Comedy Goldmine VII: Straight-to-DVD Christmas Special

[Mr. Morden]

FLASH!  Breaking News!!!!  CNN goes to commercial! Big Annoncement from GEICO Caveman!!

1. Aug. 20, 3:48am....CNN breaks away from regularly scheduled programing, and broadcasts an advertisement for Geico car insurance featuring a caveman.

2. It was implied in the commercial that Geico is "so easy even a caveman could do it".

3. CNN broadcast footage of a caveman stating that the the slogan "so easy even a caveman could do it" is offensive to him and his family.

4. CNN quickly returned to regular programming, but periodically broke away to repeat an identical message from the caveman in subsequent hours.

5. It was unclear whether there was any relationship between the Geico caveman and Geico's popular talking gecko.

This suggests that Obama is in serious trouble, because his campaign message is as elitist and condescending to working class voters as Geico's attitude towards cavemen is.

I said months ago that Obama's elitism would come back to bite him, and I've now been proven correct.

This also indicates that McCain might be able to exploit Obama's weaknesses among ordinary Americans by picking Romney as his running mate, because Romney grew up in Michigan, which makes cars, and Geico is a car insurance company.

I now have to go make a thread about the implications of the Mac/PC commercial for the candidates' websites, as well as a thread about whether Wolf Blitzer's sneeze suggests that he's allergic to reporting on prospective vice presidential nominees not named Mitt Romney.

Amusingly, Winfield has now deleted the thread.  (Or maybe it was just a mod who deleted it?)  In any case, the post is funnier if you read Winfield's post that I was parodying, but unfortunately that post has been lost into the ether.

[Mr. Morden]

FLASH!  Breaking News!!!!  CNN goes to commercial! Big Annoncement from GEICO Caveman!!

1. Aug. 20, 3:48am....CNN breaks away from regularly scheduled programing, and broadcasts an advertisement for Geico car insurance featuring a caveman.

2. It was implied in the commercial that Geico is "so easy even a caveman could do it".

3. CNN broadcast footage of a caveman stating that the the slogan "so easy even a caveman could do it" is offensive to him and his family.

4. CNN quickly returned to regular programming, but periodically broke away to repeat an identical message from the caveman in subsequent hours.

5. It was unclear whether there was any relationship between the Geico caveman and Geico's popular talking gecko.

This suggests that Obama is in serious trouble, because his campaign message is as elitist and condescending to working class voters as Geico's attitude towards cavemen is.

I said months ago that Obama's elitism would come back to bite him, and I've now been proven correct.

This also indicates that McCain might be able to exploit Obama's weaknesses among ordinary Americans by picking Romney as his running mate, because Romney grew up in Michigan, which makes cars, and Geico is a car insurance company.

I now have to go make a thread about the implications of the Mac/PC commercial for the candidates' websites, as well as a thread about whether Wolf Blitzer's sneeze suggests that he's allergic to reporting on prospective vice presidential nominees not named Mitt Romney.

Amusingly, Winfield has now deleted the thread.  (Or maybe it was just a mod who deleted it?)  In any case, the post is funnier if you read Winfield's post that I was parodying, but unfortunately that post has been lost into the ether.

What'd it say?

It was a thread titled something like "Flash! Breaking News!  David Gergen on CNN says <such and such>".  Except, instead of "<such and such>", it was some statement made by David Gergen about how Obama is in trouble for some reason that I can't remember (an argument that Winfield outlined in numbered bullet points), and then Winfield goes on to explain how McCain might be able to exploit this weakness in Obama's campaign by picking Romney as his running mate.

My post was nearly a point-for-point parody of Winfield's original post, and generally a parody of his inclination to post threads with titles like "Breaking News!!!" every time a commentator on CNN opens his or her mouth about the presidential campaign (so long as there is some connection to Romney).

[Mr. Morden]

I think we will break 50%, but I also think he will lose

Obama 50.22%
McCain 49.14%
Others .76%

Barr will be lucky to get .5% and Nader to get .2%

Is that only funny because it adds up to 100.12%, or do you think the prediction's funny too?

I think the point is that he said Obama would lose after breaking 50% of the vote.

You can break 50% of the vote and still lose because of the electoral college.