Friday, October 26, 2012

Conservatives outraged by President Obama's suggestive ad



If you haven’t heard, President Obama’s new campaign ad, which relies on an extended double entendre to compare sex and voting, has conservatives in an uproar.

The 60-second commercial features 26-year-old Lena Dunham, star of the edgy HBO show “Girls,” who talks into the camera about her “first time.” As the suggestive ad proceeds, it becomes clear that she’s talking about 2008 and the thrill of her first time voting—and the opportunity to do it for a great guy, Barack Obama.
Conservatives quickly responded by calling the ad out of bounds, a cheap stunt that “makes women out to be brainless sex objects.”

Kelly Fenton, vice chair of the Minnesota Republican Party, said the 60-second spot reveals that Obama is advised by Satan and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (It turns out that there is some resemblance between Dunham’s ad  and a previous Russian campaign commercial.)
The Atlantic reports that Breitbart.com's Ben Shapiro was disgusted with the ad. He called it "astoundingly tasteless." National Review's Nathaniel Botwinick joined the chorus, calling it the Obama campaign's "most cringeworthy ad yet." 
Drudge apparently couldn’t come up with a headline that was anything better than an old Madonna  reference (Like A Virgin).

In response, Connor Simpson of The Atlantic had a field day, going heavy on the snark to criticize old male conservatives who don’t comprehend that the ad is targeted at young women, not puritan grandmothers.
The outrage is ridiculous,” he wrote. “The ad is aimed at people who are between 18 and 22 years old, people who are young enough to have not voted in the last election but who are eligible now. People who probably know who Lena Dunham is, because she's basically the voice of every Millennial ever, didn't you know? But these men, these old, grey-haired men are upset because sex and voting are not the same thing, and, and think of the children! (Note: some of these men may still have perfectly normal colored heads of hair.)”


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