Comments on: Streetfilms: Meet Veronica Moss, A.U.T.O. Lobbyist

By: Tom Butler

Tom Butler — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:07:00 +0000

Cap’n Transit nailed it. I like what she’s trying to do, but she could be much funnier and more effective if she toned it down a bit.

By: Dave Reid

Dave Reid — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:23:36 +0000

Great stuff.. too much fun

By: Cap'n Transit

Cap'n Transit — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:49:41 +0000

Veronica Moss has the potential to be a real Colbert-style skewering of car lifestyle promotion rhetoric (like the whole “freedom” bullshit). But it’s not there yet. What disappointed me (and frankly made me avoid watching this video for a while, after seeing the excerpt in the Zozo video) is that it’s too blatant.

Colbert’s strength (which is found in some of the best political satire, like Sacha Baron Cohen) is that he’s so close to what some conservatives are actually saying that most of the time you’re not sure whether to believe him or not – even if you know it’s an act. When he’s ridiculous, he’s ridiculous in the same ways that real conservatives are. Before everyone knew who he was, he fooled a lot of people for at least part of the time.

In this video, Berthold would only fool the dumbest car promoter. If she works more on the subtlety, on being dead-on realistic right up to the punch line and beyond, she could develop this into a really powerful form of satire. Until then, it’s just a silly way for the in-group to blow off steam.

By: hah

hah — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:49:53 +0000

“chevy regurgitator” – HA! good one!

By: Marty Barfowitz

Marty Barfowitz — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:34:02 +0000

Vill,

Maybe the sound system in your Chevy Regurgitator is blasting too loud for you to notice anything happening in the wider world outside your five-ton vehicle and plush bucket seats but here are a few things that happened this week…

- General Motors officially went bankrupt. The US no longer even has an auto industry.
- Automobiles were banned from Times Square, the “Crossroads of the World.”
- It was announced that bikes outsold cars last quarter.
- The price of a barrel of oil snuck back up past $60.
- Iran sent 6 warships into the international waters that we use as our nation’s oil supply route.

It took seventy years to screw up this country with automobiles, sprawl and cheap oil. It’s going to take decades to fix it. But make no mistake: The change is underway. As Matthew Modine writes in today’s HuffPo: Cars are the new cigarettes.

By: Lars

Lars — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:11:39 +0000

Vill: obviously by your trolling comment you feel threatened. The truth is the car still dominates – yes – but every day in this city and many others it dominates just a little less and that makes us “streetsbloggers” happy. So bring on your Outrage, the fact is we are on the right side, and people on the right side never give up.

By: cochon

cochon — Thu, 28 May 2009 07:51:06 +0000

face it, your influence is waning. you’re just jealous.

By: Vill

Vill — Thu, 28 May 2009 06:56:27 +0000

Bottom line is that the car will never go away, and there is nothing you Streetsbloggers can do about it. For the rest of your lives, you will live in a world where cars rule the streets. You may think because you have a rude sexist unfunny little video making fun of a female auto lobbyist that you’re funny and hip and cool and that you’re winning the battle against cars, but the truth is that there really isn’t even a battle to fight, since the cars and the SUVs have already won. No matter how much money your millionaire donor pumps into your blog, the fact remains that you will never be able to influence enough Americans to get out of their cars to make any significant difference. It’s kind of sad, actually, when you think about it.

By: cochon

cochon — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:20:54 +0000

she is about as appealing as lizzie grubman.

By: dporpentine

dporpentine — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:44:20 +0000

My favorite line is when she acknowledges that her car is also a weapon.

By: tps12

tps12 — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:49:35 +0000

Women are bad drivers lololololol.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:39:22 +0000

That was hot!
Reminded me of Parker Posey in ‘Best in Show’.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:58:44 +0000

That’s some good satire!

By: Lars

Lars — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:30:20 +0000

Tremendous. We all know people like this. For reals.

By: Larry Littlefield

Larry Littlefield — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:30:10 +0000

Do we really want to have more land use and infrastructure decisions made at the federal level, and deal with this? Let us have NY. She can have whatever part of the country agrees with her.

By: loncoln nav lvr

loncoln nav lvr — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:28:54 +0000

that was hot! It was almost NSFW.