Be very afraid! Despicable. . .



You can find links that debunk all of this hokum at: Shakesville

Stuck on Crazy: Glenn Beck Weeps On Air

FOX "News" has done several documentary-style pieces over the years, both as one-shots and as "special" episodes of regular series. Now that Glenn Beck has moved to FOX from Headline News, he's gotten in on this act.

A FOX "News" documentary usually involves ominous music, slick editing, and imploring voice-overs. Their designed to frighten, sadden or unnerve you; all three if possible. But this piece, by Beck, just comes off like a crazy exercise in egotism. At one point, a weepy Beck even says that he sounds like an evangelist. Yes, he does. But not a very good one. More like a kooky fringe sect or cult leader trying to convert you. And he uses 9/11 imagery, and plays on your memories of that event to do it. Shameless.

I was relieved to see that the maker of this video took the time to annotate it with little word-balloon commentary. It was like they were being willed onto the screen by my brain as I watched! Anyway, if you're wondering who this nutty Beck person is, take a look.

Olbermann's Special Comment on Cheney, the Terrorist

Former Vice President Dick Cheney recently crawled out from under his rock, and dispensed a whole bunch of be very afraid proclamations regarding Barack Obama's policies. It was your standard doom-and-gloom scare tactics, that we somehow managed to get used to over the last eight years. And it set Obama up for a huge "I told you so" moment, should there actually be a terrorist attack.

But Republicans wouldn't take advantage of a situation that dire, right? Riiight. Anyway, Keith Olbermann called Cheney on it, and it's pretty good. Check it out.

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Dick Cheney: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid!!!

Photo from source, Think Progress

This is like an episode of Ghost Whisperer or Medium. The no longer in power, increasingly meaningless former Vice President Dick Cheney is warning us--oooooooooo!--that Barack Obama's policies are setting us up for certain peril! Considering that he's almost always been wrong--or lying--in the past, why should we believe him now?

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Cheney’s Reprised Scare Tactic: Warns Of WMD Attack If Bush Policies Are Reversed

Former Vice President Cheney sat down with Politico yesterday for his first interview since handing the reigns of power to the Obama administration. During the interview, Cheney wasted no time trying to defend the Bush administration’s unpopular (and perhaps illegal) counterterrorism policies, many of which he created. Cheney warned that if those policies are repealed (as many of them have already) then the U.S. is at greater risk of “a nuclear weapon or a biological agent of some kind” going off in an American city. . .

Read more at: Think Progress

Funny Picture of the Day: Vote for a Terroist!

Why does conservative fear mongering so often go hand-in-hand with tragic spelling?

Source: AmericaBlog

Brave New Films: McCain, Stop the Hate!

I couldn't agree more.

And Now a Word from Right-Wing World

Image from ImpactedNurse

Every once in a while, comments from a right-wing blog like Free Republic strike me as so outrageous, I'm left a little flabbergasted. Check out this exchange. . .

"A recurring freaky feeling: when I see Obama in some appearances, photos and videos, I see the same dead eyes as Mohammed Atta had"

"THAT'S IT!!! I kept noticing Obama's eyes last night at the debate & it was really bothering me, but I couldn't put my finger on it - YOU ARE RIGHT! They were Mohammed Atta eyes!!!"

Editor's Note: Somebody alert Kim Carnes.

Source: FreeRepublic