It's election season here at Defunct headquarters! Those of us who love to watch local Iowa television thus find ourselves subjected to some rather uninspired ad campaigns. I tend to prefer that campaigns be maximally absurd and apocalyptic, so I'm pretty sad to say that for all the TV I watch, I've yet to see anything like this 1964 ad in which a little girl plays with a flower and then, naturally, the entire world is annihilated. LBJ's ultimately successful campaign ran the ad against Barry Goldwater. Watch for yourself:
Questions abound. Why is this little girl so bad at counting? Why is the nuclear explosion Goldwater is supposedly going to cause happening inside this girl's eye? My nontraditional interpretation is that this evil child pulls the trigger by plucking that last flower petal, which she has brilliantly hooked up to an atomic bomb. If only someone could have stuffed her in a baby cage, the world might have had a chance.
Questions abound. Why is this little girl so bad at counting? Why is the nuclear explosion Goldwater is supposedly going to cause happening inside this girl's eye? My nontraditional interpretation is that this evil child pulls the trigger by plucking that last flower petal, which she has brilliantly hooked up to an atomic bomb. If only someone could have stuffed her in a baby cage, the world might have had a chance.
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