{"id":507,"date":"2004-01-13T10:39:48","date_gmt":"2004-01-13T18:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/01\/telling_the_truth\/"},"modified":"2004-01-13T10:39:48","modified_gmt":"2004-01-13T18:39:48","slug":"telling_the_truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/01\/telling_the_truth.html","title":{"rendered":"TELLING THE TRUTH"},"content":{"rendered":"

And the winner of moveon.org’s “Bush in 30 Seconds” contest is “Child’s Pay”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> by Charlie Fisher. Not a word is
\nspoken, yet the ad tells the truth in simple, powerful terms. It conveys the message that the
\nMaximum Leader is willing to saddle America with a trillion-dollar debt. You’ll be seeing it on
\nnational television soon.
\n

Made by a 38-year-old ad executive from Denver, according to a moveon.org press release<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>, the 30-second spot “features young
\nchildren working in difficult service and manufacturing jobs — washing dishes, hauling trash,
\nrepairing tires, cleaning offices, assembly-line processing and grocery checking, followed by the
\n[printed] line: ‘Guess who’s going to pay off President Bush’s $1 trillion deficit?'” Side note:
\nFisher used to be a registered Republican.<\/P>
\n

The other winners were all consolation
\nprizes. The Funniest Ad (“If Parents Acted Like Bush”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>), though cute, is not
\nreally funny; the Best Animation Ad (“What I Been Up To …”<\/B><\/FONT><\/EM><\/A>) is not very
\nimaginative, though it’s marginally better than its rivals, which isn’t saying much; and Best Youth
\nAd (“Bring It On”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>), though it’s superbly done,
\nmatches the Maximum Leader’s own stridency and is unlikely to persuade anyone not
\nalready convinced of its argument.<\/P>
\n

Finally, since I made such a big deal about it yesterday, I feel obligated to report that last
\nnight’s live Webcast from the Hammerstein Ballroom was pretty boring unless you liked the
\nnoise that passed for music. I didn’t. The only part of the show I did enjoy were Al Franken’s
\nremarks about what the Maximum Leader knew, if he knew it, and whether he understood what
\nhe knew or didn’t know.<\/P>
\n

Postscript:<\/B> Here’s a thoroughly reported and far more sympathetic review<\/FONT><\/EM> <\/B><\/A>of the evening than mine.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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