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bizarre "political" headlines
Aug. 11th, 2009 09:50 pmAs I was on the bus this evening I saw someone reading a tabloid newspaper. I could only make out the headline which was "Wahlkampf mit dem Kanzler-Busen" (in English: "election campaign with the chancellor-boobs"). I have since tried to find out what this was about, and apparently a (female) candidate of the Christian Democrats in Berlin has a campaign poster with herself in a deep neckline dress and a photograph of the chancellor Merkel (from some opera visit) also in an evening dress showing cleavage, and put onto that the slogan "we have more to offer".
It is supposed to be some sort of comment on the image of the Christian Democrats as a party of stuffy, old guys but show that that is wrong. Or something. And now some of her party compatriots are outraged, also she didn't coordinate with the chancellor and her campaign, who didn't authorize using photos of her in an evening dress.
So much WTF. But-- reading this I found that it actually gets even better -- for some values of "better" -- that is in the same district some other candidate is using an ass shot of herself in tight jeans that also shows off a (temporary) tattoo she has above her ass saying "socialist", kind of in the style of randomly tattooed urban fantasy heroine covers I guess (note that it is not a smear campaign, like it would be in the US, she is the candidate of a socialist party and you can see this here) and another party, the Greens (though not in that aforementioned boob district) has a rather appalling poster which shows a black woman's ass grabbed by white hands (also looking female) with the slogan "the only reason to vote black" (which here is the color of the Christian Democrats) (picture not worksafe for US viewers, I suspect).
It is supposed to be some sort of comment on the image of the Christian Democrats as a party of stuffy, old guys but show that that is wrong. Or something. And now some of her party compatriots are outraged, also she didn't coordinate with the chancellor and her campaign, who didn't authorize using photos of her in an evening dress.
So much WTF. But-- reading this I found that it actually gets even better -- for some values of "better" -- that is in the same district some other candidate is using an ass shot of herself in tight jeans that also shows off a (temporary) tattoo she has above her ass saying "socialist", kind of in the style of randomly tattooed urban fantasy heroine covers I guess (note that it is not a smear campaign, like it would be in the US, she is the candidate of a socialist party and you can see this here) and another party, the Greens (though not in that aforementioned boob district) has a rather appalling poster which shows a black woman's ass grabbed by white hands (also looking female) with the slogan "the only reason to vote black" (which here is the color of the Christian Democrats) (picture not worksafe for US viewers, I suspect).
