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[mouse falls] Whoa.
Let's not throw the mouse around.
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That's the most important thing they have in common.
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Michele Bachmann has produced what I can only describe as the world's cheapest-looking campaign
ad.
This is very weird, because we know she's raising millions of dollars, I can't imagine
who would give her a penny, I'll be honest, I can't, but she is raising the money.
She sends out 85 emails a week I seem to get from her asking for money.
Maybe they're going unheeded lately, because look at this ad, and listen, for those who
can only hear it, let me describe to you that the lighting looks bizarre, there's a plastic
tree behind her, and what appears to be like a cubicle wall.
Louis: Yeah, which is basically the same color as her jacket.
David: Which is almost the same color as her jacket and her hair and her skin, in a way.
I mean, this is all... it's all the same tone that I'm seeing there.
And the audio you'll be able to hear either way is just horrific.
Let's take a listen to this.
Brace yourselves for what I can only describe as the most poorly-produced campaign ad in
recent history.
Michele Bachmann: There are so many important issues in this current presidential campaign,
including the role of government, the abuse of executive power, and something that's called
crony capitalism.
What that means is someone in a position of power who does special favors for people who've
given political donations to that candidate.
David: All right.
The only thing I can say is I guess her makeup looks OK, because she really doesn't look
like a woman who's... how old is she?
Is she over 50, actually?
Louis: I don't know.
David: I think she might be.
She definitely, at least her makeup, or she just looks really young, but other than that,
what is wrong?
You're using the microphone on the camera, and it just sounds like she's in a basement.
Yeah, go ahead, Natan.
Natan: You know, I don't know if we can really criticize her for it.
I mean, she is spending very small amounts of money on the campaign, and we always criticize
politicians for spending, you know, millions of dollars.
David: So what's she doing...
Natan: I mean, this probably cost like a thousand dollars.
David: What's she doing... $1000 would be a ripoff.
What's she doing with the... with the millions she's raising, then?
Natan: I don't know, but I mean, I think that this is something that we should be, you know,
praising, not criticizing.
David: All right, you know what?
I'm on-board.
I think it's great that this is the type of ad Michele Bachmann has decided to put out.
I think this is... this is exactly what she should be doing, and I love it.
I'm changing my view on it.
Natan: In all seriousness, I mean, I think that this might be a brilliant campaign move,
because when people hear that horrible audio, they associate that sort of echoey, you know,
public meeting-room audio with like local, you know, real politicians.
And I think that, you know, might actually be in her favor.
David: I don't know that she's that smart, Louis.
Is this to have a local-meeting feel, that's the point?
Plastic plants are a common thing in local meetings?
Louis: I can't imagine anyone walked up to her and said listen, if we make the most poorly-produced
announcement, commercial, whatever, in the history of political commercials...
David: You'll seem grassrootsy.
Louis: Yeah.
I mean, I...
David: It's a funny point.
Louis: At the same time, I can't think how this would happen otherwise, because this
is so, so bad.
David: No.
It's unbelievable.
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