I can see clearly now, McCain is gone.
April 14, 2008 2:21 PM Subscribe
If it's too good to be true, it probably is. McCain Girls revealed to be a hoax by 23/6.com. [Previously]
Also, shoot, forgot again. Hat tip to Andrew Sullivan.
posted by patr1ck at 2:25 PM on April 14, 2008
posted by patr1ck at 2:25 PM on April 14, 2008
Hoax or no, they stole my heart.
Write me back , sassy Mc-C babes!
posted by Dizzy at 2:28 PM on April 14, 2008
Write me back , sassy Mc-C babes!
posted by Dizzy at 2:28 PM on April 14, 2008
I don't believe it! I won't believe it!
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 2:34 PM on April 14, 2008 [2 favorites]
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 2:34 PM on April 14, 2008 [2 favorites]
Shoot. That means my investment in 1000 Obama faced umbrellas is now worthless!
I wonder if Rihanna is doing anything.
posted by Stynxno at 2:41 PM on April 14, 2008 [1 favorite]
I wonder if Rihanna is doing anything.
posted by Stynxno at 2:41 PM on April 14, 2008 [1 favorite]
Possibly worth posting just for the opportunity to use that title.
posted by humuhumu at 2:43 PM on April 14, 2008
posted by humuhumu at 2:43 PM on April 14, 2008
Is this something I'd have to be a "maverick" to understand?
posted by oncogenesis at 2:59 PM on April 14, 2008
posted by oncogenesis at 2:59 PM on April 14, 2008
I don't really understand how it was a hoax.
So they made the songs but they don't like john mccain?
Sounds more like stupid to me.
posted by smackwich at 3:04 PM on April 14, 2008
So they made the songs but they don't like john mccain?
Sounds more like stupid to me.
posted by smackwich at 3:04 PM on April 14, 2008
Maverick: Lord... whatever I've done to piss you off... if you could just get me out of this and somehow let me know what it was I promise to rectify the situation.
posted by quin at 3:08 PM on April 14, 2008
posted by quin at 3:08 PM on April 14, 2008
A hoax? How so? The video made no factual claims. Who is the joke on?
People who made fun of the song? No: It's still pretty worthy of ridicule. Maybe moreso now, since
People who cheered them on? Who really did that?
McCain's campaign? What, for expressing appreciation that someone would make a song about them?
Random internet viewers? "Oh, those three silly women who made a homespun campaign video promoting John McCain weren't really intending to promote him. My worldview is shattered."
All this seems kinda pointless, is what I'm saying.
posted by JHarris at 3:10 PM on April 14, 2008 [1 favorite]
People who made fun of the song? No: It's still pretty worthy of ridicule. Maybe moreso now, since
People who cheered them on? Who really did that?
McCain's campaign? What, for expressing appreciation that someone would make a song about them?
Random internet viewers? "Oh, those three silly women who made a homespun campaign video promoting John McCain weren't really intending to promote him. My worldview is shattered."
All this seems kinda pointless, is what I'm saying.
posted by JHarris at 3:10 PM on April 14, 2008 [1 favorite]
(Please strike the "Maybe moreso now since" fragment from the record. I got distracted while editing that out....)
posted by JHarris at 3:12 PM on April 14, 2008
posted by JHarris at 3:12 PM on April 14, 2008
People who cheered them on? Who really did that?
Me. I love those crazy ladies.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 3:15 PM on April 14, 2008 [1 favorite]
Me. I love those crazy ladies.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 3:15 PM on April 14, 2008 [1 favorite]
New York Times:
“The McCain Girls videos, which were posted on YouTube last month with no clues about their provenance, are clearly meant to be imitations of -- or parodies of -- the ‘Obama Girl’ videos, which themselves are parodies (right?).posted by ericb at 3:18 PM on April 14, 2008
While the Obama Girl looks like a pinup and sings catchy tunes, the McCain Girls could not be confused with fashion models or pop music stars. Their first video, ‘Raining McCain,’ set to the tune of ‘It's Raining Men,’ was posted on YouTube four weeks ago. A sample lyric: ‘In the 2008 election, the forecast calls for rain; the first time in history, it's gonna start raining McCain.’
That video recorded more than 1.6 million views and earned mentions on CNN and on ABC's ‘Good Morning America,’ with people alternately mocking it and wondering who was responsible. The singers seemed intentionally bad, which led many bloggers and YouTube commenters to assume that it was meant to insult Mr. McCain. The liberal blog Eschaton put it this way: ‘I believe the YouTube era begins the age when it is impossible to tell parody/irony/performance art from completely sincere product.’
Drum roll, please: The creators of the McCain Girls turn out to be the comedy team behind 23/6, a five-month-old Web site owned by an affiliate of IAC/InterActiveCorp that parodies the news. The site, at 236.com, uses the motto ‘Some of the news, most of the time.’”
A hoax? How so? The video made no factual claims. Who is the joke on?
“Indeed, the videos’ makers say they were trying to tread the line between sincerity and irony.People who cheered them on? Who really did that?
‘We wanted to parody the campaign-song phenomenon,’ said Sarah Bernard, the president of 23/6. Because most of the so-called stars of YouTube are amateurs, the comedy site decided to take no credit for its creation.
Jon Benjamin, a contributor to 23/6 who produced the ‘Raining McCain’ video, had watched some of the more earnest campaign songs online. Recalling one particular video, an elaborate choir production called ‘Hillary4U&Me,’ ‘it just looked like somebody paid them money to do it,’ he said.
So that’s what 23/6 decided to do: hire three women with acting and singing backgrounds to create a video for Mr. McCain.
‘We were pretty amazed that after the video came out, people were confused as to whether or not it was real,’ Ms. Bernard said. ‘That’s when I think we said ‘Hey, can we actually pull off a hoax here? How long can we keep it going?’”
“Many viewers called the videos cringe-inducing, but at least one person was receptive. ‘I think they’re wonderful,’ Mr. McCain said on the Fox News Channel last week.”posted by ericb at 3:26 PM on April 14, 2008
Metafilter: All this seems kinda pointless, is what I'm saying.
posted by The Card Cheat at 3:40 PM on April 14, 2008
posted by The Card Cheat at 3:40 PM on April 14, 2008
I was hoping that the McCain Blogettes were also a hoax ("We're actually Obama's kids/hangers-on!").
posted by mattbucher at 3:56 PM on April 14, 2008
posted by mattbucher at 3:56 PM on April 14, 2008
I just can't believe that the scandal scoopers referred to them as "musically inclined." That right there blows their credibility, in my mind.
posted by mudpuppie at 4:00 PM on April 14, 2008
posted by mudpuppie at 4:00 PM on April 14, 2008
Wait, huh? Someone thought that was a real approved-by-McCain ad?
posted by meta_eli at 4:30 PM on April 14, 2008
posted by meta_eli at 4:30 PM on April 14, 2008
Gotta say: Yeah, pretty pointless. If there is any intent at all behind these videos, it's probably only to exploit the ceaseless Primaries media coverage to boost the public profile of 23/6.com.
Mission accomplished.
Except, um, it's 236.com. Way to name a website, dummy.
posted by Sys Rq at 4:47 PM on April 14, 2008
Mission accomplished.
Except, um, it's 236.com. Way to name a website, dummy.
posted by Sys Rq at 4:47 PM on April 14, 2008
Terrible, all around. Really, just bad. Not good at all.
posted by boo_radley at 4:58 PM on April 14, 2008
posted by boo_radley at 4:58 PM on April 14, 2008
So that’s what 23/6 decided to do: hire three women with acting and singing backgrounds to create a video for Mr. McCain.
Singing... in the shower, maybe? I guess if they were trying to act like amateurs, they nailed it. Well done, ladies. Well done.
posted by the littlest brussels sprout at 5:01 PM on April 14, 2008
Singing... in the shower, maybe? I guess if they were trying to act like amateurs, they nailed it. Well done, ladies. Well done.
posted by the littlest brussels sprout at 5:01 PM on April 14, 2008
the littlest brussels sprout, I think they were supposed to sound awful. Your complaint is like trying to dis the village people by saying they're "super gay," because, erm, it's sorta the point.
posted by piratebowling at 5:55 PM on April 14, 2008
posted by piratebowling at 5:55 PM on April 14, 2008
I guess this means Jon Benjamin baby pranked us all. Sorry dudes.
posted by DanielDManiel at 7:02 PM on April 14, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by DanielDManiel at 7:02 PM on April 14, 2008 [1 favorite]
box, my favorite McCain web ad is probably this one, in which we find out the story of how he learned to snitch on his classmates at prep school. It's like he's the headmaster of that school from Dead Poet's Society. Check out the anonymous, headless rock star!
posted by EarBucket at 8:55 PM on April 14, 2008
posted by EarBucket at 8:55 PM on April 14, 2008
box, my favorite McCain web ad is probably this one , in which we find out the story of how he learned to snitch on his classmates at prep school.
Man, McCain's web ads are really bizarre. They really hammer home how old he is, and make those events seem so distant and hazy, like something I might remember from high school. The story in that video doesn't even make much logical sense to me.
Unless he manages to completely flipflop on Iraq in the next three months he's toast.
posted by delmoi at 9:49 PM on April 14, 2008
Man, McCain's web ads are really bizarre. They really hammer home how old he is, and make those events seem so distant and hazy, like something I might remember from high school. The story in that video doesn't even make much logical sense to me.
Unless he manages to completely flipflop on Iraq in the next three months he's toast.
posted by delmoi at 9:49 PM on April 14, 2008
Someone pulled a fake-out on McCain?
I don't think that I can take it!
posted by dhartung at 12:37 AM on April 15, 2008 [2 favorites]
I don't think that I can take it!
posted by dhartung at 12:37 AM on April 15, 2008 [2 favorites]
I'm not sure what's going on here, but I am pretty sure I don't like it.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 2:42 AM on April 15, 2008
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 2:42 AM on April 15, 2008
I can't stand McCain
On my window
Bringin' back sweet memories
(Now, like a window
I ain't got nothing but pane)
posted by Wolof at 5:36 AM on April 15, 2008
On my window
Bringin' back sweet memories
(Now, like a window
I ain't got nothing but pane)
posted by Wolof at 5:36 AM on April 15, 2008
Man, McCain's web ads are really bizarre. They really hammer home how old he is
Not only that--the photos of young John McCain they're using don't look any different from the Ted Williams and Teddy Roosevelt pictures at the top of the ad. It looks like he went to high school back in the Great War.
posted by EarBucket at 5:37 AM on April 15, 2008
Not only that--the photos of young John McCain they're using don't look any different from the Ted Williams and Teddy Roosevelt pictures at the top of the ad. It looks like he went to high school back in the Great War.
posted by EarBucket at 5:37 AM on April 15, 2008
The whole Precious Wilson thing on that — "And now like a window, I ain't got nothing to say" — pushes us into expanding levels of window lame.
posted by Wolof at 5:39 AM on April 15, 2008
posted by Wolof at 5:39 AM on April 15, 2008
What's with the trailing smoke in the McCain ad? "Come sit by Grandpa. Don't mind my pipe smoke. A long time ago, when I was your age ..."
posted by ericb at 7:28 AM on April 15, 2008
posted by ericb at 7:28 AM on April 15, 2008
That McCain honor code ad is just strange, like a coded message sent to corporate criminals that if McCain is elected they can expect "forgiveness . . .and redemption." Is McCain trying to get himself some of that Obama-esque neo-messianic goodness?
posted by mecran01 at 7:56 AM on April 15, 2008
posted by mecran01 at 7:56 AM on April 15, 2008
All I know is between "I'm gonna go out let myself get absolutely John McCain" and Rambo's endorsement he's got my irony vote in the bag!
posted by Hugonaut at 6:01 PM on April 15, 2008
posted by Hugonaut at 6:01 PM on April 15, 2008
After finding myself absently singing "It's Raining McCain" for the last three weeks, I thought I was finally free of this.
No longer.
posted by Locative at 2:55 AM on April 16, 2008
No longer.
posted by Locative at 2:55 AM on April 16, 2008
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