Sanders Uses Simon & Garfunkel in Non-Traditional Closing Ad

CNN ^ | Thursday, January 21, 2016 | Dan Merica

[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.

[kristinn]

More at the source link.

[ClearCase_guy]

Apparently America was meant to be a Socialist Nightmare. Who knew?

[Col Frank Slade]

Sanders is an old hippie so this makes perfect sense.

[VanDeKoik]

His latest ad is very telling as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2msbfN81Gm0

[fireman15]

I have always liked the song. The commercial reminds me of a soviet style idealized communist poster using American imagery.

[Fido969]

Go Bernie! Smoke Hillary!

[kristinn]

Direct link to Sanders ad on YouTube

Note that at the line, "Let us be lovers" the ad shows two women embracing suggesting they are lesbians.

[Psalm 73]

Bookends, always my favorite Simon & Garfunkel album.
Bernie, not so much....

[McGruff]

“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.

[stormhill]

The song the campaign needs to use is:

Still crazy after all these years

[McGruff]

"They've all come to look for America,"

[PATRIOT1876]

“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.

[grania]

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.

[Dr. Sivana]

Simon and Garfunkel?

I can understand Sanders being proud of his Jewish heritage, but who's gonna be the warm-up act, Henny Youngman?

[Yo-Yo]

More appropriate for The Bern would be “The Sound of Silence.”

[don-o]

Reading the headline, “Hello darkness, my old friend...” came immediately to mind.

[Romulus]

What are you talking about. Those are some of the greatest American songs.

[ManHunter]

I was thinking Weird Al Yankovic would’ve been a better choice.

[GOPJ]

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.

[Dr. Sivana]

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.