Warning: You Cannot Un-See John Oliver’s Anti-Mitch McConnell ‘Old White Dick’ Commercial
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FAIR WARNING: If you are offended by images or discussion of "fiddly bits," DO NOT CLICK on the links in this thread, most particularly the YOUTUBE one below. I can't make it much clearer than that.
Well, apparently I CAN make it clearer than that-- we have one DUer who doesn't know what "fiddly bits" are--so...to be brutally clear, they are GENITALIA. If you don't like seeing OLD, wrinkly genitals, do NOT click on the links in this thread. If you're unclear what "genitals" are, use Google. Oh, and if you work in a place where you're allowed to sit at your computer and watch YOUTUBES all day, this is "NSFW" as well! So don't click on those links if you will get in trouble for looking at old genitals! [/font]
That said, I watched this Oliver episode in mixed company including people who were closer to 100 than 50, and they laughed their asses off. In fact, I was asked to rewind the Mitch McConnell commercial so they could watch it again.
http://thedailybanter.com/2014/05/warning-you-cannot-un-see-john-olivers-anti-mitch-mcconnell-old-white-dick-commercial/
Former The Daily Show correspondent and fill-in host John Oliver has been spreading his wings for three weeks now on HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and in his third outing, offered an example of the benefits of pay TV. In a bit demonstrating the logical extension of today’s negative political ads, Oliver took advantage of HBO’s nudity standards by producing a mock attack ad against “old, white, wrinkled dick” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) that hits the nail right on the… head.
If you liked John Oliver’s turn as The Daily Show‘s fill-in host, then Last Week Tonight is right up your alley, but Oliver’s attempt to achieve balance here may give pause to some. Oliver also produced a mock ad against McConnell’s opponent, which features Kentucky Secretary of State Allison Lundergan Grimes (D-KY) slaughtering coal miners with a chainsaw. There isn’t even remote equivalence between Democrats’ and Republicans’ campaign ads, but on the other hand, neither is there equivalence in the mock ads that Oliver produced.
One look at the McConnell ad and it’s pretty obvious whose side Oliver is on. No one will come away from this bit thinking that Allison Lundergan Grimes is going to slaughter coal miners, but the Mitch McConnell spot has Richter-scale resonance. Spoiler alert: the ad features an actual old, white, wrinkled dick:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1upr20_mitch_fun?start=37
*****Youtube link removed because those humorless jerks took the video down--the Daily Motion link above has the video, intact (as it were)******
....If this seems a bit over-the-top (as well as below the belt), consider the context in which this ad must stand out. Oliver prefaced the bit by running down some other recent batshit campaign ads, including Joni Ernst’s threat to castrate fellow lawmakers in DC, tea party senate candidate Bob Quast’s jokey ode to blowing the balls off of whoever raped and murdered his sister, Republican congressional candidate John Stone’s (R-GA) threat to go cannon-ballistic in the House if need be, and, for some reason, a 2012 campaign ad by Rep. John Barrow (D-GA) that was, itself, the basis for a recent attack ad by gun control advocates.....
I must say, I find it amusing that the article essentially states that it is obvious that the Lundergran Grimes bit is parody, but then whines in a suggestion that it is "unfair" that the parody piece about McConnell "resonates." Maybe if the....errrrr.... shoe, or whatever, didn't fit quite so well, McConnell wouldn't be expected to wear it...?
Like I said...FAIR WARNING!!!!!
And if you didn't see the most recent Oliver episode, I recommend it!
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Though I didn't need to be reminded about THIS particular portion of the show 
Keep em comin' MADem! The pig is GOP stock film!
ETA: the piggy is at the 1:24 mark…
There was NO doubt as to the content of this video.
It would figure that there are also some who don't know what NSFW is. 
I thought it was funny and a little true. Thanx MADem. 
I thought it would be appreciated here....and other places where, sadly, the Voice of That Particular Turtle is heard in the land!!!
to have seen the add for the models for the skit.
They definitely caught his essence!!!!
But yes indeed, I take your point completely. Despite the raddled view, the concept of equal opportunity disregard is .... errrr.... refreshing, in a somewhat perverse way!
The times, as old Mister Dylan sang, they are a changin'!
The "jiggling" is burned into my brain... 
John Oliver noted that Kentucky has the largest percentage of residents without internet access... 28%
Funny but not sad!!!!!!!! http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/05/john-oliver-interview-last-week-tonight-mitch-mcconnell-old-wrinkly-penis-attack-ad
MJ: Whose idea was it, if you recall, and whose penis did you use?
JO: Okay, those are two excellent questions. The first one, I'm not sure, and it might help to just (go with) collective responsibility. I don't want to go with a sort of "I am Spartacus" moment but I think plausible deniability might be useful at that point. The second is the much more interesting question. And that is that, of course, you do need to cast a penis. And to do that you have to be presented with a selection of penii—I don't know if that's the collective term. And so then what you're looking for—it's amazing—when you look at then you start judging them for the purpose, because you want something that is funny but not sad. Because, you know, a sad penis does not help the comedy. No, it makes you think about the person the penis is attached to. So really, you just want a representative old man penis. And I'm not sure that sentence...has ever been said out loud before...We got to one that we liked, and the owner of that penis was generous enough to model it for us.
MJ: How did you get to one you liked? Like, what is the process of "getting" penii?
JO: We went through photos. It was basically the penis version of a headshot.
MJ: So this was like models?
JO: Models, basically. And you go through and say, "This one's good, this one's good, let's get down to a short-list. Okay, it's between these three. Um. I like this one." And then what you do is you make a decision, you walk out of a room, and you stare out a window and question what the fuck you're doing with your life...That's basically how it goes.
MJ: I'm assuming you weren't in the room when they shot it?
JO: I actually wasn't because we were having to write...But apparently the man was very happy...I just came back and our editor, she had to live with that footage for a few days, but she did a fantastic job.
MJ: Has she recovered, psychologically?
JO: Yeah, she was very good. She's called Cori [McKenna], and she actually edited both the commercials...The other commercial was basically a chainsaw massacre in a mine involving a kitten, and I think she found that slightly less alarming to cut together than a sequence of beautiful tracking shots of an old man's junk.
Imagine having THAT on your resume, or that image in your "headshots" book!
… But, not if they're legislated by THAT dick!