Watch This Ad: This is Great

This is oddly effective.

Funny that we don't have commercials that are this complex in America. Our commercials tend to lay it out there for you. In America this commercial would end by saying "Wind energy is not as inconvenient as you might think. Even though this guy is a jerk someone found a way to love him. So, if you don't like wind turbines you should maybe give it a chance and then you might not think it's so bad, just like this guy and his friend. He hit the other guys paper, and that was probably annoying, but now they are friends. That could be you and wind energy. So, what do you think? Do you think you could give wind energy a chance, like the guy with the paper gave the weird annoying guy a chance? Hmmmm?....The Wind." And I don't think that would be as effective.

This is ridiculous

Really? Is this necessary?

I just heard Linda Daves on NPR defending the ad, and talking about why she wouldn't even pull the ad if John McCain called her personally. I don't mean to get down on the level of this ad, but simply put, she didn't seem like a very bright woman. And I doubt that even the most gifted of philosophers would have a tough time creating a syllogism about why you should vote for the North Carolina Democratic gubernatorial candidate based on the words of Jeremiah Wright. But they're trying...