Salon’s video blog offers a gem today: a Republican National Committee ad that ran on CNN this weekend, featuring no candidate positions, no policy info, no attack on rival candidates, nothing but grainy footage of Osama and other men in Arab garb doing “scary” things that look like maybe combat training or parody martial arts moves. Quotes run across the screen in barely legible font about “killing Americans” etc. This is supposed to be just a general message from the Republicans as a party to the voters. Nice. Full of actionable information. Thanks.

Salon editor Kerry Lauerman suggests that maybe the RNC is taking writing cues from the Lamont campaign in Connecticut, which has been caricaturing exactly this sort of Republican (read: Lieberman) shite. Watch the ad and then– boo, scary– go vote Republican. Or sign up to fight in Iraq for freedom or whatever the thing is supposed to be making you feel like doing beside pissing your pants laughing or turning it the fu– off! (Yeah we’re cynical, thanks to stuff like this!)