OK seriously, everyone, WTF is up with Brangelinanistongate '08?
Beg pardon, but the intense interest in this petty love triangle escapes me in the way a good card trick does—I see it, I know it's happened and that there's a way it happened, and yet I have no idea how. How did these three peoples' intertwined relationships become not just global news, but news in which many seem to have an emotional investment? Why do we (as a trashy society? Nation? World?) care?
I started drinking and theorizing and have come up with the following:
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(Click image to enlarge) Not to sound get Oliver Stone-y on you guys, but does this still from a McCain ad Higher have people in the background holding up letters to spell the word "hang?"
And before everyone goes nuts, yes, it's obviously a piece of Obama's "change" slogan that is being held aloft, but the ad never pulls back the dark edges of the shot to reveal it.
See the spot for yourself, after the jump:
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