thread devoted to www.debbiespenditnow.com

The follow-up ad. will have some rich territory to mind. So far, they haven't even begun to address the whole peepee-in-coke angle.

er, mine, that is.

holy shit this is amazing

*sound of a large gong*

q: why is she riding a bicycle through apocalyptic farmland if their economy get so good

They are growing nuclear bombs.

the apocalyptic farmland of california

Greatest democracy in the world ;_;

oh my god

Pete Hoekstra, ladies and gentlemen. West Michigan's own Dutch Calvinist class act.

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

Hoekstra has always been a horrible scumbag so I wasn't surprised by this.

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.

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

That was 30 years ago, though. I don't think many people today would sympathize with this ad.

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.

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.

haha

admire hoekstra for doubling down

also

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/02/this-is-so-classy-yellow-girl/252685/

hint: the people investing in the US economy are not riding bicycles in rice paddies

every time I think this can't get worse, it does

Pete 'Spend-It-Not' Hoekstra / Taco Mayor 2016

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.

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.

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"?

that Hoekstra is defending this ad in the face of criticism makes me want to ragebarf

there's not much worse in the political world than the west michigan conservative dutch

oops laurel already mentioned that, hi 5 laurel

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!

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.

In the html code on Hoekstra’s site the woman in the ad is identified as “yellowgirl.”

lol dan otm. Seriously.

I kinda do enjoy the Shakespearean construction of "spend it not"

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.

According Dayo's Atlantic link, his uncle is Jim Inhofe- that has to help.

By 3-1 Margin, Michigan Voters Hated That 'Gloating Chinese Lady' Ad

it's weird, affluent older asian americans tend to be very republican in their political views

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.

I demand higher quality racism

― lag∞n, Monday, February 6, 2012 4:47 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol @ this

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

political celebrities President Obama and Republican Cong. Pete Hoekstra

the Obama remarks at the ceremony really are pretty lol imo

"We can refuse to be shocked when Obama proves redundantly that he is a graceless boor."

redundantly?

pwner in chief

"smashmouth politics"?

is obama going to start wearing porkpie hats and bowling shirts to every press conference now?

biggest guilty lol that the actress's name is Lisa Chan

idgi, is it just lol bcz asian girl has an asian name?

well, more that a lot of young asian women in the media are often named Lisa and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chan

xp

this sort of imagery is inherently toxic

taking it to fb because I don't really feel like getting into this on here

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

After several campaigns by the Scottish Executive, more people in Scotland now acknowledge that this name is indirectly racist.

are you fucking kidding me?

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

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

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

that same logic works in china! where people are poorer!

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.

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.

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

yeah, it seemed really off to me! I'll have to ask where she was. The intermittent lockdown was what she meant, though.