I saw this ad over the weekend. Talk about cutting through the noise and the clutter of a contested race. This might be the single most effective ad of the entire '06 cycle.
It's amazing to me how consultants sometimes forget that the most powerful political ads are the ones that approach voters directly and honestly, and where simple visual imagery speaks far louder than one's words ever could.
No cute graphics. No cheesy background music. No missed lay-ups or listening to an iPod or hiring actors to sit in the stands with you and read lines about the UW. Just one man that everyone knows and his very real message to voters.
For the record, Fox has cut a similar ad for Ben Cardin in Maryland and, according to an AP story today, for Jim Doyle here in Wisconsin. Given when the McCaskill and Cardin ads went up, I'd guess you'll probably be seeing the Doyle ad in the next few days. Good luck to the Green Team in responding. Your dazzling and effective ad campaign is why you make the big money and I'm just out here blogging.
And without further ado, your latest edition of Great Moments in Modern Conservative Thought, courtesy of our good friends at Free Republic. But first, let me note for the record that Michael J. Fox is indeed an American citizen by his own free will, not by accident of birth like most of us.
The selfish Fox should spend more time with a Bible rather than whining against the will of God.
Hey Michael, go back to Canada and get on the list to see a specialist for Parkinsons disease.
Michael J. Fox, the late Christopher Reeve and other celebrities are just useful idiots in the scam. I don't think Fox is that bad but he's vulnerable since he suffers from Parkinson's disease and anything he says can be spun by the embryonic stem cell research crowd.
One thing about Michael J., has anyone else noticed that he skips his meds whenever he has to appear in public for a Parkinson's event?
fox should beg HIS OWN GOVERNMENT (Canada) to fund it! Just because he played an American on TV, does not mean we have to respect his spewing of crap here... even if he bought himself an American Citizenship!
It's amazing to me how consultants sometimes forget that the most powerful political ads are the ones that approach voters directly and honestly, and where simple visual imagery speaks far louder than one's words ever could.
No cute graphics. No cheesy background music. No missed lay-ups or listening to an iPod or hiring actors to sit in the stands with you and read lines about the UW. Just one man that everyone knows and his very real message to voters.
For the record, Fox has cut a similar ad for Ben Cardin in Maryland and, according to an AP story today, for Jim Doyle here in Wisconsin. Given when the McCaskill and Cardin ads went up, I'd guess you'll probably be seeing the Doyle ad in the next few days. Good luck to the Green Team in responding. Your dazzling and effective ad campaign is why you make the big money and I'm just out here blogging.
And without further ado, your latest edition of Great Moments in Modern Conservative Thought, courtesy of our good friends at Free Republic. But first, let me note for the record that Michael J. Fox is indeed an American citizen by his own free will, not by accident of birth like most of us.
The selfish Fox should spend more time with a Bible rather than whining against the will of God.
Hey Michael, go back to Canada and get on the list to see a specialist for Parkinsons disease.
Michael J. Fox, the late Christopher Reeve and other celebrities are just useful idiots in the scam. I don't think Fox is that bad but he's vulnerable since he suffers from Parkinson's disease and anything he says can be spun by the embryonic stem cell research crowd.
One thing about Michael J., has anyone else noticed that he skips his meds whenever he has to appear in public for a Parkinson's event?
fox should beg HIS OWN GOVERNMENT (Canada) to fund it! Just because he played an American on TV, does not mean we have to respect his spewing of crap here... even if he bought himself an American Citizenship!
4 comments:
Are you sure he is a citizen? Or just another of your Musical Whims???????????
Now I know how those guys on C-SPAN feel when they host call-in hour and get these incomprehensible goofs who call up and try to talk about how big their penis is.
Okay, next caller... hoping for critical thought but looks like we'll settle for appropriate use of capital letters and punctuation today.
How can you stand to mine Free Republic for quotes? I tried reading Democratic Underground a couple of times, but my brain convinced me to stop torturing it by giving me a migraine each time.
I was wondering how long it would take before someone would ask me that.
The internet has been a true democratizer in terms of allowing people to share their thoughts with the world. That's helped bring a lot of really articulate, well-constructed viewpoints into the public eye that may not have been heard otherwise.
I, for instance, enjoy reading your blog. Had it not been for the internet, I may never have been aware of your thoughts and ideas. I may also have missed out on the fact that someone actually believes Dave Magnum can win if only he wasn't so vocally in favor of stem cell research. Believe me Mr. Diamond, I laughed about that for hours.
But I digress. Enough mutual backslapping. Back to the issue at hand.
There are also places like FR and DU, which are sort of like pigs slopping at the trough of free speech. DU bores me to tears, but I'm actually somewhat humored by Free Republic. Perhaps it's because I supposedly am on the same side of the fence as these guys.
So in short, I throw on my fire-retardant suit once or twice a week and wade into the fiery den of stupidity that is FR. The best thing about FR is that as the number of comments you read approaches infinity, the limit of the function (true lucidity)/(asinine comments) quickly begins to look like 1/n.
(My calculus teacher from my sophomore year of high school would be so proud that over a decade later I can still make a joke about limits.)
So I usually don't have to read for more than 10 minutes before I've collected my treasure and can return to the sphere of normalcy that I am otherwise ensconced in.
I can do it small doses and judging by the emails I've gotten, my readers enjoy it. It's a small price to pay to keep the customers happy.
Yours,
RS
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