If this is a parody, and I am now 99% convinced that it is thanks to EA’s crack commentariat, I have some further observations to follow-up on the previous post, written while I was in a state of web-hoax-induced confusion:
- The main reason I fell for this is confirmation bias. In my view, it is only slightly more ridiculous and tone deaf than many other genuine aspects of Harris campaign, her rhetoric, and her general contempt for the intelligence of the American people. I didn’t suspect for a second that the video was satire—that’s how little respect I have for Harris, her staff and her party at this point. I won’t apologize for that; it is deserved.
- The main thing that set me up to be punked is the absurd attempt by Democrats and the Axis media to frame Harris’s silly (and quite possibly domestic abuser) husband as some kind of role model for the 21st Century non-toxic male, and the equally ridiculous characterization of Knucklehead Walz as “America’s Dad.” Those parody manly-men are no less credible than Walz and Doug.
- I was informed of the video by several previously reliable “Harris craziness” hawks, and I’m pretty sure they were fooled too. But I’m supposed to be more trustworthy than they are.
- That a former Jimmy Kimmel writer circulated the thing should have tipped me off, as well as the fact that it was on TikTok. Kimmel is pure scum, an ethics corrupter, and anyone who would take a check from that creep is inherently suspect.
- Ethics Alarms has fallen for hoaxes before, not many, but a few. In each case, it has been the result of satire that did not sufficiently announce itself as satire. This is unethical. Fooling people is one thing; fooling them to the extent that they act on false information is something else, and indefensible. The claim by such sowers of chaos is always that those fooled were at fault, because it is “obvious” that the hoax was a joke. Wrong. It is the ethical obligation of anyone who plants a deliberate lie for a humorous purpose to state, clearly and unmistakably, that the satire is not fact.
- Releasing a video like that in a political campaign is particularly heinous, and is the kind of misconduct that creates support for censorship.
Ethics Alarms 
I didn’t suspect for a second that the video was satire …
You are forgiven. Sometimes the source material is beyond satire.
Besides, I fell for it, too.
How could the Harris campaign be unaware of this video? Has the Harris campaign disavoed this video? It falls so well inline with Barry’s advice to the men blacker than him.
“I eat carburetors for breakfast?”
Pure, over the top … something.
The Babylon Bee is having an easy field day, a turkey shoot, given how preposterous the entire Harris collage is.
John Hinderaker at Power Line is still convinced this is a genuine Harris ad…and who know? It might be. But it has recieved so much ridicule that the campaign will deny it anyway.
This twitter post seems to have the receipts:
https://x.com/joma_gc/status/1844793372692848872
Based on Greg’s link why would Kimmel’s writer direct this ad? Kimmel is a card carrying TDS member. That would suggest this is not satire but an ad promoting Harris. The problem is that I heard no disclaimers that it was not associated with any party or campaign nor did it have the required statement from the candidate. That alone means it is just some stupid tik toc video
Right. Apparently not intended as satire, but also an independent pro-Harris ad by an idiot, and not fairly attributed to the Harris campaign.
That is how I read it. I don’t see how this is satire or parody. It doesn’t go beyond what Harris’ people have stated (except for the ‘I eat carburetors for breakfast’ and that is in line with the ‘Walz can rebuild a car by himself’ that is being purported). It isn’t like the parody Harris ad that has her state that she is a ‘Deep State Puppet’, etc.
I put this in the category of a recent Democrat turned Republican candidate who professed her undying love for the NRA. This is a Democrat trying to write a ‘manly’ script. It is a lot more cringe than the independent Trump ads, which are typically funnier. I need to find the one that said ‘We need to rid the country of politicians who hate America’ and the first one shown was Mitch McConnell.