{"id":5727,"date":"2020-04-14T12:02:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T16:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=5727"},"modified":"2020-04-14T12:02:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T16:02:48","slug":"nuclear-daisies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/04\/14\/nuclear-daisies\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Daisies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Daisy&quot; Ad (1964): Preserved from 35mm in the Tony Schwartz Collection\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/riDypP1KfOU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This commercial, &#8220;Formally titled &#8220;Peace, Little Girl,&#8221; but more commonly known as the &#8220;Daisy&#8221; ad, this famous political, commercial was produced primarily by Tony Schwartz for President Lyndon B. Johnson&#8217;s 1964 campaign against Barry Goldwater.&#8221;\u00a0 This is not my favorite ad in the sense of genuinely liking it, but in a sense of a strange curiosity\u00a0of the fear mongering that was rampant in the 1960&#8217;s. This ad was made with the intention of fear mongering citizens\u00a0into voting for Johnson with a simple slogan\u00a0of &#8221; we must either love each other or die&#8221;. This enormous oversimplification of what was happening at the time was to create\u00a0a sense of pressure in the American Citizen to vote for Johnson. It is so interesting the enormous\u00a0juxtaposition of innocence and extreme fear with the young girl and the explosion. I find the commercial a fascinating example of fear mongering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This commercial, &#8220;Formally titled &#8220;Peace, Little Girl,&#8221; but more commonly known as the &#8220;Daisy&#8221; ad, this famous political, commercial was produced primarily by Tony Schwartz for President Lyndon B. Johnson&#8217;s 1964 campaign against Barry Goldwater.&#8221;\u00a0 This is not my favorite ad in the sense of genuinely liking it, but in a sense of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5727","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\/5727","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\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}