Discussion for article #229047
Come on GOP…you can do worse than this!
I dunno. That’d be hard to beat.
Attractive to the TeaPub intelligentsia…
i.e.
they who get off on DudDynasty, SwampSwill, and deadBrainsWalking;.
they who think $ister$arah is smart and whose brood exemplify TeaXianFamilyValues.
A pathetic ad in terms of swaying anyone’s vote.
But from an aesthetic perspective, I find it strangely compelling
Perception is reality, if you abandon reality.
IS It SharNADo or SharKNAdo, LIBrul TPM??? SO SMarT it JUSt FLIEs over THE BRAINS of LIbturds. IF they HAve BraINs. HAHAHA. Losers.
You can’t even spell Sharknado!
FFS.
I need to say something about wrestling with pigs here.
I’m going to guess that the media consultant gets paid a percentage of the cost of buying air time for the ad, but gets no percentage of the ad’s production cost.
This is what second- and third-rate hack “creatives” in the advertising world do. They sift the subject for the cheapest, easiest pop-culture reference they can find, bat out a message based on that as fast as they can go and then it’s off to the bar to spend those big bucks. Pretty nice life if you don’t mind sucking at what you do.
In Eustace’s case, it’s spelled “Snarknado”.
Also, can we talk about this sort of sentence construction?:
The ad argues that Peters is in the “eye” of some kind of corruption storm that has sharks. Because Sharnado.
The “because X” colloquialism is better used to described a situation in which a person fetishizes a word or concept and uses it to explain away an otherwise indefensible philosophy or policy position, and the person using the phrase “because X” is doing so in a critical manner as a way of pointing out that the subject is intentionally intransigent, stubborn, and deceitful.
eg.,
“After the murder of twenty kindergarteners by a madman who should not have had access to guns, many GOP-controlled state houses passed legislation easing restrictions on gun purchases, because freedom.”
Daniel Strauss is using it lazily and incorrectly. Regardless of whether the commercial is tasteless, or if the accusations are true, the reason the advertisers depicted Peters in the eye of a storm containing sharks is because they’re accusing him of being in a scandal involving loan sharks, and they’re tying it to the pop-culture phenomenon Sharknado to get the point across.
Even if he wasn’t using it incorrectly, it’s a little editorial for my tastes.