The most memorable TV ad ever?
A walk down memory lane
For my class this week, we talked about ads — how campaigns use them, how to cover them and, yes, some of the most famous/infamous ones ever.
On that last point, I put the question of most memorable political TV ad ever to the Twitter X community late last week. The response was overwhelming — 281 separate responses!
I wanted to highlight a few of the most-mentioned commercials — and see what other suggestions you all had. Offer your thoughts in the comments section below!
Chris, (young, young Chris)
Are you not old enough to remember "The Crying Indian" from 1970? My dad used to throw bags of trash right out the car window when we finished our Val's 15 cent burgers in Danbury, Ct in the late 60's. Not after the this came out!
Most effective (although it was never aired) was The Daisy commercial of 1964.
In no uncertain way, the Johnson ad team tagged the semi-lunatic Goldwater, who offered: "Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no vice," in his reckless discussion of using nuclear weapons.
Goldy was pretty much prescient for the full-lunatic reality of 2024.