OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD--you HAVE to watch "Obamaville."

[Bicoastal]

Quite simply, this is the most bizonkers political ad I've ever seen:

Do you think this is what Rick Santorum's mind actually looks like?

[juxtaposed]

1. i live it,,,,, play it all day long. We still win.

[hifiguy]

2. That is actually one of Frothy's ads?

That is as fucked up as a left-handed football bat. I think it is a perfect reflection of what goes on in Frothy's two-volt brain, and I don't even have sound on my work computer.

[left on green only]

9. Your punch line sent me rolling on the floor

[onenote]

3. Yep. Made me think that Herman Cain's video team was still at work!

[Swede Atlanta]

4. It is unfortunate that our political dialogue has come to this but not unexpected....

Now it is a battle not of ideas and solutions but who has the most effective public communication strategy - movies, tv ads, newspaper ads, etc.

I had to almost laugh at some of this because of the absurdity of the assertions but I have to understand the the Koch brothers believe and fund this to the tune of billions of dollars.

God help our democracy.

[madamesilverspurs]

11. I don't think the Koch brothers believe it.

They aren't stupid, they're just banking that the willingly ignorant will believe it.

[less lee]

5. BRITEBARTs last video

He meant to say: If the Koch Brothers privatized the USA. Stock footage of Bushes America 2001 to 2008

[tulsakatz]

6. isn't that Bushville?

...it sounds more like what W tried to do!

[Z_I_Peevey]

7. I really think it could have used more zoom. Zooms are ooooh, scary!!

[cbayer]

8. Fasten your seatbelts, because it's going to be a very bumpy ride.

Once the repub primaries are over, they are going to go after Obama in ways we can't even imagine yet. This is just a shot over the bow.

[wendylaroux]

10. you are so right

that is the time I will stop watching all news,reading stuff on the intertubz,I really don't think I'll be able to handle all the crap coming. The disgusting,crazy lies,racism and such will be too much.

[Arctic Dave]

12. LOL!! That was awesome!!

If you ran a parade of this, it would be the same ad.

[JHB]

13. I've seen things like this before...on RW religious nutbar programs...

...like Pat Robertson's 700 Club. You can't beat those guys for ham-handed.

But then, froth and foam is synonymous with Santorum. Just ask Google.

[greytdemocrat]

14. Holy Crapola!!! n/t

[trof]

15. This tops LBJ's 'Daisey Girl Nuke' commercial. Video:

http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/media/daisyspot/

The advertisement begins with a little girl (four-year old Monique M. Corzilius) standing in a meadow with chirping birds, picking the petals of what appears to be a daisy flower while counting each petal slowly.[3] Because little Monique does not know her numbers perfectly, she repeats some and says others in the wrong order, all of which adds to her childlike appeal. When she reaches "nine", an ominous-sounding male voice is then heard counting down a missile launch, and as the girl's eyes turn toward something she sees in the sky, the camera zooms in until her pupil fills the screen, blacking it out. When the countdown reaches zero, the blackness is replaced by the flash and mushroom cloud from a nuclear explosion.

As the firestorm rages, a voiceover from Johnson states, "These are the stakes! To make a world in which all of God's children can live, or to go into the dark. We must either love each other, or we must die." Another voiceover (sportscaster Chris Schenkel) then says, "Vote for President Johnson on November 3. The stakes are too high for you to stay home."

The attack ad was designed to capitalize on comments made by Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater about the possibility of using nuclear weapons in Vietnam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_%28advertisement%29

[hootinholler]

20. That ad came immediately to mind

The similarities are glaring.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

16. kickarooney

[JoePhilly]

17. Reagan kicked Santorum's base out of the mental hospitals, and now they eat this stuff up.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

18. This type of manipulative subliminal messaging (Obama's face superimposed on that of Ahmadinejad)

has been tried before and I see the creeps are still at it. Anyone remember the "RATS" ad of the Bush campaign of 2000 where the word 'RATS" appears for a fraction of a second towards the end?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. Frothy McButtlube tops himself on this one.

All this does is throw meat to those with Obama Derangement Syndrome. I mean it's not like we don't know what an Obama presidency looks like.

[Oilwellian]

21. That was really crazy

It far surpasses the doom and gloom ads we've been entertained with in the past. I'll have to take this baby into Sony Vegas, stretch it out and capture some of those subliminal flashes that are peppered throughout. I'll post what I find, later this evening.

I'm reminded of a video I did during Obama's campaign and his primary battle with Hillary. Her famous "who do you want to answer that 3:00 AM call" ad is what inspired me to collect some of the scarier ads from the past and compare them to Obama's more positive and hopeful campaign. It was silly and fun to do at the time. We were all so hopeful.