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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