{"id":5715,"date":"2020-04-14T13:26:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T17:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=5715"},"modified":"2020-04-14T13:26:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T17:26:57","slug":"favorite-obama-2012-ad-big-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/04\/14\/favorite-obama-2012-ad-big-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Obama 2012 Ad &#8211; Big Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This advertisement had very little content that actually related to the 2012 presidential election. It focused on Mitt Romney\u2019s promise to cut funding for PBS, which produces Sesame Street. Romney would always reference the character Big Bird when making that promise, so Obama\u2019s team took those sound bites and put together an ad making fun of Romney\u2019s focus on Big Bird.<\/p>\n<p>This accomplished two things. First, it showed the difference between Romney and Obama on funding PBS. Romney wanted to cut funding; Obama did not. But I\u2019m more importantly, it showed that Mitt Romney was out of touch. Instead of focusing on issues like healthcare and education that are more prevalent, he was focused on Big Bird. The ad itself was very cleverly edited to grab your attention and make Romney look foolish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This advertisement had very little content that actually related to the 2012 presidential election. It focused on Mitt Romney\u2019s promise to cut funding for PBS, which produces Sesame Street. Romney would always reference the character Big Bird when making that promise, so Obama\u2019s team took those sound bites and put together an ad making fun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4675,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4675"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}