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Today’s Topic is when You know Your Campaign Has no Chance
The First sign is when you go to a sporting event and get booed
The second sign is when you get booed at your own rally
The third sign that your campaign might be finished is when your campaign commercials attack your opponent for doing exactly what the people on your ticket did.
Quite simply Palin was married to a member of a domestic terrorist organization; McCain supported high risk housing loans; Phil Gramm, his chief financial adviser, led the senate committee that drafted the deregulation bills; and McCain has been lying all through the summer
Another sign that your campaign is in trouble is when your idea of an attack ad is black high school kids -keep in mind that only about sixty percent of high school students complete their coursework- saying that because of the example of Barrack Obama they will not end up as vegabonds, dropouts, and failures at life.
This week’s theme is debunking Campaign Myths. Every Four Years Americans become the dumbest people on earth and buy into lies made by both political parties that simply aren’t true and 2008 is no exception to this rule.
Many Thanks to the Folks over at Factcheck.Org for producing these clips
First the Best (or maybe the worst) in Campaign Ad Gaffes
This week’s theme is songs which make you proud to be an American.
First off is Lee Greenwood’s modern folk classic God Bless the USA
Ray Charles brilliant rendition of America the Beautiful
This clip is of our congress, Republican and Democrat, singing God Bless America on the steps of the Capitol building on that darkest of days when we all stood united as Americans. So here is the congress singing God Bless America (caution, it still brings a tear to the eye)
Up next is Yolanda Adams sweetly singing My Country ’tis of Thee
Now we shall see John Phillip Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever
Next we go back to yesteryear with When Johny Comes Marching Home
Our next song is the Battle Hymn of the Republic
Finally, no tribute to America would be complete without our National Anthem, Francis Scott Key’s Star Spangled Banner sung spectacularly here by Whitney Houston
Today’s Theme is A History of Soviet and Russian Cinema.
Our first film is a relatively obscure film titled Aelita: Queen of Mars. This film was made in 1924 and along with Eisensteins’ Battleship Potemkin and Strike represents the pinnacle of Soviet Culture during the era of relative cultural freedom during the NEP (New Economic Policy) Era. Aelita was visionary, and was an early Soviet attempt at the science fiction genre. Oddly many of the themes that Fritz Lang used in Metropolis can be seen in this film.
Our next three clips will be Sergei Eisenstein’s three silent era masterpieces. The first clip is Sergei Eisenstein’s Strike of 1925. It is my favorite Soviet Silent Film and in the running for my favorite silent film produced in any land.
The next clip is from Battleship Potemkin and it is the most famous and oft repeated film sequence in cinematic history, namely the famous Odessa Steps Scene. You’ve seen it parodied by Leslie Nielson and in The Untouchables:
Our third Eisenstein Clip is Oktobrya. In this film we see that revisionism is underway and the beginning of the steely icy grip of socialist realism:
Our next film is another ten year anniversary film called The End of St. Petersburg produced by Vsevelod Pudovkin:
During the 1930s came the joining of Sound, Social Realism, and the Stalin Cult. The first clip we will show is Alexander Nevsky. This is a 1939 film designed to rally public support for war against Germany, to praise the five year plans, and to give glory to Stalin. It is of a genre of Stalin films that did not show Stalin. Here now is Eisenstein’s great Alexander Nevsky:
The Next film for viewing is Ivan The Terrible, made during the war and lauding Stalin’s Hero Tsar Ivan IV.
Next is the ultimate in the Stalin Film “Fall of Berlin”. This film was made for Stalin’s seventieth birthday and lauds him for winning the Great Patriotic War. The song in this clip is Glory To Stalin, who has given us a great and happy life.
After Stalin’s death, and Khrushchev’s subsequent rise to power, came a great cultural thaw. During this time on of the greatest Soviet films was made. Our next clip is of the classic “The Cranes are Flying”
Our next film is a short clip of the longest movie ever made. 1968’s War and Peace. A very good film, but a bit on the extremely long side at over eight hours in length.
In the 1980s the Soviet Union was teetering on the brink of Collapse, but a very graphic and well done film was made about partisans in the Great Patriotic War. This film was 1986’s Come and See
Our final clip is the spectacular Russian Ark. This film was made in the 2000s and is a brilliant film about the history of the hermitage in St. Petersburg.
and this week’s theme is The most Iconic Presidential Campaign Ads in American History
Our first ad is from 1952, the very first campaign in American History to use a televised ad. This is the historic I Like Ike commercial
Our second clip is Lyndon B. Johnson’s famous election ad of a little girl counting daisy pedals to highlight the dangers of nuclear war, in fact it was so well done that it was rehashed in 2004
The next two clips are the most vile attack ads in American History.
This is Humphrey’s infamous laughter ad about Spirrow Agnew becomming Vice President, and while Humphrey lost the election that year, he will always be remembered for using the first attack ad in American history
The next clip is George Herbert Walker Bush’s truculent Willie Horton commercial. This ad essentially terminated Mike Dukakis’ election chances
The next clip is Reagan’s Bear in the Wood’s video which helped him secure reelection in a landslide in 1984 and in 2004 George Walker Bush would rehash this commercial.
Our next clip is Reagan’s famous “Its morning in America” ad.
In 2004 Bush won his reelection bid by accusing John Kerry of flip flopping and this accusation was hammered home in 2004’s best campaign ad
Bill Clinton Cruised to an Upset victory over incumbent George HW Bush in this great 1992 attack ad:
In 1968 Nixon actually believed in pulling out of Vietnam and won by pledging to get us out of Vietnam.
Jimmy Carter would oust the tarnished legacy of Nixon/Ford in 1976 by appealing to people who wanted an outsider
First, the reason I voted for Kucinich in the Missouri presidential primary
and now a Geography lesson with John McCain
now I realize that he may not be able to remember where his seven houses are but come on you can’t remember the names of foreign leaders and what nations they run?
And Mr. Obama, how many states do we have again?
And now moving on to sports, its the greatest football game of all time and it will never get old no matter how many times you watch it.
Go Bills!
and now here’s Triumph the Insult Dog with the Weather
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