The Escalating Stupidity Of BarackBook
My friends, I had hoped to never write about the massive fail known as BarackBook ever again. Ever, ever, again. But the nimrods behind this inanity just won't allow me that pleasure, because they keep finding ways to make their hysterically dumb idea even dumber.
See, as most people and baby goats with even a passing understanding of Facebook knows, whenever one of your "Facebook friends" adds a new "friend" of their own, you get an "update" on your "News Feed." This is sort of the whole point of Facebook.
But today, when the minds behind BarackBook added an update of their own, they were confronted by the fact that their feature has only garnered 163 fans, who all hate and despise BarackBook. So, rather than having a dynamic social networking tool for their agitprop that's capable of blasting out oppo to thousands of McCain supporters at one time, they have to resort to using the communications arm of the Republican National Committee to do a blast email "Media Advisory" -- with RNC letterhead and everything -- titled "Friend Update Added to BarackBook," in the hopes that someone out there reports on their new clever addition to their frustrating wreck of a parody.
To say that this whole effort misses the point of Facebook would defame the High Art of Point-Missing.
I wouldn't want you to miss the "substance" of their new BarackBook addition, which features Obama adding "Unnamed Philadelphia Street Organizer" as a friend, all of which leads to a fulsome discussion in which the GOP pretends to be shocked -- just shocked! -- at the tradition of "walking around money" which every campaign employs regardless of party and which you could have read about in any one of Larry Sabato's books from twenty years ago, or from cave paintings.
Anyway, I would never suggest that the RNC and the McCain campaign in general do not include operatives and officials who are skilled, creative, and effective campaigners. But at some point, we all deserve a chance to meet the people who designed BarackBook, because their idea is stupid, and they are stupid, and this deserves to be recognized.
This effort is an affront to computers and the internet in general. If the Borg conquered Earth tomorrow, they would refuse to assimilate the makers of BarackBook, and instead would beat them savagely into pulp and feed them to chickens, who would then be thrown into the sun as hard as possible. That is all.
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First Posted: 08-19-08 06:48 PM | Updated: 09-19-08 05:12 AM