Comments on: The Rickroll Gets Political

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:36:00 +0000

A friend saw this and was gullible enough to consider and even believe that this was real. Really people?? C’mon.

It’s funny and they did a great job with it. It’s been out a month though; MF is a little slow..

By: Jodi

Jodi — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:36:00 +0000

Haha, I had seen the Barackroll, but the McCain video is amazing. (I didn’t get the impression that the video was being passed off as a real event.)

By: JB

JB — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:01:00 +0000

Well done sir. I had yet to see that Barackrolled video that everyone had been talking about. Whoever made the second video pulled the perfect John McCain facial expressions, haha.

By: Jenna

Jenna — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:04:00 +0000

Yeah…looks like that was some fancy photo-shop and video editing and didn’t really happen live, but it would have been pretty funny.

Pretty sure that’s actually footage from the RNC, after those protesters broke in? Maybe?

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:52:00 +0000

Awesome cuts!

By: Southern Buddhist

Southern Buddhist — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:35:00 +0000

Genius!!! If only, if only this could happen at an actual McCain rally in the closing days of the election. But I guess they don’t travel with bluescreens.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:58:00 +0000

That is soooo funny!

I love the YouTube generation, you can never get away with anything anymore, and if you give enough speeches you can apparently be made up to rickroll someone!

Great job on the video editing, it’s McCain’s fault for looking grumpy at his own convention. I’d guess the Barack backdrop won’t be the last one somebody will digitally put back there.

Do you think these guys were waiting around with a checklist of words looking for Obama to say? Strangers… aching… commitments…

By: Gretchen

Gretchen — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:58:00 +0000

You make it sound like McCain really got Barackroll’d at the convention, but I believe that is a clever digital trickery…that is what I gather from the creator’s blog. He’s pretty talented!

By: EV

EV — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:56:00 +0000

My word, that McCain video was uncomfortable to watch (even as a non-supporter). Then I thought, wait, I think this just might have been on the news had it really happened. Then I caught the bluescreen reference.

I’m a little slow this morning, but I sure was shocked until I figured it out. Brilliantly done.