Posted on 03/11/2016 10:52:11 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Description: Black and white television advertisement. This ad from the Democratic National Committee during the 1964 election portrays concerns of a Republican voter about Republican nominee Barry Goldwater.
Was this a George Romney attack?
This could also have been a cigarette ad. I can picture this actor pulling out that carton of cigarettes and, as he light up, says something like, “Whenever I pretend to be a Republican on TV, I light up a Lucky Strike.”
A lot of TV was hammy like that in those days. Especially when ‘portentious truth’ was about to be uttered. I think it was a carryover from radio.
Cigarette ads. That takes me back.
The sad thing, beyond the pure fakery that was such an overarching aspect of LBJ, is that this actor prattles on about the great people LBJ has working for him. What comes instantly to mind when he says this is Mcnamara and the disastrous moves they later made in Vietnam.
Ah, early television where the insider D.C. politics honed it’s manipulative BS skills.
Tokyo Rose would have been proud.
Let’s no forget Daisy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDTBnsqxZ3k
Only played once - still talked about 50 years later....
This stuff is right up Ted’s alley. Pass it on to the the Cruz campaign.
Yep. That’s a classic.
Folks back then were not quite as sophisticated. They were for the most part putty in the hands of the deceivers/manipulators in D.C.
Goldwater would have been better than LBJ by a series of magnitudes. It was the D.C. insiders/MSM once again.
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