And it’s not just Daisy Girl! Bill Bradley put together a PAC and they’re running an ad in Ohio talking about how it would be (ahem) unwise to give Trump nukes to play with. So you takes your choice, “What?!? More Emails!?” versus “Don’t Give Crazy People Nukes.” Who will win??? Stay tuned!!!
GOP: Clinton is playing in our hand. Our supporters and Amerika wants to destroy the evil world by bombing them. Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran. Thanks for GOTV for Trump.
The Daisy Girl ad only ran once. That is all it needed to run back then. The idea of a crazy guy having the nuclear codes scared the hell out of all of us. I guess today, not so much.
Nice ad (actually very good), but too short … but maybe that’s part of the strategy: short and sweet, so-to-speak, or at least short but very thought-provoking.
The symbolism of this is great on so many levels.
Same Daisy.
Same effort to prevent an unshackled madman from getting the nuclear codes.
GOTV
Don’t be so sure it doesn’t scare people. My super GOP relatives (IN, IL, AK, TN) have all said they cannot ever vote for Trump. Only a handful will vote for Hillary but a handful beats none.
Trump: She’s a 3. What does she know. Make America Great Again!
The interesting part of this ad, for me, is its targeting of baby boomers.
I first read the last line of the article as…
" the size of the ad buy was nuclear."
I hope it is. Let everyone on the planet see this clip over and over…
Good work of the HRC campaign.
Yes! Agreed. This ad came out one year before I even was born, yet I remember it well because my parents talked about it and I saw it in a politics class in Junior High. It definitely speaks (and well) to a large audience.
I think, btw, that there are a lot of civilians who, like Scarborough, implicitly believe that the military chain of command would somehow not obey an order to launch a nuclear attack. Good luck with that.
I hope they show it on the World Series tomorrow night and Monday night Football tonight.
Stop pussy-footing around and bring out the big guns!!!
The 1964 Daisy ad ran two years after the Cuban missile crisis when for three days Americans stayed glued to the radio knowing we were at the very brink of nuclear war. For the ten years before every school held nuke attack drills. The ad was too scary to show more than once. The original ad showed a nuke explosion as the little girl counted down pulled petals off the flower.
The thing that makes the new Daisy ad effective is it features the erratic Trump using the very words he has used that demonstrate his instability, while Goldwater was not unstable or even close compared to Trump, though the original ad effectively confirmed that impression for some.
Right. There will always be someone willing to carry out the President’s order. Attorney General Eliot Richardson refused Nixon’s order to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, as did acting AG William Ruckleshaus. So it fell to Bork to do so, which he did after Nixon fired Richardson and Ruckleshaus.
And no nuclear explosion like in the original that starts out as reflected in Daisy’s eyes. Maybe the original was a bit too scary.
And in this case it’s even worse than that, because (plenty of coverage in the past year or so) the land-based nuclear service is basically the Air Force’s basket of deplorables, which says something when the supposedly well-run parts of the AF are riddled with domnionist nutters. (Don’t know about the submarine side, but I wouldn’t be hoping that those are the most stable of folks.)
“The MSNBC host then asks stunned former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden what safeguards there are to stop a president who decides to use nuclear force.”
We call that safeguard, “The Electorate”.
Who insure that psychotic megalomaniacs never get within a mile of the Oval Office.
Despite the best efforts of long-term, hard-core GOP enablers like Scarborough and his lot.
