{"id":20259,"date":"2010-08-05T10:14:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T16:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=20259"},"modified":"2010-08-05T15:31:45","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T21:31:45","slug":"video-dazy-daisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/08\/video-dazy-daisy\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Daisy"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we enter August and head toward the 2010 General, we should all prepare ourselves for the barrage of political ads that are about to attack our flat screens.<\/p>\n

Get ready, this is going to be a vicious cycle.<\/p>\n

The political ad is actually an art.\u00a0In a few rare cases, it qualifies as great art a la van Gogh.\u00a0In other cases, not-so much. Think hard here. Unlike a steamy movie, I bet there are very few political ads that vividly run across your mind (just because…).<\/p>\n

So, what\u2019s in a political ad?\u00a0Oh, you know, the typical boasting, over-promising, and never-ending mudslinging.\u00a0There are candidates kissing babies. There are candidates sitting in green grass with their incredibly smiley families.\u00a0There are catchy sound bites and\u00a0cutesy slogans. There are shots of America’s most pathetic and down-trodden.\u00a0All of this is supposed to invite our vote.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a while since we\u2019ve been truly shocked by a campaign ad, wouldn\u2019t you say?\u00a0\u00a0We\u2019ve been drawn, but not shocked \u2013 which brings me to Lyndon B. Johnson\u2019s 1964 Daisy <\/em>ad. It aired exactly once \u2013 September 7th \u2013 during NBC\u2019s Monday Night at the Movies.<\/em> It was a shocker, all right. <\/em>Take a look.<\/p>\n

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Interesting political trivia, no?\u00a0I\u2019d be curious to know your thoughts on this ad. Yes, I know it\u2019s a different era and that the times have changed.\u00a0 That said, it\u2019s not completely irrelevant.\u00a0We all know that the nuclear threat exists, and now we have al-Qaeda to top things off.<\/p>\n

Back to the ad.\u00a0Too much? Just plain wrong? Effective? Interesting? Explosive?<\/p>\n

(The other question is this: What would it take in this day-and-age to have an ad so<\/span> radical that it actually gets banned after one airing?)<\/em><\/p>\n

Sarah Lenti is the blogger behind NMPolitics.net\u2019s <\/em>The Savvy<\/em><\/a>. E-mail her at <\/em>sarah@nmpolitics.net<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we enter August and head toward the 2010 General, we should all prepare ourselves for the barrage of political ads that are about to attack our flat screens. Check out this shocker of an ad from 1964. What would it take today to have an ad banned after one airing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1196,181],"tags":[108],"class_list":["post-20259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-the-savvy","tag-2010-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}