Honestly, did this ad scare you? It was supposed to. Instead, it’s evoking laughter, as Atrios reports was the case in its airing on Crossfire where Paul Begala said, “Those are puppies… Oh, I’m afraid. These puppies are coming. The puppies are coming.” I’m no expert in animal behavior — other than the misbehavior of my dog and 5 cats — but it seems to me that the pack of wolves were just laying about, when they heard the Bush campaign coming along and decided to run for their lives!
The ridicule is coming fast and furious, from Wolfpacks for Truth, where the stars of the ad allege that “We were tricked by George W. Bush! They told us we were shooting a Greenpeace commercial!”, to the Democratic National Committee’s new ad showing the contrasts between the eagle and the ostrich:
The eagle soars high above the earth.
The ostrich buries its head in the sand.
The eagle can see everything for miles around.
The ostrich? Can’t see at all.
The eagle knows when it’s time to change course.
The ostrich stands in one place.
Given the choice, in these challenging times, shouldn’t we be the eagle again?
Honestly — and maybe it’s because I’m a tree-hugging member of The Sierra Club, National Wildlife Federation, and The Humane Society of the US — when I look at the Republican ad, I see a beautiful pristine forest, inhabited by a group of endangered animals, which this administration has effectively removed from protection under the Endangered Species Act. We shouldn’t be scared of the wolves; its the wolves who should be scared of George W. Bush!
