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The Summer of Discontent – A Caption Contest!
Riding in an over-crowded and under-airconditioned subway this morning, I realized that state and city budget cuts, combined with persistent high unemployment are making for an American version of Britain’s 1978 “Winter of Discontent,” which produced this brilliant, game-changing poster by Saatchi and Saatchi.
This poster helped propel the Tories to power (Claire: back me up here). It’s hard to beat “Labor isn’t working,” but let’s try. How about pictures of unemployed workers with the caption “Congress Isn’t Working, Either.” Or maybe Obama on a golf course (“Obama Isn’t Working.”) Or pictures of idled oil rigs with the caption “Your Tax Dollars At Work.”
I’m sure the rest of you can do better – bring it on!
Published in General
Maybe for an after-9 PM spot?
How about:
Unemployment Rate in Washington, DC: 5.9%
Unemployment Rate Nationwide: 9.7%
Inelegant but motivating?
Yes, yes, I back you up. A document strategists might want to think about is John Hoskyns’ ”Stepping Stones,” which was the blueprint for the Thatcher Revolution. Some key lines:
“Irrational Exuberance”
How about a shot of a long unemployment line that says, “They don’t want change, they want a paycheck.”
Stimulus isn’t working.
Expanding on an earlier thought: How about a video spot that shows a sequence of still images of the White House and the Capitol, photoshopped to add graffiti, broken windows, and garbage. Each tag would refer to a different Democrat failure:
etc., etc. After a little while of this, the tag line(s) would come up:
Want your country back? Then take it back!
Vote for real change on November 2nd.
(I should clarify that by “tag”, I meant the text of the graffiti photoshopped into the images.)
Now we’re cooking – keep ’em coming!
Daniel: all terrifying, and true. So much material! To paraphrase one of Mr. Long’s earlier posts, how can the GOP screw this up?
Big picture of Obama on the golf course.
More Tea, Less Kool-Aid
http://i47.tinypic.com/os6e83.jpg
See Rob’s picture at top:
“How will we pull up the economy when we can barely pull up our pants?”
Movies:
Dawn of the Debt
Night of the Living Debt
Raiders of the Last Marque
Knight and Prey
Wreck Forever
Cloudy with a Chance of Downfall
A Czar is Born
I’ll stop now.
This appears to be along the lines of Adam’s thinking.
Congress isn’t working
Obama isn’t working
The Stimulus isn’t working
I think the RNC needs to unclench a little, and run a youtube based ad contest….
Co-opt the Uncle Sam image with a variety of captions:
“I’m your uncle, not your mommy”
“I’m still not stimulated”
“Now I’m unemployed AND broke”
“I’m your uncle, not your mommy,” is excellent.
“I want you to stop whining”
The President won’t pay this debt.
Congress won’t pay this debt.
You may not pay this debt.
<<INSERT PICTURE OF YOUNG CHILD>>
But she’ll have to.
Golf ones:
“Putz putts.”
“You want to thrive? I’d rather drive.”
“Tar or par?”
“I only care about eagles on my scorecard.”
(To Barney Frank) “No queens on the greens.”
“The only flags I care to see are the ones on the course.”
I could do this all day.
Soo, is this supposed to be about truth or power?
The oil rigs that were shut down number 25-33. Out of the nearly 4,000 there now? We’re not doing anybody any favors with histrionics.
The Charles Allen ones look promising.