Rattle wrote:

I spent 5 minutes trying to come up with something to say about this. All I can muster is that I didn't enjoy watching it, but I couldn't pull myself away.

... and they are playing it repeatedly on TV.

Every time I see it, it somehow becomes more painful. I'm worried this is going to give me nightmares or something. I feel somehow like I have been harmed, but I can't express why. Some sacred sensibility has been assaulted. It seems to start from somewhere deep in the spine. The soul recoils in horror...

The mysterious despair this video is causing me, cannot lift until I see how Steven Colbert and Jon Stewart respond.

It's a strange feeling.

i think age has something to do with how u respond to this
it's the same humiliation u feel when watching your parents do something embarressing
the older u get (i'm rapidly approaching 40) the more u shrug your shoulders and are in fact the ones likely to be humiliating the younger generation/your children etc
i look at the video and think hip hop has permeated the culture and bearing in mind the borg like nature of American culture hip hop is well on the way to being assimiliated which means keep your eyes open since american black culture will soon invent something new because clearly if Karl Rove has appropriate your rebellion it's time for a change. That's the nature of anti-establishment memes -- the successful ones become the establishment and the anti-establishment reacts and creates new ones.
To me the joke is also that I would bet that Rove thinks of himself as anti-establishment.

RE: MC Rove