GrandPa Sanders Uses Simon & Garfunkel in political Ad

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[h=2]Bernie Sanders Who’s Popular Among Millennials Enlists The Help Of Simon & Garfunkel (Someone They’ve Never Heard Of)… [/h]

Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)Bernie Sanders has turned to folk icons Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel for an ad set to run the week before the Iowa caucuses. The non-traditional, soft TV spot focuses almost exclusively on idyllic shots of Americans in different everyday scenes and supporters at Sanders' rallies.

Simon & Garfunkel's "America," a song about a young couple hitchhiking across the county, carries the 60-second ad. It isn't until the end that Sanders' voice says he approves the message.
"They've all come to look for America," the folk duo sing in the ad over shots of people working in fields and organizers firing up Sanders fans.

This ad will start running in Iowa on Friday and another, slightly different ad, will air in New Hampshire. Sanders' campaign highlighted that the Vermont senator, who months ago was considered a long-shot candidate, has long intended to make the campaign about more than himself. "This campaign is not about me. It is not about Hillary Clinton or any other candidate," Sanders said in the statement. "This campaign is about you, your kids and your parents. It is about creating a political movement of millions of people who stand up and loudly proclaim that this nation belongs to all of us and not just a handful of billionaires."


Tad Devine, Sanders' top strategist, would not disclose the size of the ad buy, but said it was "toe-to-toe with Clinton." "It's a big part of our closing advertising campaign," Devine said. "We will probably have another spot as well before the end in Iowa and New Hampshire." Michael Briggs, a Sanders' spokesman, said Thursday "the use of the song was properly licensed."

Symone Sanders, another Sanders' spokeswoman, says use of "America" by Simon and Garfunkel in their latest ad "does not imply an endorsement from Simon and Garfunkel."




http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/21/politics/bernie-sanders-simon-and-garfunkel-ad/


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I can see it now.....

"Dad? Who are Simon & Garfunkel?"
"I don't know, ask your grandfather."


Watch the video, Bernie put in one token black woman otherwise its a mighty white ad....
 
right people, wrong song......here's what Bernie could say to millennials.....
Hello darkness my old friend I've come to talk with you again because a vision softly creeping left its seeds while I was sleeping, and the vision that was planted in my brain still remains, within the sound of silence. In restless dreams I walked alone, narrow streets of cobble stone. Neath the halo of a street lamp I turned my collar to the cold and damp, when my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light, that split the night. And touched the sound of silence. And in the naked light I saw, ten thousand people maybe more, people talking without speaking, people hearing without listening, people writing songs that voices never share and no one dared. Disturb the sound of silence. Fools, said I, you do not know, silence like a cancer grows, hear my words that I might teach you, take my arms that I might reach you. But my words, like silent raindrops fell, and echoed in the wells of silence. And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made and the sign flashed out its warning, in the words that it was forming and the sign said the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls. And whispered in the sounds of silence.
 
I'm a Millenial. Aren't those the guys who sang Bridge over Troubled Water and So Long Frank Lloyd Wright? Oh, yeah, and Mrs. Robinson. Love me some Sound of Silence, come to think of it...
 
Threedee said:
I'm a Millenial. Aren't those the guys who sang Bridge over Troubled Water and So Long Frank Lloyd Wright? Oh, yeah, and Mrs. Robinson. Love me some Sound of Silence, come to think of it...
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Amazing harmonization between those two.
 
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