So in watching bits of the RNC, it occurred to me that there’s the perfect opportunity for some really good ads by anyone opposing the Republicans/Bush (and I can’t imagine people of that temperament are in short supply these days). It struck me that the overall set up, with the giant screen behind the podium, especially with Bush’s speech projected on it:
could have some cultural resonance. Specifically to this ad, from Apple:
It actually already got spoofed by the Obama people against Hillary:
And given the giant screen / mindless crowd set up already in place at the RNC, half of your editing work is already done for you. They’ve even posted videos of all of the speeches here. Plus, it could make it really easy to repurpose the images from the RNC in everyone’s minds for their parallels to this.
If you’re doubting my claims of the “mindless crowd” at the RNC, I was talking to one of my friends who was a delegate (one of the Ron Paul people we got elected), and apparently aside from all of the made for TV-ness that was apparent, there was even more you might not have noticed. Many of those home made looking signs were actually made by the McCain campaign and handed out on the floor. They also handed out cards with numbered chants, a la- Chant 1 – “Country First, Country First”, Chant 2 – “Drill, Baby, Drill”, Chant 3 – “U.S.A.”, more on that last one here.
(A side note – Fans at WWE Professional Wrestling events often also chant “U.S.A.” when one of the “bad guy” characters billed as being from another country, such as Russia or India, is in the ring and receiving more attention than they like. The RNC and WWE probably have more in common than most people care to realize. And yet people think it’s odd Minnesota elected a former pro wrestler Governor. )
At any rate, apparently “Live Free or Die”, “Make love, not war”, and “FREEDOM!!!” were not in the cards at the RNC.