Vernon Robinson's sick commercial

[meegbear]

From crooksandliars.com:

This is isn't a joke or a parody commercial. It's just insane. Robinson is running for Congress in North Carolina and he uses the Twilight Zone theme to attack gays, judges, African Americans and just about anything or anyone else you can think of.

In-fucking-credible.

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/twilight.mov

[revree]

1. I hope he gets his ass sued

Wonder who has rights to the theme, and how we can alert them to this???

[pitohui]

2. copyright information

Composer: Bernard Herrmann (ASCAP/BMI)

1978 Publisher: April Music Inc. (ASCAP)

2000 Publisher: EMI-Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI)
c/o EMI Music Publishing
of New York, NY

Copyright Date: Feb. 9, 1959; Eu 561 560.
Renewal Date: May 22, 1987; RE-337-981

doubt they have paid the royalties to emi-blackwood, suggest we all drop a postcard to the copyright holder and send them a link to this commercial

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Is he the lost son of Jesse Helms?

[Chipper Chat]

4. The commercial is VERY Helmsian.

Shit that has worked for Pukes for 30 years.
As much as I despise the message and tactics artistically it is a well-made and effective ad.

[Northern Experiment]

5. Wow...

That cannot be real.

Nah, who am I kidding.
These damn repunks have no souls nowadays.

[Faygo Kid]

6. I laughed out loud! "Hi, I'm Fred Phelps, and I endorse Vernon. . ."

On this one, what else can you do? I hope that his next commercial begins, "Hi, I'm Fred Phelps, and I endorse Vernon Robinson for Congress. . ." I do wish our side could spell better (dyke, not dike). Jesse Jackson in a police photo while the narrator is railing about illegitimacy? But the capper had to be the Leave It To Beaver ending. I am still scraping my jaw off the floor on that one. Guess Vernon loves Beaver. Please, let this guy be one of the tokens who speak at the 2008 GOP convention. Please!

[Dhampir Kampf]

7. Gah.

So retarded.

[TechBear_Seattle]

8. That has GOT to be a parody

Please, for the love of all that is good, tell me it was a parody.

:scared:

[GreenInNC]

10. not a parody

Vernon touts himself as "The Black Jesse Helms". He was a city council member in Winston Salem until he lost that seat a couple of years ago. I believe he is running in our 13th district against Brad Miller.

[libnnc]

13. aw hell's bells I thought we sent him packing

when he lost his council member seat last year....He's running against Brad Miller?

[ncteechur]

9. In which district is he running?

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. Leave it to Beaver??

:wtf:

And what is it with this 'liberal judges' line?? That is so 2004.

[ncteechur]

12. Yes and it the same biggoted ideas that would have

gotten him lynched not too long ago. He might want to rethink who he selects as his compatriots. There are still a lot of KKK folks in the Forsyth County area.

[onehandle]

14. Makes me miss the simple days when Klansmen ran openly for office.

As recently as twenty years ago they would stand in front of a dixie flag and rant racist comments in TV commercials here in the South.

At least they were honest about what they believed in.