This may be the greatest piece of surrealist performance art of the internet era:
I'm speechless.
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Halleluja
22 Mar 2008 05:15 pm
Comments (83)
Wow. They really can't sing. What could possibly be the backstory behind this?
Make that two punches !!!!
Help me out, Matt -- what's supposed to be so great here?
Or did you say that just to sucker us into clicking on the play button, you evil man?
the woman the middle wants to go out / & let herself get / absolutely soaking mccain. she literally wants mccain to wet her. the sacred & the profane. this is perfect.
That was kinda awesome, and I don't know why.
It's like the Plan 9 from Outer Space of viral political internet-type stuff.
This is incredible.
I love this video. Especially the way the woman in green constantly blinks like '80s special effects.
Ten tons of awesome!
I also like how the one on the left frequently forgets the lyrics even during her own close-ups.
They should shut up about him being a Vietnam veteran after all, all he did was fly over North Vietnam dropping bombs on women and children until he took a Russian missile up the ass.
I LOVE how she washed her face with McCain. It's a hot tranny mess, and not in a good way.
I can't bring myself to watch it.
i couldn't finish it.
Does anyone understand the bit in the middle about teaching angels to "rearrange the vote"? It sounds like allegation of vote-rigging to me.
Does anyone understand the bit in the middle about teaching angels to "rearrange the vote"? It sounds like an allegation of vote-rigging to me.
Kinda makes you appreciate that Hillary 4 U and me video.
Matt is evil.
And sadistic.
It's why we keep coming back.
Thanks, your comment was perfect "speechless"
Does anyone know a good homeopathic remedy for bleeding that comes from the eyes?
Why oh why couldn't have have been born with the good fortune of being deaf? And blind?
I thought you were anti-torture Matt.
That was cruel and very unusual punishment for your readers.
Was that actually meant to be pro-McCain? It seemed like a pitch-perfect way to parody his supporters.
no, it's not pro-mccain. it is utter parody.
and here's some context: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWwyjmSbJPs
and more recently:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyyBGjKAsf4
Skipping over the soaking wet bits, my favorite part is when McCain's disembodied head floats randomly around.
People may have mocked the RockStar problem with Will.i.am's offerings, but when the genre produces both this and the Hillary with a Broom song, how can we denigrate it?
OK, I watched it. Now I don't know who I hate more, myself, Matt, or John McCain.
This is based on a song called It's Raining Men, originally covered by The Weather Girls. It became a major gay anthem. hehe
This is based on a song called It's Raining Men, originally covered by The Weather Girls. It became a major gay anthem. hehe
Matt is just mad we all made fun of him in the thread about him being written up in the New York Times and made him cry. If we all don't buy multiple copies of his book, I bet he'll post more of these to punish us.
I am just going to file this under parody for the sake of my own sanity. Besides, I've always assumed that no one in McThuselah's demographic knows how to put stuff into the youtubes.
WTF?
Help.
It seems pretty obviously satirical to me. Or at least it's not genuinely a whole-hearted endorsement.
The four favorite videos on the McCainGirls' YouTube channel are kind of strange. I don't know what they mean.
"Does anyone know a good homeopathic remedy for bleeding that comes from the eyes?
Posted by Tom in Raleigh | March 22, 2008 6:24 PM"
I'm sorry, but ginseng and St. John's root have nothing on this. You have to pluck out your eyes with a fork. It's a little-known fact that Studio 51 had to be shut down after the entire Friday night crowd had to ruin all of the good silverware with their eye-ball plucking.
"It's Raining Men" was written by Paul Schaeffer, David Letterman's band leader.
"McThuselah." Tom, you are brilliant.
Anybody think this was another video of "The Table" when it started? Three fat weirdos?
I just couldn't remember Marc Ambinder being black.
Hey, there you go! Let's have Matt, Marc and Ross - maybe even add Megan if she can do a good wiggle - do a singing/dancing bit on the next "Table"!
Put it up on YouTube! Make Matt a STAR! Real "Big Media Matt" moment!
The single greatest reason yet to not vote for McCain
If that video sucked any more we would all be swallowed by a black hole.
Good video. McCain should release it for TV.
Raining McCain? On the plain -- On the plain -- And where's that blasted plain? In Spain -- In Spain! The rain in Spain falls plainly on McCain ... The rain in Spain falls plainly on McCain!
or ...
Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Unite!
or ...
Watch out for the brown acid.
That video was a healthy reminder of how the human species going extinct wouldn't be, like, the worst possible thing.
I can hardly wait for folks to start posting "It's Raining John McCain" reaction videos.
Sweet Jesus (coincidental irony intended), did you actually make it all the way through that clip?! I've started playing it twice now, once for myself and the second time for my partner and each time I've gotten to the beginning of the first verse and had to stop it muttering, "Well you get the idea..."
It has a certain car wreck fascination to it, but I can only handle the older white woman winking at me about her love of John McCain so many times before I get noxious. Some things are so bad they're good... this is not one of them.
Speaking of which, this trip-hop trance dance masterpiece would make the perfect Obama campaign song ;).
They should shut up about him being a Vietnam veteran after all, all he did was fly over North Vietnam dropping bombs on women and children until he took a Russian missile up the ass.
Posted by blowback
And all many WWII vets did was drop bombs on innocent Nazi children's asses until they got whacked by anti-air artillery or a fighter plane.
What's your point, blowback?
That soldiers serving in the American system at the orders of the Elected President and funded and guided by the elected Congress should not obet orders but choose for themselves how to conduct war, and have veto over warfare methods and which nations they go in harms way of?
BTW, soldiers don't fight and die to preserve asshole's freedom of speech. Almost none do, if you want them to be honest and say what they do those high-risk jobs in peacetime and war for.. They accept the risks of the military to serve the nation, perform with honor, protect their friends.
When I was in, I wasn't in to expand criminal liberties and to lay down my life so some military-loathing Ivy Leaguer banning ROTC from his campus could get a great job. It was to keep the country I loved safe, follow the honor & tradition of my family, protect those I care about.
That's bad for the soul. Why? I . . . yeah . . .
That shouldn't have happened.
Fuck me gently with a chainsaw.
Sassy!
I wasn't sure what to make of it, until the John McCain head popped up in the background with that "wtf are these people doing?" expression. At that point I started cracking up, and didn't stop until well after the end of the video. The part where she washes her face with McCain is a truly special touch.
Ooh ooh, I found this video in related videos:
"Barack Obama-sistable" Sung to the tune of Robert Palmer's 'Simply Irresistable' -- so Obama certainly has his share of bad videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPLtotzqH0M
Is it my imagination, or does one of the McCain Girls have fangs?
As others have noted "It's Raining Men" was a big gay anthem by the Weather Girls in the early 1980's. If it's gay anthems McSame supporters are into, I've got a suggestion: "John S. McCain" to the tune of Y.M.C.A. - lyrics like: "John S. McCain, it's fun to vote for Mr. John S. McCain..." Or perhaps they could do something with the Village People's "In the Navy." McBush was a Navy flyboy after all. Maybe they could even get pics of McCain in his "gay" sweaters.
How 'bout that song "Homosapien?"
I'm the shy boy
You're the coy boy
And you know we're
Homo-MCCAIN!!! too
I'm the cruiser
You're the loser
Me and you sir
Homo-MCCAIN!!! too
Homosuperior
In my interior
But from the skin out
I'm Homo-MCCAIN!!! too
And you're Homo-MCCAIN!!! too
And I'm Homo-MCCAIN!!! like you
And we're Homo-MCCAIN!!! too
Now I know why the word "sucks" was invented.
Chris Ford,
As a veteran, I took a high risk job definitely in order to protect American's freedom of speech. Without freedom of speech, however ill-informed, wrong or obnoxious, the government can't be held accountable and we get tyranny--the opposite of freedom, and the most un-American of values. With tyranny, the country not only is unsafe, it has ceased to exist in a recognizable form. Nowhere is it written that Americans have the right to free speech unless they are speaking out against war.
Also, I joined the service to serve the American people, not to browbeat them into shutting up when I disagree with them. That's why it's called the "service." It wasn't about me and what I wanted, it was about what I could do for America.
Brother, stop listening to Rush--he's full of hate and you will be too if you spend all your time and energy fighting Vietnam over and over again.
May every republicano view this and wet him/herself...I mean, for real. This can only be AWESOME for Obama!! Cuz it sure ain't good for McDead.
What would be even better than this video would be a video of MattY and friends watching the video... while laughing... and while holding up Obama signs... and drinking lattes... in their limo... on the way to summer (vi.) in Maine...
On the subject of novelty political ads, let me advertise my new site for neurotic Jews who support Barack Obama: Oy, We Can!
"The original is also pretty strange. "
Obviously, you were never in a gay dance bar in the early 80's. The Weather Girls were gay icons and the surviving member of the group, Martha Wash, is still a popular singer at LGBT events around the country.
Oh, the pain stabbing me.....make it stop.
Awesome. I like the little bouncing McCain head too, but splashing little John McCain -- droplets? (in suits?!?) -- that's just fucking cosmic.
I particularly liked how they had no actual message about why McCain was good -- other than that he, like John Kerry, is a Viet Nam vet.
Completely free of any ideas -- the modern Republican party: All the meaning of being a Ravens fan.
Obviously, you were never in a gay dance bar in the early 80's.
I'd say coming of age in the 80s, gay or not, was sufficient to have this song indelibly imprinted in memory.
I wish I could claim that I'd thought of making that video first.
It rules on dog-hearing levels (a thing I'd thought impossible until now).
thanks, Matt. my day is complete because of your posting this.
I wish I could claim that I'd thought of making that video first.
It rules on dog-hearing levels (a thing I'd thought impossible until now).
thanks, Matt. my day is complete because of your posting this.
Damn it, isn't the one on the left Ambinder?
Ford: "It was to keep the country I loved safe, follow the honor & tradition of my family, protect those I care about."
No, it was because you hoped to get a chance to shoot some "furriners", preferably those of another race than yours, plus maybe rape some of their women, plus get drunk and pass out a lot on R&R. And of course, shoot guns all over the place or maybe blow up something or cause some other pointless destruction.
You're a Ku Klux Klan moron, Ford, you know zip about military "honor", which is mostly observed in the breach in my Vietnam experience. I spent three years in the military and never once saw anything resembling "honor". Lots of stupid "tradition", though. Which is probably why the US lost the war.
And, yes, McCain is an idiot who represents everything that's wrong with the US military (and most militaries, actually). He's an incompetent clown and a war criminal.
If it ever does rain McCain, then DO NOT open your window and stick your head out. That's dangerous.
I thought it was entertaining, but frankly very disturbing. These conservatives and their apocalyptic predictions. Next they'll be making videos about Bush popping up out of storm drains, a plague of flies and locusts, "more wars", the president dying of old age and leaving the White House to John Kaisich, and other nightmare scenarios.
There is something noteworthy about this discussion thread, and pretty discouraging.
Matt posts up something that's parody, satire, humor ... and some here launch off into critical analysis and ranting about McCain, Republicans, etc.
My goodness, cannot we just enjoy something --- or are we too tense and intense?
I just hope Paul Jabara's estate's getting paid. (His cowriter, Paul Shaffer, can fend for himself.)
I just hope Paul Jabara's estate's getting paid. (His cowriter, Paul Shaffer, can fend for himself.)
Surrealist performance art? Well I guess I'm a bit too middle brow to place it as art. Really bad home video yes. If I and others are befuddled by it imagine John McCain's.
I am a die-hard Obama supporter and I thought this mv was very clever and very funny. Kudos to whoever did it. I watched it twice and laughed both times.
Are they for real?
I'm sorry. Being only a few years younger than McCain I have to ask a favor-
Since we're talking about McThuselah, could you younger folk be very clear about whether you mean "coming of age in THE 80s" or "coming of age in YOUR 80s"?
I'm thinkin' the latter might be more relevant.
Very odd; McCain's head travelling the room, the green screen shots of the Sen back in the day. And those ladies really, as one of the first posters said, cannot sing.
BARF!!
Do you think that woman's pants were supposed to do that?
Or did no one realize the problem with green pants in front of a greenscreen until it was too late?
Oh, yeah, I like the big McCain portraits. I'm going to go hide under my bed.
36 seconds. That's it for me. You mean, mean, mean, mean. person.
Sorry, I didn't make it past the first line or two...
omg, I love it! I can't quit watching! "IT'S RAINING MCCAIN, HALLELUJAH, IT'S RAINING MCCAIN ... "
What a train wreck! I love it when his disembodied head hovers around in the background! I'm going to be singing this song for the rest of the day ... it's raining mccain, hallelujah ... lol!
suprised no one else has linked to this great piece of surrealist political theater -->
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC3ALzxhCz4
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Heads in the Sand
I wish you had been post-less. If I ever meet you Matt Y, I will punch you in the face for subjecting me to this.
Posted by drjimcooper | March 22, 2008 5:26 PM