{"id":10122,"date":"2009-09-22T23:12:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T23:12:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-22T23:21:28","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T23:21:28","slug":"carlyfornia-here-we-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/22\/carlyfornia-here-we-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlyfornia, Here We Come"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/object>iCarly has launched her campaign website today<\/a> – and quickly showed the state and the online world why she has gotten such a reputation for failure<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As the incomparable Baratunde Thurston has explained in the YouTube video at right (put together just minutes after iCarly’s site went live), her site is the “worst political website ever.” The Flash image in particular is stunningly absurd, reading:<\/p>\n

It’s day & night. It’s dogs & cats. It’s good & bad. It’s Carly vs. Boxer. Coming soon? carlyfornia dreamin’ !!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Aside from the totally out of left field “dogs and cats” (I’m guessing iCarly is giving up on the cat lover vote?!), the images used to illustrate each dichotomy are even sillier. “Good” is a cherub. “Bad” is a ninja. A ninja!<\/p>\n

Baratunde Thurston’s reply isn’t the only way that iCarly’s FAIL has gone viral. Twitter users have created a #Carlyfornia<\/a> hashtag that includes some of the following gems:<\/p>\n

ravenb In #Carlyfornia the Peter Principle is the law of the land.<\/a><\/p>\n

femlaw #Carlyfornia As Meg Ryan said in When Harry Met Sally, “Is someone supposed to be a dog in this scenario?”<\/a><\/p>\n

cruickshank In #Carlyfornia cats will be rounded up and herded into FEMA camps.<\/a><\/p>\n

DanteAtkins In #Carlyfornia, everyone sets their Twitter timezone to Tehran. Of course, for HP that’s actually local time.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, there are more fundamental questions about the site. It’s not quite clear what the purpose of the amateurish design and flash image is – to paint Boxer as a bad cat? And her Facebook page<\/a>, with a whopping 20 supporters, makes NO mention of her time as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, a company she ran into the ground while firing 18,000 employees.<\/p>\n

Online, as with everything else in her professional life, iCarly fails at whatever she touches. Somewhere, Chuck DeVore is probably laughing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object>iCarly has launched her campaign website today<\/a> – and quickly showed the state and the online world why she has gotten such a reputation for failure<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As the incomparable Baratunde Thurston has explained in the YouTube video at right (put together just minutes after iCarly’s site went live), her site is the “worst political website ever.” The Flash image in particular is stunningly absurd, reading:<\/p>\n

It’s day & night. It’s dogs & cats. It’s good & bad. It’s Carly vs. Boxer. Coming soon? carlyfornia dreamin’ !!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Aside from the totally out of left field “dogs and cats” (I’m guessing iCarly is giving up on the cat lover vote?!), the images used to illustrate each dichotomy are even sillier. “Good” is a cherub. “Bad” is a ninja. A ninja!<\/p>\n

Baratunde Thurston’s reply isn’t the only way that iCarly’s FAIL has gone viral. Twitter users have created a #Carlyfornia<\/a> hashtag that includes some of the following gems:<\/p>\n

ravenb In #Carlyfornia the Peter Principle is the law of the land.<\/a><\/p>\n

femlaw #Carlyfornia As Meg Ryan said in When Harry Met Sally, “Is someone supposed to be a dog in this scenario?”<\/a><\/p>\n

cruickshank In #Carlyfornia cats will be rounded up and herded into FEMA camps.<\/a><\/p>\n

DanteAtkins In #Carlyfornia, everyone sets their Twitter timezone to Tehran. Of course, for HP that’s actually local time.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, there are more fundamental questions about the site. It’s not quite clear what the purpose of the amateurish design and flash image is – to paint Boxer as a bad cat? And her Facebook page<\/a>, with a whopping 20 supporters, makes NO mention of her time as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, a company she ran into the ground while firing 18,000 employees.<\/p>\n

Online, as with everything else in her professional life, iCarly fails at whatever she touches. Somewhere, Chuck DeVore is probably laughing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1990],"tags":[310,7031,7873,1436],"class_list":["post-10122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1990","tag-310","tag-7031","tag-7873","tag-1436"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2Dg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}