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Thursday, May 13, 2010

This is What a Terrorist Looks Like?



This is an actual television ad by Alan Grayson's (D-FL) opponent.

[update 5/15/2010: I just have to make some observations about this bizarre ad after watching it a few more times. I'm going to make these observations in the form of a script.  "[...]" = language behind the logo.
Terrorist 1 screws the cap on a thermos and steps back like he did something dangerous.
T1:  [...] How will I reach martyrdom after I am captured?
Terrorist 2:  [...] If you spill the blood of the infidels [...] will allow yourself to be captured.
We w[ill u]se the infidel's lawyers and Miranda Rights to sp[rea]d our message.  Then you will go to god.
Dan Fanelli [stepping into foreground.  T1 continues to gesture in background.  DF grimaces]:  My name's Dan Fanelli.  Send me to Washington and I'll send our enemies where they belong... and that's not to a courtroom.   
[And where is the place they belong, Mr. Fanelli?  A dungeon?  An endless series of waterboarding sessions and other torture in Gitmo?  A giant tower with a cross at the top like the Bastille for dimwitted Christians?  These people want to return to the times of lynchings.  Mean, hateful people, and here's one of their leaders.  God help us if these people take power.  We'll make the Nazis look like amateurs.]
[bad video/soundtrack cut][thin white man with glasses, white hair, white shirt, striped tie stands in front of small plane next to/behind DF who points at him with both hands]
DF:  Does this look like a terrorist? [turns toward stage right and gestures with both hands] or this? [T2 steps into shot]
[Well, Dan, the guy on the left does kind of look like the kind of person that would have something to do with either the gazillion dollar banking fuckfest we've had going on in this country for the last few decades or that he might be part of the BP apparatus that is destroying one of the most important spawning grounds on earth, yeah.  The first guy looks like a terrorist to me.  And of course the second guy looks like a terrorist.  That's what you showed him as for half of the ad up to now!]
It's time to stop this political correctness and the invasion of our privacy. 
[Wait, who's privacy exactly?  Apparently not big, swarthy guys with a little bit of beard and eyes too close together.  I think the word "our" is a Dixie dog whistle.  "Our" = "white people."  And if by "political correctness" you mean not racially profiling people (which is exactly what Dan means) then I'd just like to remind you that the worst act of domestic terrorism was carried out by some very white rednecks, not a big, brown guy with eyes too close together and stubble that I just saw playing a terrorist 20 seconds ago.]
Let's face it, if the good looking, ripped guy without much hair is flyin' airplanes into the twin towers, they have no problem being pulled out of line at the airport. 
[So now he's saying if you're fit and well groomed you should expect to be pulled out of line?  He's not saying if you're brown and fit and well groomed?  Really?  Nah, huh?]
This is an airplane, and this is a terrorist.
[Let's start with the airplane.  I love that you can see the word "Experimental" clearly on the upraised door.  This particular plane is a variation of a Burt Rutan design (of Spaceship 1 fame amongst many other amazing designs) which has a large, rear wing and a small canard at the nose with a pushing propeller at the rear.  From it's earlier appearance behind the banker... or small business owner?... this is a 4 seater which means it is quite small.  It's probably smaller than the plane that (white, American) guy crashed into the IRS building last year.  You could probably fit several of them inside one of the airliners that brought down the twin towers with the wings on!  
The terrorist is lifted from the ground into the frame by Fanelli, as if he was on his knees.  Now, though, he has on a white turban that looks like it was wrapped by a protestant child, has a bomb that looks like an orange juice container strapped to his chest (with wires), and has duct tape over his mouth.  I'm just guessing that the duct taped mouth is supposed to remind teabaggers of the Abu Ghraib torture pictures which they think is the way to go.  You know that shit's gonna hurt coming off.  So I guess his message is that the current administration wouldn't recognize that the guy with a bomb strapped to his chest might be up to no good?!?  Seriously, Dan.  Are you that stupid or are your supporters that stupid?  Either way, humanity loses.]
Send me to Washington and get rid of that bum Alan Grayson  and I'll make sure that guys like this [points to T1] get nowhere near things like this [points to small plane].  I'm Dan Fanelli and I approve this message.
[Wow.  You actually called your opponent a bum after producing this ludicrous ad?  You've got some balls, Mr. Fanelli, even if you have no brains.]

1 comment:

  1. More than anything, this ad speaks to how incredibly stagnant this country is, and how the same perspectives and ideas never seem to get old. It's been nearly a decade since the WTC attacks; we've killed hundreds of thousands in two on-going wars. But still politicians appeal to the media-sustained fear and bigotry that works against fundamental American principles and any remote chance we might have as a country to approach our problems with terrorism intelligently and constructively.

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