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Sanders Uses Simon & Garfunkel in Non-Traditional Closing Ad
CNN ^
| Thursday, January 21, 2016
| Dan Merica
Posted on 01/21/2016 10:17:20 AM PST by kristinn
Bernie Sanders has turned to folk icons Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel for an ad set to run the week before the Iowa caucuses.
The non-traditional, soft TV spot focuses almost exclusively on idyllic shots of Americans in different everyday scenes and supporters at Sanders' rallies.
Simon & Garfunkel's "America," a song about a young couple hitchhiking across the county, carries the 60-second ad. It isn't until the end that Sanders' voice says he approves the message.
"They've all come to look for America," the folk duo sing in the ad over shots of people working in fields and organizers firing up Sanders fans.
This ad will start running in Iowa on Friday and another, slightly different ad, will air in New Hampshire.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: berniesanders; sanders; simonandgarfunkel
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posted on
01/21/2016 10:17:20 AM PST
by
kristinn
To: kristinn
Apparently America was meant to be a Socialist Nightmare. Who knew?
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posted on
01/21/2016 10:19:52 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(I don't know what Claire Wolfe is thinking but I know what I am thinking.)
To: kristinn
Sanders is an old hippie so this makes perfect sense.
To: kristinn
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posted on
01/21/2016 10:21:33 AM PST
by
VanDeKoik
To: kristinn
I have always liked the song. The commercial reminds me of a soviet style idealized communist poster using American imagery.
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posted on
01/21/2016 10:23:59 AM PST
by
fireman15
(Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
To: kristinn
Go Bernie! Smoke Hillary!
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posted on
01/21/2016 10:24:43 AM PST
by
Fido969
("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes" - Albert Einstein)
To: All
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posted on
01/21/2016 10:29:19 AM PST
by
kristinn
(Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
To: kristinn
Bookends, always my favorite Simon & Garfunkel album.
Bernie, not so much....
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posted on
01/21/2016 10:32:48 AM PST
by
Psalm 73
("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
To: kristinn
“They’ve all come to look for America,”
Oh man is that a softball for someone like Trump.
Cut 1, scene of the Boston Marahon bombing.
Cut 2, the carnage from the San Bernadino shootings.
...
The list could go on and on.
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posted on
01/21/2016 10:36:17 AM PST
by
McGruff
To: kristinn
The song the campaign needs to use is:
Still crazy after all these years
To: kristinn
"They've all come to look for America,"
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posted on
01/21/2016 10:41:34 AM PST
by
McGruff
To: kristinn
“They’ve all come to look for America”
But if they come 3 years into Bernie’s reign, they might think that they’re in Cambodia, the Soviet Union, or the smoking ruble of WWII.
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posted on
01/21/2016 10:46:35 AM PST
by
PATRIOT1876
(The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
To: Col Frank Slade
It’s a beautiful song from an incredible album. Younger generations could benefit from listening to the philosopher/poet/singers of the ‘60s and ‘70s.
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posted on
01/21/2016 10:47:58 AM PST
by
grania
To: kristinn
Simon and Garfunkel?
I can understand Sanders being proud of his Jewish heritage, but who's gonna be the warm-up act, Henny Youngman?
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posted on
01/21/2016 10:48:49 AM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: kristinn
More appropriate for The Bern would be “The Sound of Silence.”
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posted on
01/21/2016 10:51:16 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: kristinn
Reading the headline, “Hello darkness, my old friend...” came immediately to mind.
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posted on
01/21/2016 10:53:04 AM PST
by
don-o
To: Dr. Sivana
What are you talking about. Those are some of the greatest American songs.
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posted on
01/21/2016 10:53:31 AM PST
by
Romulus
To: kristinn
I was thinking Weird Al Yankovic would’ve been a better choice.
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posted on
01/21/2016 10:56:49 AM PST
by
ManHunter
(You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
To: kristinn
Here's the difference:
Bernie's a good person with ideas that won't work, have never worked anywhere, and lead to totalitarian nightmares.
Hillary's a monster with horrible ideas. She and her husband are evil. Anything they touch is damaged.
Cruz is a good man - a man of thought... Many of his ideas are correct - well thought out ... but Cruz won't be able to implement his idea. He's not strong enough or flexible enough to overcome the democrat machine or the Republican Establishment.
Trump's a strong workaholic. If he's pointed in the right direction, nothing - absolutely NOTHING - will stop him. He's the right person for this time, but like Churchill - once he's saved the world - he'll be dumped... And yeah, Trump will save the country if given a chance. And after that he'll need to be put out to pasture.
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posted on
01/21/2016 10:58:45 AM PST
by
GOPJ
(It's more important to have a gun in your hand than a cop on the phone- Florida Sheriff Grady Judd)
To: Romulus
What are you talking about. Those are some of the greatest American songs.
They certainly were a big act in the '60s. When I read that, it made me think that Sanders is only confirming his persona of being an unreconstructed '60s radical hippie type, Jewish version.
BTW, Henny Youngman was one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time, and not always politically correct. I got to see him perform in person before he died.
In this battle of the septuagenarians (HRC will hit that in the next four years), I am inclined to think of balding guys with long, unkempt grey hair in the back, wearing tie-dyed tee shirts. I would expect Sanders to try to expand his base a touch.
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posted on
01/21/2016 11:05:04 AM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
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