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(National Review) Weird NRO profiles heroic smoker-patriot Mark Block. What is it with conservative men and Marlboro Lights? Don't they know the only people who smoke them are women and European DJs? He may as well be wearing a skirt and twirling a glow stick   (nationalreview.com) divider line 71
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strathcona [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 02:58:04 PM
Shiat, do they get down and fellate him by the end of the interview?
 
j4x [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 03:44:14 PM
All the cool kids are smoking 27's.
 
Diogenes [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 03:45:18 PM
Marlboros?

Sloppy. Cain's in the pocket of RJ Reynolds, not Phillip Morris.
 
Diogenes [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 03:46:09 PM
It truly is a terrible campaign ad.

But it's a fantastic anti-smoking ad!
 
robmilmel [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 04:09:02 PM
Meet Mark Block, Cain's unorthodox campaign manager. Perhaps no one is more responsible for the Georgia businessman's meteoric rise in the presidential polls than Block, a Republican strategist and tea party leader who's left a trail of questionable campaign work behind him.

Block has been accused of voter suppression and was banned from running Wisconsin political campaigns for three years to settle accusations he coordinated a judge's re-election campaign with a special interest group.

Records show Block has faced foreclosure on his home, a tax warrant by the Internal Revenue Service and a lawsuit for an unpaid bill. He also acknowledges he was arrested twice for drunken driving.

Block engineered a comeback when he was hired in 2005 as the Wisconsin director of Americans for Prosperity, the group founded by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch. He also helped organize the tea party in Wisconsin and in that role met Cain, the former Godfather's Pizza chief executive who'd come aboard as a speaker after a failed U.S. Senate campaign in Georgia.
 
Headso
2011-10-28 04:34:27 PM
He is showing how much of a baller he is. Because smokes cost more than cocaine these days.
 
Rapmaster2000
2011-10-28 04:36:46 PM
From skimming the article, I have learned that smoking is now a heroic act. Finally, some recognition for all my hard work.
 
Boxcutta
2011-10-28 04:37:20 PM
♫ I am America... Once voice, united we stand... ♫

/now it's in your head again, muahahahaha.
 
farscape
2011-10-28 04:37:23 PM
Cowboy killers, Triple K's, Reds.

/Man up.
 
jchuffyman
2011-10-28 04:38:12 PM
Just bought a pack of Marlboro lights so im getting........

/for under 2 bucks
 
Duke Phillips' Singing Bears
2011-10-28 04:39:32 PM
I quit being a hero a few months ago. It was hard. Because I'm so naturally inclined towards heroism. You could say I was addicted to it. Does that make me a better man than most? Maybe... maybe.
 
DarnoKonrad
2011-10-28 04:39:45 PM
Glad I wasn't the only one on that train of thought subby. He came off like a guy that was telling crackheads how extreme a couple red bulls are. Didn't even look like he inhaled for that matter.
 
Dusk-You-n-Me [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 04:40:24 PM
30.media.tumblr.com
 
yert
2011-10-28 04:42:51 PM
Obama smokes Marlboro lights

/is that the joke
//funny it is not
 
tolallorti
2011-10-28 04:46:50 PM
Kamel Reds because I'm an elitist piece of shiat.
 
N. A. Coffey
2011-10-28 04:47:03 PM
yert: Obama smokes Marlboro lights

/is that the joke
//funny it is not

I thought he quit?
 
Rapmaster2000
2011-10-28 04:48:23 PM
tolallorti: Kamel Reds because I'm an elitist piece of shiat.

They still sell those? I haven't seen them 10 years.
 
Karma Chameleon
2011-10-28 04:49:26 PM
Diogenes: It truly is a terrible campaign ad.

But it's a fantastic anti-smoking ad!

It may be terrible, but a shiat-ton of people are talking about it, so it was a success.
 
tolallorti
2011-10-28 04:51:39 PM
Rapmaster2000: tolallorti: Kamel Reds because I'm an elitist piece of shiat.

They still sell those? I haven't seen them 10 years.

They're at most liquor stores/smoke shops, at least where I live.
 
Edsel
2011-10-28 04:51:49 PM
Karma Chameleon: Diogenes: It truly is a terrible campaign ad.

But it's a fantastic anti-smoking ad!

It may be terrible, but a shiat-ton of people are talking about it, so it was a success.

Politics is not like other advertising - even if it generates buzz, if it makes your campaign look comical and stupid it is most certainly NOT a success.

For example: Dukakis in a tank. Got a lot of people talking about it, but in a very, very bad way.
 
Diogenes [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 04:52:48 PM
Karma Chameleon: Diogenes: It truly is a terrible campaign ad.

But it's a fantastic anti-smoking ad!

It may be terrible, but a shiat-ton of people are talking about it, so it was a success.

I don't subscribe to the "all publicity is good publicity" philosophy.

Although in Cain's case, he's not really running for President. So it may have helped his personal agenda ($$$AW$$$AW).
 
Diogenes [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 04:53:24 PM
Edsel: Karma Chameleon: Diogenes: It truly is a terrible campaign ad.

But it's a fantastic anti-smoking ad!

It may be terrible, but a shiat-ton of people are talking about it, so it was a success.

Politics is not like other advertising - even if it generates buzz, if it makes your campaign look comical and stupid it is most certainly NOT a success.

For example: Dukakis in a tank. Got a lot of people talking about it, but in a very, very bad way.

As I said, I suppose it all hinges on what you were trying to accomplish with the ad.
 
karmaceutical
2011-10-28 04:54:40 PM
Only girls smoke anything with a white filter...
 
shroom [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 04:57:08 PM
"You know how Cain fits into the equation."

upload.wikimedia.org
 
HotIgneous Intruder
2011-10-28 04:58:20 PM
Typical pasty-faced middle-aged white guy who suckles at the teat of the political-government establishment who will have his retirement assets decimated in 14 years when he finds out he have cancer and will have to resort to Medicaid and Medicare to stay alive.
 
HeartBurnKid
2011-10-28 05:00:07 PM
Edsel: Karma Chameleon: Diogenes: It truly is a terrible campaign ad.

But it's a fantastic anti-smoking ad!

It may be terrible, but a shiat-ton of people are talking about it, so it was a success.

Politics is not like other advertising - even if it generates buzz, if it makes your campaign look comical and stupid it is most certainly NOT a success.

For example: Dukakis in a tank. Got a lot of people talking about it, but in a very, very bad way.

Actually, that goes for a lot of things, not just politics.

For example: David Arquette, WCW Champion. Vince Russo to this day will defend that by saying "It got people talking!" Unfortunately, it only got people talking about how utterly lame WCW was for making David Arquett their champion.
 
HotIgneous Intruder
2011-10-28 05:00:24 PM
HotIgneous Intruder: Typical pasty-faced middle-aged white guy who suckles at the teat of the political-government establishment who will have his retirement assets decimated in 14 years when he finds out he has cancer and will have to resort to Medicaid and Medicare to stay alive.

Also will Social Security benefits and food stamps.

/The future of America, people.
 
Karma Chameleon
2011-10-28 05:02:10 PM
Diogenes: Karma Chameleon: Diogenes: It truly is a terrible campaign ad.

But it's a fantastic anti-smoking ad!

It may be terrible, but a shiat-ton of people are talking about it, so it was a success.

I don't subscribe to the "all publicity is good publicity" philosophy.

Although in Cain's case, he's not really running for President. So it may have helped his personal agenda ($$$AW$$$AW).

Exactly, it's going to reinforce the Derpers' view of him as a rogue badass, flaunting convention. More donations, attention, etc. Meanwhile rational folk are just going to become more entrenched in the fact that the dude is a loon. Nothing is lost, but something is gained.
 
Fart_Machine
2011-10-28 05:04:53 PM
As long as folks are talking about Herman Cain, pumping oxygen into the shoestring campaign, he's winning.

www.up-video.com
 
moops
2011-10-28 05:05:34 PM
I hope he gets cancer soon.
 
azazyel
2011-10-28 05:10:43 PM
Marlboro lights were called Tampons or Sorority biatch Lights back in college
 
clovis69
2011-10-28 05:10:52 PM
Real Republicans smoke Camel Straights.

Personally I liked Noblesse, the cigarette of the IDF and guys from Hamas and Hezbollah in Israeli prison.
 
HotIgneous Intruder
2011-10-28 05:12:42 PM
Herman Cain's chief of staff does not have an office in which he can smoke?
That does not bespeak of power.

/A real mover and shaker, he is.
//Keep splitting the right-wing resources, smoking dude!
 
Cat With Two Heads
2011-10-28 05:14:14 PM
tolallorti: Kamel Reds because I'm an elitist piece of shiat.

Elitist? Oh no, friend. Oh no. There are more elitism in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your cigarette. I quit smoking, but when I did, my cigarettes were handrolled with glueless recycled hemp papers, surrounding a perfect cylinder of air-dried imported Scandinavian shag, lit via match not lighter.

Kamel Reds? From a gas station? How pedestrian.
 
CalamitousCrasher
2011-10-28 05:15:55 PM
karmaceutical: Only girls smoke anything with a white filter...

i643.photobucket.com
 
Benni K Rok
2011-10-28 05:18:50 PM
strathcona: Shiat, do they get down and fellate him by the end of the interview?

I thought that was done before the interview, and then the flavor would deterimne the quality of the writing.

/I think I just thew up in my mouth a little.
 
HotIgneous Intruder
2011-10-28 05:21:21 PM
If he was a real man he'd smoke Gitanes (new window NSFW) no-filters.
 
Needlessly Complicated
2011-10-28 05:29:20 PM
"Mark Block, we had this light switch installed for you so that you could turn the lights on and off, not so you could throw light switch raves."
 
twat_waffle
2011-10-28 05:36:30 PM
karmaceutical: Only girls smoke anything with a white filter...

Marlboro Lights don't have a white filter. Ultra Lights do.

/smokes Natural American Spirit full flavor menthol
//elitist
///Got a taste for menthol when I smoked pot
 
skullkrusher
2011-10-28 05:46:39 PM
Camel Lights in my smoking days. Marlboro Lights taste like monkey shiat.
Not that I'd know.
NTTAWTT
 
Thrag
2011-10-28 05:48:16 PM
shroom: "You know how Cain fits into the equation."

Pitcher?
 
BSABSVR
2011-10-28 05:51:55 PM
yert: Obama smokes Marlboro lights

/is that the joke
//funny it is not

Republicans don't typically portray Obama as manly due to his smoking.
 
BSABSVR
2011-10-28 05:53:36 PM
Karma Chameleon: Diogenes: It truly is a terrible campaign ad.

But it's a fantastic anti-smoking ad!

It may be terrible, but a shiat-ton of people are talking about it, so it was a success.

Eh. It's a minor internet sensation. Remember the staying power that Mike Gravel's weird-ass ads gave him?
 
twat_waffle
2011-10-28 05:56:09 PM
BSABSVR: Karma Chameleon: Diogenes: It truly is a terrible campaign ad.

But it's a fantastic anti-smoking ad!

It may be terrible, but a shiat-ton of people are talking about it, so it was a success.

Eh. It's a minor internet sensation. Remember the staying power that Mike Gravel's weird-ass ads gave him?

Mike who?
 
Cat With Two Heads
2011-10-28 06:00:08 PM
twat_waffle: /smokes Natural American Spirit full flavor menthol
//elitist

Dictionary.com: e·lit·ist /ɪˈlitɪst eɪˈli‐/ Show Spelled[ih-lee-tist ey-lee‐] Show IPA adjective
1.(of a person or class of persons) considered superior by others or by themselves, as in intellect, talent, power, wealth, or position in society:

Cat With Two Heads: Oh no, friend.
 
blahpers
2011-10-28 06:01:08 PM
NRO profiles heroic smoker-patriot

Boxcutta: ♫ I am America... Once voice, united we stand... ♫

/now it's in your head again, muahahahaha.

ARGH DAMMIT THANKS A LOT COLBERT!
 
BSABSVR
2011-10-28 06:01:49 PM

Mike who?

These types of posts make me ANGRY!

*stares at you in disapproval for a REALLY long time*

*throws protest rock in pond*
 
BSABSVR
2011-10-28 06:02:47 PM
*throws rock at missing HTML tags*
 
twat_waffle
2011-10-28 06:10:22 PM
Cat With Two Heads: twat_waffle: /smokes Natural American Spirit full flavor menthol
//elitist

Dictionary.com: e·lit·ist /ɪˈlitɪst eɪˈli‐/ Show Spelled[ih-lee-tist ey-lee‐] Show IPA adjective
1.(of a person or class of persons) considered superior by others or by themselves, as in intellect, talent, power, wealth, or position in society:

Cat With Two Heads: Oh no, friend.

See: Natural American Spirit

Yes, I know that menthol isn't "elite". I also know that American Spirits are. I think that Spirits are elite enough to counteract the non-leetness of the menthol.

Besides, they beat the farking P-funk lights that the hipsters in my area smoke.
 
Delawheredad
2011-10-28 06:13:28 PM
The tizzy over the ad is quite entertaining. Not that long ago tobacco companies were the largest advertisers in all of America's media. Hell even Ronald Reagan did Chesterfield ads when he was an actor. The ad sucks but by including the smoker Herman Cain's ad was the most talked about thing in America. Its sheer brilliance!

The PC crowd can sometimes be turned into putty by a sharp cookie as this flap proves.
 
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