Rick Perry just released a ridiculous new campaign advertisement, set to run during Thursday’s GOP debate. The first half is rapid-fire images of empty streets, shuttered homes and vacant train cars, with a detached voice calling President Obama “President Zero.” The second half is a heroic tribute to Perry punctuated by mostly substance-free snippets from his first campaign speech.

This Michael Bay-inspired montage makes Obama’s America resemble a Mad Max wasteland, and it uses slick video editing and over-dramatic music to paint Perry as a figure of Optimus Prime-like vision — really? — which are just the obvious things wrong with it.

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  1. zedzedr reblogged this from zainyk
  2. ihaveallthetimeweneed reblogged this from zainyk and added:
    of Rick Parry’s...ads. It’s gonna be a tasty campaign seeing as this was only his first :L
  3. catherinebythackeray reblogged this from zainyk and added:
    Shit, this guy has money. Can we limit...funding now? DGAF about 1st amendment so tired of...
  4. -thisbirdhasflown reblogged this from trefjar and added:
    Are you kidding me.
  5. concurrence reblogged this from gravyholocaust and added:
    And millions of racist pricks jump up and holler “woo hoo! We’re gonna kick that nigger’s ass!” Of course they won’t say...
  6. rintrah reblogged this from gravyholocaust and added:
    Rick Perry just released...campaign advertisement, set to run during Thursday’s GOP...
  7. jenniferlynnweston reblogged this from zainyk and added:
    As if he and his team turned this into some Hollywood movie trailer type video… What a piece of rubbish propaganda. Sad.
  8. myfavoritemovieisbooks reblogged this from svennysvensven and added:
    oh my god I can’t wait for this movie to come out.
  9. thesituationreport reblogged this from pantslessprogressive
  10. boehmisch reblogged this from zainyk
  11. smoresmordre reblogged this from pantslessprogressive and added:
    Obama apparently causes tornadoes. This felt like a movie preview. RICK PERRY. COMING TO A THEATER NEAR YOU.
  12. reuschal reblogged this from zainyk and added:
    Very impressive video
  13. yewphonic said: oh geez i forgot about the zombie apocalypse that obama caused. guess i’ll vote for perry because he has ponies!
  14. dapitts reblogged this from adistinctivetaste and added:
    So this commercial not going to mention the fact that republicans are the reason we are in this mess??
  15. adistinctivetaste reblogged this from pantslessprogressive and added:
    I mean, firing up the base is dope. But the people you are trying to win over (independents) know why we don’t have...
  16. somanykindsofnerdy reblogged this from pantslessprogressive and added:
    Is releasing a movie? It was just like a movie trailer, complete with soaring background music, fast-paced video...
  17. shogunshawn reblogged this from pantslessprogressive
  18. biodegradablepsychology reblogged this from pantslessprogressive
  19. wholewheatpeeta reblogged this from pantslessprogressive and added:
    wow. what a hypocrite dickhead. #obama2012
  20. stalebreadandabigpond reblogged this from pantslessprogressive and added:
    Wow, way to be ethnocentric there. “America is the last great hope for mankind?” That’s a little arrogant. Also, how...
  21. sscatterbrainn reblogged this from joshlemonlyman and added:
    Is this for a Rick Perry movie trailer that is coming out in 2012? Can I note how much propaganda is in this ad…
  22. shewhosebeautystartlesrabbits reblogged this from zainyk and added:
    somewhere in california, michael bay feels a disturbance…
  23. joshlemonlyman reblogged this from pantslessprogressive
  24. modernslaves reblogged this from pantslessprogressive and added:
    I totally forgot to get the popcorn ready… it wasn’t feature length, but it was a great fiction… Politicians are not out...
  25. justother reblogged this from pantslessprogressive
  26. berezina said: That really is action-movie-like, especially the sound.
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