Greg Stereo

Every day I become more convinced that Mr. Hand, played by My Favorite Martian Ray Walston in the seminal movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High, was correct in believing that everyone is on dope.

No? You beg to differ? Not so fast – I’m talking to you Little Miss Patchouli Legalize-It. But I’m also calling you out, Mr. Cialis Q. Flomax. It’s all dope, and Mr. Hand was right:

You people are all high.

Either that, or…..

The latest  big viral sensation on these internet tubes is already being touted as “the worst campaign ad ever.” It was produced by the campaign of one Carly Fiorina, Republican primary candidate Senator from California (and Protector of the Tubes).

Carly Fiorina used to run Hewlett Packard, and her tenure at HP featured such exciting developments as:

• breaking up one largely functional company into many individualized fiefdoms run by her legion of demon-sheep-fighting monkeys
• acquiring Compaq just before Compaq went completely under
• a series of leaks to the press, illegally-taped phone calls and meetings, and unlawful disclosure of personnel information in an attempt to discredit members of the HP Board of Directors

So you can see why she would make a great Senator from California.

Last week, her campaign unleashed a tour-de-force of a television ad:

The video is YouTube‘s “viral video” du jour, kids are making mash-ups and remixes, and merchandise featuring the “Demon Sheep” is available for sale.

Whoa whoa whoa…wait a minute. Demon Sheep merchandise? Stuff based on a political ad released just last week has manufactured and is available for sale this Monday morning?

Carly Fiorona now beats Carly Simon in a GoogleFight (www.googlefight.com)?

Interesting. You might even call it intriguing. It sounds to me like Fiorina has finally gotten the hang of this internet marketing crap.

By creating an attack ad that looks like it was filmed by high-school art students drunk on Everclear and Kool-Aid, and sporting a script that could have been written during a bad acid trip, her campaign has tapped into the public’s unquenchable for cheap, pointless entertainment.

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