Sharron Angle Spot Notes US Employment Gains, Recycles Marx Bros. Gag-Line
Sharron Angle’s latest campaign spot pulls out all the stops to make Nevada’s decline during Harry Reid’s tenure as Senate Majority Leader look like a cross between David Lynch’s Elephant Man and Willem Dafoe’s death scene in Platoon. In the process, however, it rather stupidly admits that employment has risen in 37 other states under Reid’s Senate stewardship—presumably the sort of not-Nevada states that send vacationing families and convention business to Las Vegas when employment is up, and purchase the cattle, raw minerals and modest industrial output of this largely uninhabitable Western moonscape.
Funnier—to me, anyway—is Angle’s whimpering wet-rag of a tagline, “Help is on the way”...which is usually the last thing you hear before the radio goes dead and the ship’s band starts playing “Amazing Grace.” It is also one of the immortal visual gags from Duck Soup, which appears at 5:08 on this YouTube clip of Freedonia’s Last Stand.
Angle has described Reid as “a desperate man,” but airing a dark, funereal ad that makes voters want to shoot themselves isn’t exactly the act of a confident would-be leader with Big Plans to turn Nevada around.
Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 07/10/10 at 10:42 AM • Permalink
Categories: Politics • Election '10 • Nutters • Teabaggery •
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