McCain Ad: Subliminal Messaging, or ??????????????????

[DogPoundPup]

ABC News' Rick Klein Reports: There's a longtime tradition in political advertising to look beyond the message to the subtext -- and even to the subliminal.

In that spirit, a veteran Democratic operative offers an interesting observation of the newly released anti-Obama Web video produced by the McCain campaign. The video is an eight-minute montage of sometimes contradictory statements about the Iraq war made by Sen. Barack Obama.

Abc_john_mccain_ad_gfx_080717_11 At the very beginning, the title -- “The Obama Iraq Documentary” -- flashes into place in a blaze of orange. And for a single frame -- a tiny fraction of a second -- Obama’s face is framed by the following prominent letters: “a l q D.”

Some caveats: “al qD” is meaningless by itself. The “l” is actually the capital “I” in "Iraq," though in the typeface used in the video, it looks like a lowercase “L.” Other letters -- at either end of the title -- are simultaneously on the screen. And many editing programs do allow randomized letter placement.

But still. . . . For a brief moment, Obama’s face is framed by letters that the brain may want to play with and spell something that does make sense. If you type “al qD” into Google, you get this response: “Did you mean: al qaeda.”

Well -- is that what the McCain campaign meant?

No, said McCain spokesman Brian Rogers, adding that the admakers used a “text randomizer,” where a computer randomly chose the order in which the letters would appear.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/07/subliminal-mess.html

[YOY]

1. Randomizer my ass

I put NOTHING beneath them. They will lie, cheat, and steal...beacause they have lied, cheated, stole and gotten away with it in the past.

[applegrove]

2. Good catch.

[cbc5g]

3. McCains biography ad tries to subliminaly paint Obama as a freeloving hippie

Or...60's radical? They are trying to push that image into peoples minds.


"It was the summer of hope and change but overseas, John McCain was fighting for his country".

[Quantess]

4. Groan....

I always thought subliminal advertising consisted of hidden penises or naked women, or "S E X" hidden in the graphics.

Hey, has anyone found any of that in McCain's approved advertisements on himself? It just sounds like something he'd do.

[SwampG8r]

14. i think his wife hides the penises for him

[Quantess]

17. Find the hidden penis:

answer: his left hand is holding an erect penis on her back.

[Quantess]

21. C'mon people. The woman has an airbrushed, highlighted penis on her back

and her boyfriend is holding it in his left hand. I know it isn't obvious at first, but that's the point. Once you see it, you can't not see it.

Here is the amazing website where I found sex-sells advertising exposed. And they show a close-up on the young woman's back, where a penis really doesn't belong.
http://www.subliminalsex.com/subliminal%20advertising%20example.htm

[goodgd_yall]

5. No way it's random

Yes, I agree---good catch!

[goodgd_yall]

6. Also that glowing blob looks like a missle n/t

[jillan]

7. The first thing I noticed was his head - surrounded by clouds?

Or were they trying to plant the image of a head covering along with al qD?

This is *exactly* what a subliminal message looks like.

Those f*ckers!

[AwakeAtLast]

8. Kicking this up!

:kick:

Great find!

:kick:

[DearAbby]

9. FEAR TERROR RUN A WAY!!!

bastards are still using the same scare tactics, even subliminally. I thought this practice was illegal...wtf am I saying, the GOP party are criminals, of course they would stoop to this.

BASTARDS!

[DearAbby]

10. K&R

This shit needs to be on the greatest page for exposure.

[nightrain]

11. Repub lies again...

[Patchuli]

12. Pushing that tired old 'terra, terra, terra' yet again?

You'd think they'd have enough sense to know that one's been almost completely worn out by *.

Asshats...

[highplainsdem]

13. K & R. I don't believe that was random.

[windoe]

15. Good catch!!

I would LOVE to see all the subliminal crap being used now to be exposed!! Sound can contain a lot of messages too.

[elehhhhna]

18. is that legal?

[Quantess]

16. Here's a govt. article discussing subliminal fear conditioning

http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/show/NCT00025844

[nc4bo]

19. See, stuff like this should be also be shown the SUNLIGHT.

RATS!!! Too late to Kick and Recommend.

I've been looking for the photo of this for a few days.

[unblock]

20. of course they used a randomizer

and kept using a randomizer again and again until it produced the desired results.