Doing The Work the American Media Won't Do
Dave Carter ·
April 25, 2011 at 3:10pm
From the College Republican National Committee, we have this ad. Smart, fast-paced, geared toward younger voters, it encourages the audacity of asking tough questions. I haven't even had my coffee yet and I like this ad. (As a rule, I don't like much of anything prior to coffee.) What say you?
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Nov '10
Re: Doing The Work the American Media Won't Do
Honestly? ...I hate it. Shaky-cam, techno music, flashing lights, repetition, etc. all give me the vague impression that they think I'm stupid and that this is the only way they can keep me focused on their message. There's also something about young people talking about important things that just bugs me.
Edited on April 25, 2011 at 3:36pmMay '10
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Jan-Michael Rives: Honestly? ...I hate it. Shaky-cam, techno music, flashing lights, repetition, etc. all give me the vague impression that they think I'm stupid and that this is the only way they can keep me focused on their message. There's also something about young people talking about important things that just bugs me. · Apr 25 at 6:34am
Edited on Apr 25 at 06:36 am
I agree. They ask a good question, but there are so many more they could have asked in the same amount of time to a better effect of indicting the administration. All sizzle and not enough steak here. And the disco-techno production values are just annoying and distracting.
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So you guys see it as a patronizing approach? Evidently I should have had my coffee first then..... I take it you're in the targeted age group? If so, I'll have to rely on you as my keys to "hipdom."
Edited on April 25, 2011 at 3:52pmMay '10
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I think it's good--as one element of an attack on the horrid Obama/MSM/Dem Borg. One element. I suspect if you hate this ad, you aren't its target audience (I'm not either).
May '10
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Dave Carter: So you guys see it as a patronizing approach? Evidently I should have had my coffee first then..... I take it you're in the targeted age group? If so, I'll have to rely on you as my keys to "hipdom." · Apr 25 at 6:47am
Edited on Apr 25 at 06:52 am
I'm more than little more than past the targeted age group; I not long ago got on the on-ramp to old fogeydom myself. I'm not there yet but I'm long past the college years. My idea of "hipdom" is probably closer to yours, Dave - my idea of popular music is anything before 1970.
Even so, this ad already seems sort of tired and pedestrian. This is MTV Rock-the Vote stuff that has been done over and over for decades now.
I just wish the producers of these things would simply address us all as Americans with argument instead of trying to target some desired demographic group with whatever cotton-candy they think they might like. We have the arguments; lets present them without the drum machine in our ears.
I close with two words: coffee first.
Feb '11
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I like it, although It definitely reminds me of something out of the Obama 2008 campaign playbook.
May '10
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But that's what the kids are doing! Look at our own "Young Cons." Not my bag, but it appeals to them. If it's going to get their attention I'm all for it. Young people need to be able to answer their peers' arguments. Most young people have some idea about debt (tuition loans and car loans for example).
May '10
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When it comes to changing minds on something big, any one style of persuasion is unlikely to work as well as several.
Jul '10
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And yet Obama refused IBM's offer fo fix the medicare / medicaid fraud problem and save $900 BILLION per year!!! Someone has got to get this publicized and get some answer from this administration on why they're not interested. Only reason I can fathom is that they WANT the country to go bankrupt! This was mentioned on S Varney's Fox Business before Obamacare was passed
Kit Winterer
Well, it's all true.
Edited on April 25, 2011 at 5:02pmSamuel J. Palmisano, the Chairman of the Board and CEO for IBM, said
in a recent Wall Street Journal interview that he offered to provide
the Obama Administration with a program that would curb healthcare
claims fraud and abuse by almost one trillion dollars but the Obama
White House turned the offer down. Mr. Palmisano is quoted as saying
during a taping of The Wall Street Journal's Viewpoints program on
September 14, 2010:
http://capitolhillcoffeehouse.com/index.php/article/574
http://reimagineamerica.org/tag/sam-palmisano/
http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/02/ibm-exec-offers-save-900-billion-health-care-costs-obama-turned-h
Jan '11
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For me (cranky old fogey): Migraine City.
For twenty-somethings? I'll try it out on the Elder Spawn when she comes by to collect her dog tonight.
Nov '10
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I just am glad that someone, anyone, is doing something or anything now to get our message out. It has been driving me crazy that we seem to be waiting until the election cycle to start putting out ads.
Mar '11
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Honestly, seems a bit manic to me.
I'm in my 20's (the "younger generation of voters") and the "Interest Alone" argument is only partially compelling...I'm generally more persuaded by an ideal based argument rather than a "Here's a symptom of this bad policy" argument...but I suppose to those less informed it might spark some interest.
Jul '10
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The interest alone? They should have started with saying something about the debt. Otherwise it's just confusing.
May '10
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I've got my crack team of sorority girls (oh, and the babysitters locked in the basement, but they're biased with incentives) checking this out. Will report back. As others have noted, it would be condescending of me to speak for the yoots. 20 years older than the target age.
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Hmmm. On the one hand, Dave, I sort of agree that this is a rough first draft version -- a little too manic for me, a little too rough around the edges.
But what's great is that this is clearly just the first try. Making these videos is about as cheap as can be. They should make one a week, send it out there, and watch the reaction. One or two of them are going to hit.
So, while this one may miss the mark, I want them to keep at it, keep making them, keep trying to spread the message that this president and the policies of the Democratic party are dooming the younger generation to penury, to an 80% tax bracket on middle incomes, to a declining and impoverished America.
The toughest thing about making these kinds of messages was the cost. Now, it can all be done on a MacBook Pro, with a $100 camera. So: keep at it. You learn something with each failure. Make enough of them, and one of them will go big.
Oct '10
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To me the weakness was both the lack of concrete data, i.e. facts and figures about the debt, and especially a clear explanation of how that will affect young people. In other words, trillions in debt means a permanently stagnant economy with chronic high unemployment and wages lower than they could be. (Unless it leads to an even worse Greek-style collapse.) Perhaps they could have had a skeptic interrupt their spiel and ask something like 'Oh really, what does this all mean to me, since people have been talking about gov't debt and deficits for decades?' They then could have made the issues and dangers of the status qou less abstract and more concrete and specific.
Nov '10
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Rob Long:
But what's great is that this is clearly just the first try. Making these videos is about as cheap as can be. They should make one a week, send it out there, and watch the reaction. One or two of them are going to hit.
Not enough Tiger Mother in you, Rob.
Jun '10
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I'm a leetle past the target age but I've been around college students lately. I finally graduated college in 2009. This just might work to get the attention of a college student, not an easy task to say the least. While this is not my cup of tea, I'm already interested in politics, anything that gets them to look at the outside world is good by me.