Comments on: You Know, I Never Thought I’d Say This

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:47:39 +0000

I like the pic definitely a surprise to me..
Jessica Alba at her best! I am still not voting though!

By: Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:15:30 +0000

Thanks, jk. That “racism” thing jumped out at me, too. Yikes.

Voter caging and disenfranchising is almost always aimed at people of color. That’s ACTUALLY racism. And it’s almost always done by the GOP. There was just a story out of Michigan recently about the Michigan GOP coming to polling places with lists of foreclosed homes so they could challenge voters who had lost their homes. Classy.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:53:37 +0000

Torture-porn. Gross.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:52:55 +0000

I’ll just throw out that I hate the whole campaign myself - I seriously feel like the people that are going to vote, will vote and I don’t think you’re scaring anyone else into doing it by putting pictures of Jessica Alba in various states of bondage.

Unless, of course, upcoming actresses are like, “Omg, if we don’t vote, we’re gonna end up like her!!”

By: rec

rec — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:42:18 +0000

SHE LOOKS LIKE A PIG. COULDN’T THEY PHOTOSHOPPED THAT BACK FATNESS AND MAKE HER NECK LONGER. SHE LOOKS LIKE SHE GOT NO NECK. VERY UNFLATTERING I IMAGINE WHAT SHE SAID AFTER SEEING THAT?
“EWWW” JUST EWW SERIOUSLY.

By: Norma

Norma — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:34:13 +0000

This is really creepy looking.

By: cj

cj — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:13:09 +0000

Granted, I’m not a video-obsessed college-age boy, but I just don’t get what this picture has to do with voting or how it would get anyone to vote. The message is incoherent and the photo is absurd and yes, disturbing. I don’t know, maybe it will work for a few people, but there has to be a better way. And yes, you should still vote if you don’t live in a swing state. A little participation won’t hurt anyone.

By: verbatim

verbatim — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:58:09 +0000

Certainly an attention grabber (for all of three seconds) but I doubt it will succeed in encouraging anyone to vote. It says more about today’s celebrity culture than the actual message it tries to convey. Why worry about politics, history, and the outside world when you’ve got your nice cosy little cocoon of triviality? Unfortunately there is no surefire way to endorse voting; show a shocking picture of what life is like for those in countries without the privilege and you’ll scare people away, offer them a history lesson and they’ll deem it too long and boring (we’re the ADD generation, after all), shove a celebrity on the cover and the only thing they’ll remember or even notice is the celebrity in question. What to do???

By: jk

jk — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:09:52 +0000

So, Jay-Z (a black man) can’t give a free concert to support a candidate (a black man) without someone calling discrimination and racism? And I suppose the NASCAR voter drives at racing venues (backed by the RNC) aren’t trying to register a certain “type” of voter.

Grow up. Then read about voter caging and realize that the republicans are actually trying to take away the vote of “certain kinds of people.”

By: torie

torie — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:02:41 +0000

i agree with beet. and ads like this kind of annoy me in that they get people who would ordinarily have sided with whatever cause to get fed up and walk away. i’m still gonna vote, obviously, but i don’t know that anybody’s mind will be changed by a picture of jessica alba with duct tape all over her. if anything, it’ll make a couple of eighteen-year-old boys stay home and watch movies.

By: frogirl1978

frogirl1978 — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:53:06 +0000

Its sad that the only way to connect with video game tv obsessed youth is over the top violence. The admen probs figured that since SAW had UNBELIEVABLY gone on to make FIVE movies, that the whole torture porn thing is really popular

By: Veronica

Veronica — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:43:54 +0000

What I don’t like about them is that they aren’t trying to get people to vote, they’re trying to get the to vote for Democrats, because there are still those who haven’t bothered to re-read how the electoral college works, and they’re still ignorant and think an election was “stolen.” As a Libertarian, hell, I hope the ignorant don’t vote!

There will be a free Jay-Z concert this weekend in Detroit, to get people to vote. It’s clear they expect people to register as and vote for Democrats. Nothing like a little discrimination and racism perpetuated by Democrats, all waved under the “get out and vote” mantra.