Salutations, traveler of The Internets! Welcome to William's Bloody Hell, so named after our founder, Sir Bloody William.
He is seen in the likeness above in a rare, 19th century woodcut. This
image was rumoured to have been
commissioned after a bout of unpleasantness
in the White Chapel district of London. Do enjoy your stay and peruse our many, varied offerings, much of which cannot be found elsewhere!
::Today's soundtrack: REM "Bang and Blame" ::
When election times roll around, it brings back with it one of my most hated things: the mud slinging attack advertisements. Oh, just in case you don't know to what I am referring, an attack ad is when a politician buys a commercial not to advertise himself directly, but to say bad things about his opponent. Personally, I don't think these things should be allowed and that they actually make the politician who paid for it look bad. In my opinion, if you want people to vote for you, you ought to be telling them why you are good and NOT why the other guy is bad. When you make an attack ad, it only succeeds in making yourself out to look like the lesser of two evils. Granted, this is indeed sometimes the case (oooh, zing!), but is that really your primary selling point, that you aren't as bad as the other guy? Really? That's why I should vote for you? Because the other guy is bad and not because you are especially good in any way? If you want me to vote for you, I want to see you buy advertising telling me about YOU (shock!) and not the other candidate! I don't care about the other guy right now, I want to hear about you, and only you. Tell me your positions on the main issues, let me know if you have a plan for the budget, or what your goals for office are! These are the things that will get me in your camp. I don't go by party standings alone. I rate each candidate as an individual, so I want to know about you, specifically. It isn't enough to know if you're an unwashed Democrat or a tightly wound Republican. I need specifics, but you're too busy trashing your opponent to tell me what I want to know! Don't waste your advertising budget telling about how your opponent opposed a bus fare rebate for war widows when you really should be telling me how you have a five year plan outlined to restore our national forest because the former won't sway me but the latter sure will! In other words, don't you remember what your and every mother since the dawn of time has said? If you can't say something nice... don't buy a commercial on television.
William the Bloody (anti-attack ad)
