March 8, 2017 8:30 AM
Dueling Ads in Georgia 6th
Judson Hill is out with his first commercial that starts airing today.
He’s up against this POS from Mutual of Omaha’s Dan Moody:
And they’re both trying to catch Bob Gray, whose cookie-cutter spot has been blanketing tv screens in the district for nearly a month.
Your assignment is to compare and contrast the effectiveness of these tv commercials on their creative and rhetorical merits alone -without any context about the size of their respective buys, their penetration, or their reach. Are you, as a viewer, more persuaded, intrigued or outraged by one more than the other? If so, why or why not.
Please keep your comments on topic and use punctuation properly. Charlie hates it when you don’t.
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Hill has congressional hair and gets goper props for using the Kellyanne Altfact lookalike.
Moody wins because he put an elephant in pearls. Out of consideration for the board elders, I won’t mention who he’s alluding to.
It’s not to late for Gray to grow a beard and try to pass as Gregg Popovich.
Regarding Ossoff, what exactly is a “national security staffer?” For whom? Wasn’t he an aid for Lewis and Hank?
While other campaigns have finally come around to launching their first TV ad, the Bob Gray Campaign just launched its second TV ad last night.
This is a trick. right?
You want us to be exposed to I.Q. sucking chicanery. All I see is three old white boomers who are taking advantage of a sewage infested system to grab power while there is still an organized grab to be had.
Why you want a dumber readership, Mike? Most are already challenged enough, as it is!
I mean Mike, come on. These crackers will lead us to the ultimate goal of the GOP.
That goal is the deregulation and destruction of the United States Federal System, which is the mantra of conservatives everywhere, to be replace with a corporate shell. Privatized; all Federal land bought and sold.
I guess the states will all have to break into Districts. What you wanna bet that our District will be called “Dixie”?
See where this has all been going, Mike? Or are you the frog in the warming water?
That which you republicans have elected, the white male boomers taking their last grab at the trough before handing it to their children, is the final eye opener. I can not unsee what is open and obvious. Politics has gotten really blatant regarding big corporate support.
And not for the people at all, anymore. These men are all alike.
For Moody’s spot I think the metaphor goes a little bit far, and I end up thinking that Moody is talking about himself.
Let’s see, Rick, “three old white boomers”, “These crackers…”, “…will be called “Dixie”. Any subliminal message you’re trying to send? And why are you busting on Mike for posting political ads? You’re sad.
“Sad”
I know your kind’s lingo.
You really wanted to say “cuck” didn’t you?
Yes, I can see clearly the future of my grandkids. Unlike most other boomers who are just into life for what they can grab, The Reagan Mantra of I/Me/mine. What is “sad” is you are a part of this, probably willingly.
I’m not busting Mike. The IQ thing was teasing.
I’m busting the system.
What the hill? I don’t get Judson’s ad.
Hill’s ad is dumb, and it makes him look dumb. I understand the purpose — name recognition — but it’s wrapped in the easily-caricatured acting of the other people in the ad. The underlying message touting simplicity and achievement is completely lost. They’re going for funny. It’s a bad miss.
The donkeys and elephants ad worked … right up to the point where they showed pearls on one of the elephants. It was different, the imagery and messaging made sense. It conveyed a message of bipartisanship and getting things done, which is plainly what Republican voters in a very pragmatic district want. But any female Republican looking at that ad and making the connection between it and Handel will end up knocking on doors for Handel’s campaign.
Gray has the best ad. I’m as surprised as anyone. That’s not to say it’s great — I know literally nothing about the man other than he appears to have an excellent hair stylist after watching it — but it doesn’t damage the brand and I can remember his name after seeing it.
Those voters should email [email protected]
Yep. The pearls thing really ticked me off. But I was already a Handel supporter.
Yeah, it wasn’t even a thinly veiled sexist expression now was it.
Is it me or does it look like Bob Gray is green screened into that swamp and outfit?
Funny that they show him getting out of a truck and not his Maserati.
You are missing the big question. Where did Dan Moody get elephants?
Will refrain from mentioning the preponderance of jackasses…
It’s funny how political euphemisms go… If you think about it, whether scooping up elephant dung or draining a swamp, you still have a heck of a lot of work to do to clean up a mess and to a certain extent that’s where Congress has failed.
They have over-simplified very complicated problems by whitewashing them with kick-the-can slogans that don’t really do anything. They sound good on a bumper sticker, but when it comes down to brass tacks they aren’t worth the paper they are printed on.
I suppose we should just be happy that there is an election in Spring so that it gives political addicts like myself something to follow!
Remember Ross Perot and his charts?
Anyway, I suppose streamlining the federal government doesn’t sound sexy enough until you realize it might save a trillion or two dollars.
I don’t think any of the ads are that great.
Moody’s biggest problem is that nobody knows/remembers him. You don’t hear his name or see his face until fifty seconds into a one minute commercial. I think the subtle attack on Handel was a cheap shot. When you’re at one percent in the polls, maybe you should have spent the entire ad talking about who you are and what you will do?
Gray is piggy backing off Trump. In the end, I don’t think its going to work to well. Btw, how is he a political outsider when he just served in public office?
The Hill ad could have been good if they just used that tagline perhaps once. Think it gets by as mediocre at best. But compared to the first two, it’s probably the better one.
You should not need a position on a capella groups – the real question comes down to what style do you want your ‘in a manner of a chapel’ music sung? In the post 19th century bastardization of all voice, no instrumentals, the original Byzantine and Georgian polyphony or Baroque with overlaid accompaniment?
Hill’s ad was just stupid and juvenile. Cut taxes, balance the budget, blah blah blah. A sick part of me wishes they would balance the budget so these morons could see what real carnage looks like.
Government Deficits = Private Sector Surplus
Government Surplus = Private Sector Deficit
Which in turn gets you over extended credit bubbles and extremely high risk…sound familiar?
(I’ve checked and believe all spelling and punctuation are correct.)