I honestly fail to see why people keep repeating that Cain’s ad was “bizarre.”
A man, who happens to smoke, stood up and said some nice things about Mr. Cain.
The man appears as if he is so used to sucking on a cancer stick, that he doesn’t even realize he’s doing it while he’s filming.
At the end, the script calls for him to look into the camera for a minute. Without seeming to think about it, he does what he always does when he’s quiet for a moment: he takes a drag and lets a tiny puff out.
I read the hype about this thing and expected to see someone smoking like a chimney and billowing huge puffs of black smoke toward the camera nonstop, while he talked behind a smokey haze. You know, really “in your face, jackwagon!” stuff. Meh.
What a hoax!
I vote for the “just Block being Block” description. I doubt I would have even noticed the smoking had people not had a tizzy-fit over it for some reason.
They’re not bizzare. By modern media/internet standards they’re quite tame.
What’s funny is the media outlets acting like they’ve never seen anything like this. Are they still living in the last century?
It’s like they only expect ads to be delivered by the post office and network TV, and can’t understand why Cain is wasting time with this internet thingy.
For a true bizarre campaign ad , remember the democrat (can’t remember his name) from the last election that showed him walking up a beach, looking into the camera turning around and throwing big rock into the lake and walking away. No words, no caption.