Oxendine hits Barnes in low-budget ‘rat’ commercial
Pandering, now with flash animation
Yesterday afternoon, the five or six Georgia journalists who still have jobs received an email from the John Oxendine campaign.
On Thursday night, the email said, the 2010 GOP gubernatorial candidate would release a “‘new media’ advertisement” hitting Roy Barnes. A campaign spokesman said the ad “demonstrates John Oxendine’s commitment to using innovative, cutting-edge genre to communicate serious messages in creative mediums.”
The release included this hilarious paragraph:
The event where the ad will be released is being held at an undisclosed laser-tag facility and is closed to the public. After viewing the commercial, the volunteers will enjoy pizza and laser-tag.
Reporters were under strict orders not to publicize the advertisement until its formal release tonight at 7:20 p.m. Reporters complied. Not out of respect, really, but because we didn’t care.
This, my friends, is the cutting-edge technology, all four minutes of it:
If you don’t have the patience to listen to the man with the slow drawl talk about “Obama liberals” and choppy animations of “The Ox” headbutting a rat all the way to ole socialist France, then we’ve provided screenshots for your enjoyment after the jump.