Silky Corn Soup
Allah linked John Edwards’ cinematic campaign ad yesterday, but I hadn’t looked closely enough to catch this sniggeringly snigger-ful moment when Edwards responds to a voter’s question about his readiness for the job. (Hat tip - Ray Robison).
Asked the voter/actor/plant/whatever: “You’re going to have to be Wyatt Earp. Are you up to it?”
Here’s the screenshot of Edwards’ reaction:
Now, watch the full ad:
Mix the effete Wyatt Earp imitation with the smarmy voiceover, the maudlin orchestral background music, and Edwards’ indelible smirk, and you’ve got a killer recipe for Silky Corn Soup.
A commenter at Edwards’ YouTube channel writes:
“I think I threw up in my mouth a little bit.”
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Oh lordy. What can I say. I’m speechless.
He isnt running for President he is running for a job as an actor playing a president
Did Wyatt Earp pretend to eat Wendy’s hamburgers for the cameras, while a catered French lunch was really waiting for him on his campaign bus?
OK, then John Edwards is Wyatt Earp. Move ‘em on.org, cowboy!
I don’t get it? Did I miss something? Was it just that the ad was corny or what?
That was pretty much the goofiest, on purpose thing I’ve ever seen in my life.
It was like a promo for a Christopher Guest movie, Waiting for Silky. But it was real. Wow.
OK…first…Cate is a little hottie. But how come she had to have a still photo?
Second…that video/commercial made me vomit a bit in my mouth. It was, by far, about the most stupidest thing I have seen on the Net so far. Why? Because it was actually a serious campaign video/commercial and not a spoof. Had it been a spoof, it would have been a classic. unfortunately, it made me vomit a bit in my mouth.
Third…I was COMPLETELY unaware that this was our MOST DESPERATE HOUR!!!! What exactly makes this our most desperate hour? Was it the unmanned HumVeessitting all alone in the desert? Is that it? I just didn’t get what that meant.
Why does he have to be Wyatt Earp? Does that mean he has to go around killing people? He is against guns? how can he be Wyatt Earp? Of course, the Earps did remove people’s weapons when they came to town, so maybe that’s what that grisled old fart was referring to. He said he was ready, so I guess he is ready to remove everyones guns from them in order to “clean up” from President Bush’s “Mission Accomplished Mess”
Well, the whole thing left me scared and confused and with the taste of vomit in my mouth. I have to go to the bathroom and try to get this taste out with Listerine now. At least I was able to loook at his daughter and realize that at least she was cute. Too bad he and his wife are her parents.
But what was with the two midgets at the end? Who were they?
And what’s this about a love child?
The plot and the setting were interesting, but I found the characters to be one dimensional and, quite frankly, not believable.
Two thumbs down.
That’s a spoof, right?
It is, isn’t it?
We haven’t actually got to the point where that it seriously intended as prsidential campaign advertising have we?
Somebody please say no! Please!
Did Wyatt Earp live in a $6 million, 28,200 sq. ft. home on 102 acres, earn $500,000.00 for 6 months of learning how financial markets relate to poverty AND bankroll lawsuits against hospitals and corporations into $30 million in legal fees?
Because if he did, then John Edwards is JUST like Wyatt Earp.
After watching that vid I had to flag it as “Violent or Replulsive content.”
Does this mean Edwards is going to stand on stage and scream “You called down the thunder now you got it. You go back and tell him I’m comin…and Hell’s comin with me!”
And then Lizzie (that killed me) is going to stand next to him and say, “I’m yo huckleberry.”
Well John, Your no daisy, your no Daisy at’all
MM is way to polite and responsible to mention it, but this fellow is in a full-fledged scandal.
http://deathby1000papercuts.blogspot.com/
He shore is purdy.
I think my 2 year old daughter could kick his ass.
Jeeze, it’s a good thing I had three Scotches in me before I saw that, otherwise; I might have hurled.
After watching that I don’t know what makes me laugh more, that ad claiming Silk Pony is the new Wyatt Earp or that someone will believe the comparison.
Let’s compare the record of Silk Pony and Wyatt Earp.
Wyatt Earp is most known for the shootout at the Ok corral. Silk Pony is most known for trying to look pretty.
Wyatt Earp ran a saloon. Silk Pony pays big bucks to have his hair done at a beauty salon.
Wyatt Earp was a Lawman. Silk Pony was a money grubbing lawyer.
Wyatt Earp tried running away to join the army during the Civil War at age 13. Silk Pony just tries to run away and surrender.
Why is it I just can’t trust a Dim that points his finger.
Watch out there’s a new law yer man in town. Ooooh I’m ascared.
Edwards makes my skin crawl. But then again, most of these candidates do.
I think there is a subliminal message in there. When I was seeing the campaign placards in the background, my mind wasn’t immediately picking up EDWARDS08, just the last part of it, which looked like SOB.
There is nothing more for me to add about this pitiful, poorly done “team Edwards” ad…
But, for those that have commented before me, you are some of the most clever folks around…thanks for the laughs this morning, you made tears come out of my eyes and coffee come out of my nose!
Merry Christmas!
My first impression of the ad is that of Disney World’s Fantasy Land type effect.
He is such a pansy. Besides law, did he study ballet as well?
Comparing John Edwards to Wyatt Earp is like comparing Pee Wee Herman to John Wayne.
Folks, forget the cheesy Wild West reference, the narration claims that Edwards will REDEEM America! No matter how crazy the left considers the GOP’s religious conversation, not ONE GOP candidate has proclaimed himself a messiah!
Effete indeed.
That’s from The Onion, right? That has to be from The Onion.
I am considering gouging my eyes out so there will be no chance I will ever see that again.
Funny way to choose a President. Guys like Putin and the Islamists see stuff like this and think maybe we really are soft. So they keep pushing and good people die.
Please end the writes strike so they can go back to writing crappy tv shows instead of moonlighting by writing crappy tv campaign ads.
Cool! You mean Edwards had to PAY for this? And they aren’t having to reimburse him? Rock on! Now if we could only get Hillary to do Scarlett O’Hara’s famous line in the cotton field about never being hungry again, and Barack to do a convincing imitation of Kunte Kinte…
Rampant nausea.
I saw the reaction and laughed out loud. Does he think that ad will HELP him be taken seriously? Hilarious.
…and it started with “In a world..” which makes that much more awesome.
Wow this guy is a total useless waste of skin (but I already knew that). I really can’t believe this add is for real this guy would be very dangerous if selected as POTUS by the easily bribed and living dead that seem to normally vote for the Democrats.
Silky Pony is as popular in NC as illegals are……….
Hope that rumor about getting a woman pregnant is true.
Bet his wife will have his back then huh?
Actually the Western figure that Edwards most resembles is Buffalo Bill Cody. Like Edwards, Buffalo Bill Cody greatly exaggerated his rather paltry accomplishments. Buffalo Bill’s big tent shows were staged shenanigans, much like Mr. Edwards’ histrionics in the Courtroom. Recall that he told a jury in North Carolina that a baby who died during a delivery “speaks through me”. He also told the jury: “She’s telling you….”. And he got away with this nonsense. What motivates Mr. Edwards is the fear that after the New Hampshire primary, he will back in Raleigh doing botched nose job cases and hanging out at the filling station with Goober Pyle and there will be no Katie Couric or Diane Sawyer in sight.
Edwards would look good in Wyatt’s jail cell. I’m sure he could find a fellow inmate to do his hair for $1200. Heck, he could probably get a pedicure included.
Now that’s a campaign ad I could get behind.
Water boarding is torture? I’ll take 2 please before I watch that again. “Redeem our country? Now he is the redeemer? I thought he was supposed to be Wyatt Earp!
I just had some Christmas cookies but they are dancing in my stomach for release.
Back in a few. ERRRRRPPPP
Self-infatuation.Gone.Wild.
He reminds me of Bill O… He takes himself way to seriously.
I have to say, there was one part of the commercial that I liked. If you pause it at about 0:39, you get this lovely shot of a crowd of (I assume) Edwards-supporters that is just a sea of red. It looks like an assembly of the Red Guard. It made me smile.
Kate Edwards is kinda hot… for a libtard’s daughter. you know, she’s the daughter of a son of a millworker, right?!
Remember that part in the movie ‘The Dead Zone’ with Christopher Walken, where the Evil Presidential Candidate is charming Walken’s ex-fiance’ and Christopher shakes his hand and get’s a flash image of the greasy evil guy as President pushing the Nuke buttons to burn the world to ash? The guy who holds a child up in front of him to protect him from the sniper rifle at the end?
That’s how I think of Edwards. I think that deep down, he’s a lying, psychotic, creepy, crapweasel. The first time he get’s stressed out by an attack or something…..oops! there goes the world!
Vs. Hillary who would just give the country away.
Wow! you just described most lawyers and politicians
Did anyone happen to catch his “me-too” Christmas message/commercial? It was like watching an ad for a law firm! Even the background set was dry and sterile, very “holiday-neutral.”
Wyatt Earp???? He’s not even Annie Oakley….. More like Mr. Ed
The only “redeeming” quality of the ad was the fact that at least he isn’t ashamed to show the US flag like Obama is.
Being that my nickname is “Doc”, I take serious umbrage at John Edwards being likened to Wyatt Earp. The Earps, with the help of Doc Holliday, were fighting the Clantons (similar to the Clintons?) because they were outlaws. The Gunfight at the OK Corral didn’t start as a way to kill the Clantons. There was city ordinance that forbade the wearing of fireams. They tried to disarm the Clantons; when they refused, the Earps and Holliday, as town Marshalls, defended themselves. Later, the Clantons killed Morgan Earp in a 19th century version of a cowardly drive-by.
Holliday and the Earps may not have been saints, but they got the job done. Saying the Breck Girl is like Wyatt Earp is just disgusting.
You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll wonder if that job offer in New Zealand is still open. Move over Don Knotts, there’s a new “Shakiest Gun in the West.”
Nominated for 7 Golden Globes, 10 Oscars and 3 Nobel Prizes.
Oh, I should add….
This movie is not recommended for anyone over the age of 18.
oh please, silky pony being wyatt earp? i am trying to parallel the slamming of bush for his cowboy ways and the ’silky pony’s’ reference to wyatt earp. is he trying to attract the cowboy vote?
this sounded like a trailer for a movie like gone with the wind. let’s hope that all the dems are gone with the wind come november 08. although, i think that even huck the schmuck could beat silky pony.
I’m sorry. I’ll stop after this. I wish I could go back and edit.
This movie has been rated PU and is not recommended for audiences over the age of 18.
Children of the CORN ….AARRGGHH!!
Actually, the “point” is a good analogy for the way liberals think. Imagine Wyatt Earp pointing his finger at the Clantons and shouting “Bang bang, you’re dead!”
Now imagine Edwards dealing with, well, anyone tougher than his hair stylist.
Mr. Edwards is starting to remind just a little bit of Joe Francis promoting “Girls Gone Wild”.
I was really hoping someone would get the “Tombstone” referrences. Oh well.
Anyway, I personally think that the very funniest part of the entire commercial came at the very end where John Edwards himself said, “I’m John Edwards and I approve of this message”.
What do you think? You think they all sat around while he jumped up and down and patted himself on the back saying how awesome that commercial was and what a stud it made him appear to be?
Was it wrong that that add gave me goosebumps?
Well, I cried at the end of Shallow Hal too.
It’s not quite as funny as Mike Huckabee’s floating cross ad, where he ends with saying he approves this message. Weel Duh! I think you’d be in serious trouble if you didn’t approve of the message you were saying. (you’d be Joe Biden!)
So IF it is true about his film-making paramour being with child, will he add that child as a new addition to his campaign???
Enquiring minds want to know. Paternity test required.
“And introducing: The Other Woman…and…The Love Child.”
This ad must have been beamed down from Mars. Hilarious as it is, it’s not self-parody - such would show such a deep sense of humor that the featured candidate might indeed be at risk of redemption (though forget about redeeming the nation).
The Democrats obviously believe that the shameless will inherit the nation. They may well be right.