q: why is she riding a bicycle through apocalyptic farmland if their economy get so good
― j., Monday, 6 February 2012 11:34 (twelve years ago) link
They are growing nuclear bombs.
― Mark G, Monday, 6 February 2012 11:45 (twelve years ago) link
the apocalyptic farmland of california
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Monday, 6 February 2012 13:00 (twelve years ago) link
Greatest democracy in the world ;_;
― dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 February 2012 13:03 (twelve years ago) link
oh my god
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
Pete Hoekstra, ladies and gentlemen. West Michigan's own Dutch Calvinist class act.
― one little aioli (Laurel), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
i guess the silver lining here is that the chinese apparently no longer have the time nor the inclination to humorously urinate in our soda
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
Hoekstra has always been a horrible scumbag so I wasn't surprised by this.
― Nicole, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 01:12 (twelve years ago) link
He's one of the ones that I really do hope gets hit by a bus.
Another rich, repellant Calvinist will just step into his place. You'd have to run over all of them. Which I'm not saying is a bad idea, just harder to pull off.
― one little aioli (Laurel), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 01:15 (twelve years ago) link
another post by fallows on the ad
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/02/more-on-the-we-take-your-jobs-hoekstra-commercial/252661/
as somebody points out, michigan is where vincent chin was killed for looking 'japanese'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Vincent_Chin
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 01:18 (twelve years ago) link
That was 30 years ago, though. I don't think many people today would sympathize with this ad.
― Nicole, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 01:31 (twelve years ago) link
expect his next add to be a dramatic re-enactment of this
In 2003, Stabenow married Tom Athans, now co-founder of Democracy Radio and former executive vice president of Air America. By this marriage, she has a stepdaughter, Gina. Stabenow and Athans divorced on May 28, 2010, approximately two years after Athans was detained in Troy, Michigan, as part of a prostitution sting.
― buzza, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
Ugh.
But Hoekstra said the ad, filmed in California and featuring an actress whose parents are Chinese, was only insensitive to Debbie Stabenow.
"The Chinese benefit from the recklessness of U.S. spending. It doesn't criticize the Chinese," he said.
― Nicole, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
haha
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
admire hoekstra for doubling down
also
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/02/this-is-so-classy-yellow-girl/252685/
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
hint: the people investing in the US economy are not riding bicycles in rice paddies
― valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
every time I think this can't get worse, it does
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
Pete 'Spend-It-Not' Hoekstra / Taco Mayor 2016
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
Davis was also the creator of two other memorable political ads, Christine O'Donnell's "I'm Not a Witch" and Carly Fiorina's "Demon Sheep" ads
I wonder why people are still paying this man to make horrible ads that (hopefully) will help torpedo their careers.
Also, I had no idea Witch and Sheep were made by the same guy. Holy crap.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
How does this guy get work? This is not a rhetorical question, I'm genuinely baffled as he seems to bring nothing but bad publicity for his clients.
― Nicole, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
I think you are underestimating the strength of the bubble his clients live in. I mean, how do you look at a script where you have to utter the sentence "I'm not a witch," and not say "you know what, I'm calling an audible here: gtfo"?
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
that Hoekstra is defending this ad in the face of criticism makes me want to ragebarf
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
there's not much worse in the political world than the west michigan conservative dutch
― long duk dan (dan m), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
oops laurel already mentioned that, hi 5 laurel
― long duk dan (dan m), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
i didn't realize there was a thread for this so i posted about it in the us politics thread, but i do have to give props to the website designers for some pretty nifty animating shit going on in the background, behind the text!
― Z S, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
I think you are underestimating the strength of the bubble his clients live in.
Yeah, it would be amazing fun to do PR work for jokers that will enthusiastically embrace wacky crap like this (exempting racist shit). Like, if Glenn Beck ran for office and you could make some batshit commercials for him. The chalkboard is going to follow you around mainstreet America like in a Disney buddy movie. It is animated by the ghosts of the founding fathers.
But I am really surprised that someone who was the CEO of a...oh wait completely mismanaged floundering company. Nah, sheep video makes sense.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
In the html code on Hoekstra’s site the woman in the ad is identified as “yellowgirl.”
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
lol dan otm. Seriously.
― one little aioli (Laurel), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
I kinda do enjoy the Shakespearean construction of "spend it not"
― tanuki, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
According Dayo's Atlantic link, his uncle is Jim Inhofe- that has to help.
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 03:38 (twelve years ago) link
By 3-1 Margin, Michigan Voters Hated That 'Gloating Chinese Lady' Ad
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
it's weird, affluent older asian americans tend to be very republican in their political views
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
too bad they make up less than 5% of the american population
I mean, asians in general
actress involved in it apologizes. Her whole Facebook bio right now is this apology.
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 16 February 2012 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
I demand higher quality racism
― lag∞n, Monday, February 6, 2012 4:47 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol @ this
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 16 February 2012 01:54 (twelve years ago) link
was hoping to find more support for this in the gutter, but all i found was this:
http://biggovernment.com/jbabbin/2010/07/18/obama-should-apologize-to-hoekstra/
mildly lol
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Thursday, 16 February 2012 02:07 (twelve years ago) link
political celebrities President Obama and Republican Cong. Pete Hoekstra
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 16 February 2012 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
the Obama remarks at the ceremony really are pretty lol imo
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 16 February 2012 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
"We can refuse to be shocked when Obama proves redundantly that he is a graceless boor."
redundantly?
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Thursday, 16 February 2012 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
pwner in chief
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 16 February 2012 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
"smashmouth politics"?
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 16 February 2012 03:07 (twelve years ago) link
is obama going to start wearing porkpie hats and bowling shirts to every press conference now?
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 16 February 2012 03:08 (twelve years ago) link
biggest guilty lol that the actress's name is Lisa Chan
― valleys of your mind (mh), Thursday, 16 February 2012 06:20 (twelve years ago) link
idgi, is it just lol bcz asian girl has an asian name?
― I have one thing to say: "Roxanne Shanté" (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 16 February 2012 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
well, more that a lot of young asian women in the media are often named Lisa and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chan
― valleys of your mind (mh), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
it is a completely reasonable name, but at the same time it's kind of the sort of name you would come up with if you were creating her from scratch
― valleys of your mind (mh), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
a lot of young asian women in the media are often named Lisa
??
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
well, there's Lisa Ling and... um...
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
us-china relations are going to get ugly enough in the next decade without this sort of crap
takeaway box is a sort of racism-by-synecdoche
― Rachel Howley-Waugh (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 12 November 2012 01:33 (eleven years ago) link
After several campaigns by the Scottish Executive, more people in Scotland now acknowledge that this name is indirectly racist.
are you fucking kidding me?
― d-_-b (mh), Monday, 12 November 2012 02:04 (eleven years ago) link
what's it about? I basically think some dumb flyer's asian stereotypes are 'less problematic' than the big picture narratives that the entire country accepts w/r/t trade policy but #2 is harder to question / talk about
what? a white guy thinks the racism angle isn't really a big deal? eat it edward r murrow I've got the scoop of the year
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 12 November 2012 02:04 (eleven years ago) link
what? aero purposely misreads an iatee post so he can get a zing in?
the point wasn't that 'the racism angle isn't really a big deal' the point was that the racism angle that 1000 people get isn't as important as the racism angle that 300 million people get
― iatee, Monday, 12 November 2012 02:08 (eleven years ago) link
which is 'an american deserves a job more than a chinese person does'
eh, more that products purchased in america should be economically viable to produce in america, thus encouraging local employment
― d-_-b (mh), Monday, 12 November 2012 02:10 (eleven years ago) link
that same logic works in china! where people are poorer!
― iatee, Monday, 12 November 2012 02:11 (eleven years ago) link
what, like no one owns foxconn? not /everyone/ is poorer
a friend I was talking to last night had been in china recently and people were excited to see her using a tablet running android! they'd never seen android, since apparently devices aren't sold there or are somehow legally restricted. she wanted to use google docs, though, but it was banned by the country's firewall. a lot of android devices are manufactured in china!
she also talked to some people who had seen a tv show about american dollar stores, and they were surprised by the variety of items available for only a dollar. how much do you want to bet a fair number of things were actually made in china?
the economics, manufacturing, and product availability of things is weird, I guess.
― d-_-b (mh), Monday, 12 November 2012 02:18 (eleven years ago) link
just saying. samsung is a big player in chinese smartphone market (19% market share) (galaxy android phones on taobao) and htc. i bought a samsung galaxy in dalian in april. google docs usually works for me in china but gets locked up about as often as blogger does (goes in erratic cycles). chinese consumers like apple. china has their own version of dollar stores selling the same cheap shit for less than a dollar and you can find the same shit in any corner store or downmarket department store.
― dylannn, Monday, 12 November 2012 02:57 (eleven years ago) link
and other android devices widely available in china: http://s8.taobao.com/search?q=android&pid=mm_10011550_2325296_9002527&unid=&mode=63&from_bt=1&initiative_id=staobaoz_20121111
― dylannn, Monday, 12 November 2012 02:59 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, it seemed really off to me! I'll have to ask where she was. The intermittent lockdown was what she meant, though.
― d-_-b (mh), Monday, 12 November 2012 03:37 (eleven years ago) link