Here ya go---production line now running 24/7 to keep-up with the demand!
Posted on 01/05/2016 12:48:34 PM PST by Citizen Zed
The 30-second advertisement is due to be broadcast in the US states of Iowa and New Hampshire starting on Tuesday - a week ahead of the states' first-in-the-nation voting contests.
The commercial, which cost $2 million (1.8 million euros) to produce, focuses largely on Trump's demands for a ban on Muslims entering the US.
"Politicians can pretend it's something else, but Donald Trump calls it radical Islamic terrorism - that's why he's calling for a temporary shutdown of Muslims entering the United States," the voiceover says in the video.
"He'll quickly cut off the head of [IS] and take their oil," the narrator continues, referring to the extremists that allegedly inspired the San Bernardino shootings last month, when a Muslim couple opened fire at a Christmas gathering, killing 14 and wounding 21.
Trump has been increasingly targeting Muslims in his speeches, particularly after the deadly Paris attacks in November and the San Bernardino mass shooting.
In December, the Republican called for "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States" - comments which the al-Shabab militant group used in a recent recruitment video to illustrate the alleged Western hostility toward Muslims.
Critics have slammed Trump's proposal, with a host of political and Muslim leaders saying his plans were both racist and impractical and invited attacks on Muslims in the US.
Controversial footage chosen 'intentionally'
The second focus of Trump's advert was illegal immigration, which the voiceover explains would be stopped "by building a wall on our southern border that Mexico will pay for."
The plans are presented over footage that shows dozens of migrants streaming across a border. Fact-checking website PolitiFact said, however, that the footage of the migrants wasn't filmed on the Mexico-US border but instead in Melilla, a small Spanish enclave thousands of miles across the Atlantic Ocean from the US, on the border with Morocco.
In a statement released shortly after the advert appeared online, Trump's campaign team acknowledged that the images of border security were of Morocco.
"The use of this footage was intentional and selected to demonstrate the severe impact of an open border and the very real threat Americans face if we do not immediately build a wall and stop illegal immigration," the statement read.
More ads to come
The US primary contest begins in just under a month.
Despite spending the least amount of money on his campaign, Trump has led public opinion polls for months.
Following Monday's TV commercial, the real estate tycoon is also set to release a radio advert later this week which will feature Kathryn Gates-Skipper, the first US female Marine to serve in combat operations.
Controversy my rear. It’s the truth. Hold a mirror up to the left and shine a light on them.
Already illegal border crossings are epidemic! And it can get worse!
Something is wrong. Trump is perfect. He will be loudly thrashing and trying to humiliate so many tight might take him hours.
Trump sure knows how to get eh most bang for the buck. Now probably twice as many will see the ad and absorb it’s message because of the rporting on the “controversy”. MUAHAHA, I love how Trump owns the leftist media, and they lap it up.
Who wrote this Blog?
Mission accomplished by Trump.
The media gives Trump another million dollars in free publicity and another 3-4% bump in the polls.
Trump is the master.
I have the Vapors. Where’s my smelling salts!
Yes, “controversy” will often arise among those who are opposed to candidate X when candidate X airs a commercial supporting his or her candidacy.
Thanks to the First Amendment of our Constitution, those who find the commercial message of candidate X “controversial” are welcome to make their own commercial and play it on the radio. In that commercial, they can explain what it is that they find “controversial” in candidate X’s message.
That’s what’s called “engaging in a controversy.”
It was not clear who wrote the article.
Just curious; is there any way to copy and paste all the replies to all the other threads about this? It would save a lot of time.
Oh never mind. I’ve got my popcorn in the microwave already!
Here ya go---production line now running 24/7 to keep-up with the demand!
They are both done for effect.
Final throes of TDS?
Here’s some info. It’s a GERMAN website.
“Deutsche Welle (DW) is Germany’s international broadcaster. Peter Limbourg has been Director General since 2013. Around 3,000 employees and freelancers from 60 countries work in DW’s headquarters in Bonn and main studio in Berlin.”
So in other words another invasion of Iraq and ten years of occupation, minimum. Why not just come out and say it?
DW.com?
Deutsche Welle at a glance
Who we are
Deutsche Welle (DW) is Germany’s international broadcaster. Peter Limbourg has been Director General since 2013. Around 3,000 employees and freelancers from 60 countries work in DW’s headquarters in Bonn and main studio in Berlin.
Mission
DW conveys Germany as a nation rooted in European culture and as a liberal, democratic state based on the rule of law. DW is known for its in-depth, reliable news and information and promotes exchange and understanding between the world’s cultures and people. Deutsche Welle also provides access to the German languag
LoL so the marooons don’t like the visual. It does depict what happens, and their lamentation as always fall on deaf ears. All they do is highlight the ad which is a benefit to Trump.
Thanks for the update.
Ever notice how leftists never cause a controversy or say anything controversial?
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