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February 5, 2010

Daisy Is Dead

Long live the Demon Sheep.

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Posted by Kate at February 5, 2010 12:20 AM
Comments

That is the silliest video I've seen in a long time. The Carly one not the LBJ one.

Dude crawling around on all fours in a sheep skin with crazy red eyes... how much does that job pay, you have to ask yourself.

Her other video was pretty good: "Don't call me Ma'am"

Posted by: Adrian at February 5, 2010 12:52 AM

Daisy ? Daisy ? Wasn't there some so called liberal strategist who called his cat that, or something? Or his logo?

Can't remember his name, but "worked" for adscamers and advised Ontario premiers on how to turn the industrial heartland into a have not? And bought into the IPCC scam?

Daisy ... mmmm, tap tap. Maybe he died also.

Posted by: ron in kelowna ∴ at February 5, 2010 1:30 AM

Carly Fiorina is one smart lady...if she had not fell victim to the female need to gossip about certain achievements.. she would still be the CEO of HP..

Carly will fight "Miss Daisy with an attitude, get to the back of the Bus"(AKA Baa Baa Boxer) with every thing in the book…she will beat Boxer

Posted by: Phillip G. Shaw at February 5, 2010 2:13 AM

Its Name is Legion

Posted by: Revnant Dream at February 5, 2010 3:19 AM

The ad,s message was good, the delivery a litlle ... well...

Posted by: Robert of Ottawa at February 5, 2010 4:53 AM

Will this ad make a point with voters? Will they remember it come voting day? You betcha your woolie undies it will!

Posted by: U at February 5, 2010 5:44 AM

Is this a bellwether of campaigns to come?

Posted by: Halfwise at February 5, 2010 7:56 AM

Good job, Kate. Now Kinsella's gonna rename his consulting firm from Daisy to something, er, sheepish. That, and he'll probably start calling himself "The Sheep of Darkness".

Posted by: Sean at February 5, 2010 8:19 AM

Hilarious!! Best ad I've seen yet. Hides behind a tree. Amazing!

Posted by: The Champ at February 5, 2010 8:27 AM

A dyed in the wool lefty, tax and spend politician.

Posted by: larben at February 5, 2010 8:38 AM

I think it's a great ad. It will be remembered, and it's a very effective attack.

Posted by: old Lori at February 5, 2010 8:38 AM

Just another dyed in the wool lefty, tax and spend politician.

Posted by: larben at February 5, 2010 8:39 AM

well...clearly it should have been a black sheep......but THAT would have been incendiary stuff on a certain level...

Posted by: john begley at February 5, 2010 8:55 AM

Interesting -- the shallow focus on the Ad's reflex appeal and not the message or the metaphor.

Maybe they are wasting their time appealing to sheep.

Posted by: Watcher at February 5, 2010 9:09 AM

The only thing better would have been some loser in a cat suit insulting a Chinese restaurant, or some pointy headed aristocrat telling a 3rd world country we can help them kill their kids.

Posted by: Manitoba Moose at February 5, 2010 10:15 AM

Change the named references to the runt Flaherty at faux-Con central - it'd fit perfectly.

Welcome to your tax hikes in 2014 Canada. The runt will have his full pension locked by then :-)

Posted by: hardboiled at February 5, 2010 11:02 AM

Phillip.. you really need to read up on HP under Carly's watch. She damn near ran that company into the ground. The rank-and-file workers were literally cheering and throwing parties when the news of her "departure" (she jumped before she was pushed) was announced.

Her vs Boxer in a Senate race is one of those "don't choose sides, pray for an asteroid" things.

Posted by: Ian in NS at February 5, 2010 12:10 PM

Well, if, as they say, a demon is a fallen angel, perhaps we should call that critter Ram Emmanuel...

Posted by: ebt at February 5, 2010 12:10 PM

Ian in NS @ 12:10PM.

Absolutely true, but I wonder if getting out before she was pushed out was just a PR stunt - get the severannce package agreed and then pretend to resign - saves face and all that.

And right on with the asteroid comment. I think it really is one of those situations.

Posted by: Niall Mor at February 5, 2010 12:46 PM

Phillip says "Carly Fiorina is one smart lady".

You cannot be serious? Her achievements, for what they were, are grossly exaggerated. And her terrible legacy at HP speaks for itself.

She is washed up and looking for something to do.

Worse, she is a really just a liberal in conservative clothing.

I couldn't agree more with Ian's post. Fiorina vs. Boxer is just bad vs. bad, so pray for asteroids.

Posted by: TJ at February 5, 2010 2:19 PM

On YouTube comments "This ad is as good as Carly Fiorina's tenure at HP."

Exactly right.

Posted by: TJ at February 5, 2010 2:24 PM

Black Sheep
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0779982/

"An experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into blood-thirsty killers that terrorize a sprawling New Zealand farm."

Posted by: PiperPaul at February 5, 2010 7:48 PM

If the man did all that, what's the problem with the video?

Posted by: Aaron at February 5, 2010 10:09 PM

I find the "Daisy" ad to be cloying in a profoundly disgusting way. It's a violation that's doubly violating because it vaunts its message in the name of decency and love. Bleuhh. Horrifying.

The Demon Sheep ad, on the other hand, is funny. No one can convince me that it's efficacy isn't due in part to it being a take-off on political ads themselves. I think it's clever, because it manages to own its subject matter (criticism of the opponent) while being entirely disarming about it - witness the Terry Gilliam-esque tumbling, rigid sheep and the crude, Hannibal Lecter prop of a sheep head.

Am I wrong about that? Is it not subductedly satirical, and deliberately over-the-top in a winking, self-aware way? Anyone have an opinion on that?

Posted by: EBD at February 5, 2010 10:45 PM

"Hannibal Lecter prop of a sheep head."

I did NOT approve this message.

Posted by: Hannibal Lectern at February 6, 2010 10:41 AM

Also on You Tube, someone has already synced up the ad to a Pink Floyd song. (too lazy to find the link)

Posted by: rtw at February 6, 2010 11:40 AM
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