{"id":5752,"date":"2020-04-14T18:07:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T22:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=5752"},"modified":"2020-04-14T18:08:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T22:08:58","slug":"favorite-ad-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/04\/14\/favorite-ad-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">I had to watch the 2004 democrat campaign ads and my favorite was &#8220;State of the Union&#8230;Not Good.&#8221;\u00a0 They took edited clips of George Bush to make him say horrible things and then inserted clips of the crowd cheering for him.\u00a0 For example, they took a clip of him saying &#8220;I am committed to defeating the good work of charities and the values that bring lasting peace,&#8221; and then the crowd starts applauding him.\u00a0 I liked this ad the best because thought it was really funny and it caught me off guard since it did not have the serious tone that most of the other ads had.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.livingroomcandidate.org\/commercials\/2004\/state-of-the-union-not-good-web<\/p>\n<p>I also enjoyed the ad titled &#8220;The Coalition of Loudmouth Jerks&#8221; which showed clips of democrats saying bad stuff about George Bush and then the narrator said, &#8220;but when democrats say mean things about the president, it makes the president sad.&#8221;\u00a0 Then it followed with a montage of sad music and somber clips of George Bush looking out of a window and then had a picture of George Bush with an edited teardrop that ran down his face.\u00a0 I thought this montage and edited teardrop part was really funny since I don&#8217;t normally think of campaign ads including humor in them.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.livingroomcandidate.org\/commercials\/2004\/the-coalition-of-loudmouthed-jerks-web<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to watch the 2004 democrat campaign ads and my favorite was &#8220;State of the Union&#8230;Not Good.&#8221;\u00a0 They took edited clips of George Bush to make him say horrible things and then inserted clips of the crowd cheering for him.\u00a0 For example, they took a clip of him saying &#8220;I am committed to defeating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4680,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5752","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\/5752","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\/4680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}