A well written blog by an excellent blogger that I recommend reading // he defines exactly the term “Hit the nail on the head” when it comes to sound reasoning concerning Tuesday’s election.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.” —Groucho Marx
In 1964, Lyndon Johnson’s presidential race against Barry Goldwater turned out one of the most controversial political ads in the television age. Entitled, “Peace, Little Girl”, the ad shows a cute little girl plucking flower petals in a serene setting. Suddenly, a man’s voice booms out with a countdown from 10, and with each step closer to 1 the camera hammers in on the little girl’s alarmed face. Tighter and tighter the shot gets until all you can see is the darkness of her right eye resulting in a black screen. Then, dramatically the viewer sees the result of the countdown as the shot cuts to a nuclear explosion with the subsequent mushroom cloud.
Johnson’s campaign only ran the ad one time on one network, NBC, but all three major…
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