RNC Remains the party of fear and fearmongering

[crazyfingers]

rnc-uses-controversial-daisy-ad-to-target-obama (http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/22/rnc-uses-controversial-daisy-ad-to-target-obama)


Called "Daisy," The RNC's new 30-second Web ad uses footage of the now-infamous 1964 Lyndon Johnson commercial by the same name that showed a young girl picking off the pedals of a flower as a nuclear explosion is heard in the background.

That ad, which only ran once but was widely criticized as being extreme, ends with the image of a mushroom crowd and Johnson declaring, "We must either love each other, or we must die."

The New RNC ad splices the image of the girl with Obama's earlier declaration suggesting that closing Guantanamo Bay is "easy." This time the girl asks "To close it? To close it not?" as she picks off flower pedals.

I really loath the Republican party. I sure hope that this backfires on them. This and Cheney stirring up more rear and nonsense. Disgusting. They deserve to whither away.

[dug_down_deep]

Somebody needs to suggest that Cheney allow himself to be waterboarded. Since it's not torture. He can prove it that way.

[Goodchild]

fwiw, Mancow (a conservative radio personality) took just that challenge today and afterwards declared emphatically that water-torture is indeed torture. He says that if he knew beforehand what it was going to feel like he never would have done it at all.

You can watch the video of it here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/22/mancow-waterboarded-video_n_206906.html

or here:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/5/22/734444/-Conservative-radio-host,-Eric-Mancow,-has-himself-waterboarded,-realizes-its-torture.

[Garnet]

I watched the video (without sound).

Mancow didn't last very long, did he?

I really, really, REALLY wish that Sean Hannity would take up the challenge.

[LoneWolf]

Well, he has my respect for doing it and admitting he was wrong.

Having been through it myself, just watching the video got my heart pumping fast from the memory.


ETA: Although my experience was much more like Hitchens's (http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/video/2008/hitchens_video200808).