Apparently, this is the only political ad running that actually moves voter opinion.
Anyone remember Bush’s wolf-ads from 2004?
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It works, it is effective, and as a bonus it raises awareness of this horrific practice in which animals are terrorized, tormented, and then killed usually in a very painful and terrifying way.
Any idea where it’s running?
They have been running it in Ohio and Florida. Michigan is the next target.
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Wolves a 10 minute video.
Special interests groups are circumventing wildlife management for thrill hunting.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."talk of nullification of one’s message..
whatever happened to McCain’s ‘Change is Coming’ message
Oh, it’ll be change! It just won’t be the kind of change most people have in mind.
McKinnon’s wolves ad was the best campaign ad of 2004. But the granddaddy of all political animal ads is of course the bear from the 1984 campaign. That one also shows that once upon a time, the Republican party was capable of nuance.
Bears are a menace.
she probably eats frog legs too
Replace the plane with an Apache helicopter. Replace the wolves with Iraqi civilians and maybe some other issues will resonate. The ad is effective because it is not edited. Voters need to see what we do everyday with our
taxborrowed money.Sadly, Salunga, American voters are more likely to be moved by watching a wolf being tormented and killed than watching an Iraqi undergo the same horrors.
About twelve years ago, the California Legislature, at the behest of ranchers and hunting groups, put an initiative on the ballot to re-legalize the use of dogs to hunt mountain lions. The practice had been outlawed by an earlier initiative.
In the last month leading up to the election, opponents of hunting mountain lions ran an ad showing a hunter killing one — finishing it off at close range with a pistol shot to the head.
Hunters and ranchers screamed bloody murder, but the ad ran and mountain lion hunting went down to defeat. Big time.
There’s a reason the meat industry tries very hard to keep people from seeing what happens to the animals people eat. Once you see a kill line, you kind of lose your appetite. People viscerally recoil from real (as opposed to Hollywood-sanitized) cruelty.