Beware the Hive Onion Ring or You'll be Julienned...or something
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, currently looking for the democratic party's presidential nomination, has a new campaign video, apparently it's based on the season finale of The Sopranos.

Blogger Ann Althouse has a link to the video and a batshit insane unique perspective on the subliminal meaning behind it.



It's clever, the way the video uses the jukebox business from the last "Sopranos" episode to remind us of Hillary's theme song contest.

Not everyone gets HBO, so you've got a cultural reference that's a bit elitist. . . And lots of Americans don't even approve of watching a show that is permeated with violence, obscene language, graphic sex, and the subjugation of women.

Do we really want to think of Bill and Hillary sitting in for Tony and Carmela?

Bill is a much better actor than Hillary, and this heightens the sense that she's a pale substitute for the old President we can no longer have.

Bill says "No onion rings?" and Hillary responds "I'm looking out for ya." Now, the script says onion rings, because that's what the Sopranos were eating in that final scene, but I doubt if any blogger will disagree with my assertion that, coming from Bill Clinton, the "O" of an onion ring is a vagina symbol. Hillary says no to that, driving the symbolism home. She's "looking out" all right, vigilant over her husband, denying him the sustenance he craves. What does she have for him? Carrot sticks! The one closest to the camera has a rather disgusting greasy sheen to it. Here, Bill, in retaliation for all of your excessive "O" consumption, you may have a large bowl of phallic symbols! When we hear him say "No onion rings?," the camera is on her, and Bill is off-screen, but at the bottom of the screen we see the carrot/phallus he's holding toward her.

...but it's pushing the envelope for the campaign to suggest an act of violence toward the candidate.

Somewhere Marshall McLuhan is spinning in his grave.

And, of course, her readers respond.



The carrots do remind me of what I fear from Hillary's health care agenda.

I've never seen the Sopranos so I didn't no what to make of this. Best I could come up with was "She's the candidate that angry, white males hate".

I also want to say sometimes an onion ring is just an onion ring.

You are thinking of hot monkey love in a greasy onion ring and we have the problem?

President Bush choked on a pretzel. This was subliminally a manifestation of his masturbation addiction. The oval office rug, carpet, and poor Barney all had to be dry cleaned. Bush stuck the pretzel in his mouth as a means to auto-erotic fixation. He fixated on his task, like he fixates on outdoing his father in Iraq.


At 172 comments, I think this one hits the trifecta: Food, Sex, Television

(It's going to be a long campaign trail.)