What a beautiful column, about political advertising and also about quite a bit more than political advertising. And the Freedom video-- so extremely, gorgeously modern in form and content-- also reaches back very, very far to the roots of this whole experiment. It occurred to me while watching it (though tears; yeah, I'm admitting it) that one of the definitions of freedom is that every single person asked that question was able to answer with complete honesty and not have to worry later about the consequences of fully speaking their mind. Thanks for this.
I'm kinda old, but I remember when politicians had slogans. What comes to mind is Richard Nixon's slogan in the 1972 race: "Nixon's the One." He sure was. He was the crook who resigned rather than be impeached for corruption. Now we have Trump, whose slogan should be, "Yes, I'm a Crook."
Laugh if you must, but at :08 in the Eisenhower ad is nearly as compelling as “a place called Hope.” There’s nothing like a candidate who can sell the case.
What a beautiful column, about political advertising and also about quite a bit more than political advertising. And the Freedom video-- so extremely, gorgeously modern in form and content-- also reaches back very, very far to the roots of this whole experiment. It occurred to me while watching it (though tears; yeah, I'm admitting it) that one of the definitions of freedom is that every single person asked that question was able to answer with complete honesty and not have to worry later about the consequences of fully speaking their mind. Thanks for this.
I'm kinda old, but I remember when politicians had slogans. What comes to mind is Richard Nixon's slogan in the 1972 race: "Nixon's the One." He sure was. He was the crook who resigned rather than be impeached for corruption. Now we have Trump, whose slogan should be, "Yes, I'm a Crook."
Laugh if you must, but at :08 in the Eisenhower ad is nearly as compelling as “a place called Hope.” There’s nothing like a candidate who can sell the case.