First the original ad, created by the forces of wing-nuttia, or the National Organization for Marriage (Oh, the gays! If they can get married, then my life will be ruined!!!! And the sky is falling!!!):
And then came the truth…
CNN weighs in…
And the Maddow Treatment…
And the mockery…
UPDATE:
Hello! I'm Alice, which is my real name (most of the other names here have been changed, though, to protect the innocent). I live in an almost-100-year-old house in downtown Chattanooga, TN with my first husband, G-Dog (who is from New Canaan, CT), and a cockapoo named Nonnie (the moniker comes from a Laurens van der Post book). We have one kid (that we know of) -- a daughter, Emmie, who plays a supporting role on the blog. She's off being a student, but she pops in often enough to keep things interesting.
I originally hale from Batavia, NY, a quiet little town in rural western New York. G-Dog and I met while attending college in Carlisle, PA, and then moved on to Chapel Hill, NC together before finally settling in Tennessee. Other places we've lived in long enough to have a mailing address include London and San Francisco.
This blog is about a lot of things -- the places I visit, things I cook, people I meet, photos I take, things I read, and -- of course, politics. I'm an unrepentant, arugula-eating, progressive, liberal, lefty, euro-loving, educated elitist and I'm looking forward to an administration that doesn't raise my blood pressure quite as often as the outgoing one did...
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Y’know, some tend to think of comparisons with Hitler/nazism as hyperbole, but the spoof that put swastika badges on the performers was right on. I got a bit of a shock at seeing a black man at the end of this ad the first time I saw it. How could he? I thought. He’s supporting the same carefully worded claims that held his own race down and that led to and got away with murder.
When are people going to grow up and move on. I just don’t understand the anti-marriage argument. Why is it anyone else’s business? Oy…