KT at the Scratching Post hooked us up with Fred Thompson’s Christmas ad. Its here. And following Mongo’s suggestion we have something here, in lieu of a Mitt Romney Christmas ad. This is the kind of support we truly appreciate. Thanks guys! Both have been linked at the original post here, as well.
Think it was Elvis who once said that the key to writing a good pop song was setting happy lyrics to a sad melody. Well, if it was as easy as that how come more people don’t do it? And similarly, with T.V. commercials, how come we don’t see primates in every damn one of them. Ask yourself when was the last time you saw a commercial with chimpanzees in it that wasn’t absolutely hysterical. And then ask yourself what it was the commercial was selling. Don’t know, don’t care? You loved the ad, though and that’s all that mattered.
Which brings us to Fred’s ad. Images of soldiers, sailors and marines set to a Ken Burn’s-style parlor piano “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” absent voice-overs from Fred or anybody else. The simple, spare “Fred Thompson” at the end is a man’s man way to sign off. Great spot. You simply can’t go wrong with an ad like that. And similar to chimp commercials, you have no idea what Fred is selling and you don’t have any better idea of what Fred is about other than asking us to remember the men and women in our Armed Forces this Christmas….. you only know that you enjoyed the ad. And maybe that’s O.K. Maybe its alright to just have a simple ad that intones respect, admiration and gratitude towards the military.
So why doesn’t everyone do this? Well, we know why candidates from one party don’t…. they can’t. It may not have personally been any of the Big Three but their fellow leaders in the Democrat Party have spent the past 3 or so years doing everything from prejudging the Marines involved with the Haditha case (John Murtha, who is being sued by one of the Marines because of these actions), scoring cheap political points with Abu Ghraib (Kennedy) and claiming U.S. troops were “terrorizing” Iraqi women and children (Kerry). These are just the prominent examples that came to mind. There were many more.
Clinton, Obama and Edwards’ own party have painted themselves into a corner such that if any one of them tried this no-brainer of a “chimp spot” it would appear hypocritical to most of us and worse yet, it would anger the kook-left in their respective camps. It’s a damn shame – it shouldn’t be that way. It shouldn’t be in this great country of ours that one of the two major political parties in this country can’t make a simple ad that shows unabashed and unqualified support for the military. They have no one but themselves to blame, though.
Think it was Elvis who once said that the key to writing a good pop song was setting happy lyrics to a sad melody. Well, if it was as easy as that how come more people don’t do it? And similarly, with T.V. commercials, how come we don’t see primates in every damn one of them. Ask yourself when was the last time you saw a commercial with chimpanzees in it that wasn’t absolutely hysterical. And then ask yourself what it was the commercial was selling. Don’t know, don’t care? You loved the ad, though and that’s all that mattered.
Which brings us to Fred’s ad. Images of soldiers, sailors and marines set to a Ken Burn’s-style parlor piano “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” absent voice-overs from Fred or anybody else. The simple, spare “Fred Thompson” at the end is a man’s man way to sign off. Great spot. You simply can’t go wrong with an ad like that. And similar to chimp commercials, you have no idea what Fred is selling and you don’t have any better idea of what Fred is about other than asking us to remember the men and women in our Armed Forces this Christmas….. you only know that you enjoyed the ad. And maybe that’s O.K. Maybe its alright to just have a simple ad that intones respect, admiration and gratitude towards the military.
So why doesn’t everyone do this? Well, we know why candidates from one party don’t…. they can’t. It may not have personally been any of the Big Three but their fellow leaders in the Democrat Party have spent the past 3 or so years doing everything from prejudging the Marines involved with the Haditha case (John Murtha, who is being sued by one of the Marines because of these actions), scoring cheap political points with Abu Ghraib (Kennedy) and claiming U.S. troops were “terrorizing” Iraqi women and children (Kerry). These are just the prominent examples that came to mind. There were many more.
Clinton, Obama and Edwards’ own party have painted themselves into a corner such that if any one of them tried this no-brainer of a “chimp spot” it would appear hypocritical to most of us and worse yet, it would anger the kook-left in their respective camps. It’s a damn shame – it shouldn’t be that way. It shouldn’t be in this great country of ours that one of the two major political parties in this country can’t make a simple ad that shows unabashed and unqualified support for the military. They have no one but themselves to blame, though.
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I found Fred Thompson’s ad to be so moving that I did not really care what he stands for. The ad is so poignant and powerful you WILL remember his name. Hillary’s ad is so far gone that I believe someone who hates her guts was in charge of this debacle. The fact that she had no clue how bad she looked speaks volumes about her. She should beg Dick Morris to come back and advise her. It goes to show you how powerful some of these ads can be to the general public.
We won't go until we get some seems to be her theme
Why doesn't everyone do ads like Fred's? Well, for one thing, they lack a certain characteristic, a certain strength of purpose a certain...Fredness.
:-)
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