It’s finally 2016, and the campaign season is in full swing. We’re less than a month away from the Iowa caucuses, and the presidential hopefuls are pulling out all the stops. So let’s take a look at two new campaign ads, one from Donald Trump—his first paid for television advertisement titled “Great Again”—and another from Ted Cruz super PACs. Both candidates are inarguably the GOP’s two frontrunners:
Predictably, it says nothing new, or specific, and it plays on emotions. I mean, who doesn’t want to Make America Great Again after the seven-long-year nightmare known as the Obama Administration? Trump reiterates his stance on ISIS—yes, please, let’s pound them already—and that he’ll seal the porous southern border—yes, please, for the love of God, just DO IT—and that he’ll “make Mexico pay for it.” That last assertion has yet to be explained, of course. At this point, “cuz I said so” seems to be sufficient for his campaign. I have to say, it’s not a bad ad, short on detail as it is. It’s dark and edgy in a Michael Bay 13 Hours kinda way (cannot WAIT for the release of this film, Hillary Clinton!), it presents the viewer with the two most important issues to him—yes, millions of Americans are deeply concerned with national security—and it does so in a compelling way, using footage of hoards of illegal immigrants flooding over what looks like our southern border. There’s just one problem: The border in the video is not ours. It’s Morocco’s. And those aren’t Mexicans, or OTM’s, or would-be terrorists crossing into Texas and Arizona. They’re who-knows-who jumping over some fence on some other continent (see fellow Victory Girl Marybeth’s take on the ad here). Oopsie. Just a slight geographical misrepresentation.
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