While writing the post below I realized that we really need Morgan Freeman to narrate some Barack Obama ads. Then before I got around to posting this the comments veered toward Freeman too. But I think we can all agree that, as Taylor says, Freeman is a sonic messiah, and Obama should really do this.
It probably works best with positive ads. If you saw, say, slow-motion shots of Americans standing proud and smiling in front of some picturesque America places and heard Morgan Freeman say something like, “By the people. Of the people. For the people. This is America,” and right when he says that last part you see Obama smiling as he talks to schoolchildren, and then maybe Freeman says some sort of Obama slogan as they show the logo, like “Yes, we can,” you would feel so patriotic that it would make the Morning in America campaign look like a diseased crow in a garbage dump, eating a syringe.
But it would also work with attack ads. If you showed footage of McCain hugging Bush, screaming, trying to smile, etc. and showed quotes some of his lies and attempts at policy, or really if you showed McCain in any context, and then had Morgan Freeman say, “John McCain. You ought to be ashamed,” people would be overcome with embarrassment for McCain. He would distress American families even more than he already does. “I’m sorry,” Freeman would narrate, “I guess you’ve just let us down.” It would be instant catharsis of the Buchanan-Rove political era as everyone instinctively tried to make Morgan proud of them. As someone once put it, we’ve crawled through a river of shit, and now we'll come out clean on the other side.
Seriously, Obama really should do this.
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Don LaFontaine should be doing the attack ads.
Obama definitely wins the award for "Most Empty & Meaningless Slogans That Somehow Make Us Feel Good" such as "Yes we can," "Change we can believe in," and his devastatingly moronic book title, "The Audacity of Hope."
you forgot to tell someone to buy a brain
I forgot nothing. No one (in this post or in the comments... yet) seems to be particularly lacking in one.
Further, I have never told anyone to "buy a brain."
Further, I have only politely suggested the purchase of a Thinking Brain on two occasions, and both of those to the same person (making it really just one suggestion and then a reminder of that same suggestion).
Further, Chris Matthews told me to tell you he wants his sense of humor back. OH-HO! *gives high-five to my homeboy J.D.*
Besides, Morgan Freeman would never narrate an ad for Obama. He's already thrown his support (and dollars!) behind Jackson Grimes.
Anyone who gives two shits about America won't vote Republican or Democrat. Blow it all up. This America won't last 20 years more.
now jodi . . . don't you go blowin up america
wtf
where do you get these people.
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