McCain Girls Mystery Solved... See Who Made The Music Video

The McCain Girls mystery has been solved. The women belting out campaign slogans for the "straight talker" in the hits, "It's Raining McCain" and "Here Comes McCain Again", are the brain children of comedy site 236.com. John McCain gave a shout out to the group on Fox News, but at that time he didn't even know who the McCain Girls were. The New York Times has the full report below. Read more about the videos at 236.com.

The McCain Girls videos, which were posted on YouTube last month with no clues about their provenance, are clearly meant to be imitations of -- or parodies of -- the "Obama Girl" videos, which themselves are parodies (right?).

While the Obama Girl looks like a pinup and sings catchy tunes, the McCain Girls could not be confused with fashion models or pop music stars. Their first video, "Raining McCain," set to the tune of "It's Raining Men," was posted on YouTube four weeks ago. A sample lyric: "In the 2008 election, the forecast calls for rain; the first time in history, it's gonna start raining McCain."

That video recorded more than 1.6 million views and earned mentions on CNN and on ABC's "Good Morning America," with people alternately mocking it and wondering who was responsible. The singers seemed intentionally bad, which led many bloggers and YouTube commenters to assume that it was meant to insult Mr. McCain. The liberal blog Eschaton put it this way: "I believe the YouTube era begins the age when it is impossible to tell parody/irony/performance art from completely sincere product."

Drum roll, please: The creators of the McCain Girls turn out to be the comedy team behind 23/6, a five-month-old Web site owned by an affiliate of IAC/InterActiveCorp that parodies the news. The site, at 236.com, uses the motto "Some of the news, most of the time."

Comments

[scorpioleidy]

Eww ... they look just the way I envisioned a McCain supporter would ... UGH!

[BPCentrisAmerican]

Good fit.

[Whinger]

Jeez! The three witches of Eastwick, with the supreme wizard in the background!

[kirksong]

Freaky promo video for McCain! Celebrating his 23 bombing missions in Viet Nam - how many innocent lives destroyed? You become a hero only if shot down and imprisoned. Expect more of the same from McCain - war, war, war, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran...

[jhamm1]

Go figure that these idiots are too stupid and lazy to compose anything original, to say nothing about the fact that these lame-ass renditions were probably compiled on a 20 dollar Sony keyboard.

These guys suck.

[CitizenRob]

It's comedy. It's meant to look cheap, and feel lame. That's the joke.

[dag73]

But comedy is supposed to be funny.

[Exit]

Everybody is trying to cash in on this election. Usually in regards to anything associated with Obama. Who is this McCain guy?

[ariannapig]

WOW, what a riveting story!

[nyboomer]

Trying to parody a joke is a fool's errand. The news is a joke in this country. The news producers intuit that the public does not care about Iraq all that much and could care less about administration lies, distortions and onfiscations. Of course that intuition leads to imagine that McCain is potential leader of a country going down the tubes after many years of Republican maladministration.

Hooray for the news media whose motto is "Failure? No one cares about it? Truth? Never heard of it."

[nastyvirus]

"Trying to parody a joke is a fool's errand." by nyboomer

OK! Here goes!

Wha...wha...what's an "onfiscation"?

[cindyw]

Obfuscation?

[tasukibeth1]

I'm so disappointed - I really thought they were authentic.

Curse you 23/6!

[VOTER]

LOL

[Cay]

Put Sam Seder back on the radio 5 days a week.

[sleepless]

Write to airamerica.comerica.com . Sam was great last Friday when C-Ro played some of the second McCain girls. Sam's 23/6 work is brilliant and he was deadpan about this group. McCain should use this as his convention song.

[strifeknot]

Seder's a dullard. It's painful whenever he substitutes for Maddow.

[KarenZipdrive]

Annie Lennox and The Weather Girls need to sue these three Walmart clerks for stealing their songs.

[swilliams888]

As a Walmart clerk, I am highly insulted that you would associate us with such trash.

[OddManOut]

Dan Rather should be fired from his current job over this. It's an outrage.

[ThePodiumIsMine]

Compare the piggy neocon *cough* women to us fit Progressives. Yet another area where our superiour (fact, not snobby) way of life is plainly evident to any who care to see. When these piggies are older it is we that will be forced to pick up their health care bill. We need Progressive Universal Health that will exclude those belonging to a political party and philosophy that does not care for their body and their planet. Nor should they be able to pay for such services and divert resources from those who have lived in such a way as to deserve the attentions.

[apikores]

That soft noise you're hearing is the tumbleweeds drifting by.

[sandiegoconservative]

Funny, but I've seen plenty of what you would call "fat and ugly" liberals at all the anti-Bush and war rallies I have attended. Not that I care, people are people and it does not matter what they look like. Too bad you do not subscribe to the same idea.

I find it interesting that rather than comment on the video itself and the content, your simple mind has to resort to insulting people. Just as interesting is how the liberals claim to be all-inclusive and for change and help for everyone and you are advocating just the opposite.

I suggest you post a picture of yourself before you respond.

[apikores]

hahahahahaha....wow. you actually fell for that? click on "see profile" and read his other comments. it seems like we have a little bit of "friendly fire" here.

[BendOverAri]

Absolutely !! Free health care for all. That way,when Obama girls silicone bags burst, she can get em fixed for free. Hurray.

[quadman]

Your 'Universal Health' is anything but universal. Sorry, the Gov't shouldn't be a respecter of persons and neither should you. So much for having compassion and mercy for everyone.

[pbfishtaco]

May Alberto Gonzalez could find work as their manager.

[phantom5551]

the only reason anyone should spend time trying to figure out who made this crappy video would be to put the culprits in jail

[johnpherson]

Thought cop. Go to Singapore.

[Elaime]

In Jail? Are you serious? Yes, that would be a great way to spend our tax dollars - on comedic bloggers..

BTW< BRILLIANT MARKETING for 236.com. Now they are on the map and a force to be reckoned with!!

I should come up with something like that...

www.ObamaIsTheNewBlack.com