Hey, Hey LBJ — How Many Ads Did You Cut Today?
October 23, 2006 at 1:37 pm
Osama Bin Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahiri star in the Republican National Committee’s ad called “The Stakes“:
These Are The Stakes. Vote November 7th.
Terrifying images and political stakes — a toxic, familiar combination?
Indeed. It was the nuclear mixture behind the most powerful spot ever, the “Daisy” ad LBJ used to demolish Barry Goldwater in 1964:
These are the stakes - to make a world in which all God’s children can live, or to go into the darkness. … Vote for President Johnson on November 3. The stakes are too high for you to stay home.
And what do Democrats think of the Republican ad appropriating LBJ’s terrifying tactic?
They called it a “scaremongering”, and “a desperate ploy to once again try to scare voters and distract from their failures,” said a statement on the Democratic National Committee website.
You can find that quote at Al Jazeera.
jen said,
October 23, 2006 @ 2:20 pm
Wow, thats amazing, connecting the old with the new and possibly the most effective ad in tv history. That ad only ran once and it is still be recycled in today’s political discussions.