Category: Hathos Alert

Amanda Dobbins:

Please enjoy this wool-blend attack ad from Carly Fiorina, candidate for the Republican nomination in California’s US Senate race. The money shot is at 2:26, but you’ll want to let it build.

Chait chimes in.

Glenn Beck vs WorldNetDaily on the birther question. Almost as satisfying as reading Newsmax on the plane.

Glenn Beck’s love-fest with Michael Buble. Oh tidings of comfort and joy …

by Chris Bodenner

Buzzfeed compiles 40 absurd photos of celebrities from 2009. The one after the jump – titled "Suri Cruise Calls For Help" – has pathos as well:

Bonus Scientology hathos: an internal video used to motivate members to start their own "org" in a "crusade" to spread Scientology throughout the land.

Huh?

It’s an effective ad against something of a straw man. I really haven’t heard anyone say that opposition to, say, the public option is rooted in racism. Maybe someone has, but it’s not exactly a meme. Conflating wider worries about the intensity of vaguely articulated loathing of Obama as racially tinged with specific worries about health insurance reform is, however, a useful piece of sophism. But really: a total government take-over of the healthcare system? For a reform where almost every newly insured person will get coverage under a private insurance company and get prescription drugs from private drug companies and get treated in non-government-run hospitals? Sigh.

Tea-partiers ape voiceover legend Don LaFontaine: