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Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie - and a Downer of an Ad Campaign. (chevy trucks mellencamp)
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Posted on 10/19/2006 4:05:43 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
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To: InvisibleChurch
Cougar/Mellencamp is a self satisfied leftist dolt...big mistake you suits at Chevy, I won't buy one purposely now because you dopes feature this anti-american Indiana metro-sexual.
an excerpt from johnny boy....
" ...I've always been a liberal. I grew up in the '60s. I like Jane Fonda," he says -- Mellencamp took part in the Vote for Change tour, the recent gathering of music-biz heavyweights hoping to retire George W. to Texas. The left-leaning collective of rock stars failed in its main objective, of course, primarily because so many of Mellencamp's fellow midwesterners opted for the status quo. Indiana was about 60 percent pro-Bush. Mellencamp says he was "disappointed" in the results. His new song "Walk Tall" ("The simple-minded and the uninformed can be easily led astray") says "disappointed" is an understatement."
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posted on
10/19/2006 4:17:33 AM PDT
by
loveitor..
("I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours..." Ronald Reagan)
To: InvisibleChurch
In the first pic he looks like Mark Karr of JonBenet fame.
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posted on
10/19/2006 4:21:38 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yans Wife
("Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. "--Aeschylus)
To: InvisibleChurch
Richard Nixon, the most disgraced President in historyThat distinction should be held by Clinton, imho.
I've seen the doom and gloom version of the ad and it sucks.
Hell, GM should have shown Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile !
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posted on
10/19/2006 4:22:09 AM PDT
by
csvset
(Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil & inhumane)
To: All
I stopped listening to "johnny" ever since he went on tour to defeat Bush. I'll never forget the day he was booed at an Indianapolis Colts game in his home town.
To: InvisibleChurch
Ironically, there's another edit in the new Chevy truck "Our Country" TV campaign that's a flat-out hit, but unless you watch "Football Night in America" on Sunday nights on NBC, you're not going to see it (I assume they're running it in conjunction with college football too). This edit, filled with images of small-town America football, as well as classic snippets of college and pro football, soars. The Mellencamp song positively comes alive, and the visuals jump out at you with stirring images on field - and off. This is the spot that should be in dominant rotation. This is the spot that aligns perfectly with Chevy trucks. They ought to mix scenes of the Miami-FIU football fight with images of their truck.
I don't like most TV ads. I really don't like most car ads and I've long disliked Chevy ads most of all.
So Chevy trucks are what makes America great? Maybe their next ad will show Chavez, Saddam and Kim driving Ford trucks.
To: InvisibleChurch
The only two presidential ads I remember are LBJ's horrible "Mushroom Cloud" ad against Goldwater and Ronald Reagan's inspirational "Morning in America" ad. You would think that even the dolts who run GM could figure out that they would sell more Chevys and good will with the latter theme...but that's why they are losing billions every year.
To: InvisibleChurch
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posted on
10/19/2006 4:30:19 AM PDT
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RayStacy
To: InvisibleChurch
The downer ad is for leftists.
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posted on
10/19/2006 4:46:12 AM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
To: InvisibleChurch
Chevrolet is playing both the Left and the Right. They are hoping that both sides see a part of their ad campaign that they like and will feel 'patriotic' and relate Chevy with the USA.
The truth is that GM has moved almost all their manufacturing to either Mexico or Canada. There are very few GM cars/trucks still built here in the USA.
GM is assuming the population in the USA is too stupid to really look for the truth, and are mindless CNN types that just believe what they see on TV.
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posted on
10/19/2006 5:07:23 AM PDT
by
southlake_hoosier
(.... One Nation, Under God.......)
To: Right Wing Assault
I agree, but those guys aren't driving trucks. Therefore...
To: csvset
Hell, GM should have shown Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile ! excellent point,but then again the old Olds...???...didn't float..and there's absolutely no truth to the rumor GM is thinking about introducing a new model with HUGE airbags for midnight drives called the "SWIMMER"
Doogle
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posted on
10/19/2006 5:12:11 AM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF 69-73...."never store a threat you should have eliminated")
To: InvisibleChurch
Convinced me I never want another chevrolet.
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posted on
10/19/2006 5:19:40 AM PDT
by
From One - Many
(Trust the Old Media At Your Own Risk)
To: InvisibleChurch
My favorite John Mellencamp moment?
When "Johnny Cougar" changed his stage name to John Cougar Mellencamp, the lead singer of Philly trash-punk band The Dead Milkmen changed his stage name from Rodney Anonymous to Rodney Anonymous Mellencamp.
And John Mellencamp threatened him with legal action.
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posted on
10/19/2006 5:32:19 AM PDT
by
wideawake
("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
To: southlake_hoosier
The truth is that GM has moved almost all their manufacturing to either Mexico or Canada. There are very few GM cars/trucks still built here in the USA. Wrong.
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posted on
10/19/2006 5:33:08 AM PDT
by
wideawake
("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
To: Pan_Yans Wife
Looks more like Kristy McNichol in both photos.
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posted on
10/19/2006 5:40:04 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
So Chevy trucks are what makes America great? Maybe their next ad will show Chavez, Saddam and Kim driving Ford trucks. How about all of the insurgents in Iraq and Afganistan driving their Toyotas with rocket launchers on the back.
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posted on
10/19/2006 6:02:47 AM PDT
by
sportutegrl
(This thread is useless without pix.)
To: InvisibleChurch
The first time I saw that commercial, I said to my wife, "Notice that nearly every shot is of either a disaster or an embarassing time in our history."
Doesn't Chevy know that Leftists drive Prius's not big ol' gas-guzzling pickup trucks and SUVs? I was quite surprized because I thought the "Like a Rock" campaign was pretty good.
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posted on
10/19/2006 6:32:51 AM PDT
by
Lekker 1
(("...the world will be...eleven degrees colder by the year 2000" -- K. Watt, Earth Day, 1970)
To: InvisibleChurch
If Chevy wanted to attract buyers, It could have built a campaign with a blood red GTO and a bevy of tall blondes wearing short skirts and stiletto heels posed provocatively around it...
Oh, well, then a Camaro or something
To: wideawake
I stand corrected, after looking at GM's own numbers available on their corporate website, about slight less then 1/2 are built in the USA, the remaining over 1/2 of them are built outside the USA.
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posted on
10/19/2006 6:39:17 AM PDT
by
southlake_hoosier
(.... One Nation, Under God.......)
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