Re: Context for 1984 Reagan campaign advertisement
On Jun 2, 2006, at 5:32 PM, Sean Johnson Andrews wrote:
Here is a link to the page of both campaigns: http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/election/index.php? navaction=election&navsubaction=overview&campaignid=173 Bear ad: http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/player/index.php?adid=923 Transcript for Bear Ad: “ANNOUNCER: There is a bear in the woods. For some people the bear
is easy to see. Others don’t see it at all. Some people say the
bear is tame. Others say it’s vicious and dangerous. Since no one
can really be sure who’s right, isn’t it smart to be as strong as
the bear? If there is a bear?”[The obvious answer is that it is the USSR, but wouldn’t the
question at the time not be about the bear’s existence but about
whether it was balding, weak, toothless and crippled or the #1
threat facing America.
I think it means that the Dems are a bunch of pussies who don’t
understand how nasty that Soviet bear really is. So we had to arm up.
They’ve just switched the target to terrorists now.
Doug