Thanks to SFist reader Captain Disco for investigating the truth about the Mike Gravel presidential campaign: the dangerous lunatic shot his horrifying commercials in our very back yards.
If you haven't been following along: Mike Gravel is an Eskimo or whatever who wants to spend the next couple years hooting and hollering at the country. His presidential campaign hasn't been doing so keen, so he's turned to the one medium guaranteed to have mass appeal: interpretive video art! In response, the country furrowed its brow; in part because the campaign ads make no sense, but mostly because they've never heard of this joker.
But Captain Disco, his keen senses no doubt honed during his rise through the ranks of the Disco Army, noticed a few clues in the ad. That crooked tree ... that windy beach ... the clammy atmosphere ... the stink of hobo ... why, that's none other than San Francisco's very own Spreckels Lake that that madman's just tossed a boulder into! The evidence, as indicated here and here and on Google street-view, is irrefutable.
So now the only question is ... who'll be the first one out to the lake to retrieve the stone, crack it open, and retrieve Mike's heart?
add to digg
add to stumble upon
add to reddit
email this
add to facebook
add to del.icio.us
Gravel was in town just a few weeks ago for the yearly Harvey Milk Club dinner.
i can say definitively: you do not want to get in that water unless you really want to know what happens when hundreds of water fowl spend years and years living in a two foot deep man made pond.
Mike Gravel is the most serious candidate in the entire field. This video represents the richness of mainstream political discourse in this country. Gravel is silent because it is impossible to get his message out while being overshadowed by the "politics as usual," Do-Nothing Democrats like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama who spend all their time courting big donors and failing to change our disastrous foreign policy. Power to the People---vote for Mike Gravel!!!
Thanks for dissing the only candidate worth his salt.
Please pay attention to his messages and think about what he stands for, rather than giving props to mr. disco for contributing what(?)
Our alternatives this cycle are what's horrifying, as well as the lack of real analysis. For now, the apathy-mania continues... sadly.
That was such an insulting article, and besides, its no secret, he explained the videos in an interview which can be found on YouTube. I suggest everyone to go and read about what Mike Gravel has planned if he were to be elected. I can assure it is more than "hooting and hollering at the country". He set up the national initiative, which I advise everyone to take a look at and consider. It seems that too often lately government officials are out of step with the people, and this would change it! www.ni4d.us
Not only do Americans need Mike Gravel at the White House . . . the people of the world will feel a lot safer!
I think it is also in the interests of others to campaign for Sen. Mike Gravel. If you have American friends, encourage them to register as democrat so they can participate in the primary to vote for Sen. Gravel.
I've been sending news articles to my friends in Chicago, Illinois and San Antonio, Texas and to my relatives in Tri-State area.
Dear Author,
Your an idiot.
"but mostly because they've never heard of this joker."
He's the one who helped end the draft by doing a 5 month filibuster. He's also the one who helped make the pentagon papers public, which largely contributed to ending the Vietnam war.
Get an education.
Gee, I really wish some Mike Gravel fan site would link to this article and send lots of new people here to SFist to comment.
Ladies ladies mike gravel is a manic depressive joke. It is easy for him to say all the things that get super left all juiced up like a pack of hyenas in heat because he knows he has on hope of winning so he has no responsibility to actually do anything . Oh and them there is the fact this goof has been so out of the loop if by some miracle he did win he would be a world class screw up .
Whose campaign are you working for?
Mike Gravel needs to stay in this campaign as long as possible to demonstrate to Americans what the other candidates are NOT.
Our country has been forever scarred by this administration and do-nothing Congress.
Any candidate that voted for this war should be dumped into the dustbin of unfortunate history.
That includes Hillary, John Edwards, Joe Biden and John McCain.