looks pretty rough, right? in the blogosphere, the right-wingers immediately used the incident to condemn every obama supporter and the left-wingers called it a hoax.  it was the talk of the internet, until people started realizing what you’re probably realizing right now.  the “B” is backwards, as if done in the mirror.  and something about her story just didn’t add up.  why would the mugger return to attack her further after looking at her bumper sticker?  what about the camera on the atm?  turns out, she made up the entire thing. so, ashley todd, for being not only an idiot, but also an attention-starved racist, i grant you the coveted “douche of the week” award for friday, october 24, 2008.  congrats!

-srd

political affiliations aside (i’m an obama supporter), this is just a terrible ad for a few reasons.  first, the beginning has absolutely no correlation to the end.  obama is popular.  ok.  gotcha.  also, he doesn’t want to drill for oil in america or offshore.  ok?  

more importantly, the ad really just doesn’t make sense.  conceptually, the idea is sound.  ”obama enjoys a rockstar status and is over-hyped by a lot of standards, but he lacks substance.”  so show a boyband or the beatles or michael jackson, not britney spears or paris hilton.  people hate britney and paris.  they’re only celebrities cause they’re trainwrecks.  people don’t chant “paris! paris!” at her “events.”  it shows a gross disconnect with america sentiment. 

epic fail, mccain.  epic fail.

-srd