Posted on 08/21/2020 5:07:19 PM PDT by 11th_VA
The Trump campaign kicked off its convention response with a flashy ad buy placed at the top of YouTube’s home page for a 96-hour stretch, seeking to bracket the virtual Democratic National Convention on the most popular video platform on the internet.
It also bought a lot of eyes. Since the pricey campaign launched on Tuesday morning, five new ads in heavy rotation on YouTube have garnered more than 40 million views. The Trump campaign’s nightly shows and broadcasts, by comparison, have barely topped 100,000 views on the platform.
The five ads run the gamut of attacks against Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic nominee, and have marked the return of the Trump campaign’s varied — and sometimes inconsistent — criticisms of the former vice president.
One ad falsely depicts moments of violence from largely peaceful protests earlier this year as evidence of a violent “radical leftist mob,” and edits in statements from Democratic officials and members of the news media defending the protests. The ad is a return to a focus on policing issues for the Trump campaign, which spent more than $25 million on the topic earlier this summer.
Two other ads take issue with Mr. Biden’s age, selectively editing videos and using popular memes to question his cognitive state, with one ad adopting a campy, faux-horror movie aesthetic. The campaign had run similar memes on Facebook earlier this year, but it has since stopped.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
A month ago Joe Biden was up 15 points and my friend said Trump was going to win. I didn’t believe him, now I do (sigh)
Note: There are links to the ads at the article
Of course they won’t put links in the article, they suck.
I heard somewhere that Trump Campaign bought the top google ad slot for 96 hours straight this week.
That’s so funny they said “mostly peaceful” again! Liars!
A lot of comments are like - I get this ad every time I open YouTube
yep, I had noticed that an ad that I looked at yesterday, which was posted just the day before, already had over 5 million views in less than 24 hours.
Hopefully many or most are potentially new Trump voters.
“Moments of violence”. Like the left’s view of 9-11, “something happened”.
They also covered WaPo’s online front page with ads the day they were having orgasms over Kamala being picked
“falsely depicts....”
My a$$
“One ad falsely depicts moments of violence from largely peaceful protests earlier this year as evidence of a violent “radical leftist mob,” and edits in statements from Democratic officials and members of the news media defending the protests.”
I don’t care for the term “gas lighting” but the above is pure manipulation of the truth.
Thanks for the links.
Silent Majority.
Thanks for the links!
I love this because ONE: how it is false? ... but more-so ... TWO: everyone will go watch the ads after reading the crappy story. I know it's a failing paper for the willingly propagandized but can't hurt for the other side to go watch, even if in anger.
Excellent list...
Thanks for doing the NYTs’ job and giving us the links.
“Largely peaceful protest” is like saying the Titanic‘s last voyage was largely a luxury ocean liner cruise.
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