It is disappointing that the Americans insist on giving credit for the conception behind the “Your First Time” ads directed at young women voters to the Russian President none other than Vladimir Putin when the credit really should go to Sarah Hanson-Young from our very own Australian Green Party. This is from the 2010 Australian election and it is the same idea right down to putting it under the heading, “Your First Time”, the exact same name used in the American Democrat ad.
We can thus see the idea has travelled from the Green Party in Australia to the Democrats in the US, via the election ad for the former head of the KGB as President of Russia. The ad has thus shown up on three different continents, as wide apart as one could possibly travel, but based on the usual empty rhetoric of the deep left.
The deep left always targets the shallow and uninformed who are clueless about the implications of voting for such people. Since the media is itself part of the deep left it does not so much get targeted as does the targeting. But here we have a series of ads directed at the shallow and uninformed – in this case women young enough to be voting for the first time. The world is crashing around our heads, the economy is ruining their very own futures, foreign relations are in massive disrepair with a genuinely misogynist jihad on the rise. But in the US young women are being asked to vote on the narrowest imaginable series of issues that are in no way whatsoever under any likelihood to be changed irrespective of who is elected president, these being the availability of free birth control and abortion virtually on demand.
But never mind all that. What I am raising here is a matter for national pride. These are ads that have had their origin right here in Australia. We have been able to influence such giants in the world as Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama. And if you would like to see the full details of the genealogy of this descent from SH-Y to BHO perhaps via VP, you can read the full article here at Quadrant Online.
Some additional notes: Daddy Dave has advised that some of the irregular readers who have been guided to this post from Powerline may not have appreciated the ironical intent of the text both here and at Quadrant Online. I can see his point. It’s too late now anyway since my 24 hours on the Powerline Picks has now ended but it was uncommonly exciting to have seen it there. And I was aware that it is possible to read the original post – although less so than at Quadrant Online which was the the next link in the chain) – as showing genuine pride in such idiocy but I didn’t really think it mattered. The bloggers at Powerline could obviously see what I was getting at but what I thought would be interesting was for the Americans to recognise that Obama’s campaign team had plagiarised the ads, merely changing the content but stealing the theme. To say that the ads had been plagiarised from Putin was interesting in a pallid sort of way but since the text was in Russian the parallel was less obvious. To see the Australian original ought to have been astonishing.
Moreover, today we had some Russian friends over to the house and they translated the text on the top line of Putin’s ad and it really is the Russian for “Your First Time”! Well then, it is extraordinary. The Russians first and then Obama second really have taken up the same theme and stolen it from Sarah Hanson-Young. And it was only here on Catallaxy in Australia that this was recognised, in a progression when I first put up the original post, then when Token spotted the parallel with SH-Y and finally when the Putin ad was spotted by Infidel Tiger. It’s why reading blogsites like this can be far more interesting than just picking up the paper or watching the news because of the way in which it is interactive. And if there are people who have read the blog and didn’t see that it was not meant to be read straight but was specifically designed to contain a full measure of ironic intent, well that’s just the way it will have to be.
At least Putin used a damn hot chick! The Greens & The Demoncrats scraped the bottom of the barrel!
Nan uestalker
27 Oct 12 at 6:54 pm
At least Putin used a damn hot chick! The Greens & The Demoncrats scraped the bottom of the barrel! …
Nanuestalker
27 Oct 12 at 6:55 pm
Check out the look on her gazing at Bob.
Even creepier than normal.
As she was elected in 2007, I assume she will be up for re-election next election.
South Australia do your duty.
jupes
27 Oct 12 at 6:59 pm
Too right Jupes, that completely creeped me out!
Nanuestalker
27 Oct 12 at 7:06 pm
What’s she doing with her right hand. Looks like: it won’t hurt much if it’s no thicker than this!
Biota
27 Oct 12 at 7:30 pm
Swivel-eyed loon Sarah Hyphen Young is just not credible as the electoral ingenue
Tintarella di Luna
27 Oct 12 at 7:33 pm
If the Americans insist on giving Putin credit, we’ll be forced to invade. I don’t see any other option.
dd
27 Oct 12 at 7:44 pm
Bloody hell. The ick-o-meter redlined hard. Damn thing’s now totally fried.
Oh come on
27 Oct 12 at 7:51 pm
Lol, yeah. Anyone who disagrees with the hard right tosh at Catallaxy must be “shallow and uninformed”. Arrogant idiots.
Jeremy
27 Oct 12 at 7:54 pm
Haven’t you got an ambulance to chase, Jezza?
Oh come on
27 Oct 12 at 7:57 pm
Nothing is ever really “new”, expecially in advertsing:
Ronald Reagan Made A ‘First Time’ Voting Joke 32 Years Before Lena Dunham Did
SteveC
27 Oct 12 at 8:00 pm
Lol, yeah. Anyone who disagrees with the hard right tosh at Catallaxy must be “shallow and uninformed”. Arrogant idiots.
Which of course includes the majority of scientists and economists. You heard it here first: these two demographics are stupid and ignorant. Only alpha males come here, the are the real heroes who will save the world Jeremy. Never mind the fact that the the shallow and uninformed seem pretty good at beating the ass of these alpha males not only in science and economics but also in elections, the media, technology … . Which means that these alpha males are omegas.
Dead Soul
27 Oct 12 at 8:02 pm
Jeremy. Meet Stevieliar QC.
Tiny Dancer
27 Oct 12 at 8:11 pm
You’ve beclowned yourself again.
That’s a joke told by an old bloke. NOT an election ad told by a sluttish looking young woman.
What do you think Obama’s daughters think of that ad?
jupes
27 Oct 12 at 8:14 pm
Oh joy – we’ve been graced with the presence of the chinless, cat loving divorcee who’s also a very learned barrasite!
How’s lavalife been treating you, m’lud?
Rabz
27 Oct 12 at 8:18 pm
“sluttish looking“? How old are you?
SteveC
27 Oct 12 at 8:20 pm
Irrelevant.
Unsubtle tatts = slut.
jupes
27 Oct 12 at 8:24 pm
What are you talking about? Steve just posted a youtube of a Greens ad, which is about as left-wing as you can get.
We’re all very proud that the Greens have exported something.
dd
27 Oct 12 at 8:24 pm
hey cmon rabz, let’s not get personal.
dd
27 Oct 12 at 8:25 pm
How nauseating!
Your first time should be with someone special…a fifty year old black guy…
Anne
27 Oct 12 at 8:28 pm
The same gormless dickhead was boosting the NBN as “da best thing evah” without regards to costs, like a 15 year old kid who wants more porn.
.
27 Oct 12 at 8:36 pm
The left are all in a tizz over it.
And that was it. A one-liner in a bar that was reported by a newspaper. Mind you, nothing else was said about. Was it really sexual nuance back in 1980?
Gab
27 Oct 12 at 8:37 pm
Liberal women in the US – many black – trash Obama’s offensive ‘first time’ gaffe.
C.L.
27 Oct 12 at 8:41 pm
That is not a sexual metaphor, for a man. I’d hate to tell lefties but if you’re a man and sex hurts, your parts are malfunctioning. Seek medical advice.
I’m sure a “working class bar” is where plenty of left wing hipster chicks who are vegan, support gay rights, are for cap and trade etc hang out too…I’m sure Reagan couldn’t of possibly been talking literally to men in that bar…
.
27 Oct 12 at 8:47 pm
Best comment from there Gab
NC Mountain Girl | October 26, 2012 at 7:39 pm
When I was Lena Dunham’s age the feminists motto was Biology is not Destiny. Today the motto appears to be I am my Vagina and nothing else. How sad.
.
27 Oct 12 at 8:52 pm
Dear dear Jeremy, why do you transfer your sad existance to us?
It is moments like this i give you the sage advice a CPOQMG once gave me;
“are you a fvking idiot, did your parents have children or just dumb fvkwits.”
I think there is a life message for you there.
Carpe Jugulum
27 Oct 12 at 8:57 pm
Unlike jeremah????
Dave, his whole shtick is defaming people.
Rabz
27 Oct 12 at 9:02 pm
SHY has the eyes of a classic bunny boiler.
Splatacrobat
27 Oct 12 at 11:06 pm
Dead Soul’s spelling and grammar seem… uncharacteristic. He was alone with that dog.
wreckage
27 Oct 12 at 11:39 pm
Pretty sure Dead Soul used to know the very, very different significance of “beta” and “omega”. He must be out of sorts. Actually, that doesn’t sound very much like him at all.
Happy to be considered an “omega male” myself.
wreckage
27 Oct 12 at 11:43 pm
With all due respect, as an American, I have a hard time putting “giants in the world” and “Obama” in the same sentence.
Reagan’s comment had nothing to do with sex – I remember him saying it. It WAS a big deal for lifelong Democrats to vote for a Republican. Plus, he needed to give them the “I was like you – I did it and I lived to tell”. I don’t recall Reagan ever making any sort of sexual-innuendo or even put-down: that was part of his style. He just “never went there”.
Ken
28 Oct 12 at 2:14 am
Having plenty of scientist friends – yes, the average scientist is just as shortsighted, greedy, money-grubbing, insecure as everyone else.
At least in the US, only about 5% of grants are ever awarded, so it becomes highly political. Friends of mine who do environmental research say that it became clear years ago that there was always money available to prove AGW existed, and none to prove that it didn’t, so that’s what they did (even if they didn’t believe it, they still had to eat).
And of course if there *is* AGW (or at least people believe it exists), then you get lots of interviews with politicians, on the TV, etc. Nothing will get you anonymity faster than saying “Umm, actually, there’s not a problem – you can get on with your daily affairs”.
Ken
28 Oct 12 at 2:37 am
And as far as economists knowing what they’re doing – would you say the world economy the last decade has been doing great?
Ken
28 Oct 12 at 2:40 am
“What I am raising here is a matter for national pride.”
Why on earth would you feel pride over ownership of this tripe? Had a Canuckistani leftie said this I would feel embarrassed, and take pains to disassociate myself from it. Voting for an incumbent leftie is like [OTT. Sinc]
enkidu
28 Oct 12 at 3:41 am
Sarah Hyphenated has her mother’s eyes. She is the love child of Pauline Hanson and John Paul Young. Pauline also had those spooky eyes.
old bloke
28 Oct 12 at 5:00 am
Just for you.
Love
Sarah.
Rudiau
28 Oct 12 at 7:21 am
I wish they’d export themselves. I hear there’s some scorched earth a bit north of Seoul that could use some greening up.
nilk
28 Oct 12 at 7:52 am
They don’t call ‘em “tramp stamps” for nothing, although I prefer the term “tart art”.
The Beer Whisperer
28 Oct 12 at 8:47 am
Credit? For that creepy pile of manure? I’d be DISTANCING myself, personally.
Sure 18 year old virgins make sure your first time is with a 51 year old man. Great message.
LondonDave
28 Oct 12 at 8:49 am
Breathtaking!
Best example of unconscious sexism I’ve seen in a long time. My daughters aren’t impressed – and I’d assume nor are the female students of RMIT.
Soon you’ll be arguing against universal suffrage.
1735099
28 Oct 12 at 9:02 am
Now DS you know that is not true.
You must be feeling a bit out of sorts, as my sainted mother used to say. Another of her folk wisdoms: I’ve got the hump.
Happens to everyone. But why give little twerps like Jeremy ammunition to be a nuisance?
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
28 Oct 12 at 9:12 am
A man telling us what women think – love it.
Sinclair Davidson
28 Oct 12 at 9:18 am
Last time I saw Sarah HY on TV she was still carrying too much conditioning, especially for a vegan, they’re usually pretty thin.
the ad’s dumb.
candy
28 Oct 12 at 9:27 am
Tony Abbott says “Think carefully about the first time”
Definitely an election winning strategy for him. Not.
Tapdog
28 Oct 12 at 9:47 am
Meet Lena Dunham:
No, not a slut at all…
Fleeced
28 Oct 12 at 10:27 am
She shares the same surname as Obama’s mother – another slut.
Can you imagine if Romney’s mother had nudie pics floating around?
Fleeced
28 Oct 12 at 10:29 am
The Kenyan’s ma had a great body in her youth, Fleeced.
Romney’s ma was an aspiring hollywood starlet at one time. True.
JC
28 Oct 12 at 10:32 am
I don’t always vote, but when I do I take the advice of plain looking naked girls eating cake on the toilet.
big dumb fu
28 Oct 12 at 10:36 am
Lets just hope his politics have changed. Fingers crossed.
JC
28 Oct 12 at 10:36 am
@Sinc
No – a man pointing out that Kates is sexist – stating the bleeding obvious. The fact that you’re prepared to defend it says a great deal about your corrupt view of the worth of 50% of the population.
1735099
28 Oct 12 at 10:38 am
Fuck off numbers, you moralizing sanctimonious spud peeler.
JC
28 Oct 12 at 10:40 am
Here’s another parody – by Julie Borowski. It’s quite good.
boy on a bike
28 Oct 12 at 10:43 am
hahaha! That’s excellent, BOAB. Too many lines too good.
Gab
28 Oct 12 at 10:48 am
That, boy on a bike, is laugh out loud funny! That young lady nails it and the dumb blonde pose at the end is just fabulous.
Mick Gold Coast QLD
28 Oct 12 at 10:58 am
Fleeced, did you get that from Donald Trump?
SteveC
28 Oct 12 at 10:59 am
Afraid to believe your “lying eyes”, Steve?
Fleeced
28 Oct 12 at 11:05 am
You’ve got to be kidding – waste of time in this bog. For the usual suspects who post here, if you can’t eat it, drink it, or f**k it, it doesn’t exist.
1735099
28 Oct 12 at 11:14 am
God, I’m sick of intellectual pygmies yelling ‘sexist’ when they are losing a debate or don’t want to have one.
I think it’s time for us men to revel in the title of ‘sexist.’ We hasve to stop this new puritanism in the bud. Pronouncements should be judged on whether they are correct or incorrect. it would seem that people from the left are so worried that if I am allowed to tell an anti-islamic joke, somehow that will lead to murder of mohammedans everywhere and make me an oppressor. Bloody folk-marxists!
Rococo Liberal
28 Oct 12 at 11:24 am
if Donald Trump is releasing pictures of Obama’s mother porn pics and other information about his marriage or soemthing, it’ll only serve to take a few points off Mr Romney,
as it’s akin to the ALP practices and Labor up here especially who almost destroyed themselves saying things like that C. Newman would soon be in jail etc.
candy
28 Oct 12 at 11:25 am
Sarah Peak-Hyphen isn’t a vegan, she’s a vegetarian.
(Old joke: How do you know if someone is a vegan?
Don’t worry, they’ll fucking tell you!)
Dangph
28 Oct 12 at 11:32 am
pics are already out, candy – nothing to do with trump
Fleeced
28 Oct 12 at 11:34 am
fleeced, I chose Trump because he is the most well known buffoon to go for the “mysteries surrounding Obama’s birth”. If you also follow those wacky theories then you are equally a buffoon. Here’s a question for you, was Obama born in Kenya to Obama senior, or is he the son of Frank Marshall Davis?
SteveC
28 Oct 12 at 11:43 am
Still gutter politics though. SO likely to backfire a conspiracist would suspect the dens put them out.
entropy
28 Oct 12 at 11:45 am
@ Rococo Liberal
There there – tanty over?
Rather than the term “sexist” (since it hurts your tender sensibilities) I’ll substitute “thick”.
Anyone generalising the behaviour of one segment of the population in that fashion is either sexist or thick. You chose. In the meantime, I reserve the right to call it when I see it.
1735099
28 Oct 12 at 11:50 am
What do his mum’s nudie pics have to do with his birth?
No mysteries here: Here are the pics.
Have you stopped beating your wife?
Fleeced
28 Oct 12 at 11:59 am
Um, fleeced if you share you email address, I’ve got a contact in Nigeria who needs to get 100 million dollars out of the country, and you can help him.
SteveC
28 Oct 12 at 12:39 pm
The rewarding thing about fleeced’s contribution above is that it will forevere link Catallaxy with the lunar right conspiracy theorsists in web searches.
SteveC
28 Oct 12 at 12:41 pm
Well actually the Kenyan was officially the very first birther having informed/lied to his publisher that he was born in Kenyan. So why take it out on Trump or even Fleeced as it’s not their fault the Kenyan lied to his publisher so that he could portray an exotic background instead of being born in the US.
JC
28 Oct 12 at 3:10 pm
The only person that’s mentioned any conspiracies Steve, is you. The photos I linked to have been around for years – the conspiracy theory (about Obama’s “real father”) you try to impose over their existence is much more recent.
Snopes had the authenticity of the photos listed as “undermined” back in 2009, but has since scrubbed their site of any mention of them.
Fleeced
28 Oct 12 at 3:21 pm
This is fucking hilarious.
JC
28 Oct 12 at 3:23 pm
The lunar right, Steve?
You know who pioneered all the dirt-throwing about Obama?
The Clintons.
C.L.
28 Oct 12 at 3:24 pm
Fleeced is correct, SteveC. Stop acting like Kimberly’s, the plastic sex doll loving, idiot.
Trump had nothing to do with those pics as they’ve been around since 2009 which is when I first saw them too.
JC
28 Oct 12 at 3:26 pm
Are those nudie pics for real?
Isn’t there some debate about whether that’s really her?
C.L.
28 Oct 12 at 3:28 pm
that’s true, CL. But I also think it is important to note that the Kenyan himself was a pioneering birther.
It’s a funny old world when you have leftwing trolls like SteveC and the Spudpeeler accusing people of making up conspiracy theories about the Kenyan as he (the Kenyan) was making up bullshit that he was born in Kenya when he wanted to create an exotic image of himself rather than plain old Hawaii.
JC
28 Oct 12 at 3:32 pm
We don’ t really know if they are real, as the Kenyan won’t say.
I’m with Snopes until they got rid of them. They’re undetermined.
JC
28 Oct 12 at 3:34 pm
Spite, venom and envy. The underpinning of the Western left on exhibit with SteveC Kimberly plastic sex doll lover.
JC
28 Oct 12 at 3:36 pm
Steve K, you might have to add a disclaimer that you’re being sarcastic about the national pride bit, and Obama being a giant. Some of our first-time American visitors seem to be taking you at face value.
dd
28 Oct 12 at 4:15 pm
Well for better or for worse, you’ve managed to rectify that…
sdog
28 Oct 12 at 4:21 pm
It’s fairly obvious the photos are not for real (well they are real photos, but there is no evidence whatsoever they are Ann Dunham). And to continue to post them puts you in the same class as the lowlifes that originally posted them.
People who believe that stuff live in an alternative universe along with Donald Trump. Have a look at “Dreams from my real father” if you want to see how loopy the pushers of the photos are.
I thought you were brighter than that, JC. But ot appears I was mistaken.
Do you know where the photos were purported to have been taken?
SteveC
28 Oct 12 at 7:01 pm
Here you go:
http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com.au/2008/10/naughty-obama-mamma.html
As I say, if you believe that stuff, then my contact with the large buckets of cash in Nigeria is keen to talk to you.
SteveC
28 Oct 12 at 7:07 pm
SteveC, what are your thoughts on the President’s failure to provide assistance to US personnel in Benghazi while under attack after repeated requests for assistance, which ensured the deaths of Woods and Doherty and probably Stevens?
dover_beach
28 Oct 12 at 7:16 pm
You go first d-b, what are your thoughts on the photos posted by Fleeced and given lukewarm support by JC and CL?
SteveC
28 Oct 12 at 7:30 pm
SteveC, Americans obviously didn’t care as much about those photos as you do – since they were circulating before the 2008 election and obviously made not a jot of difference.
I’m a little concerned as to why you’re so fixated on them though, to tell the truth. Does Kimberly know about this?
sdog
28 Oct 12 at 7:36 pm
Sorry, but I take the deaths of an Ambassador, a foreign service officer, and the men tasked with their protection, the failure to answer repeated requests for assistance, and the subsequent dissembling and lies of this President and his Administration more seriously, than your offended sensibility.
dover_beach
28 Oct 12 at 7:38 pm
…subsequent dissembling and lies of this President …
If Obama wins the election and, despite the cover up, it is subsequently found that HE was the one who gave the order not to send help to Libya on 9/11, then he will be forced to resign in disgrace.
Step forward President Biden!
Someone should make that clear to the American public.
jupes
28 Oct 12 at 7:48 pm
C-man, thanks for the skin photos of Barack’s baby momma. Awesome find.
Abu Chowdah
28 Oct 12 at 7:59 pm
I’ve put some additional notes into the post itself and will repeat the same here:
Steve Kates
29 Oct 12 at 12:51 am
The snopes article on the purported Ann Dunham Obama Soetero pictures initially stated that the photos were of Marcy Moore, an artiste known to have posed for similar saucy photos. However, following comparisons by connoisseurs of the female form, they withdrew this statement and left the matter as undetermined. They certainly are not of Marcy Moore. The linked article contains unsubstantiated claims of when and where the pics were shot, but short of someone actually owning up to taking them and having the negatives, the truth will never be known.
Cold-Hands
29 Oct 12 at 1:54 am
[...] note this post from Australia about the original origins of this ad [...]
Lena Dunham: Your First Time PARODY | Western Free Press
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