{"id":215,"date":"2004-08-16T16:20:51","date_gmt":"2004-08-16T11:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/?p=215"},"modified":"2004-08-16T16:20:51","modified_gmt":"2004-08-16T11:20:51","slug":"lies-damned-lies-and-political-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2004\/08\/16\/lies-damned-lies-and-political-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Lies, Damned Lies, and Political Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swiftvets.com\/\">Swiftboat Veterans <\/a><\/strong>Anti &#8211; Kerry ad on the net today. Quite an impressive piece of communication. It says just one thing, and keeps hammering that one thing over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>The one line communication of the campaign is that John Kerry is not fit to be the President of the United States.Wonderful use of connotative advertising &#8211; conntoation being that of cowardice and lies.<br \/>\nThe clips are fast, well paced, and simple Whoever did this ad has taken a leaf out of the Third Reich book on propaganda.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvin.edu\/academic\/cas\/gpa\/goebmain.htm\">Goebbels <\/a><\/strong>will be proud of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the Swiftboat Veterans Anti &#8211; Kerry ad on the net today. Quite an impressive piece of communication. It says just one thing, and keeps hammering that one thing over and over again. 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