Fail.
Check out this new attack ad brought to you by the Massachusetts GOP and whatever crackpot ad agency that thought this was a good idea:
From Raw Story:
Republicans in Massachusetts have chosen a confusing line of attack on Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, the Democrat who helped create the Consumer Financial Protection Agency and is now challenging Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA).
They’re calling her, for some reason, the “Matriarch of Mayhem,” and suggesting that “Occupy Wall Street” is somehow an “anti-capitalist” movement that she secretly leads.
Brace for the scary music.
In a new ad released this week, the Massachusetts GOP tries to connect Warren’s comment that the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters are calling for financial reforms — similar to those she helped author — with a couple of fringe protesters whose on-camera comments are taken severely out of context, as if they represent the tens of thousands who’ve participated in marches over the last month.
The ad also quotes Warren saying she’d “thrown rocks” at people who don’t support her (she was speaking rhetorically), and implies that she literally wants “blood and teeth on the floor” if the U.S. does not get a strong consumer watchdog.
Her other comment quoted in the video — “My first choice is a strong consumer agency… My second choice is no agency at all and plenty of blood and teeth on the floor” — was a hockey reference meant to urge the president and Democrats in Congress to fight for a strong agency.
But try explaining that to the Massachusetts GOP.
Professor Warren makes Republicans nervous. She’s personable, smart, funny, (and cute as hell, despite what Scott Brown thinks). The GOP is going to need to do a lot better than the above spot of ridiculousness if they are going to hang on to Teddy Kennedy’s seat.
In other news, if anyone wants to join my new girl band “The Matriarchs of Mayhem” I’m looking for someone who plays a mean cowbell.
[via Raw Story]
[cross-posted at Angry Black Lady Chronicles]
General Stuck
WoW. Talk about hyperbole over reach. This is Mass we are talking about, not Ala fucking Bama. reeks of desperation and fear, putting something out this shrill on a thus far popular movement with the public.
Martin
Wait, Warren runs ACORN?
Can someone draw me a flowchart? I’m having trouble keeping up.
Baud
Warren needs to find a way to own that phrase.
Amir Khalid
They call her the Matriarch of Mayhem because they’re afraid she’s going to wreak the mayhem on them, you see.
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
She should have stuck to comments about electrocuting Hispanics and beating Ben Bernake ugly.
Also too: Leave it to the GOP to make their opponents sound really cool. Matriach of Mayhem? She should get a cape.
AA+ Bonds
“DEMOCRATIC” POLLSTER DOUG SCHOEN
WHAT THE FUCK DUDE, he motherfucking WORKS FOR FOX NEWS, his last book was titled something like “THE TEA PARTY IS FUCKIN AWESOME” I genuinely care a lot,
me ->>>>>>> D:<
Uncle Clarence Thomas
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That’s OK, ‘Lizabeth, they call me the Priapus of Patriarchs and it does me no harm at all. Do like I do and make them eat it.
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Guster
Well, she’s pretty scary-looking, that
ProfessorMatriarch.Cliff in NH
@Martin:
LOL, so true, they can’t make their minds up, esp since the Real teabaggers support OWS http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=196618
GeneJockey
@Martin:
Where’s Glenn Beck’s blackboard when you need it?
gbear
Whoa. Do they think that showing a clip of a cop busting people with a baton at the :32 mark is good PR for anyone other than the 27%?
…but, really, in the end, both parties are exactly the same. I read it in TBoggs comment section and damned if I’m going to let my lying eyes tell me otherwise.
AA+ Bonds
This is definitely a test: will OWS fly with the most squeamish and cloistered of liberals?
Of course the poll numbers all say “YES” overwhelmingly so it’s a really fuckin easy test
AA+ Bonds
Are Republicans actually stupid enough to believe that Warren said what she said without her campaign figuring out that it was the smart thing to say for the election, I mean, do they think that Warren didn’t ever consider her position on the issue and just said “oh hum de dum I consider myself partially responsible” out of the blue?
Warren Terra
Well, of course it has to be a mean cowbell. It goes with the mayhem.
aimai
Matriarchs of Mayhem would be a great band name.
aimai
Davis X. Machina
To be fair, “Pompitous of Love” was already taken.
Judas Escargot
Via Olbermann: Scott Olsen is awake, though not yet speaking.
And I guess Sen. Brown’s going with option one: “smear the Lady Professor”.
Not going to fly up here.
AA+ Bonds
@Martin:
There’s not even a whiff of the “ACORN = OWS = Red Sino-Mexicans” line on Fox News right now. FoxNation is a different story, but that’s airspace for trial balloons.
Right now they’re running an “OWS has $500,000 in donations” bit that I assume is meant to get people to throw money at Mitt. Romney’s campaign reminds me of one of those colonial voyages where the English bailed out their constantly sinking hole-filled ships for weeks to make it to Bermuda, just in time to contract fatal dysentery.
Cat Lady
I picture her in a little bit of matriarch S&M action – Julie Newmar-like in a cat woman mask snapping a leather crop into a gloved hand. I don’t think that’s going to hurt her.
PhoenixRising
I don’t play a mean cowbell, but I do play bass. Backup vocals? I’m definitely in for the band, though I will need my schedule of home-based matriarching to be accommodated by our tour schedule.
Lyrebird
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen:
Cape, oh yes!
I’ve been hoping a FP’er would cover this. And my cowbell skills are rusty, but i’d be right there if I lived anywhere nearby!
Truck-driving macho man must be off his own game, recoiling from hockey metaphors in Massa-bleeping-chusetts. Funny!
Go E-Dub, Go!
AA+ Bonds
Let’s also consider that this ad (“matriarch”) targets the misogynists, both male and female, whose bizarre hatred of women propelled Scott Brown, premiere woman-hater, into a Senate seat. They’re going for the Mass talk-radio set, letting them know that yup, this uppity B is one of those Femin*zis and she’ll look at their impotent shriveled dicks and laugh
SC Ulam
I think someone introducing her at a campaign rally should take this ball and run with it.
“It is my great pleasure to introduce to you the Professor of the Lesser, The Favored Lass of the Middle-Class, The Foundation of Occ-upation; put your hands together for the Matriarch of Mayhem and Massachusetts’ next Senator, Elizabeth Warren!”
LongHairedWeirdo
She’s actually a StoneCutter – er, a No Homers – which, as everyone knows, was founded by ACORN.
AA+ Bonds
@gbear:
The question the Massachusetts GOP’s asking is, “will this fly in the Wehrmacht?” Yes, baby. It so will.
Liberty60
Wait, she meant that figuratively?
Fuck all, she is WORSE THAN BUSH SHE SOLD US OUT!
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
@Cat Lady: Shoving her responsible populist policies down America’s throat!
t jasper parnell
@gbear: Exactly, this is preaching to the choir. The Republicans, and Neoliberals more generally, think that their warp and pathetic world view is, in fact, the 99%.
cynn
“The 99% is her evil spawn!! Quick, spay her!” So predictable.
Lydgate
Who the hell is this douchebag pollster they keep quoting?
AA+ Bonds
BTW speaking of OWS donations,
a friend forwarded an email from JANE HAMSHER and FIREDOGLAKE about how they’re raising a ton of money for OWS and I think there was a bit in there about how Balloon Juice sucks because y’all don’t have an OWS fundraiser on your front page and Balloon Juice could never beat FDL in OWS donations so y’all should show her who’s boss!
Lydgate
@General Stuck: Who the hell is this douchebag pollster they keep quoting?
Uncle Clarence Thomas
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@AA+ Bonds:
Yeah, show that bony-ass grifter Jane Hamsher that balloonbaggers can contribute more to OWS than those damn dirty fucking firebaggers!
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AA+ Bonds
@Lydgate:
He is “Dougie” Schoen and he is a professional douchebag for Fox News, here are the actual numbers from the poll he conducted if you want to see what a liar he is about OWS
In other words OWS reflects majority American opinion and anti-capitalism sentiment is a Total Myth
J. A. Baker
@Lydgate:
That would be this joker, who also Very Seriously™©® suggested that the best thing Obama can do for this country is to make like LBJ and decline a re-election bid (among other things).
General Stuck
@Lydgate:
Acolyte of the former DLC, so called republican light democratic grifters from the Clinton years. They hate Obama because he cut off their consultant money flow that was draining the dem party of its cash, or mothers milk of politics. Fuck him, don’t surf.
chopper
the ad makes much more sense in the original german.
ABL
@Liberty60: WIN.
Sapient
@Baud: Baud, totally true! What a wonderful handle!
Protothad
Wait, the Matriarchs of Mayhem? … I think my Halo team played them in a tournament recently. Those chicks kick ass! I didn’t realize Elizabeth Warren was on the team. Does anyone know here screen name? :)
AA+ Bonds
@General Stuck:
As you can see above, his poll demonstrates that “radical redistribution of wealth” is literally about as popular among OWS folks as the fucking flat tax, as in, there are probably more conservatives in OWS than Marxists
Protothad
Warren’s campaign should start printing up t-shirts and bumper stickers… “I’m voting for the Matriarch of Mayhem! – Elizabeth Warren 2012”
AA+ Bonds
I don’t think enough has been made of how this poll, which is the Last Desperate Hope story engine for a lot of right wing media, actually demonstrates that OWS is made up of ordinary Americans who share their POV with the majority of this country, and that the fringe left is just as fringe as it’s always been and is actually outnumbered in OWS by the Ron Paul dorks.
Trust me, Fox and the Republican candidates are going to be lying about the numbers from this poll for MONTHS. I’d start mocking it now.
metricpenny
@cynn:
Just call her MoM.
It is predictable. But it might have the opposing effect of motivating far more Democrats to go to the polls to vote for Warren.
AA+ Bonds
Just ruminate on that: by a slim majority among the tiny percentage of participants with radical views, more people in OWS support Herman Cain’s tax plan than support the overthrow of capitalism. And the poll that demonstrates it is the foundation Fox plans to build from to win 2012.
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
@AA+ Bonds: That would be hilarious. Especially since OWS in Hamquist’s message probably stands for Obama’s Weak Sauce.
FollowtheDough
Of course smear ad’s like this will work (especially in a place like Mass) because there is always one law to abide by:
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain
PreservedKillick
Got to love Matriarch of Mayhem. Where can I get a bumper stick of it for my mom?
I’m thinking that they just did her a massive, MASSIVE favor by quoting that blood and teeth on the floor reference. I mean, it’s not like hockey is big around here or anything, or that this didn’t win her big, big points with a group of voters who might have regarded her as a Harvard wimp.
FollowtheDough
@General Stuck:
How do you think Mass got Scott Brown? Concentration of conservative media and injecting the fear directly into the bloodstream. That is exactly what Alabama said at one time. “This is Alabama not ..” We need to learn quickly.
piratedan
have to admit to having a crush on Ms. Warren, a smart lady who’s not afraid of the media or the powerful who is willing to speak up for folks that have long been voiceless.
Montysano
@Cliff in NH:
I’ve read The Market Ticker for a while now, but I’ve just recently started commenting. Denninger’s a smart guy, but his commenters tend to be pretty… um… frothy. But Denninger is strongly pro-OWS, and it’s caused quite a stir among the commentariat, with surprising results. People feeling like they’ve been played for suckers, people doubting Rush, feeling like they’ve been fighting the wrong enemy. It’s the most interesting thing I witnessed lately. Is it a trend? Who knows, but it’s exactly what it would take for OWS to really get legs.
Mr Stagger Lee
@aimai: Female version of the Sons Of Anarchy?(Men Of Mayhem) Or maybe the Allstate Mayhem’s babe!
Cliff in NH
@FollowtheDough:
“a lie can run around the world before the truth has got its boots on”
Of course once the truth gets its boots on it’s gonna kick the shit outta the lie.
El Cid
@Baud: No shit. That’s bad-ass. “The Matriarch of Mayhem.”
Of course, that also sounds like Linda McMahon.
Peggy
Scott Brown was elected because Martha Coakley tried for the record of “Worst Political Campaigner”. She lost that title, as she lost the election, because the woman failed to put forth any effort whatsoever.
Not Sure
@General Stuck: The thing is, the GOP won’t pay any sort of price whatsoever for this. They never do. Of course, if the Democrats were to link certain Republicans to neo-Confederates, neo-Nazis, or even the looniest of the Tea Party protesters from 2009-10, there would be Hell to pay.
Cliff in NH
@Montysano:
yea he complains about them being called teabaggers when the phase originated in his own forums – teabag obama before he teabags you.
The commenters and general politics of the place drove me away from there a few years ago..
Cat Lady
@Peggy:
Also, it was right after the third Democratic Speaker of the House in a row was indicted for corruption, the election was in the middle of January on a snowy day, and Scott Brown was a good looking fresh faced natural campaigner who parked himself on WEEI every morning. And OMG truck! None of those factors are going to be in play this time.
Egypt Steve
Embrace it. Love it. That is all I’ll call her from now on and I hope she adopts it herself. Sort of like the “ayatollah of rock and rolla!”
rikyrah
Warren needs to find a way to own that phrase.
ICAM
I mean own it, lock, stock and barrel
Cliff in NH
@Cat Lady:
And the democrat was barely campaigning…
Cliff in NH
@rikyrah:
MoM says pay your taxes Rich people!
LOL =)
so many possibilities with ‘MoM’, esp considering the many, many hours of lectures on inequality on youtube
start here: http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=12620
Evolving Deep Southerner (tense changed for accuracy)
@Uncle Clarence Thomas: I would say you’re running out of material, but I’m trying to think back to when you actually had any, and that time is so far back that I can’t pin it down in my mind. The Obama/Clinton primary fight?
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@PreservedKillick:
Do you know the only sport in which Harvard has ever won an NCAA championship?
Men’s ice hockey.
I was there, and I can still hear Randy Skarda hitting the fucking post in overtime. Fuck Harvard.
Joey Maloney
@Baud:
It could be her Roller Derby name!
Cliff in NH
New detailed annotated video of the attempted murder of Scott Olsen:
http://vimeo.com/31187119
TooManyJens
@Martin:
I got yer flowchart right here.
Dr. Loveless
I now have a fantasy of the Dems taking back and the House, and Elizabeth Warren replacing Harry Reid, just so I can live to see the day that we have The Matriarch of Mayhem running the Senate and NANCY SMASH! running the House.
Pamoya
I love that name so much! Matriarchs of Mayhem is going to be my next MMO guild name. Ok I admit, that is about a million times dorkier than a rock band, but I can’t help it the name is too awesome. Please tell me someone got the url for the Warren campaign.
Odie Hugh Manatee
ABL, the Mothers of Mayhem need someone who plays mean cowbells. One cowbell isn’t mayhem, just annoying.
Unless it’s BOC’s DftR. That cowbell is acceptable. :)
Waynski the Thread Killer
@General Stuck: It wouldn’t track in Alabama either. Way too many words.
Jebediah
@SC Ulam:
Very well done!
patrick II
@SC Ulam: too bad Linda McMahon isn’t in Massachusetts, they could have a steel cage death match.
LarryB
@Joey Maloney:
Nah, “Matriarchs of Mayhem”, thats the team man. Her handle would have to be something like “Warren Piece”.
Paul in KY
@SC Ulam: Have that guy who introduces fighters (Micheal Buffet?) do it. I liked the intro alot!
GregInMA
@Cat Lady: perhaps a re-working of the 1993 SPY Magazine cover that featured Hillary Clinton?
Crza
The Matriarch of Mayhem. Hilarious. Makes her sound like she’s a boss enemy in the game Dark Souls.
IrishGirl
ABL, I would love to be a “Matriarch”. I’m thinking of heavy metal, big hair wigs and Kiss-style makeup. Too over the top do you think? LOL
Edo
No capes!
But please, oh please, make some bumper stickers. And I’d donate to her campaign (even though I’m on the west coast) if there was a youtube video of Warren actually being introduced at an event with SC Ulam’s copy. Brilliant.
And for the record, more cowbells