I'm not inclined to see this as Ann Althouse does. But a 100% screen cap of the YouTube doesn't exactly make it easy to dismiss. See below.
Asks a commenter — "Tom" — on my post about the new Hillary Clinton commercial, the one that shows several children sleeping and then Clinton taking a national security phone call in the middle of the night. You can see the commercial at the link, and the pajamas in question are on display during seconds 11 and 12. On pausing, staring, and thinking, I believe these are pajamas that say "good night" all over them, but the letters "NIG" are set apart by a fold in the fabric.
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Posted by: Lala | Saturday, March 01, 2008 at 11:56 AM
You patriots are reaching. I'd go back to working the Vince Foster angle.
Posted by: BobInStamford | Saturday, March 01, 2008 at 12:22 PM
Good NIGht, Stanly. Good NIGht, Ollie.
Posted by: Fred Beloit | Saturday, March 01, 2008 at 12:36 PM
Ann is deep into the Obama Reality Distortion Field.
Posted by: vanderleun | Saturday, March 01, 2008 at 01:30 PM
Who looks at the video on a 100% screen cap? Give me a break; you are ridiculous.
Posted by: Kathy | Saturday, March 01, 2008 at 01:34 PM
"but the letters "NIG" are set apart by a fold in the fabric."
Some kind of joke or very serious reaching?
Posted by: Wahoo Willie | Saturday, March 01, 2008 at 01:49 PM
Well..after seeing this post and a few others about this incident, I gotta say thanks. The wife and I were torn, but now are going to vote for Hillary Clinton. We like Barack but many of his supporters are just too hate-filled and crazy. What has that man unleashed..sigh.
Posted by: Hank | Saturday, March 01, 2008 at 02:17 PM
If Obama becomes president. Will we become an Obamanation?
Posted by: Wahoo Willie | Saturday, March 01, 2008 at 02:36 PM
ROY SPENCE: Mark, I've got a great idea for when we shoot the "Children" spot. We dress one of the kids in pajamas that say "GOOD NIGHT" on them but we fold them so they read "NIG" in the shot! Subliminal, get it?
MARK PENN: Roy, are you crazy? We're not shooting that stuff. We're just buying cheap stock footage.
(Long pause)
ROY SPENCE: Okay...okay. Somewhere out there there has got to be a piece of stock footage of a child sleeping in "Good Night" pajamas framed in such a way that the folds in the pajamas suggest a racial epithet. AND I AM GOING TO FIND THAT CLIP!
MARK PENN (placing his arm on Spence's shoulder): Nothing is impossible.
Posted by: Urbaniak | Saturday, March 01, 2008 at 02:45 PM
If you look closely I think you will see a cross in there.
Posted by: joeb | Saturday, March 01, 2008 at 04:49 PM
Something’s happening in the world. It’s 03:00 O'clock in the morning: OMG, another bimbo eruption? No, Bill's downstairs, I can hear the TV. Mrs. President, it's the pizza delivery boy ... what should I do? You know, it’s 0-dark-hundred and for some reason I’m dressed in full business attire; oh well, nothing’s too good for the American people. Quick, put him on speaker; click, where the hell are you?
Anyone remember how fortunate we all were, because the Cold War was over when the Clintons were in the White House? We were lucky, and we knew it. Hillary Clinton’s Texas ad isn't fear mongering, it’s just ludicrous. Although why any Texan would ever vote for a Clinton is beyond me. Being married to a draft dodger doesn’t exactly qualify one as a military genius either. It's plain comedic. Who do you want answering the phone: http://theseedsof9-11.com
Posted by: Peggy McGilligan | Saturday, March 01, 2008 at 04:58 PM
Yes that Hillary ad is LOL funny. What is she doing running a John McCain ad?
I would not want either her or Obama answering that phone.
I am glad however that Bush doesn't drink alcohol anymore. So when he answers at least he sober and has no hangover.
Posted by: joeb | Saturday, March 01, 2008 at 07:14 PM
I think the spot would be so much bettter with a little girl picking daisys and a sudden mushroom cloud in the background........oh, oh nevermind.
Posted by: Wahoo Willie | Sunday, March 02, 2008 at 07:11 AM
It took her 6 rings to answer the phone. If she was up fully dressed at 3 a.m., why did it take THAT long to answer the phone? (Count the rings in her ad)
Umm, when a call comes in at 3 a.m, I want a president who answers after the first ring or two.....by the 6th ring, who knows in that short time frame what could've happened!
Vote for McCain....
Posted by: DonnaInMichigan | Sunday, March 02, 2008 at 09:31 AM
hillary...the '60's 'hippie chick!' anti-war? defense? you'd want HER to answer the phone at 0300? BULL HOCKIE!
The clintoons became millionaires on the backs of the American people and they want MORE! HELL NO!
Posted by: sand dollar | Sunday, March 02, 2008 at 09:47 PM