[lbo-talk] Re:the ad that never aired

[frank scott]

>
>
>"... in defense of the word, "bullshit, " the only time
>that Barry Commoner's Citizen Party got national mainstream media
>attn. in '80 was when his campaign aired radio commercials w/ the
>"barnyard epithet."
>

actually, that ad  was never aired on purchased air time...the free 
publicity, and later mythology, came from merely introducing it at a 
press conference...

like the famous anti-goldwater ad that featured an a-bomb explosion 
reflected in a child's eye, and was given far more free air time, and 
even greater mytholgical impact...

fs