You Have Got To Be F’n Kidding

By fitsnews • on December 23, 2008

Seriously, people. The irritation you are about to experience is our fault.

We knew we shouldn’t have flipped from the Packers-Bears game last night, but we did … somehow ending up on Lifetime TV where Aaron Sorkin’s The American President just happened to be playing.

And in case you ever wondered what they’re trying to sell people who watch Lifetime TV while The American President is playing, it just so happens to be our latest Barack Obama assimilation update, the Historic Victory Plate.

“Commemorating the day the world changed forever,” the Historic Victory Plate is not only real (i.e. not a joke), but it’s “crafted of fine porcelain, and richly-accented in 22 carat gold trim.”

Seriously, people, the only thing this ad is missing is Ricardo MontalbÃ¡n doing the narration …

Yeah … that is not an SNL skit.

“His confident smile and kind eyes are an inspiration to us all???”

Are you kidding???

Anyway, other than that little gem, the best part of the ad is when the announcer tells us that the Historic Victory Plate has been “strictly limited to just sixty-five firing days.”

“After that, the die will be destroyed forever.”

The good news?

We’re guessing these things make great clay pigeons …

Update – Awwww, lighten up Secret Service. The “clay pigeons” thing was a joke …

Comments

By Snead on December 23rd, 2008 at 1:26 am

This was funny when it was a Lewis Black bit. Like a month ago.

By reprobate on December 23rd, 2008 at 9:01 am

I wonder if it can be delivered in time for Christmas? Got to have something to put my ham biscuits on.

By FWFIV on December 23rd, 2008 at 9:22 am

I believe these types of things are sold for all incoming presidents, here is a link for you to get a W. dish.

http://www.georgewbushstore.com/406-3300.htm

By Soup Kitchen Asks on December 23rd, 2008 at 10:18 am

Can you buy placesettings for say, 300?

By Mickey Blue Eyes on December 23rd, 2008 at 12:17 pm

I know what you mean! When I first saw the commercial, I thew up a little in my mouth.

What’s also interesting is that of all the couples admiring their Chairman O commemorative plate all except one pair were Caucasian, and looked like they were in (at least) a middle-class bourgeois surrounding. I think the message of the commercial is buy Chairman O’s “Victory Plate” and hang it on the wall (ala Mussolini’s or Hitler’s or Stalin’s or FDR’s portrait in 1930-40s Italy, Germany, Russia, and America, respectively) and practice gazing at His portrait admiringly so you might not get sent to the re-education camp.

Then again, Time magazine announced that Chairman O was their “Man of the Year”, naturally. The cover features the ubiquitous portrait of Chairman O that really creeps me out. I mean, it looks an awful lot like Soviet, or the like, propaganda imagery.