Turnaround

I'm off to the Dominican Republic on Sunday.  Amma can't join me.  That makes me sad.

Mike asks what was controversial about the Clinton ad.  The satire tried to answer that question:  the ad first tries to scare you without telling you why you should be scared, and then insists that only one person can protect you without telling you how. 

It turns out that the Clinton campaign used stock footage in that ad, and the little girl whom Hillary is keeping safe in her bed is now a young adult.  She's also an Obama precinct captain.  And here she is:

Comments

[Will Baird]

If I may ask, Noel, what are you doing in the DR?

[Noel Maurer]

Archival research. I'd be happy to post on the project and whatever little I find while I'm there, if people are interested.

[Michael]

Oh, that was the satire. I thought that was the ad... It's been a while since we had TV.

[Noel Maurer]

Hi, Michael,

That makes sense! Only the first few seconds of what I posted before came from the Clinton ad; the rest was a satire aimed at the way Clinton tried to scare voters without telling them why they should be scared or how she would fight the cause of their fears.

I think I may put up another post on this topic.

[Anastasiya Vladimirovna Lychyova]

So where did the stock footage come from?

[Noel Maurer]

Hi, Anastasiya, apologies for the delay in answering.

The footage is owned by Getty Images, which created it for generic use in commercials whenever the producer needed a shot of a little girl safe in bed: say, as Knowles suggests, pajamas, cough syrup, or, well, home security systems.

The Clinton campaign paid for its use.