I thought the message sounded pretty good.
Showing posts with label Super Bowl ad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Super Bowl ad. Show all posts
Sunday, February 4, 2018
King Family Approved Ad Upsets the Easily Offended
Official Ram Trucks Super Bowl Commercial - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I thought the message sounded pretty good.
I thought the message sounded pretty good.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Sex in Advertising
For all you connoisseurs of advertising...
I may not be sure exactly what she's selling, but, I'm pretty sure I'm in the market!
(In case you're wondering, "Didn't he just post this one a few weeks ago?", what I posted was a video on the making of this commercial: The Making of Nina Agdal's Carl's Jr. Super Bowl Ad , sans Bobby Darin's "La Mer". )
I may not be sure exactly what she's selling, but, I'm pretty sure I'm in the market!
(In case you're wondering, "Didn't he just post this one a few weeks ago?", what I posted was a video on the making of this commercial: The Making of Nina Agdal's Carl's Jr. Super Bowl Ad , sans Bobby Darin's "La Mer". )
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Friday, August 31, 2012
Halftime in America? Or the End of a Failed Rookie Season?
Many of you remember that Chrysler Super Bowl commercial, "Halftime in America":
Many people saw this as an oblique Obama ad from a government bailed out Chrysler: "Yes, the last four years under Obama have been tough, but we'll come back 'in the second half'." A few even saw this as an endorsement of Obama by Mr. Eastwood.
I think that was part of the brilliance in having Clint make an appearance at the Republican convention. Last February, it looked like Dirty Harry may have been in the Obama camp. Now, it is clear that he is telling Mr. Obama, "a man's got to know his limitations!"
Apart from the gleeful images ( mine included) of Eastwood's character from Gran Torino telling Obama to "get off his lawn", there is something in the earlier sports analogy that caught my attention. A flaw in reasoning behind "halftime in America", if you will.
When it comes to presidential politics, four years is not "halftime", since there is no guarantee the same team will even be on the field after four years. No, four years is a full season. And typically, after a horrendous losing season, the team owners get themselves a new coach.
We hired a rookie coach in 2008. He talked a good game. He promised that the oceans would recede, the world would love us and there'd be jobs for anyone who wanted one, if only he could spend enough of your hard earned tax dollars to do it. And he spent more money than had ever been spent by one country, including ours, in the history of the world.
He benched two of our best players, Coal and Oil, and guaranteed a multimillion dollar contract to a rookie with bad hamstrings and a torn ACL - Solyndra. And the economic and employment scoreboards kept showing losses. Energy costs skyrocketed, which, incidentally may be the only promise Obama kept!
As our prospective coach, he promised to go through the budget playbook "line by line" to root out any weaknesses. Maybe he even took it with him on the hundred or so rounds of golf he played this season. Maybe if he'd spent more time in the clubhouse and less time with his clubs, he might have made a difference? Maybe Obama thought the ability to coach would seep in through osmosis from his golf clubs, or his chair in the Oval Office, or Air Force One.
His assistant coach, Harry Reid, never even drew up a playbook for the team for three of the the last four years of the season. Funny how they always blamed everything on the former coach, but they never replaced his budget playbook with a real one of their own! Who was it that said a failure to plan is a plan for failure?
Coach Barry went to all the social events coaches go to, attended all the gridiron dinners, even accepted a coaching award from some Norwegians before his team ever took the field, but never produced what he promised: a winning season.
Ladies and gentlemen, fellow team owners, frustrated fans, it's time to fire the coach and get a new one. One who knows that when you are dealing with the jobs and livelihoods and futures of every living American, it is just as important to keep score as it is how we play the game. Everyone in Obama's administration, from the lowliest unnecessary cabinet member to the the hundreds of Czars in charge of making sure all the Czars have their own tee time, received a "participation trophy" from Coach Obama. Most of them will leave with lavish pensions and will soon find cushy jobs lobbying their comrades who remain. But American needs to be about the task of winning. Because we will never "win the future" if we do not win the present.
Have a great retirement in Chicago, Coach Obama. You might apply as head coach of the Bears. I'm sure the Vikings and the Packers will both give you glowing letters of recommendation!
Cross posted Say Anything, LCR.
Many people saw this as an oblique Obama ad from a government bailed out Chrysler: "Yes, the last four years under Obama have been tough, but we'll come back 'in the second half'." A few even saw this as an endorsement of Obama by Mr. Eastwood.
I think that was part of the brilliance in having Clint make an appearance at the Republican convention. Last February, it looked like Dirty Harry may have been in the Obama camp. Now, it is clear that he is telling Mr. Obama, "a man's got to know his limitations!"
Apart from the gleeful images ( mine included) of Eastwood's character from Gran Torino telling Obama to "get off his lawn", there is something in the earlier sports analogy that caught my attention. A flaw in reasoning behind "halftime in America", if you will.
When it comes to presidential politics, four years is not "halftime", since there is no guarantee the same team will even be on the field after four years. No, four years is a full season. And typically, after a horrendous losing season, the team owners get themselves a new coach.
We hired a rookie coach in 2008. He talked a good game. He promised that the oceans would recede, the world would love us and there'd be jobs for anyone who wanted one, if only he could spend enough of your hard earned tax dollars to do it. And he spent more money than had ever been spent by one country, including ours, in the history of the world.
He benched two of our best players, Coal and Oil, and guaranteed a multimillion dollar contract to a rookie with bad hamstrings and a torn ACL - Solyndra. And the economic and employment scoreboards kept showing losses. Energy costs skyrocketed, which, incidentally may be the only promise Obama kept!
As our prospective coach, he promised to go through the budget playbook "line by line" to root out any weaknesses. Maybe he even took it with him on the hundred or so rounds of golf he played this season. Maybe if he'd spent more time in the clubhouse and less time with his clubs, he might have made a difference? Maybe Obama thought the ability to coach would seep in through osmosis from his golf clubs, or his chair in the Oval Office, or Air Force One.
His assistant coach, Harry Reid, never even drew up a playbook for the team for three of the the last four years of the season. Funny how they always blamed everything on the former coach, but they never replaced his budget playbook with a real one of their own! Who was it that said a failure to plan is a plan for failure?
Coach Barry went to all the social events coaches go to, attended all the gridiron dinners, even accepted a coaching award from some Norwegians before his team ever took the field, but never produced what he promised: a winning season.
Ladies and gentlemen, fellow team owners, frustrated fans, it's time to fire the coach and get a new one. One who knows that when you are dealing with the jobs and livelihoods and futures of every living American, it is just as important to keep score as it is how we play the game. Everyone in Obama's administration, from the lowliest unnecessary cabinet member to the the hundreds of Czars in charge of making sure all the Czars have their own tee time, received a "participation trophy" from Coach Obama. Most of them will leave with lavish pensions and will soon find cushy jobs lobbying their comrades who remain. But American needs to be about the task of winning. Because we will never "win the future" if we do not win the present.
Have a great retirement in Chicago, Coach Obama. You might apply as head coach of the Bears. I'm sure the Vikings and the Packers will both give you glowing letters of recommendation!
Cross posted Say Anything, LCR.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Doritos and Pepsi: "In Remembrance of Me"
Warning: The following video may be extremely tasteless to people of faith.
This ad, prepared by Media Wave Productions, a Philadelphia firm, for Pepsi's Doritos Crash the Super Bowl ad contest, shows a priest with a stack of bills on his desk, lamenting poor attendance at his church. He prays for guidance and he takes the sounds of soda and chips as a "sign". The church begins offering Pepsi and Doritos for communion, instead of a wafer and wine, and people line up around the block to attend. Problem solved.
The ad is crass and tacky, and yet may contain a small, unintended element of truth. Those of us old enough (or still able) to remember the sixties, may well remember during the height of the popularity of the Beatles, John Lennon proclaimed that they were "more popular than Jesus". And they were. Jesus couldn't draw the size of crowds the Beatles were drawing, at least, not in one place.
But, "popularity" isn't everything. And the reality is, that if you put up a sign saying "Free food", you're more likely to have a line out the door than you would advertising "Free sermons". Still, Pepsi was correct to take this entry out of the running for a Super Bowl spot. Whether or not it is intentional, it shows great disrespect to the religious faith of many people and appears to profane that which many consider holy.
But, just in case you got wind of what the hullabaloo was all about, that's it.
Ad playing Doritos for Eucharist yanked from Super Bowl contest
H/T Memeorandum
This ad, prepared by Media Wave Productions, a Philadelphia firm, for Pepsi's Doritos Crash the Super Bowl ad contest, shows a priest with a stack of bills on his desk, lamenting poor attendance at his church. He prays for guidance and he takes the sounds of soda and chips as a "sign". The church begins offering Pepsi and Doritos for communion, instead of a wafer and wine, and people line up around the block to attend. Problem solved.
The ad is crass and tacky, and yet may contain a small, unintended element of truth. Those of us old enough (or still able) to remember the sixties, may well remember during the height of the popularity of the Beatles, John Lennon proclaimed that they were "more popular than Jesus". And they were. Jesus couldn't draw the size of crowds the Beatles were drawing, at least, not in one place.
But, "popularity" isn't everything. And the reality is, that if you put up a sign saying "Free food", you're more likely to have a line out the door than you would advertising "Free sermons". Still, Pepsi was correct to take this entry out of the running for a Super Bowl spot. Whether or not it is intentional, it shows great disrespect to the religious faith of many people and appears to profane that which many consider holy.
But, just in case you got wind of what the hullabaloo was all about, that's it.
Ad playing Doritos for Eucharist yanked from Super Bowl contest
H/T Memeorandum
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