Welcome to Obamaville

Rick Santorum's team have cooked up a rather epic plan to discredit the policies of US President Barack Obama: Obamaville.

It's a dystopian "Anytown, USA" in 2014, two years into President Obama's second term: People are out of work, Main Street is a ghost town, gas prices are up, religious bigotry (sorry... "freedom of religion") is under attack and people have to deal with the horrors of semi-socialized healthcare.



Oh yeah, and the USA is under nuclear threat from Iran.

Or is its biggest threat its own President?

Dun dun dun...

David Weigel at Slate talks about the weird TV thing. To me its the least of this ad's idiocies.

For example, what is the meaning behind this baby image? Is this supposed to be "pro-life"? If so, it's confusing.

And what the hell does this symbolize? Sexual immorality? Loss of free speech? Too many public libraries full of secular books?

And then we're transported back to the industrial revolution for some reason.

Hey, cool! It's The Matrix!

Perhaps they'll explain all these random images when the 8-part webisode series launches on the Santorum campaign site in a couple of weeks.

But for the time being, let's imagine what "Santorumville" would look like. (I'm thinking something like Stepford, Connecticut, but with more Jesus.)

Sears pulls "butt plugs" out of online catalogue #FdAdFriday

The Sears catalogue was once a famous source of female models in translucent underwear and the occasional accidental penis, but in this pornified age it seems they feel they need to try much harder to get attention.

According to AdFreak (via Gawker), this tee briefly appeared in their online catalogue, before being removed.

Here's a screencap, via Buzzfeed:

Yes, it even comes in Santorum brown...

Don't look too closely at this Santorum mosaic #FdAdFriday

That is, unless you want to see more Santorum.

Not the man, mind you, but the substance. It's made up entirely of gay porn.

Via Death + Taxes

Savage's "Santorum" gag keeps giving and giving

I was trying really hard not to post a poopy Rick Santorum post today.

I saw this headline, and I abstained.

I read his comments about how contraception is "not OK, because it's a license to do things in the sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be... They're supposed to be within marriage, for purposes that are, yes, conjugal... but also procreative." Which is stupid, but just shows people how completely out of touch he is.

But then this happened:



That's right. It's a Mitt Romney lookalike shooting something that's supposed to be "mud" at a Santorum standee, but ends up looking much more like...

And this is an official ad, approved and posted by Santorum.

As George Takei would say, "Oh, My!"

"Come-from-behind" Santorum headline is still there #FdAdFriday

And now, the political headline of the week:

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The best part? It's still there!  If you don't get it, you will if you click this link.