Sort by The Huffington Post (Free subscription) - 09/10/2008 - YouTube
Controversial Lyndon Johnson campaign ad from 1964. Classic example of how politicians use fear to get votes.
Sort by The Huffington Post (Free subscription) - 09/10/2008
Who says Republicans are the only ones who can play the politics of fear? McCain makes Barry Goldwater look like a puppy. In the last...
Sort by NewsBusters (Free subscription) - 05/11/2008
Here is a perfect example of the sort of wild-eyed leftism that is so infused into the very souls of every journalist that claims the mantle of the fourth estate. It's also a perfect example of how they are in the tank for their messiah, Obama. Newsweek's Rich Wolffe and Evan Thomas have presented a fawning review of how Barack Obama is so cool and collected under political fire, but warns their messiah...
Sort by The Plank (Free subscription) - 03/05/2008
Josh is right. Enough with all the whining. Also enough with all the smack talk about how there must be something seriously wrong with Hillary/Obama as a candidate or s/he would have been able to close the deal by now. Horsefeathers. This isn't a primary in which Democratic voters are having a hard time making up their minds because both candidates are so disappointing. That's what's happening with...
Sort by Daily Kos (Free subscription) - 10/05/2008
Even if you were not alive to see it in 1964, you may well have heard of the "Daisy ad," the most famous (or infamous) political television ad of all time. President Johnson ran the ad only once; it was designed to instill the fear that his Republican opponent, Barry Goldwater, would deploy nuclear weapons if elected, and bring about a nuclear armageddon. Take a look: Though it only aired once, it...
Sort by Stop the ACLU (Free subscription) - 05/11/2008
-By Warner Todd Huston Here is a perfect example of the sort of wild-eyed leftism that is so infused into the very souls of every journalist that claims the mantle of the fourth estate. It's also a perfect example of how they are in the tank for their messiah, Obama. Newsweek’s Rich Wolffe and Evan Thomas [...]
Sort by Towleroad (Free subscription) - 06/18/2008
DAISY: Tony Schwartz, who helped create the famous Lyndon Johnson "Daisy" ad, died at his home in Manhattan. DID YOU HEAR?: John McCain called his wife a nasty word (warning: language NSFW) JOAN RIVERS: What she thinks of Russell Crowe....
Sort by Oliver Willis (Free subscription) - 02/29/2008
It's true that Sen. Clinton's security attack ad echoes Republican efforts. But on two fronts, I think it fails: 1) It's not a very good ad. It's, like most of the ads authorized by Clinton and Penn, generic to the point of banality. My first impression on watching it, with the family sleeping and the phone ringing n the background is that someone should pick up the freaking phone! 2) America is so...
Sort by Slog (Free subscription) - 03/04/2008
Remember when I suggested scoring some BLOW from Taboo Video this past Christmas? I wondered if the sh*t would ever hit the fan with this product...
Sort by Cato-at-liberty (Free subscription) - 07/30/2008
You could be excused for getting that vibe from this McCain campaign video, what with its vaguely X-Files-esque theme music and apocalyptic imagery (am I the only one who finds the little girl picking flowers reminiscent of “Daisy” the famous anti-Goldwater ad from the ‘64 campaign'). The Teddy Roosevelt tape is from TR’s unhinged [...]
Sort by neo-neocon (Free subscription) - 03/07/2008
By now the consensus is that Hillary's red phone ad probably helped her comeback on Super Tuesday Two. The ad was controversial but traditional, in the mold of a famous ad Walter Mondale used against Gary Hart in 1984, and the LBJ vs. Goldwater “daisy” ad of 1964. The suggestion is that, if [...]
Sort by Extreme Mortman (Free subscription) - 06/17/2008
Tony Schwartz, who helped create the infamous “daisy ad” that ran only once during the 1964 presidential race but changed political advertising forever, has died. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKs-bTL-pRg
Sort by Adland (Free subscription) - 03/16/2008
"Think of the children! Won't somebody think of the children!" The Ad Council has just come out with a campaign they trot out the old "think of the children" idea. What a tired old idea. Remember the Daisy girl' read more
Sort by Hub Blog (Free subscription) - 01/05/2008
Reader No. 1 responds: Great analysis of the Cannellos piece, which, despite revealing phrases like "persuade working-class people to vote against their economic interests", is pretty good! Particularly his unskeptical citation of Bush 43 on 'Country Club Democrats,' i.e. the Wall Streeters - the post-Iowa vote proves that constituency certainly votes with their pocketbooks - even if Google can't...
Sort by Verum Serum (Free subscription) - 03/16/2008
In the 1964 campaign for President, one of the major issues was nuclear security. Lyndon Johnson, the Democratic candidate, frequently spoke about it in campaign speeches saying: In the first nuclear exchange, 100 million Americans and more than 100 million Russians would be dead. And when it was over, our great cities would [...]
Sort by Massachusetts Liberal (Free subscription) - 04/22/2008
Thankfully today will bring some measure of clarity in the Democratic Death March. This thing is getting totally out of hand. Not content with the 3 a.m. phone call (and all the appropriate jokes that went with it) Hillary Clinton ran a last-minute commercial invoking images of Pearl Harbor, Hurricane Katrina and Osama bin Laden. Maybe as a way to show her kinder, gentler, Mark Penn-less side, the...
