UPDATE 1:25 p.m.: You Tube has removed the video, citing it as a "violation of You Tube's policy against spam, scams, and commercially deceptive content." Let the record show that Cain's snuff film against government regulations was deleted by a private business's regulations.
ORIGINAL: Meanwhile, in the upside down bad trip lower Mordor marsh inhabited only by Herman Cain and a pair of crack video editors, this happened:
Like most things Cain says and does, this video raise multiple questions, none of which have to do with politics, the economy, or reality as it is experienced by sentient humans. Who gave Herman Cain a catapult? How is a small business like a rabbit? Why does the little girl say "any questions?" twice? What's up with Herman Cain standing on a cliff in a suit--is he lost? Doesn't this commerical inadvertantly make a case for gun control? How does the stimulus, which injected money into the economy, kill small businesses, as opposed to the stingy post-bailout lending practices of the banks? Where are they, and where does Herman Cain think they are?
More ephemerally, the ad strays onto the strange molten ground that is ironic reference. Cain's commercial references this classic. The problem: that video is remembered almost entirely for its laughable level of melodrama. Like the "I've fallen and I can't get up," "This is your brain on drugs" was a proto-meme that entered the public consciousness through the numbers of parodic references to it. It persisted only because people didn't take it seriously, which means it failed as an actual PSA aganst drug use.
So why is Herman Cain referencing it? Does he want his message to be taken seriously or not? Is this all a piece of performance art to keep himself in the discussion, a la Donald Trump? And who gave him a catapult?
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