Giuliani Campaign Dances Into Second Life (Sort of)
by Alphaville Herald on 20/03/07 at 12:29 am
[Editor's Note: The following is an unpaid political announcement received this evening at the Herald offices from virtual political operative and Second Life resident GenJCChristian Homewood. Had I not been going about my usual duties of picking up Pixeleen's cigarette butts planning tomorrow's coverage, I might have missed it. Fortunately, we are able to bring you this highly important disco-political newsbreak.
--Walker Spaight]
Remember this date, March 20, 2007. It will go down in history as the day the race for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination entered the virtual world. With the opening of Disco Rudy’s: the Unofficial Virtual Campaign Headquarters for Rudy Giuliani 2008, a Republican candidate now has a presence in the virtual world, Second Life.
“We’re very excited about this opportunity to share our love for Rudy with other Second Life residents,” Disco Rudy’s creator [and GenJC's typist], Joshua Christian Homewood, declared as he christened the building with a can of virtual Pabst Blue Ribbon. “But more importantly, we’re thrilled to provide potential supporters a venue where they can share their love with each other by embracing the Giuliani lifestyle,” he continued, “that’s why we’re going with a disco theme.”
Disco Rudy’s is laden with features to help visitors live that very special lifestyle. The first thing a visitor sees is an information kiosk he or she can click to learn more about Rudy’s marriages, divorces, wives, and mistresses.
After a short stroll past the table dancing area, visitors arrive at a display that explains the club’s rules: no fornication and no adultery. “There are no exceptions to these rules unless your name is Rudy,” notes Homewood, “Giuliani is polling first among social conservatives, and we want to keep it that way.”
“If you see someone on the dance floor you like, you can avoid committing fornication by popping over to the marriage station in the corner and teleporting to The Church of Elvis, Second Life for a quickie wedding,” Homewood explains, “After that, you and your new spouse can celebrate your honeymoon at the Giuliani Defense of Marriage Matrimonial Relations Center located in the curtained area near the dance floor.”
An expedited divorce station is available to help visitors avoid the adultery trap. “Let’s say you’re leaving the matrimonial relations center, and you see someone new with whom you’d like to engage in a procreative relationship,” Homewood explains, “all you need to do is go to the press conference area to let your spouse know you’re divorcing him or her and after quick stops at the divorce and marriage stations, it’s back to the matrimonial relations center to consummate the new relationship.” Homewood continues, “of course, Rudy did it in a slightly different order by indulging in pre-marital relations with his future wives before he held a press conference and divorced the previous ones, but the basic idea is the same.”
Creating the campaign space wasn’t easy according to Homewood, “A couple of big beefy-looking guys, who said they were sent by Rudy’s associate, Bernie Kerik, told me that the disco/campaign headquarters would probably experience a fire if I didn’t give them the building contract and the cigarette machine concession. It cost me a lot of money, but I accepted their offer. Hey, they were big and mean-looking; what are you going to do?”
Disco Rudy’s: the Unofficial Virtual Campaign Headquarters for Rudy Giuliani 2008, is located in Second Life’s Pini Region. Second Life members (registration is free) may search for “Disco Rudy’s” (mature content box checked) to access a teleport. [Or just »teleport directly« from here.]
Nacon
Mar 20th, 2007
har har haarr…. lame
Ickabod Humphreys
Mar 20th, 2007
::yawns:: is it 2008 yet?
Prokofy Neva
Mar 20th, 2007
So, SL is now going to be used for negative campaign advertising just like cheesy local latenight TV ad spots lol?
urizenus
Mar 20th, 2007
Do they give instructions on moving your GF into the virtual mayor’s mansion while your wife and kid are still living there?
urizenus
Mar 20th, 2007
Rudy is the BallerMoMo King of American politics!
skurk
Mar 20th, 2007
This kind of campaigning only exists since Americans vote for the politicians family values and race rather than how they run the country, its what makes the US a joke
Its not like Giuliani would divorce the country and have a quick marriage with china, but most Americans cant comprehend that, thats why this kind of campaigning works
marilyn murphy
Mar 20th, 2007
i so agree skurk, i think you are spot on. the politicoes rage about family values while they have affairs. the incidence of divorce and re marriage in american society is so prevalent that the common family is probably a second marriage with children from the first involved, at the least. i would so enjoy some republican explaining what american family values are in fact. it seems like its such a huge deal to… what? 30% of the population? maybe its the 30% that vote tho.
marilyn murphy
Mar 20th, 2007
oh i forgot, i want the republican who explains it to me to be newt gingrich.
FlipperPA Peregrine
Mar 20th, 2007
Ghouliani is the man! I mean the woman! I love old men who cross dress like him and Marv Albert.
DireLobo
Mar 20th, 2007
Its not like Giuliani would divorce the country and have a quick marriage with china, but most Americans cant comprehend that, thats why this kind of campaigning works
Posted by: skurk | March 20, 2007 at 11:36 AM
I don’t think that’s the point the owner of this site is trying to make – he is saying that if the Republican’s want to make a political issue out of morality, by claiming that only someone who is moral in their private lives (as they define moral) can lead, then they have to be called to task for the hypocrits they are when they support candidates who are clearly lacking in the moral areas which THEY CLAIM are important.
Urizenus
Mar 20th, 2007
What Dire said. This goes to the question of political hypocracy. You can’t bang on about sexual mores and the evils of Clinton’s adultry and then make Giuliani your candidate.
Darkfoxx
Mar 21st, 2007
American politics in a magazine (tabloid? Newspaper? what is it anyway?) about SL…
Sure it is SL related, but can’t you guiys think of anything more interresting to put in?
Like, a piece on SL politics or something?
I don’t even know who this guy is.
Allana Dion
Mar 21st, 2007
“I don’t even know who this guy is.”
Please tell me you just mean you don’t know the guy who built the club thing?
darkfoxx
Mar 21st, 2007
No, I mean I have no idea who this ‘Disco Rudy’ is.
marilyn murphy
Mar 21st, 2007
its this claiming the moral high ground and attacking others with it that gets on my nerves. while holding the majority in congress the republicans, claiming to be the party that guards american family values, spent millions and many months to expose a clinton blow job. meanwhile the leader of the attack is having an affair behind his wifes back with a secretary.
darkfoxx: tsk. that is the former mayor of new york and a current republican candidate for president. he has had …issues…in his private life that might call into question whether or not he would be a good candidate for husband. what it says about his managerial or leadership skills is very hard for me to say.
i dont want to judge a potential president based solely on what his private life is like. i would prefer that we viewed the entire package. i am an independent, and vote for the person. if i decide not to vote for this man, it wont be because he has been divorced. frankly some of his views are very similar to mine and i am open minded on his candidacy.
i have to much to say on this issue. im gonna shut up now.
darkfoxx
Mar 21st, 2007
tsk? Why?
Some of you Americans seem to be under the impression that what happens in your country, is soooo important that every single newspaper of the world covers it in each and every detail.
So he’s a candidate for president. So he used to be a mayor in NY. So he did some things in his private lives that others use to give him a bad name. *shrugs* And I’m supposed to know this all, and be interrested in it because…?
It only becomes interresting for people outside of the US when he actually becomes president. Untill then, he’s just some guy who wants to have a go at pretending to run the US.
Some of our government officials also have an AV in SL. But I don’t see anything covered about it here. Or anywhere else for that matter. Why? because no-one outside of the Netherlands gives a damn. Makes sense to me.
But my point being: he’s on SL. Yay for him. But if I want to read about RL politics, I don’t come looking for it here. Better to use this space on this website about SL for something… I dunno.. SL?
ungo
Mar 21st, 2007
shorter darkfoxx: “write about what I want.”
marilyn murphy
Mar 22nd, 2007
ok, dark. you are absolutely right. i was automatically thinking you are american and so should at least have some clue who is running for president. but since u are not american, i agree with what u say about not needing to know or care about who is running for that in america.
jummy
Mar 23rd, 2007
i think the overall racism against italians is in poor taste.
jummy
Mar 23rd, 2007
meh. social cons and rudy – all of this is being discussed in depth on talk radio. jesus’ general doesn’t seem to have bothered investigating it.