New McCain Ads Based Upon Other Classic Russian Novels
It takes a really cynical person to rip off a story from a Nobel prize winning Russian novelist--particularly a deeply personal story of religious transcendence, such as the cross in the dirt story McCain told the Saddleback Church audience over the weekend. But John McCain seems capable of just such a dastardly act. (After all, he cheated on his first wife and dumped her after her car accident; he cheated the taxpayers in the Keating Five scandal; he has been been observed publicly being verbally abusive to his second wife.)
So, my guess is that McCain did, in fact, steal his dirt in the cross story from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's famous The Gulag Archipelago. What's more, I hear from pretty reliable sources that the ad was such a success that McCain handlers are scouring the pages of other classic Russian writers for new ad possibilities. Here are a few that are being floated around at McCain HQ:
Notes from a Straight Talker: based upon Dostoyevski's existential classic. McCain looks into the camera and deadpans: "I am a sick man...I am an angry man. I am an unattractive man. I think there is something wrong with my liver. But I would still make a better President than that celebrity swine Obama."
Cindy Karenina. It's the story of a beautiful, carpal-tunnel plagued woman. Cindy is torn between the big celebrity man she loves and her duty to her aged husband, children and beer distributorship empire. But in the end she puts tax breaks first.
The Brothers Obamanov: did you know Obama's Kenyan father was dead? This ad says one of his three sons killed him, and McCain makes it clear who he thinks done it!
Fathers and Sons, based upon the Turgenev novel of the same title. This ad focuses on the conflict between generations. The older landowners wish to preserve the traditional order: no taxes for the rich, no health care for the poor! The younger generation is yearning to be free from war, debt and a corrupt and inept administration. But screw them, this ad chalks one up for the old dudes!
So, my guess is that McCain did, in fact, steal his dirt in the cross story from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's famous The Gulag Archipelago. What's more, I hear from pretty reliable sources that the ad was such a success that McCain handlers are scouring the pages of other classic Russian writers for new ad possibilities. Here are a few that are being floated around at McCain HQ:
Notes from a Straight Talker: based upon Dostoyevski's existential classic. McCain looks into the camera and deadpans: "I am a sick man...I am an angry man. I am an unattractive man. I think there is something wrong with my liver. But I would still make a better President than that celebrity swine Obama."
Cindy Karenina. It's the story of a beautiful, carpal-tunnel plagued woman. Cindy is torn between the big celebrity man she loves and her duty to her aged husband, children and beer distributorship empire. But in the end she puts tax breaks first.
The Brothers Obamanov: did you know Obama's Kenyan father was dead? This ad says one of his three sons killed him, and McCain makes it clear who he thinks done it!
Fathers and Sons, based upon the Turgenev novel of the same title. This ad focuses on the conflict between generations. The older landowners wish to preserve the traditional order: no taxes for the rich, no health care for the poor! The younger generation is yearning to be free from war, debt and a corrupt and inept administration. But screw them, this ad chalks one up for the old dudes!
posted by Faithful Progressive at 5:49 PM
3 Comments:
Funny stuff! Notes from a Straight Talker is my favorite, I think, but The Brothers Obamanov is quite clever, too.
In part 2 of Notes..., McCain wears a big coat and stands in Obama's way until he acknowledges he was in a P.O.W. camp. ;-)
Does anyone else see the connection between this & McCain's naming of the Green Bay Packers offensive line in his book turning into the Pittsburgh Steelers Defensive line while campaigning as the clever ruse to throw off his North Vietnamese captors as to the identity of his squadron mates?
Like "Hi! I'm John McCain & I make up, alter or steal from literature compelling personal stories whenever I think it will help me sucker chums into voting for me."
Too bad this isn't a policy issue but a window into a truly twisted & dishonest mind so we'll never see this connection made into a TV spot.
Thanks for the comments and thanks to Mike at Crooks & Liars for the link.
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