"Romney Murdered JonBenet Ramsay," New Obama Campaign Ad Alleges
CHICAGO—With campaign rhetoric becoming increasingly heated and both presidential nominees releasing more attack ads, a new 30-second spot from the Obama campaign this week accuses his opponent Mitt Romney of committing the 1996 murder of 6-year-old beauty pageant queen JonBenét Ramsey.
“I think this is a fair ad, and I think Mitt Romney owes an explanation to the American people as to why he murdered JonBenét Ramsey,” said Obama campaign manager Jim Messina, who called the commercial’s black-and-white reenactment of Mitt Romney carrying a kicking and screaming child to her death “accurate.” “Ultimately, voters need to know who they’re getting with Mitt Romney: a job- and child-killing businessman who is so deceitful he won’t release his tax returns or admit to a senseless murder that shook the nation to its core.”
(Oh, I did mention that this comes from The Onion, didn't I?)
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May '10
Re: "Romney Murdered JonBenet Ramsay," New Obama Campaign Ad Alleges
All right, boys, don't make me have to separate you with a dousing from the C-of-C hose....
Edited on August 15, 2012 at 4:45amJun '12
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raycon
Thin skin is a liberal trait. Conservatives know that life is more than political combat. · 34 minutes ago
Lack of a sense of humor is also a lefty trait, despite all the so-called comedians that are lefties. Most lefties wouldn't know a joke if it bit them on the... [considering what word wouldn't violate CoC]... nose.
They're too busy Saving The World, you see, to have a sense of humor, and they have to maintain their Perpetual Outrage And Offense at everything so that they can Feel The Pain of all the Approved Victim Groups.
Jan '12
Re: "Romney Murdered JonBenet Ramsay," New Obama Campaign Ad Alleges
This may have been great satire, but it was tasteless
Aug '10
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EJHill: All right, boys, don't make me have to separate you with a dousing from the C-of-C hose.... · 30 minutes ago
Edited 10 minutes ago
I apologize for the intemperance of my tone in the previous posts. I think, had I taken a moment to collect myself before posting, I would have sanded some of the edges.
That said, my critique addresses a psychological matter that is inescapably ad hominem, at that term's root meaning. That makes it necessarily accusatory. Still, I could have done more to engender bonhomie than ad hominem.
Additionally, a pet peeve of mine is the humorless sort who look for an opportunity to [CoC redaction] in the Cheerios of anyone enjoying a joke. "How can you be laughing today! Don't you know it's the 50th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's imprisonment!?!"
My points stand, but I'm sorry for the sharpness of my presentation.
Jul '10
Re: "Romney Murdered JonBenet Ramsay," New Obama Campaign Ad Alleges
Humor, especially political humor, depends on the existence of shared assumptions.
If this image of the Obama campaign has become so commonplace that it can be the foundation of jokes, Axelrod needs to be very worried indeed.
Feb '11
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EThompson: With all due respect to one of the founding fathers of Ricochet, this post was neither warranted or humorous in the least. Let The Onion enjoy themselves; I pay $3.67 a month so I don't have to read this. · 7 hours ago
Edited 3 hours ago
Valerie Percy?
Mar '11
Re: "Romney Murdered JonBenet Ramsay," New Obama Campaign Ad Alleges
As Queen would have said if they were still around (well, it seems that some of them still are, spotted at the Olympics):
"Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see "
I see a Romney/Ryan landslide... but that may be a fantasy... I hope not.
Jun '12
Re: "Romney Murdered JonBenet Ramsay," New Obama Campaign Ad Alleges
You got me on that one, Mr. Robinson. I was like "what in the...?"
til the last line.
May '12
Re: "Romney Murdered JonBenet Ramsay," New Obama Campaign Ad Alleges
The sad part was that until I read the last line, it didn't seem so far-fetched that it was a campaign ad run by the Democrats.
Aug '10
Re: "Romney Murdered JonBenet Ramsay," New Obama Campaign Ad Alleges
Right now, someone in the Obama campaign is reading the Onion article and saying, "Why didn't we think of that?"
Dec '11
Re: "Romney Murdered JonBenet Ramsay," New Obama Campaign Ad Alleges
raycon
Thin skin is a liberal trait.
And tacky is t-a-c-k-y.