Oxendine hits Barnes in low-budget ‘rat’ commercial
October 15, 2009 at 8:48 pm by Thomas Wheatley in NewsYesterday 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.
Here’s “King Roy,” or “The Rat.” Oxendine is playing off a hilarious 2002 Sonny Perdue gubernatorial campaign commercial that depicted Barnes as a rat named “King Roy.” Supposedly this rat hates agriculture, teachers, ponies, flags, sunshine, everything. But he loves the bling.
Here’s the rodent checking out at a laser show at a well-known tourist trap.
Here’s what “The Ox” will do to your intown Atlanta home, so he can build an interstate “green road.”
These are who Oxendine’s animators think are the candidate’s “average supporters.” Note the goatee. And the skin color. OK, so maybe it’s just one slide. We’ll see some diversity.
OK, still just white people. But at least the daughter’s kind of hip. The son’s a Kappa Sig named Knox Taxpayer. And what is that odd shading on the businessman’s pants? And where is his tooth?
Here’s “The Ox” straight up humiliating “The Rat” and causing a bloody mess at Turner Field.
Here’s the rat flying to New York City, home of the United Nations, which hates Georgia.
Here are those two jokers acting like fools on the top of Buford Dam, getting sparks and animal blood in our water.
Annnnd of course:
Somewhere in the video there has to be a drinking game. In other news, the Oxendine campaign becomes more and more surreal every day.
October 15th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Schadenfreude. Totally.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
I knew Dash was a Barnes guy, and there he goes and proves it by using those filthy French words those lib’rals love so much.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
What? I was just digging how The Ox totally destroyed King Roy. And how the screen captures totally preserve the moment in case The Ox has second thoughts about knocking Barnes out of the race too early. And how I’ve captured the video for posterity regardless.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Yep, digging it deeper now Dash. All those fancy Hollywood terms.
Damn dirty lib’ral.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
I may have watched an episode of Mad Men once. I thought it was going to be a Charles Bronson movie. I swear.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
So you don’t like Mad Men. A show set in the 60’s. Do you know which flag we had in the sixties, this period you don’t like?
Lib’ral.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
I may or may not have let my freak flag fly. I’m so ashamed. But then I found The Ox. An that has made all the difference.
October 15th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
It’s the Departed meets Adult Swim. Knox Taxpayer. Love it.
October 16th, 2009 at 12:07 am
I may have helped in an attempt to one up the freak flag.
October 16th, 2009 at 12:10 am
These stills are begging to be touched up with photoshopped pictures of Oxendine as Strong Bad.
October 16th, 2009 at 8:36 am
That rat looks like Lemmywinks from South Park.
October 16th, 2009 at 8:48 am
How long do we have to hear Ronald Reagan’s fvcking name? He’s dead.
October 16th, 2009 at 9:03 am
By “cutting edge” does he mean “will make you want to you slit your wrists because you’re horrified at living in a state where John Oxendine has a good chance of becoming governor”?
October 16th, 2009 at 9:32 am
Yeah, we should never talk about dead Presidents. From now on, no one is allowed to mention FDR or Kennedy. Unfortunately, that means we can still talk about Carter.
Nice logic, Rochelle.
October 16th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Correction, no Kappa Sig would ever vote for John Oxendine.
October 16th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
It’s like a Chinese Menu is fighting itself…The Ox vs. The Rat. I am glad I was born year of the Dog, so I can bitch about how amazingly stupid this is.
HOLY SHIT is this terrible. This is a potential Gubernatorial candidate next year?!? Not circa 1987 when Video Toaster came about?
Also, his grand proposal recently to displace about 10,000 people in homes in East Atlanta/Decatur to make an interstate that parallels I-75/85 makes me want to Donkey Punch him.
This guy thinks that he’ll spout famous dead-guy Regan’s face at us and we’ll all run away from The Rat?!?
I grew up in Florida under Reganism with a single mom and my two brothers. It sucked. Fear and distrust abounded, and the economy was bad then, too.
Deifying Regan is tantamount to grasping at Rose’s chunk of wood at the end of Titanic. Didn’t work out too well for Jack, and I damn sure hope it won’t for “the ox” either. In 5 years there will be a ‘Remember this jackass?’ retrospective, surely.
He’s the insurance commissioner. Do you think he’s NOT in the pockets of Big Biz? Oh wait… he did have to give back THOUSANDS of dollars this summer because he was.
And really, to someone like myself, “liberal” is not a curse word — irresponsible liars who pretend to want to change our
system should come up with something a little better to charge the other guy with.
I also think that this was done by someone’s freshman art-school kid, it’s so bad. Someone got paid cash money for this? I may have to donkey punch them, as well.
October 16th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
I swear… the smartphone auto-correct is a pain in the neck. I had to log-in online to a real computer to correct that ‘donkey punch’ to say ‘taint punch’
ahem. oops.
sends quite the wrong message, otherwise.
October 16th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
I noticed that the comments section on this youtube video had been disabled by Oxendine’s “people.” Wonder why? Oh yeah… cause this video sucks so bad they knew they were going to get slammed. It looks like it was created by some random public school AV club circa 1984.
October 16th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
This is all you in GA can come up with? I can make that on my desktop in a weekend. Of course, you do have laser tag and pizza, so there’s that.
God, you people deserve everything you get.
October 16th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
This is all you in GA can come up with?
Well, there’s this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYQOJQBbhFA
Now how much would you pay?
October 18th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
5 dancing Israelis arrested on 911 in NYC demand the US start & fight more wars for Israel.
~would have been too darn expensive to remove all that asbestos from the twin towers~
Modern day warrior
Mean mean stride
Today’s Tom Sawyer
Mean mean pride
Though his mind is not for rent
Don’t put him down as arrogant
His reserve a quiet defense
Riding out the day’s events
Oh river!
What you say about his company
Is what you say about society
Catch the mist catch the myth
Catch the mystery catch the drift
October 19th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Love it!!! It correctly points out them New Yorkers, Hollywood types and Feds/white house are the problem. But it also throws in the French for good measure.
What a stupid backwards ignorant piece of garbage Oxendine must be if he thinks this is the way to get his point across (see: hate via stereotypes). What a stupid backwards ignorant piece of garbage GA would be if they elected this guy as its leader.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Alas, the video has been removed from you tube.