Jon Huntsman's Mystery Motorcyclist Returns

Here's your latest update on the multimedia performance art piece known as "The Jon Huntsman Campaign." When we last left off, they had created a new, spartan website of information that came with a Fred Davis-conceived web-ad featuring a lone motorcyclist riding across Monument Valley.

I figured that there would be more to come, and lo and behold: today, we have the next piece in this subtle puzzle. Mr. Motorcycle is back, still riding through the desert wash, only now he's taken his game off road. The text appears, "In four days," followed by, "Has seven children, one from India, one from China." Hooray! More quotidian facts about Jon Huntsman!

4 Days from Jon Huntsman Jr. on Vimeo.

What does it all mean? It means Huntsman and David have figured out a way to get us to cover "the Huntsman campaign" by exploiting our love of mystery. "What will happen next?" we all wonder. And will the ending be as satisfying as the one on "Lost"? (Actually, for many, it might.)

The question that might be raised at this point is: "Well, this is getting attention, but is it a good sort of attention?" And the answer to that question is: "As long as there is no crotch-shot, there is only the good sort of attention." (And I'm not ruling out the possibility that the Huntsman campaign won't find a way to make a crotch-shot work for them, either.)

The point is, I'm sure all the Huntsman campaign cares about at this point is that everyone just spells the man's name correctly. (Actually, this is a problem--if I had a dollar for everything I've read in the past two months that spells his last name "Hunstman," I could probably self-finance my own Fred Davis-shot pastoral web short.)

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Comments

[DonBlv]

05:19 PM on 06/27/2011

The picture accompanying this segment of the HP should be titled "2012, The Crazies, a Nightmare"

[Toka248]

09:35 PM on 06/18/2011

Somebody call Mike Gravel's campaign ad producer.

[D-V-H]

04:13 PM on 06/18/2011

Why does his campaign think having children in foreign countries will endear Huntsman to rightie voters?

Haven't they been paying attention the last 2 years?

[Gwendolyn Rouse]

02:58 PM on 06/18/2011

While this man get even get over 200 coments. He is worst than T-Paw. Also, I just heard he cancelled out today. I think this man is working for Obama to slip the votes for Mitt Romney. This man is unknown and he is not trying bet know.

[rgilley]

11:33 AM on 06/18/2011

Huntsman doesn't stand a chance of becoming the Republican nominee. Right wing Evangelicals will never allow a Mormon anywhere near the Republican primary. They want people like Michele Bachman who will do their bidding in try to turn America into a Theocracy . Moreover, Huntman is Far far to moderate for the new right wingbats running the republican party.

Koch brothers now at heart of GOP power
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/06/nation/la-na-koch-brothers-20110206

Video Assails Koch Brothers
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/liberal-groups-video-campaign-assails-koch-brothers/

[medic628]

11:24 AM on 06/18/2011

STOP REPUB VOTER SUPPRESSION!!!!!!!!!!

[rgilley]

11:35 AM on 06/18/2011

The GOP's 2012 Campaign Plan: Disqualify Eligible Voters
A tide of new stricter state voter ID laws proposed by Republicans targets presumed Democratic voters.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x599769

GOP 2011-12 Agenda: Union and Voter Suppression
http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2011/03/gop_governors_achieve_new_lows.php

With their voter suppression movement Republicans now represent a bigger threat to American Democracy than 10 Bin Ladens ! Stop them in 2012 or it may be too late for freedom and Democracy!

[camelias and sweet tea]

11:16 AM on 06/18/2011

Beware of those DEMON SHEEP,.

[camelias and sweet tea]

11:14 AM on 06/18/2011

Same guy who did those hysterical SHEEP commercials...Huntsman, has already made a very bad decision.

[gtp]

10:30 AM on 06/18/2011

Another son-of-a-billionaire who feels entitled to be president. I was in a rock band! I rode motocross! Ever hold a job your dad didnt buy for you? Enlist in the Army? Anything besides playtime?

[VOTER]

09:46 AM on 06/18/2011

This STUNT reminds me of the Survivor show, where the show's host  leaves 
the island at  the conclusion of the competition and mysteriously arrives
at  the show's finale stage in NYC or California, wherever it's held.
Huntsman the Survivor of the GOP. lol
Any member of the GOP is a survivor, only because they have harmed millions of people
in the process, included their delusional supporters.

Perhaps the vote will come down to "Which Cousin Has the BEST HAIR?
Mitt or his cousin, Jon?

[GraniteSkyline]

09:36 AM on 06/18/2011

I swear the Huntsman campaign has to be a secret inside job by the Obama administration to produce a Romney-decoy-candidate to lure votes away from Mitt.

So far the Huntsman campaign has been one of the w@ckiest ever--so secretive and weird.

[camelias and sweet tea]

11:14 AM on 06/18/2011

I was thinking the same thing..

[Gwendolyn Rouse]

03:00 PM on 06/18/2011

I just said that in my comment. He is working for Obama administration to take away vote from Mitt. And do forget he can not even get voters to comment on article about him.

[AgingLady]

10:38 PM on 06/17/2011

I kind of like the mystery thing. We know it is him, and yet, nicer than the rants from others.

[VOTER]

09:38 AM on 06/18/2011

I LOVE mysteries, but this is not a mystery in any sense of the word.
Will Huntsman include in his first "real" campaign speech, his comment
regarding Ryan-NO-Care?
Huntsman was one of the first GOPers to embrace Ryan-NO-Care and stated
that if he had been eligible to vote for it, he would have done so.

[shryock]

10:18 PM on 06/17/2011

he had four children in four days?
he will have four children in four days?
what?

[kareemachan]

11:32 AM on 06/18/2011

I know. Weird, huh?

[19th Amendment]

12:18 PM on 06/18/2011

Agree. Really strange.

[Gaylord P Farqua]

10:06 PM on 06/17/2011

Huntsman's vain attempt to purchase "cool." This stuff is supposed to evoke an image of the lone rider coming to rescue the economy and save the nation from disaster. It might work in an old Clint Eastwood spaghetti western but today is it just hokey. Huntsman was slick enough to avoid the Republican love fest that was billed as a debate but it is unlikely he will have much to offer that departs from the party line as it is taking shape. Newt's disastrous attempt to be "honest" about the RyanCareLess Plan got him harpooned by the Right almost before the words were out of his mouth. So, the only departure from those already running will be packaging not message. Ho hum.

[GraniteSkyline]

09:37 AM on 06/18/2011

RyanCareLe­ss Plan! Love it! Mind if I use it?

[ydnas639]

09:49 AM on 06/18/2011

Ryan's VultureCare is closer to the facts.

[tmon23]

07:18 PM on 06/17/2011

I think the Media is trying to pick Obamas opponent. This Huntsman fellow may be a Mccain clone. Willing to continue the Progressive Compromise !

[Dosadi]

07:52 PM on 06/17/2011

I think you are in danger. You just gave away the medias plan.

Faved.