Bush Uses Subliminal Messages In Campaign Ad To Try To Win Votes
Dubya has done it again. This may be one of the most bizarre things I have ever read in regards to any political campaign ever. I am not saying he is the first person to pull some shit like this but he is the first person to get caught. Not one week after I praised Dubya for his negative campaign ads against Gore, he releases a commercial with fucking subliminal messages in it, designed to turn voters off on Al Gore.
Can we say desperate?Dubya’s camp called the notion ``bizarre and weird,'' and his campaign tried to make light of it all.
But no one was laughing. Bush tried to pass it off by saying that the word “rat” appears only fleetingly - for a tiny fraction of a second. Played at full speed, it's barely noticeable, particularly if the viewer isn't looking for the word.
Uh, hey Dubya, I would spell it out for you but if the latest reports about you are true you seem to be a tad bit dyslexic. Placing a word or image on the screen for a tiny fraction of a second, barley noticeable when played at full speed is exactly how subliminal messages are supposed to work. What a fucking idiot.
Even while denying that his campaign was trying to send any secret messages through the advertisements, Bush stumbled over the word subliminal, pronouncing it ``subliminable'' four times.
``One frame out of 900 hardly in my judgment makes a conspiracy,'' Bush said ``I am convinced this is not intentional. You don't need to play, you know, cute politics.'' What are you trying to say Dubs? Are you saying that you accidentally placed a word in the film? How does an accident like that actually happen Dubs? Ad graphics don't pop up out of thin air. Someone sits down at a computer and creates them. Joseph Lieberman called the ad ``very disappointing and strange. I call using subliminal messages in campaign ads “desperate”, “fucked up”, “unethical”, truly “pathetic”, and a very clear indication of candidate’s character.
The ad, which has been running in several states for more than two weeks, touts Bush's plan for adding prescription drugs to Medicare, arguing that senior citizens will have more control over their health care under Bush's proposal. Gore's plan, the ad says, will be run by bureaucrats. Words flash on the screen to echo the announcer's message: ``The Gore prescription plan: Bureaucrats decide.'' But just as the announcer says ``bureaucrats decide,'' the word ``RATS,'' in large, white capital letters, fills the black screen. Outside analysts have overwhelmingly said it they found it extremely hard to believe the word was not deliberately placed. ``The word 'rats' is so carefully superimposed. It's not like it just randomly appears on the screen,'' said Darrell West, an expert on political advertising at Brown University. ``It's cheap and manipulative. It certainly takes the level of political discourse down several notches,'' said Loyal Rue, who studies political deception at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. Bush made it clear he does not endorse subliminal messages. ``To put people's minds at ease I will say loud and clear: This kind of practice is not acceptable,'' he said.
Just like he said Push Polling was unacceptable while continuing the practice until he had crushed McCain. Dubya is a joke. For Bush getting caught doing this underhanded shit is the only thing that is not acceptable.In 1974, the Federal Communications Commission adopted a policy saying that subliminal advertising was contrary to the public interest. If the FCC received a complaint, it would investigate broadcasters who aired the ad, but no complaints have been received about this ad, officials said.
