I think the "Debbie Spend it Now" ad was nothing compared to the one a year or so ago, which featured what appeared to be a chinese economics professor speaking before a large class in a modern lecture hall. In it, he talks about the history of the American economic downfall, and all the things "the Americans" did wrong, including borrowing massive sums of money from "us", the Chinese. In the end, he grins and says, "Now they work for us." Yes, chilling. It presses all the fear buttons very effectively.
I don't think the ad to which Romani refers was racist, but I think it was fairly effective. It's not about the race of the people who will assume the world economic upper hand in the years to come. It's about us loosing that upper hand. That's something I think most Americans see coming to pass, and it fills us with fear and dread.
This was a really heart warming ad shown only in Canada.
>>>Budweiser Canada made arrangements to have TV cameras shoot a recreational league hockey game near Toronto.
"We told two Port Credit, Ont., teams we were shooting a documentary about rec league hockey," says the intro to the ad. "We lied."
Instead, Budweiser's ad agency, Anomaly, arranged for a flash mob dressed in the teams' colours, complete with face paint, to flood onto the community rink's stands to cheer on the beer league regulars. They were augmented by team mascots and professional sports announcers calling the game.
The result was players taken completely off guard and reacting spontaneously to the crowd chemistry. The feel was completely authentic. Even the 4-3 overtime result, apparently, was unscripted.<<<
Link to ad in article: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/canadian-budweiser-super-bowl-ad-gives-beer-league-233053983.html
The cat killer dog was from Virginia Beach (Dorito's), and a local Richmond man was on the chunky to svelte dog ad (VW). I liked the M&M's nude ad too.
I would rather vote for Pete than Debbie. Nothing racist about the ad. The Chinese are kicking our assess and we are headed for the dumps. The idea that you simply borrow 40 percent of every government dollar spent, will destroy our country. The laws of economics are the only laws elected officals cannot change.
Um... Ok how many people had to look at this ad and go "Yes! This seems like a wonderful idea!" before that made it to the Superbowl audience? Even my boyfriend's family (all very staunch conservative Republicans) went ... "Did that really just happen?" It seems to be getting quite a bit of backlash from Republicans, too.
What do you guys think? Racist? Funny? Effective? IMO it's really bad when even Republicans are saying "That was really, really dumb."
