Infected Tube

Remember The Bridge To Nowhere, Ted Stevens’ favorite project that “Alaskan Maverick Reformer” said she opposed during her introductory speech with John McCain in Dayton, Ohio? Well she was, how they like to say, ‘for it before she was against it,’ not just for it, really, really for it. She even had a t-shirt made:

“Palin said Alaska’s congressional delegation worked hard to obtain funding for the bridge as part of a package deal and that she ‘would not stand in the way of the progress toward that bridge.”
Ketchikan Daily News 9/2006

More here.

Context sensitive advertising using Google Adwords can be great when you want to run your ad across tens of thousands of websites, say when your candidate’s name is typed…it can also FAIL HARD…like on this post of ours from February:

Need some background info?

Rickrolling is an Internet meme involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song “Never Gonna Give You Up”. The meme is a bait and switch: a person provides a Web link they claim is relevant to the topic at hand, but the link actually takes the user to the Astley video. The URL can be masked or obfuscated in some manner so that the user cannot determine the true source of the link without clicking (and thus satisfying their curiosity). When a person clicks on the link given and is led to the web page he/she is said to have been “Rickrolled”. By extension, it can also mean playing the song loudly in public in order to be disruptive.

“So I was talking to Jonathan Glenn, and then I was about to thank Jonathan Hunt…”

When Paris Hilton Owns You, You Know Your Campaign Is Over:

The Retarded John McCain Ad She Mocked:

‘Cosmopolitan’ Institute Completes Decades-Long Study On How To Please Your Man