[lbo-talk] Context for 1984 Reagan campaign advertisement

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Jun 2 21:28:55 PDT 2006


On Jun 2, 2006, at 5:32 PM, Sean Johnson Andrews wrote:


> Here is a link to the page of both campaigns:
> http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/election/index.php?
> nav_action=election&nav_subaction=overview&campaign_id=173
> Bear ad:
> http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/player/index.php?ad_id=923
> Transcript for Bear Ad:
> "ANNOUNCER: There is a bear in the woods. For some people the bear
> is easy to see. Others don't see it at all. Some people say the
> bear is tame. Others say it's vicious and dangerous. Since no one
> can really be sure who's right, isn't it smart to be as strong as
> the bear? If there is a bear?"
>
> [The obvious answer is that it is the USSR, but wouldn't the
> question at the time not be about the bear's existence but about
> whether it was balding, weak, toothless and crippled or the #1
> threat facing America.

I think it means that the Dems are a bunch of pussies who don't understand how nasty that Soviet bear really is. So we had to arm up. They've just switched the target to terrorists now.

Doug



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