Anyone else seen this ad? Andrew Sullivan posted a parody of it, and I decided to look up the original - which was almost impossible to find, there were so many parodies of it floating around. It’s an ad against same-sex marriage by a group called the National Organization for Marriage. It is also the most hilariously bad national commercial I’ve seen in years. Bad, bad, bad. Bad in music, script, acting, examples, message, everything. Do they actually expect to convince people with this thing?
I don’t mean to start a discussion of gay marriage (there’s a 900+ post in GD about that right now), but really just the awesome badness of this spot. Has anyone actually seen this on live TV?
The message is badly depicted, too. Some sort of vague terror, coming to eat our people…? And the doctor/pharmacist (I can’t remember and I won’t watch again) really pissed me off, because I definitely believe if you can’t serve everybody in the health field, GTFO.
I wanted to bitch about this, too. Thanks for starting the thread.
No, they expect to scare people who are already scared into signing petitions or giving them money. Perhaps with enough funds they could make something that didn’t look like a quiet storm video.
I can’t believe one person on the entire production of this spot actually thought “hey, ‘Rainbow Coalition,’ that sounds neat, right? And everybody likes rainbows–good associations there!” and no one stopped them. Really.
Their website is good for laughs, actually. I do like the blog headline “Iowa Supreme Court Imposes Same-Sex Marriage.” I think I missed the part where crazed Iowa judges dragged innocent folks out of their homes and married them to the nearest same-sex person they could find, willy-nilly.
Well, even bad actors and movie techs need to eat, and I can totally imagine some technician on the set thinking “Damn, should I say something? Better not, they might fire me for being gay”.
I can also imagine the intent was rainbow=promise of God not to destroy the world with water (again). The line about “coming together in love” is a very common phrase in evangelical Christian churches.
That was the California doctor from the ad. She had to choose between her medical practice and her faith when she passed through Iowa en route to do tornado relief and was told she could only practice medicine if she married “Butchy Barb” the Corn Queen. When she returned Butchy Barb followed her and now is legally entitled to half her practice, and it happens everyday.
Hmm… how on earth did HRC get those audition tapes? Evidently there are gays in the entertainment industry somewhere. (I wonder if any of the actors were gay; one certainly sounds it.)
