Word Association
OK, it's the aftermath of the election, and my first post about it.
Basically, we can talk about why we lost, but it doesn't come down to policy. It comes down to this: The American attention span is short, and Rove was able to embed a word association deep in the reptilian brain of every Republican voter.
What was that association? "John Kerry" was effectively matched to "Flip-Flopper." Ignore for a minute that being a sitting senator involves a lot of votes before a bill goes to final passage. Some of the votes are to kill riders, some are done as protests. The same thing would have happened to John McKain or any other senator who votes on principle or against pork.
The thought that the windsurfing ad wasn't immediately laughed off of the airwaves as the weakest ever attempt at humor makes me weep for my country.
It occurs to me that we need to do the same thing to the wingnuts. Whenever the name comes up, make sure that the next sentence contains our code word(s). Think of it as a google bomb for the brain stem. Without further ado, I'd like to offer the following:
Dick Cheney --------> War Profiteer
Doug Colmes --------> Eunuch
Washington Times ---> Moonie Times
O'Reilly -----------> Falafel
Tucker Carlson -----> Wedgie Boy
Dubya --------------> President-elect, lucky sperm club
Ann Coulter --------> Adam's Apple
Bob Novak ----------> Douchebag (of Liberty)
We've got a long way to go, but we have significant progress on the last one due to Jon Stewart , who originally referred to Novak as "A Douchebag of Liberty" on The Daily Show. Thanks to New Patriot, we also have a transcript of Billy Crystal picking up the same meme.
Oh, and for those of you who wonder why the man we love to hate (Karl Rove) is conspicuously missing from the list, it's because the president has already saddled him with Turd Blossom, which is crueler than anything I could dream up.
Basically, we can talk about why we lost, but it doesn't come down to policy. It comes down to this: The American attention span is short, and Rove was able to embed a word association deep in the reptilian brain of every Republican voter.
What was that association? "John Kerry" was effectively matched to "Flip-Flopper." Ignore for a minute that being a sitting senator involves a lot of votes before a bill goes to final passage. Some of the votes are to kill riders, some are done as protests. The same thing would have happened to John McKain or any other senator who votes on principle or against pork.
The thought that the windsurfing ad wasn't immediately laughed off of the airwaves as the weakest ever attempt at humor makes me weep for my country.
It occurs to me that we need to do the same thing to the wingnuts. Whenever the name comes up, make sure that the next sentence contains our code word(s). Think of it as a google bomb for the brain stem. Without further ado, I'd like to offer the following:
Dick Cheney --------> War Profiteer
Doug Colmes --------> Eunuch
Washington Times ---> Moonie Times
O'Reilly -----------> Falafel
Tucker Carlson -----> Wedgie Boy
Dubya --------------> President-elect, lucky sperm club
Ann Coulter --------> Adam's Apple
Bob Novak ----------> Douchebag (of Liberty)
We've got a long way to go, but we have significant progress on the last one due to Jon Stewart , who originally referred to Novak as "A Douchebag of Liberty" on The Daily Show. Thanks to New Patriot, we also have a transcript of Billy Crystal picking up the same meme.
Oh, and for those of you who wonder why the man we love to hate (Karl Rove) is conspicuously missing from the list, it's because the president has already saddled him with Turd Blossom, which is crueler than anything I could dream up.
1 Comments:
Savagely Funny post!
Long live John Stewart! A major contributor to a zany election.
BaBa WaWa interviewed Rove as her pick for the MOST FASCINATING person of the year. (She didn't dare do Bush!)
I loved the passive aggressive smarmy self-deprecation when he recalled how "sad" he was that in junior high he wrote a paper on dialectical materialism. He loves that early image of himself as a Nerd, because he has risen so far since then. Just pulled his smart self up by his Horatio Alger bootstraps.
So why don't we just call him NERD TURD?
That will satisfy both Rove and Bush at once.
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