The 'Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm--Barack Hussein Obama Children's Choir' were unavailable for this gig.
Shorter Future Children Project: Report your Romney-supporting parents to the Ministry of Love today!
Notice the concerns the makers of this propaganda place into the mouths of children. Endangered polar bears? Not even Premier Obama thinks that. Rampant strip mines dotting the American landscape? That's news to the miners. Conservatives think our failing schools are good enough? That must be why Milton Friedman was a proponent of school choice reform since the Eisenhower Administration. Endless wars? Here's another ten years of Obama drone strikes, you worthless hypocritical peace-creeps.
What's really amazing is wayback machine quality of the ad. The Left always accuses conservatives of wanting to travel back in time, but who is actually living in the past? The writers of the douchey bit act as if Barack Obama is still Captain Jesus-Man Lightbringer promising lower ocean levels and lower middle class tax rates. The last four years--$5 trillion dollars of debt, sky high unemployment, economic illiteracy--never happened for these progressives.
Or maybe this ad is just meant to stir the turd. The only people that might even sorta respond are die hard Obama fanbois and right-wingers making fun of them. So it's not really a campaign spot that's meant to get people to the polls. It's more like the flip-side of Jon Stewart's clap humor.
Okee-dokee. It's your dime, Future Children Project. Enjoy your pointless uninspiring performance art.
In case you were wondering where Part 1 is, clickety here.
I spotted this over at the terrific Coalition of The Swilling. Thanks, Mr. Bingley.
...the Left is going to make the 2000 recount, and their subsequent 8 year tantrum, look like a breezy pillow-fight.
Why do I say this? Because they are setting themselves up for the mother of all emotional letdowns. Watch as featured Daily Kossack propagandist Jed Lewison spins Obama's sinking poll numbers.
Bottom line: Yes, this is a close race. Yes, the first debate appears to have given Romney a boost, but it wasn't a big enough boost to put him ahead in the electoral math and there's no evidence to suggest that he continues to have any forward momentum. Even if the national popular vote were a tossup, Obama has a real edge in the states that matter. The race is by no means over, but for Romney to win, he needs to shift the electoral map in his favor. So far, he hasn't been able to do it.
(By the way--no linkie love for Kook Fringe jag-offs. Find it for yourself if you must.)
Meanwhile, Real Clear Politics' electoral map looks like this.
If you've been paying attention to the electoral maps, you'll recall that Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania used to lean Obama just a month ago. Check out where they are now. Notice that North Carolina and Missouri have both--finally--fallen into the Romney orbit. Wrap your mind around New Hampshire trending towards the GOP presidential ticket.
In other words, Romney's momentum has put formerly Obama states back in the toss-up column and moved other states into the Republican orbit. Meanwhile, Obama has not made inroads into Romney's safe or leaning states. Obama now has to defend his firewall from serious Republican inroads, while Mitt hasn't had to defend traditional GOP strongholds.
According to the statists, all that means St. Barry is a lead pipe lock.
Even worse, Team Bamster isn't waiting for the President to lose on Election Day to pass around rifle rounds for their circular firing squad. Take a guess who's taking a trip under Premier Barry's bus.
[Matt] Bai’s choice for the person who steered the president wrong this year is none other than former President Bill Clinton, who has widely been credited for having helped produce a post-convention boost for the Democrats. Clinton’s speech on behalf of Obama was viewed, with good reason, as being far more effective than anything the president or anyone else said on his behalf this year. But Bai points to Clinton as the primary advocate within high Democratic circles for changing the party’s strategy from one of bashing Mitt Romney as an inauthentic flip-flopper to one that centered on trying to assert that he was a conservative monster. Given that Romney demolished that false image in one smashing debate performance in Denver that seems to have changed the arc of the election, Clinton’s advice seems ripe for second-guessing right now.
Lets be clear: Bill Clinton has done more than any other prominent Democrat to carry Barack Obama's sorry ass across the finish line. Not Harry Reid. Not Nancy Pelosi. Not even Eva Longoria.
But now that pResident is about to shit the White House mattress, of course David Axelrod feeds Matt Bai the pre-emptive first strike on Slick Willy.
Amazing, really.
But the die-hard Outer Party hacks have no interest in reality. They think Obama has this election in the bag.
So when Romney wins, watch out for much banging of spoons on high chairs. But unlike the Republicans in 2008, the Democrats and their base will do no soul-searching. There won't be any ideological reassessments on the Left.
In the wake of an Obama defeat, the nutroots will take the easiest most emotionally gratifying path they know: An insane voter suppression conspiracy theory. And just like in 2000 and 2004, the mainstream media will egg on every MoveOn.Org/DemocratUnderground charge. The Leftwing Palace Guard, saddened by their Jesus figure's electoral defeat, will do all they can to encourage a resurgent Occupy movement to shit on cop cars and scream in bug-eyed rage at Mitt Romney, Wall Street and conventional ideas about hygiene.
I admit it; I had high hopes for this flick. Tell me this doesn't sound promising--"Ridley Scott explores the backstory of the Alien mythos, with a massive budget and big name acting talent to flesh out the sure-fire chills and thrills." On paper, that would seem to suggest something really amazing.
Yeah, not quite.
The basic plot is not without merit. Scientists find a map to a planet where the creators of humanity, called Engineers, are thought to live. Even though this is basically the storyline for every single episode of "Ancient Aliens", we'll let Ridley Scott off the hook for not keeping up with History Channel's re-commitment to super-realistic not completely bat-shit insane programming.
So naturally, the Weyland Corporation sends a group of unstable weirdos, emotional basketcases and a deliberately mysterious android to run a gazillion dollar mission to determine the origins of human life on Earth. Sure. That's how NASA does their job, right?
Then they get to the planet and of course all hell breaks loose, mostly because the people running the operation are about 50 IQ points dumber than their job titles would suggest. Everyone in the crew is supposed to be an expert in their field. Meanwhile, they constantly do stupid shit that gets them killed, mutated or impregnated with a freaky squid baby.
To be fair, the visuals of Prometheus are stunning. The viewer is immersed in an environment that looks otherworldly in the best sense of the word. Ridley Scott is an expert at making places like Iceland and Jordan's Wadi Rum look distinctly unTerra-like.
The problem is that the movie insists on being more than a silent montage of mind-blowing landscapes. The best science fiction raises questions about the nature of the human condition. Prometheus constantly raises interesting questions, builds them up and then...lets them float off into the ether.
A piece of speculative fiction also needs a level of consistency in order for the audience to remain interested. What does the black liquid--the stuff that seems like it's central to the movie--do exactly? It melts an Engineer's body, mutates space worms, zombiefies humans and sorta kinda in a roundabout way gets a woman pregnant with a proto-facehugger...maybe. If the audience can't make heads or tails out of the rules and logic of the film, it doesn't matter how meaningful the movie's questions are.
Beyond that, there are meta-issues with the film. Prometheus was hyped as a sorta-prequel to 1979's Alien. One of the big questions 'Promo' was supposed to answer--and like everything else in the flick it only hints at it--is the origin of the Aliens. But is this a story that really calls out to be told?
Let's look back at Alien for a second. At it's heart, that film has been famously characterized as a haunted house movie in space. Sure, there were some questions left unanswered. Yes, there was some sexualized body-horror elements thrown into the mix. Yet, Alien is still basically about a living killing machine tearing through a bunch of scared weak humans. In fact, all four "Alien" movies more or less tell the same tale: People versus an intensely scary space monster.
Now compare Alien to movies that came out in roughly the same era, the Star Wars trilogy. Alien was a fairly simple story that knew what it was supposed to do and delivered the goods in spades. Like Alien, the older Star Wars trilogy was an easy to understand tale done in a rousing energetic fashion.
So how did George Lucas build on the success of his first three Star Wars movies? He focused on Darth Vader, the principle bad guy of his original trilogy, and took him from being just a bad-ass villain with a complicated past and made him into the prophesied Intergalactic Messiah of the Star Wars universe. With the new SW prequels, George Lucas tried to weave themes of political upheaval, the death of democracy and the temptations of evil into the larger story of Darth Vader's rise and fall into the dark side. The simple yet effective storytelling of the first movies was discarded in the new prequels in an attempt to create an epic motion picture with deep messages.
I'd argue that with Prometheus, Ridley Scott has made the same mistake George Lucas made with his Star Wars prequels. Regardless of his possible reasons, Scott didn't want to make another straightforward horror movie like Alien. For all it's gore and scary visuals, Prometheus really wants to be a philosophical meditation on the mankind's place in the universe. However, humanity's creation story seems like an awkward fit for the Alien and it's related mythos.
Is Prometheus worth watching? Of course. The visuals alone are worth the price of admission. But does the film succeed by the standards it sets for itself? Not quite. Instead of being a true science fiction masterpiece, Prometheus is a decent movie with deep flaws.
MORE: Greg over at The Mind Is An Unexplored Country has a few choice words for Prometheus.
Seriously, I believe the People In Charge Of The Oscars should create a new category: Most Justifiably Ridiculed Mocked and Parodied Motion Picture. Just for this pile of cinema crud.
Oooof. There's more there, so read the rest.
Also, he found the Honest Trailer for the Prometheus. Funny, but definitely full of spoilers and most assuredly Not Safe For Work.
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