thread devoted to www.debbiespenditnow.com

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

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

a lot of young asian women in the media are often named Lisa

??

well, there's Lisa Ling and... um...

'chan' is the cantonese romanization of the surname 陳 or 陈, which is the 5th most common chinese surname in the world

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_Chinese_surnames

A surprising number of Asian women in media are apparently Superman villains. Lisa Ling, Lucy Liu . . .

Eh, I think it reminded me of reading an article about Olivia Munn not going by Lisa anymore, despite it being her first name

I was just kind of thinking that "Lisa Chan" is kind of the "John Smith" of asian-american names, but I think it was a bizarre mix of things I'm connecting (IS IT RACISM) and not reality

grace lee is the 'john smith' of asian-american names

http://graceleeproject.com/

Well, then. I sit corrected.

http://i.imgur.com/ytZGE.jpg

^^ rolling "is this racist" thread to thread!

NEWPORT??

Asian People OTM

thinking it's from the onion, unless I'm really mispronouncing Sinutab

and lol, dacron

oh wait nvm

and the juxtaposition of Ashleigh and Madison. Oh Onion, you're the gift that keeps giving

to me those columns are like "right on, v insightful," "racist," "uh idk if this is even right"

could be apocryphal like the youtube origin story but ashley madison is supposed to be drawn from most popular girl baby names.

that onion thing seems p racist in itself, in that it's basically "lol black names are stupid" framed by "lol white people wanna be fancy" and "lol asians wanna be white"

nobody names a male baby Dakota wtf

not that that's the most objectionable one there or anything

that onion thing seems p racist in itself, in that it's basically "lol black names are stupid" framed by "lol white people wanna be fancy" and "lol asians wanna be white"

thank you for that breakdown, it was really difficult to discern

lol DJP otm