not very funny. the problem might be the voiceover guy. it could also be the writing. the delivery isn't so good either. that said, i have no qualms with the work of the best boy grip--his work was outstanding.
If you think that is racist, I strongly suggest sensitivity training, and avoid "Blazing Saddles."
And no, not funny. The truth hurts too much to be funny.
The realization is slowly sinking in that the Right hasn't been in opposition since the whole interblog phenomenon hit. I'm beginning to suspect that the "nut" in nutroots has more to do with the medium than the message.
The people whose houses were visited on camera had some sort of Obama sign on their houses/cars. That is what decided who we walked up to, which is absolutely fair and indescriminate. We don't choose what color people support a candidate with advertisments on their house.
That being said, there were more whites visited than any other race. However, the blacks were more theatrical. It's not interesting to include a white person telling us "I get it. Please leave now". Watching a black person(or any person, happened to be black in our video)chanting "obama" while failing to realize this bailout will cost them thousands is not only ironic, but proves how ignorant obama supporters are to these issues.
You politically correct liberal psychos love to turn everything into a race-based sociological psychobabble.
The only checks these people should be giving out should go to the fools who paid for this crime against humor. And cleverness. And the legitimate political position behind this project.
Good luck next time. I hope you don't suck shit again.
I'm not sure if 'racist' is the accurate descriptive term. But it was immediately clear that people of color were targeted. If Bailout Patrolman is telling the truth (always somewhat dubious when people use invented names to post on the internet), then the person who did the final edits was sort of stupid, for not including a reasonable number of white people. (Blacks were more theatrical? *All* of them? Really?? That's the explanation you're gonna go with?).
Still, I thought the general idea of the skit was cute enough, although it went on much longer than needed.
Overall? Meh. (I still think the funniest skits I've seen recently have been Jindal's recent response/speech . . . plus Rush's frothing attack on any conservatives who dared to point out the emperor's relative lack of clothing. Good times.)
Watching a black person(or any person, happened to be black in our video)chanting "obama" while failing to realize this bailout will cost them thousands is not only ironic, but proves how ignorant obama supporters are to these issues.
HALF of Americans don't pay any income taxes. It's unlikely the people you visited are going to be bearing any material portion of the bailout (well, until the stagflation hits).
The video was good for a chuckle (especially the AIG exec getting all salty).
The biggest problem with the piece was its incoherence -- the Wall Street Bailout and the "Stimulus" package are two separate and distinct phenomena that the filmmakers conflated -- poorly.
it started out as a funny, albeit leftist, critique of the bank bailout ('the check is for Citibank, we're here to invoice you!'), before degenerating into utter non-linear stupidity.
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as for the racism -- while the over-emphasis on African Americans is subtly racist, the blatant racism of the filmmaker is obvious ("Watching a black person(or any person, happened to be black in our video)chanting "obama" while failing to realize this bailout will cost them thousands"). He assumes that these african americans are ignorant because they don't share the filmmakers perspective .
If you haven't seen it, this video on the "Bailout Prize Patrol" is quite funny in places.
Conversely, if you have seen it, it isn't all that funny.
So we can clearly conclude that, while the video may be funny in its Platonic state, it becomes unfunny through the process of watching it. Sort of a Heisenberg thing.
If you look at the first sequence, we quickly cut through 4 or 5 houses, none of which were black. And they all had obama stickers. The reason we didn't show anything further, is because they didn't react. Would you watch America's funniest home videos if all the clips were of a grandpa sleeping? no. It's not funny, it doesn't prove a point.
These people all live in a middle class neighborhood, the same neighborhood some of the proprietors live in. You know what makes you all ignorant?
Let's turn the tables around, and say only white people were shown, and 2 of them acted the way some of these black people did...would you still be calling us racists? Would you be demanding that we include more "diversity" in our footage of people celebrating obama? No you wouldn't. It's funny how politically correct that this country is becoming. We saw stickers on houses, we knocked on the door, people reacted. These people, who happened to be black, reacted with more vigor than anyone else. No one made them do that but themselves. No one wants to watch a video of people telling us that they get the joke and they'd like us to leave.
We included one asian man who signed the check.
How about criticizing us for going after only white government officials? Geithner, Schumer, and Snowe are all white...GASP! WE MUST HAVE AN AGENDA AGAINST WHITE POLITICIANS!
"(Blacks were more theatrical? *All* of them? Really?? That's the explanation you're gonna go with?). "
It's not an explanation. It's the truth. The 2 black women (Obama chanter and the one who stomped her feet around) were the most outward reactions. There were black people we showed who didn't react at all, and just looked at us incredulously, as shown in the movie. However, ZERO white people proceeded to either chant, yell, or dance around their front yard. Trust me, I wish they had, we would have put it in the video.
They were the only ones who did, so they are put in the video. Simple. We don't dictate people's reactions. Again, the white people, the hispanics, and even the asian individual simply did not react outlandishly, they either smiled and laughed, or told us to they get the joke and asked us to leave.
We don't control people's reactions. They do. They were targeted because they advertised the Obama campaign signs on their property. The rest was up to them.
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Not funny, but not racist. Give it up, fellas
Yeah, that would have been a better line than here's your $20,000 invoice.
I wouldn't call it racist though, maybe they live in a very black side of town?
Hahaha, we all know that's not true.
And no, not funny. The truth hurts too much to be funny.
The idea is brilliant. The execution? Well, comedy is hard...
Did you not watch the first few minutes of this? Is Phoenix really crawling with welfare queens?
The people whose houses were visited on camera had some sort of Obama sign on their houses/cars. That is what decided who we walked up to, which is absolutely fair and indescriminate. We don't choose what color people support a candidate with advertisments on their house.
That being said, there were more whites visited than any other race. However, the blacks were more theatrical. It's not interesting to include a white person telling us "I get it. Please leave now". Watching a black person(or any person, happened to be black in our video)chanting "obama" while failing to realize this bailout will cost them thousands is not only ironic, but proves how ignorant obama supporters are to these issues.
You politically correct liberal psychos love to turn everything into a race-based sociological psychobabble.
Good luck next time. I hope you don't suck shit again.
hmmmmm
Still, I thought the general idea of the skit was cute enough, although it went on much longer than needed.
Overall? Meh. (I still think the funniest skits I've seen recently have been Jindal's recent response/speech . . . plus Rush's frothing attack on any conservatives who dared to point out the emperor's relative lack of clothing. Good times.)
HALF of Americans don't pay any income taxes. It's unlikely the people you visited are going to be bearing any material portion of the bailout (well, until the stagflation hits).
The video was good for a chuckle (especially the AIG exec getting all salty).
it started out as a funny, albeit leftist, critique of the bank bailout ('the check is for Citibank, we're here to invoice you!'), before degenerating into utter non-linear stupidity.
_
as for the racism -- while the over-emphasis on African Americans is subtly racist, the blatant racism of the filmmaker is obvious ("Watching a black person(or any person, happened to be black in our video)chanting "obama" while failing to realize this bailout will cost them thousands"). He assumes that these african americans are ignorant because they don't share the filmmakers perspective .
i r liberal?
Sorry dude, you're racist. Try renting an apartment on the other side of town sometime, maybe you'll get a better perspective on the world.
And your video was terrible.
Conversely, if you have seen it, it isn't all that funny.
So we can clearly conclude that, while the video may be funny in its Platonic state, it becomes unfunny through the process of watching it. Sort of a Heisenberg thing.
Ah, here is the attitude that helped ruin the execution of the video.
If you look at the first sequence, we quickly cut through 4 or 5 houses, none of which were black. And they all had obama stickers. The reason we didn't show anything further, is because they didn't react. Would you watch America's funniest home videos if all the clips were of a grandpa sleeping? no. It's not funny, it doesn't prove a point.
These people all live in a middle class neighborhood, the same neighborhood some of the proprietors live in. You know what makes you all ignorant?
Let's turn the tables around, and say only white people were shown, and 2 of them acted the way some of these black people did...would you still be calling us racists? Would you be demanding that we include more "diversity" in our footage of people celebrating obama? No you wouldn't. It's funny how politically correct that this country is becoming. We saw stickers on houses, we knocked on the door, people reacted. These people, who happened to be black, reacted with more vigor than anyone else. No one made them do that but themselves. No one wants to watch a video of people telling us that they get the joke and they'd like us to leave.
We included one asian man who signed the check.
How about criticizing us for going after only white government officials? Geithner, Schumer, and Snowe are all white...GASP! WE MUST HAVE AN AGENDA AGAINST WHITE POLITICIANS!
Take your heads out of your rear
It's not an explanation. It's the truth. The 2 black women (Obama chanter and the one who stomped her feet around) were the most outward reactions. There were black people we showed who didn't react at all, and just looked at us incredulously, as shown in the movie. However, ZERO white people proceeded to either chant, yell, or dance around their front yard. Trust me, I wish they had, we would have put it in the video.
They were the only ones who did, so they are put in the video. Simple. We don't dictate people's reactions. Again, the white people, the hispanics, and even the asian individual simply did not react outlandishly, they either smiled and laughed, or told us to they get the joke and asked us to leave.
We don't control people's reactions. They do. They were targeted because they advertised the Obama campaign signs on their property. The rest was up to them.
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