The eagle-eyed mistress of… well, of getting drunk alone and yelling at the TV, I guess. Whatever she’s mistress of, Ann Althouse has spotted some deeply nefarious doings by the ever shrewish and threatening Hitlery Clinton campaign. In the much noted 3AM ad, the innocent lad who’s fortunes are left in the able hands of Sen. Clinton (or else!) is wearing pajamas with a dark secret!

goodnight2.jpg[I am foamingly outraged about] “NIG” isolated on a sleeping child’s shoulder in an ad intended to create doubts about a black man’s ability to take an urgent phone call at 3 a.m., an ad authorized by a candidate who has already heard accusations that her campaign is slipping racial material into its attacks on her opponent.

This is either a revolting outrage or shocking incompetence.

Shocking indeed! What candidate can survive the inextricable linkage between a sleeping child’s pajamas and part of a bad word? Her readers, shallow dupes, are suspicious:

IN THE COMMENTS: Some controversy, of course. I know this is hard to take. But let me front page this one, from Mortimer Brezny, who is responding to a commenter who said: “[F]or subliminal messaging to be effective, I think it has to be intelligible. In this case, you really have to fill in the dots (reconstruct the right-half of the G) to make it so. If it had said NIC, would there be an issue, because you could imagine C => G?”

Indeed there would, Mortimer’s wise interlocutor. Obama is a known smoker, and if there’s one thing America can tolerate less than a dark-skinned President, it’s one who is insufficiently conscientious about his cardiovascular health. “NIC”, short for “Nicotine”, would be a heavy subliminal storm for the Obama camp to weather.

I fear, though, that we must reach an even more shocking conclusion: the letters on the Pajamas — if correctly reconstructed — spell the word “Onion”, as in the troubled, unreliable bully so familiar to America through his strife-filled appearances in the beloved comic strip Curtis. America, Hillary Clinton appears to be saying, do you want this man to be your next president?

 

curtis_deroni.gif“Forget stoopid Iran, President “Onion”! Let’s engage in anodyne pranks intended to suggest juvenile delinquency to easily terrified geriatric newspaper consumers!”

 

 

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… Althouse, dizzy from the stereo ping-pong of the voices in her head, continues to bravely follow the trail:

Wouldn’t they notice the lettering and freeze frame it to make sure it doesn’t say anything that might be used to hurt the candidate? And once you do that and try to read it, aren’t you going to see “NIG”?

No, and no. It says “Onion”.

Now, try to imagine the scenario at this point.
Scenario #1: They feel a little guilty, but they know their candidate is desperate, and they think they might stimulate the anti-Obama vote and decide to run with it. If anyone tries to talk about it, we’ll trash them. They’re crazy!

Yes indeed, Ann. They are out to get you!