bizarre "political" headlines

[ratcreature]

As 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).

Comments

[shadowvalkyrie]

O_o Seriously, what the FUCK? Do those people write their campaigns while drunk or something? I mean, the boob one is moderately funny (because, I suspect instead of inciting them to vote, most of the young people's reaction will be "yuck, granny boobs," while the traditional voter base is mildly offended), the socialist one is weird but fits trying to attract the punker demographic (though it probably could've done so better than this), but whoever thought it was okay to make that racist-in-so-many-ways poster should be clubbed over the head with a cluestick. And I'm disappointed by the Green Party of all things. Gah.
And generally, when did it become common to advertise with people's body parts rather than political content? And more importantly, what kind of idiot is supposed to fall for it? As a voter, I feel that my intelligence is being insulted.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, I have no idea what the Greens were thinking,or why nobody in their campaign had any problems with this.

Also you are spot on for the boobs poster. Case in point, one of the news sites I came to via google to find a photo of the poster had some poll about giving reactions to it, and the options were "Pfiffig, Merkels Dekolleté ist doch top./ Naja, ein bisschen knackiger wäre gut./ Pfui, sowas will niemand sehen!"

[astridv.livejournal.com]

...
you know, I was trying to come up with a reply but that last one left me pretty much speechless. I guess someone, somewhere thought it would be clever.

And apparently none of our parties have an actual, oh, political agenda one might want to vote for, eh?

[ratcreature]

Maybe we are to choose based on who has the prettiest tits&ass campaign... They should really just stop trying to be "ironic", "funny", "clever", etc on their posters. It would stop so much fail.

[patk.livejournal.com]

Oh, wer hat den Preis für die "geschmackloseste Wahlkampagne" denn ausgeschrieben, um dessen Gewinn sich hier alle so bemühen?

Das Grünen-Poster schlägt sie alle. :-(

[ratcreature]

Ja, als ich das Grünen Plakat gesehen habe, konnte ich's auch kaum fassen.