So, the NRA appears to have hipped itself up a bit and decided, disastrously, to use Danny McBride style Eastbound and Down satire to get its message across. Behold and cringe:
The best part is that it works in the exact opposite way.
Hey ladies, how turned on are you by this hypothetical date?
Yes, this is an actual ad from Stayfree. Here is another.
My goodness, Bachmann, Pawlenty, Kline, Coleman and Paulsen? All for Tom Emmer?! It’s a Minnesota gay hate supper party! You can join them too at The Home of Marty & Anne Davis, 26310 Birch Bluff, Shorewood, MN
Here is an ill advised video made posted by the Minnesota GOP.
The Minnesota GOP webmaster explained, “It wasn’t intended to be fair. It was intended to be funny.”
Did NBC do this last year? Those down and yard marker ice cream coned with a scoop of the offensive team’s logo in them? Worst, they don’t even come off the screen once the play starts. Did NBC receive a bunch of letters from viewers complaining about not having enough childish garbage on the field during game play? Look at the below, is there really a need for more graphic design vomit on the field? Is Sunday Night Football for Idiots now? Please stop this.
Another image after the jump. (more…)
Here is the most irresponsible headline of the month courtesy of US News & World Report.
This is what I was worried about when I wrote about MoveOn.org’s involvement in the Target gay-rights controversy. I wrote at The Awl:
“Jumping aboard, MoveOn.org launched a petition calling for 150,000 consumers to commit to a boycott. While welcomed by many, there is reason to be wary of MoveOn.org’s particular involvement. For starters, its statement reads “If we don’t push back hard, this will just be the tip of the iceberg. Other corporations will learn that they can pour money into elections to buy the outcome they want.” It essentially lessens the anti-gay rights part of the Target donation outrage in exchange for a focus on a larger battle about the post-Citizens United campaigning world… one in which MoveOn.org’s side benefits greatly. Some, like me, might use a stronger word than “lamentable” to characterize MoveOn’s failure to even once use the term “gay” in its petition”
Now, right-leaning Washington Post finally picks up on the Target story and what do they print?
”The campaign against Target was orchestrated by liberal-advocacy group MoveOn.org. It included a note on the retailer’s Facebook page that said, ‘Boycott Target Until They Cease Funding Anti-Gay Politics.’
‘We made Target the target,’ said Ilyse Hogue, the group’s director of public advocacy. Ms. Hogue said MoveOn and its members plan to gin up bad publicity for any company venturing into political campaigning.”
Congratulations to Ilyse Hogue for walking right into that trap. Extra points for your shitty pun. How do we know Hogue isn’t up to speed? WaPo: “Ms. Hogue said MoveOn.org wouldn’t let up until Target stops ‘meddling in our elections.’” Maybe she should hit the FEC database to see where, as I covered at the Awl, Target’s been meddling for a decade.
Updated at The Awl. Proof below. Update: Though these might be individual donations. Update: Yep, they were individuals.
What Brian is talking about is the author tag that The Awl editors add to essays. If you don’t specifically request one, which I never have, you just get whatever they feel like. So, Brian’s PRO TIP about concluding an essay is barking up the wrong tree and he should take it up with Awl editors Alex Balk and Choire Sicha. Yes, Since he’s giving out PRO TIPS, one might think he’d already know that. Anyway, congratulations on your mature reaction to your mistake, I’m sure Choire, who wrote that author tag, is impressed.
Update: I didn’t name the column either you dipshit.
And, further, I’m not a pro. If the pros were doing their job with this story, my reporting wouldn’t be necessary. For all five Target pieces (at least 10,000 words) I’ve filed at The Awl (below) I’ve been reimbursed exactly $0.
Target doesn’t support gay rights because it never did.
A Profile of Tom Emmer and his claims
A look at Target’s $150,000 for MN Forward
Reuters finally covered the Target brouhaha, finding an especially knowledgeable St. Paul Hamline University political analyst David Schultz who, despite expertly knowing that the boycott has not turned into anything, refers to the candidate as Tom Emmers:
“If it’s just about Tom Emmers, people outside Minnesota aren’t going to care.”
This is probably just a Reuters editing mistake.
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