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Devastating Ad: The Real Jobs Report
breitbart.com ^ | 5 Oct 2012 | TONY LEE

Posted on 10/07/2012 4:47:03 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion

The ad is titled “Dinner Table” and features a recently unemployed father trying to eat dinner with his worried wife and two kids. The only sounds that can be heard are the tinkling of utensils as the family unnervingly pokes at their food. It is a scene that has been played in real life in millions of homes across America during the Great Recession and the so-called recovery.

After 23 seconds, the ad, which was created, written, and directed by Jon Kahn, then fades to a black-and-white question on the screen: “12.1 million Americans unemployed. Isn’t it time to try something different?"

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2012; afp; dinnertable; obamanomics; unemployment
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To: gotribe

True, maybe the producers can add this to it: Obama has made too many of us orphans of the American Dream..


21 posted on 10/07/2012 5:58:49 AM PDT by MissEdie (America went to the polls on 11-4-08 and all we got was a socialist thug and a dottering old fool.)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

WOW...


22 posted on 10/07/2012 6:14:01 AM PDT by Doofer (Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Very powerful. But we all know the first criticism by the left will be its racist because the family isn’t black.


23 posted on 10/07/2012 6:20:40 AM PDT by rintense
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To: BarnacleCenturion

To put the 12 million unemployed number in perspective, that is enough people to hold hands crossing the country from San Diego to Jacksonville @ six times.


24 posted on 10/07/2012 6:26:16 AM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: Beagle8U
"I hear the rain too."

A perfect subliminal touch.

You can almost imagine the kids thinking "I hope Dad gets a job soon. I don't want to be out there in the cold rain at night".

25 posted on 10/07/2012 6:43:45 AM PDT by SnuffaBolshevik (In a tornado, even turkeys can fly.)
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To: rintense

That is the most powerful and moving ad that I have ever seen in my life.


26 posted on 10/07/2012 6:43:51 AM PDT by TennTuxedo
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To: BarnacleCenturion

But what about Big Bird?!!!! /s


27 posted on 10/07/2012 6:47:48 AM PDT by GoDuke
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Wow.

That was one of the best political ads I’ve ever seen. Subtle. Not a word spoken. But oh so damning. Note that the “dad” hasn’t shaven. The rain in the background. And the message is understated as well.

Wow.


28 posted on 10/07/2012 6:50:43 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat
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To: Popman

This is a gut-wrenching ad.

These folks really use sound perfectly... It is most effective to raise the sound level for an “explosion” in a movie if you have a time of near-perfect silence before it. This ad does the opposite - as it will be playing after some very loud ads.

I hope they also film a “dinner table 2”, 3, 4, etc., with different actors - some black, some Italian, Hispanic, etc. - so as to connect with each person in the audience.


29 posted on 10/07/2012 6:56:01 AM PDT by AFPhys ((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
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To: BarnacleCenturion

What’s the problem? Barak The Beneficent will take care of these poor folk. /s


30 posted on 10/07/2012 6:56:53 AM PDT by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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To: randita
*** The only sounds are the clinking of the utensils and I’m hearing pouring rain outside - does anyone else hear the rain? ***

Only after you mentioned it. I had the vol down sort of low the first time then replayed it with the vol up to normal and yep, pouring rain outside. That sound of rain adds to the 'gloom factor' x 103 times.

an aside: That Americans For Prosperity org sure has a lot of great video ads. I watched a couple more after the 'Dinner Table'. They're all great.

31 posted on 10/07/2012 6:59:10 AM PDT by Condor51 (Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

I wouldn’t call it “devastating”. It is very effective. But much of that effectiveness is reduced when the web url comes on. If I had made this ad I would have gifted it to the Romney campaign. How much more powerful would it be if it ASKED “Isn’t it time to try something new?” and then either “Mitt Romney” or “Romney/Ryan” logo thereafter.


32 posted on 10/07/2012 6:59:54 AM PDT by montag813
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To: BarnacleCenturion

That might be the most powerful political commercial I’ve ever seen.

The pictures tell 12.1 million words.


33 posted on 10/07/2012 7:00:48 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("Don't be afraid to see what you see." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

I saw this at ‘Ace of Spades’ yesterday...it is so powerful I knew it would turn up here at FR...this needs to get on television...ASAP.


34 posted on 10/07/2012 7:02:41 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: magellan
Every liberal Obamatard will feel personal shame watching this ad.

No... they won't feel shame...

Under the thin facade of compassion and concern is a totalitarian streak...

Their compassion level is directly tied to what political position people hold...

Wrong position...no soup for you...

North Korea concentration camps are full of millions who have the wrong position...

Liberals given the opportunity to silence the right...we would be on box cars heading to our re-education facilities...I have no doubt about it

35 posted on 10/07/2012 7:16:10 AM PDT by Popman (In a place you only dream of Where your soul is always free)
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To: GoDuke
But what about Big Bird?!!!! /s

No kidding...

You know the Obama re-election strategy is spinning out of control when Big Bird and Elmo are stump talking points...

An associate of mine brought this subject up after the debate and I asked her..

Millions of Americans unemployed, 16 trillion in debt and the Obama team think Big Bird and Elmo are an important issue?

Her response..."crickets"

36 posted on 10/07/2012 7:27:10 AM PDT by Popman (In a place you only dream of Where your soul is always free)
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To: Lurker

Good post, but I want to call you out on one point: the idea that the left feels shame.

If we were talking about your garden variety of lib I might agree. But the left in the last 8 years or so has gone full foaming at the mouth rabid on us. These are the same sorts of leftists that happily marched Russians to the gulags. Shame doesn’t enter into the equation.


37 posted on 10/07/2012 7:32:21 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat
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To: Carthego delenda est

You know... you just came up with a brilliant idea for an ad. “..enough people to hold hands crossing the country from San Diego to Jacksonville @ six times”.. With some computer graphics to illustrate that type of number and the distance... brilliant.


38 posted on 10/07/2012 7:51:07 AM PDT by momtothree
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To: RKBA Democrat

This ad was made by a perfectionist. The mother has black hair, but the children have blonde hair. The father has blonde hair. These are his children.


39 posted on 10/07/2012 7:55:41 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: randita

In English class I recall that rain is a literary metaphor for death or maybe a foreshadowing of it.


40 posted on 10/07/2012 8:11:05 AM PDT by xp38
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