Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
I believe this is a first for a U.S. Senate race. Rodney Glassman sings a revised cover of the Lynyrd Skynyrd classic "Sweet Home Alabama" as "Sweet Home Arizona."
If he doesn't win I guess he can always take his cover band out on the road.
Message from the Rodney Glassman for U.S. Senate campaign:
On Monday, the New York Times wrote a blog featuring a music video we created entitled "Sweet Home Arizona," a satire set to the tune of the classic Lynyrd Skynyrd ode to Alabama. Just as the original tune was a response to suggestions that Alabama was a backwards kind of state, I wanted to get the word out that Arizona is more than just the land of SB 1070 and "reasonable suspicion."
Arizona is a beautiful state filled with wonderful, good-humored people. In the one debate he agreed to have with me, John McCain even referred to Arizona as "the most beautiful nation on earth." Though we haven't actually seceded just yet, I agree with John's basic premise.
Arizona has its own distinct style. We're a little unconventional. We have our own way of seeing things and our own way of doing things. So I thought I'd get a little unconventional myself. I recorded this song to try and use a bit of tongue-in-cheek humor to spread my basic message: John McCain has failed to serve our state.
His failure has cost us jobs. His failure has given us under-funded, over-crowded classrooms. His failure has kept us from securing our borders and reforming our immmigration policy. Arizona is our sweet home, and Arizona deserves better than our current senator.
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I presume that everybody (save myself) is either boycotting Fox News or wouldn’t admit to watching that channel.
FYI, this commercial made it to Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld tonight. Free media coverage, my scorecard says that Glassman wins savvy points on this one.
This video cannot be seen as a serious attempt to garner support for the Democratic Senate nominee in Arizona. This video makes your chosen profession of helping to elect Democrats and turn out the vote harder.
It doesn’t convey the Herculean effort the dedicated party activists who assist his campaign perform each day to gain support for Mr. Glassman throughout the state. I did not support any of the candidates in Mr. Glassman’s primary, and I’m saddened that the winning nominee apparently thinks so little of the party’s efforts that he released this video.
I don’t think Democrats should turn their brains off because it’s election season. Obviously you disagree. But this video was bad comedy, and if Democrats can’t say that without being accused of working against the Party then Republican assumptions that we’re all bearded Marxists may hold a kernel of truth.
We are in the middle of voting if you haven’t noticed. My job is to help elect Democrats and to turn out the vote. Once they are elected to office and they screw up you can criticize them to your heart’s content. But Democrats sitting around having a pity party or bitchfest about one of their candidates during voting because their favorite candidate did not win the primary is counterproductive and a useless waste of time and energy. How many phone calls could you have made? How many doors could you have knocked on? I am doing my job, do your part.
Maybe you should have booked a seat on Rodney’s RV this week — he is going to be in every town in all 15 counties talking to voters at numerous events, working his ass off. Your assumption that he is not working because you do not read about it in the papers simply reflects the sorry state of the McMedia in this state.
You’ve worked for the Democratic Party for over thirty years, and less-than-glowing commentary about a Democratic Senate candidate bothers you? That’s understandable. But shouldn’t a Democratic Senate candidate that’s blatantly given up on his general election campaign in your state bother you more?
Because when I see this ad, I don’t see a candidate who’s working tirelessly to convince Arizonans that he’s a better choice than John McCain. There’s no crowd of supporters cheering him on, no shots of Mr. Glassman talking to voters or working with business leaders to better the state – all stuff that he’s actually done. No, here we get a music video. Four minutes straight of Rodney sing-along. I’m turned off by this ad because it is an ego project.
What’s worse, the unfair and untrue narrative about Mr. Glassman is that he’s a rich dilettante, a young and inexperienced guy who runs for higher office from an inflated sense of self. How does this ad change that perspective at all? He’s been responsible for really good work, and this country-western lounge singer portrayal is beneath him and the office he seeks.
Why doesn’t that bother you?
Glassman is entitled to a “clean” press release without all the “I hate Rodney” commentary. I have done work for the Democratic Party for more than 30 years and I don’t appreciate it. We take enough shit from the Republicans.
Kinda late with this, aren’t you?
http://www.blogforarizona.com/blog/2010/10/karaoke-night-with-rodney-glassman.html
But on your post: Mr. Glassman’s made it clear that he’s not interested in winning this election. It’s just sad. We don’t normally look upon music videos as places to learn about respectable leaders, so I’m not sure Mr. Glassman’s press release adequately explains this … video.