New ad likens McCain to Japanese monster
The left-leaning Service Employees International Union demonizes—well, monster-izes, actually—buyout firms that receive sweet tax breaks, in a new spot that uses Japanese monster-movie footage. The skyline-smashing creatures are likened to John McCain, who probably views the comparison as a compliment. Most media reports identify the saurians in the spot as multiple Godzillas. However, anyone who wasted their youth watching The 4:30 Movie on Channel 7 in New York—and geeks and kaiju fans the world over—will recognize the scaly beasts as the cheap Big-G knockoffs from 1967’s Gappa, the Triphibian Monster. In the film, they weren’t evil monsters. They became enraged and bent on destroying civilization only after being misunderstood by mankind. Just like John McCain. UPDATE: Dennis Kucinich, by the way, is the Gamera the Giant Flying Turtle of the political scene: well intentioned, but forever fated to retreat back inside his shell. |
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July 15, 2008 in Gianatasio, Japanese monsters | Permalink |
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If you're going to try and discredit McCain better have something better than this pile of crap. This just makes them look dumb and small.
Posted by: BIG Kahuna | Jul 15, 2008 9:21:06 AM
Yeah, you'd better use something better to discredit him. Like his deplorable voting record from the senate. Anti-woman, anti-homo, anti-peace. He may not be a Godzilla or kaiju rip-off, but he's a real shining star, that one.
Posted by: fifi | Jul 16, 2008 4:38:25 PM
there are some cool Japanese monster photos from the IRC Japanese studies library
http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/japanese-edo-period-monsters/press/japanese-edo-period-monsters/
Posted by: gomer | Aug 27, 2009 10:12:12 AM
