This is real. Like really real. Like a Super PAC sat down with an ad agency and came up with this commercial.
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Love the "Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act. Democrats opposed it".
From the Wiki on the Civil Rights Act of 1964:
By party
The original House version:[16]
Democratic Party: 152–96 (61–39%)
Republican Party: 138–34 (80–20%)
Cloture in the Senate:[17]
Democratic Party: 44–23 (66–34%)
Republican Party: 27–6 (82–18%)
The Senate version:[16]
Democratic Party: 46–21 (69–31%)
Republican Party: 27–6 (82–18%)
The Senate version, voted on by the House:[16]
Democratic Party: 153–91 (63–37%)
Republican Party: 136–35 (80–20%)
By party and region
Note: "Southern", as used in this section, refers to members of Congress from the eleven states that made up the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. "Northern" refers to members from the other 39 states, regardless of the geographic location of those states.
The original House version:
Southern Democrats: 7–87 (7–93%)
Southern Republicans: 0–10 (0–100%)
Northern Democrats: 145–9 (94–6%)
Northern Republicans: 138–24 (85–15%)
The Senate version:
Southern Democrats: 1–20 (5–95%)
Southern Republicans: 0–1 (0–100%)
Northern Democrats: 45–1 (98–2%)
Northern Republicans: 27–5 (84–16%)
"The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea: massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it" - I wish I had said this.
How many of those Southern Democrats then switched to the Republican Party, especially during the Nixon Southern Strategy years?
"The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea: massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it" - I wish I had said this.
I'm so glad we have SuperPacs to help us all make the most well-informed, unemotional political decisions possible.
The Citizens United decision has made this country a better place fer sure.![]()
"The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea: massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it" - I wish I had said this.
I am honestly thinking about getting a fake arm grafted on to my torso so I can do a triple facepalm after watching that.
I also love how they somehow managed to get the guy who seems to do the voiceover work for every infomercial ever to voice the end of that ad.
I kept waiting to hear about how I can get a second one absolutely free if I order now.
Last edited by mistertim; November-2nd-2012 at 02:16 PM.
Empower Citizen Network has followed up their commercial above with a NEW edition, this time featuring Don Cheadle!
Okay, that one is a joke. But the similarities are depressingly hilarious.
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