Readers of this blog are well aware that I hold Hillary
Clinton in low esteem, but fairness requires me to acknowledge true political
brilliance when I see it. Yesterday I
watched a Clinton commercial -- one of
the first I have caught on the tube, though I imagine by now there have been
many. I say without hesitation that it
was the single most powerful and effective political advertisement I have ever
encountered. It was so good that after I
had watched it for a while, unbidden there rose in me a visceral
longing for a Clinton victory in 2016.
The commercial was lavishly produced and must have cost a
small fortune, paid for out of the Clinton campaign's famously deep pockets. It ran for an unimaginably long time -- three
hours, I believe, though I only watched the first ninety minutes. The format was sheer genius. It pretended to be an actual live debate
among eleven of the candidates for the Republican presidential nomination. By inspired cross-cutting and photo-shopping,
the producers of the commercial managed to make every one of the Republican
candidates look like a blustering bully, a blithering idiot, or an ineffectual
fool.
The real genius of the ad is that since it used absolutely
nothing but the Republicans' own words and facial grimaces, they have no
grounds for complaint.
Now if only the Sanders campaign could produce commercials
like this!
2 comments:
LOL. Are you sure Saul Bellow didn't write that long "Clinton ad"?
http://robertpaulwolff.blogspot.com/2014/03/yet-another-bauble-from-my-files.html
I believe that is what lit crit types call intertextuality! :)
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