I Hate election time. I Hate those damn commercials that point fingers and slam other candidates without one ounce of proof to whatever they are claiming. I would much rather hear the “Be a DJ for a day! DJ for a Day! Yea! DJ for a Day!” commercial (THREE times in a row*), then hear about what Dick Dedolburg voted for in congress.
*Evidentially, the local broadcasting school only made a 10 second ad for a 30 second slot, so has to run the thing three times to fill the time.
Now if I can just get them to take down all those ugly campaign signs that are littering the landscape pretty much everywhere.
(Don’t they have a deadline when those are to be removed by?)
We had to put up with not only the nasty NY commercials, but the NJ and CT ones as well; NJ were worse even than ours. Damn tri-state media markets.
I also expect to get many fewer random calls from Bill Clinton and Al Pacino.
Finally, I can watch Jeopardy without seeing entire commercial breaks devoted to campaign ads.
An unexpected side benefit of not watching much TV. Although on “Heroes” Monday night, we were subjected to a huge number of political ads. Only one of which was actually positive. (That candidate lost, unfortunately.)
Also no more sleazy campaign mailings. The worst was the last-minute sliming sent out on behalf of Pat (“I’m apparently embarassed by my ethnic heritage, so I pronounce my name TEA-berry”) Tiberi, our unfortunately re-elected Republican incumbent Congressman:
"OMIGOD! MY OPPONENT ONCE VOTED IN FAVOR OF EXPERIMENTATION ON LIVE FETUSES!!!
What a jerk.
CoG888 says he is against stupid campaign commercials but let’s see what kind of commercials he likes to see:
• CoG888 has been known to watch cheap guitar infomercials hosted by alleged guitartist Esteban.
• CoG888 has been known to send away for Oxy-Clean™ - that miracle product advertised endlessly by Billy Mays.
• CoG888 is disappointed with the demise of the “Head-On™ Apply Directly to the Forehead” commercial.
Is this the kind of person we want pitting campaign commercials?
CoG888 - it was all said in jest. I HATE those commercials too.
That’s one of the problems with DVR – we tape all our shows and watch them whenever we get to them, generally days later.
Meaning we’ve got a good week or two of campaign ads left (well, at least the tail end of them, after fast-forwarding).
Yeah, great there will now be plenty of ad time for available for Christmas commercials.
And no more damn phone calls from “anonymous”
I’m glad I won’t be getting more election-related phone calls. The sleazeballs even got my fucking cell phone number somehow, so I got to hear all those motherfucking recorded messages twice- on my home phone, and on my cell.
As one who listens to bitcasts from a St. Louis radio station, I’m glad I don’t have to hear any more “prop 2 will allow human cloning!” ads from the religious right.
Interestingly, the AARP continued to run its campaign commercials well into CNN’s election night coverage-- after all of the polls had closed.
In case anyone’s interested, this site: http://www.factcheck.org/default.html gives a pretty good run-down of the most egregious campaign-ad bullshitting, from both sides.
AARPers generally are in bed by 9 PM.
They will be arguing in the morning about who left the tape machine on. 