McKoyaanisqatsi

This is just plain weird…

They should have shown the girl running through the field at the end getting mowed down by machine gun fire in slow-mo.  That really would have tied a pretty bow around this twisted warmongering cosmic mindfuck.

UPDATE: Ann Althouse, of course, had an entirely different reaction:

Even though I was trying to look at this ad with a critical eye, I kept getting chills. At one point — TR looking out onto a crowd — I thought: This is the feeling of being conservative — it is a deep emotional sense that the past matters and flows into the present and makes sense out of the future.

How much longer is she living in Brooklyn? Can I call 311 and get her placed on the curb for large trash day?

And Althouse commenter ZPS makes a funny:

Oh, Ann.

Did John McCain give you bigger chills than the Huckabee floating cross ad?:

“Let me confess that while I approached this video with an absolutely cold, clear view of how political it was for the Huckster to say he was setting politics aside, somewhere toward the end I got chills.”

Or did McCain chill you more than that 2005 anti-Kerry attack ad from the GOP:

“I think the commercial is very powerful and effective. It gave me chills. Every word of it, every clip, is perfectly chosen to send the message that the Republicans in fact waited far too long to send.”

Either you’re a fan of creepy rhetoric, or you can’t think of any other word to describe your emotions when Republicans open their mouths.

Posted by Kevin K. on 03/07/08 at 10:52 AM • Permalink

All that was missing was the mushroom cloud at the end, a la Johnson.

The night traffic running at the Capitol looked like tracer fire, I guess that’s close enough to your slo-mo machine gunning.

Who made that video? All that can be said is that it might be proof the dark side may figure out a way to win it all far into the future… I’m scared. That was diabolically well put together and psychologically impact-full. somehow. It felt like the end of the world.

Drew, I guess that was the point.

Frankly, I didn’t find it moving, at all.  Cliche after cliche that would only inspire the easily inspired. Maybe I’m just old and cynical. 

As for Althouse - the past turns into the present, then turns into the future?  That may be the single greatest profundity to ever grace the blogosphere.  I look forward to next week’s column:  “What goes up must come down, Spinning wheel got to go round”

Is that a new Negativland video?