Super Bowl Ads
I liked the beer ad about the horse and the dog, with the Rocky music. It brought me happiness, even with barely a mention of beer. This other Super Bowl ad offers hope, change. Without even mentioning reality. Somehow less convincingly, certainly less substantially than even beer. NYT has the vid. Here’s the script:
“We want an end to this war and we want diplomacy and peace. Not only can we save the environment, we can create jobs and opportunity. We’re tired of fear; we’re tired of division. We want something new. We want to turn the page. The world as it is is not the world as it has to be.”
I have to say I’m still astonished by how many people in this country are so dissatisfied with their lives of privilege, are enthralled by unsupported promises of “hope” and “change,” and suffer from the delusion they can wish away the woes of the world. It’s as though someone, during the Cold War, wanted to wish away the Soviet Union. OK, bad example. Too many people did. It’s as though … look, it’s too late to play this game. But it’s no wonder Internet scammers keep at it. There are people out there who will buy all kinds of nonsense.
We’re not really expected to believe anything we see on a Super Bowl ad. Talking frogs, dogs that train horses. But hold on a sec … did I just say Obama is less substantial, less convincing than even Budweiser?
Speaking of reality, disconnect from, hope for change and all that, this seductive ad ran with the alluring promise that the end of the Superbowl would be followed by bedtime. You know what this ad is supposed to make you think about.
Yeah, I probably thought about that, too. Right before I thought about all the drunk fat guys in America watching that ad who would shortly be stumbling … not to her.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 2:22 am on Monday, February 4, 2008
4 Responses to “Super Bowl Ads”
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February 4th, 2008 at 5:00 am
I can’t wait for the lingerie bowl to reach you-tube!!
February 4th, 2008 at 8:57 am
I’m with Theo (and the rest,all men, well most anyway) but then there is Victoria’s Secret. So we really have a traveling “lingerie bal..bowl”.
Sorry about the Pats, Crittenden. Belitaper brought the dislike of the Pats all on his own, though. He didn’t need to do that…great team. Bright football mind, just stupid. And to think (bad to do) Pete Rose still isn’t in the Hall of Fame
He turned them into the modern day version of the N.Y.Yankees after winning 623 World Series. Well close…:).
Signed, A Brooklyn Dodger fan. Since the Dodgers moved to Tinsel Town, screw them too.
February 4th, 2008 at 9:05 am
DAMN! Wrong thread. Should be up one. Me eyes were glazed over with ummm, glee. Mr Beliclass walking off the field of play, early.
Like what was going to happen, getting mobbed by autograph seekers?…LOL.
Can just see it now…Good luck to you… signed…Bill xoxxoox, right 47 on 2.
February 4th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Uhhh, Chickie…You hold the ball by those white raised thingies…Ahhh hell, hold the balls, anyway you choose….:).