(High Quality) Famous "Daisy" Attack Ad from 1964 Presidential Election

[semysane]

I'll get those Reapers! Take back the Earth!

[nrojb]

you miss 6, you get the nuke.

[quemacha]

Anyone seen any antiwar protests in the past three years?

[pwnurnoobazz]

The graphics in this trailer are sort of meh

[ryanschweighardt]

Ron Paul 2012 or no one.

[rokema2782]

the grafics on this mass effect 3 trailer are lacking

[CaptainStarstuff]

For those of you who don't know, Mass Effect 3 recently released a trailer parodying this little piece of propaganda.

[Jtomczak7959]

I just love the deadpan cut to "vote for President Johnson" at the end.

[DestroyerX61]

Definition of fearmongering

[dishsoap45]

this was disgustingly awesome

[ZombieAppocolypse65]

Thumbs up if the mass effect 3 trsiler brought you here

[GalenWings]

LMAO.

I love it.

[creaturebotman]

Vote for me and I'll set you FREE!

Rap on brother... Rap on.

[DiverseLA]

That girl can't count for shit.

[zillsburyy1]

johnson was the last good democrat

[DiverseLA]

@zillsburyy1 He was horrible. Clinton was better.

[Saebeck32]

in your guts, you know he's nuts

[spacecowboynj]

Classic fear-mongering attack ad by the man who was VP during the Cuban Missile Crisis and who presided over the abyss of blood and death known as the Vietnam War. Democrats have not changed a bit only now the fear-mongering is with the elderly.

[Communist2012]

Lyndon B Johnson is a traitor to America.

He ordered the murders of us servicemen with the help of israel

youtube USS Liberty - these sailors are still seeking justice for being stabbed in the back by Johnson - they are still being ignored.

Lyndon B Johnson got the Israeli military to attack a US Naval vessel, to use it as a pretext to go to war with Egypt and blame it on them, it was a false flag

Johnson killed American Servicemen. Go research, it's all true.

[griffin324]

All the things they said that would happen if Goldwater was elected happened anyway!

[happymealmobster]

top two comments are the same... Ron Paul 2012!

[pCriistopher]

Vote for Ron Paul the stakes are too high for you to stay home.

[FunkyMothaFunksta]

Is that Chris Schenkel doing the final voiceover? I remember him mostly covering bowling tournaments in the early 80s...

[Shonenut213]

LBJ was a fucking hypocrite and a warmonger.

[Jazzycat47]

This spot only ran once as a "paid" ad. The rest of the country got to see it over and over when CBS, NBC, and ABC ran it as part of their news shows.

[Nuerth]

It is amazing how much a political career can hinge on a comment~ I remember the comment Goldwater made in context to the Cuban missile crisis ~ He said he would not hesitate to use a limited first strike nuclear assault

[IAMPontiusPilate]

Good campiagn commercial! VOTE FOR ME OR DIE!!!! 

[DonKissick1970]

The Republican establishment is channeling LBJ's spirit as they direct identical rhetoric today at Ron Paul.

[MrBman956]

@DonKissick1970

Yeah, no doubt.

[policemanaaron]

The irony being that the world was never closer to a nuclear holocaust than during the Cuban missile crisis when Johnson's Democrat government pushed a painfully hypocritical stance.

[Jazzycat47]

@policemanaaron The irony is you got the wrong administration. The Cuban missile crisis happened during Kennedy's admin.

[policemanaaron]

@Jazzycat47

This is a political advertisement for Johnson. Johnson was Kennedy's Vice President. The Cuban Missile Crisis happened while HIS lot were in charge.

[Jazzycat47]

@policemanaaron I was 18 years old in college when the Cuban missile crisis happened. Kennedy was President and Johnson's only official duty was to attend high profile funerals - as far overseas as possible. He had no power. After Kennedy was killed, Johnson became President. This ad was used when Johnson was running for reelection, against Goldwater.

[JohnnyDart76]

@policemanaaron: Actually, that was in the Kennedy era and I believe it was jackasses like Curtis LeMay pushing for WW3 over Cuba....not V.P. Johnson.

J.F.K. deserves a lot of credit for keeping his cool.....too bad he didn't get a chance to run in '64, though. =(

[policemanaaron]

@JohnnyDart76

Yeah, I realise that the Cuban Missile Crises occurred during the JFK presidency. But, as Vice President, we can hardly ignore Johnson's role. Ostensibly, he was the number 2 man in an administration that brought the world to within an inch of nuclear holocaust.

[jscottupton]

Bill Moyers of PBS (he worked for Johnson) has his finger prints all over this classic piece of garbage.

[xlon3d]

So...why exactly is this an attack on Goldwater?

[Paulsasleepwalker]

@xlon3d Cause he was a crazy ass who wanted to use Nukes in the Vietnam war. But it really doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

[eduardofck]

daisy me rollin,they hatin'

[hein345]

funny how johnson was actually a war president with the vietnam war and goldwater opposed it

[bdmenne]

Look and see, if Ron Paul is to win the nomination and face Obama, this exact ad will be polished up and to lie all over again for the biggest liars of all time.

"The alibi of tyrants has always been for the welfare of humanity" Albert Camus

[Dancing88Mike]

Gives a whole new meaning to the Vote or Die initiative

[AwesomePictures]

Unless we vote for LBJ, our children will not learn how to count properly.

[1who4me]

The irony is that Johnson himself escalated the war in Vietnam, and it dragged on until 1973. Johnson's Vietnam policy cost the country far more money and lives than if Goldwater, the supposed warmonger, had been elected.

[dreamcore]

Nice job terrorizing families to vote for you while being all the warmonger a defense contractor could hope for.

[TheJake0fTrades]

@dreamcore Welcome to politics.

"A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise."

-Machiavelli

[msdaughter2]

wow!!!

[tsartodd]

all the more reason to love LBJ. Jesus, i wish we had a Democrat with balls like Johnson -- LBJ would put his feet up Teabag ass and not even break a sweat.

[mlc2005]

It wasn't that "stupid" of an idea, considering how well Barry Goldwater did in that election!

[gilliamjf]

Brilliant

[Cardoniman]

Vote for President Johnson on November 3rd...... or we will burn you in a large explosion.

[colorsoc]

This is such a powerful ad. I was never alive during the cold war, I never had to practice duck and cover, and I never lived with the CONSTANT threat of nuclear apocalypse. Yet here I sit in 2011 and I still get goosebumps and a chill down my spine every time I watch it. "We must love each other or we must die."

[Stube437]

@colorsoc You're living with the costant thread of nuclear apocalypse now. We all are while there's nukes!

[Nascarking24]

@colorsoc None of that Duck & Cover crap would've saved us.

[commodorefan2]

@colorsoc I grew up in the cold war, born in 1970, and likewise, never had to duck and cover. Though I'm a hardcore Democrat, I still rooted for Ronald Reagan in the goal of collapsing the Soviet Union.

[LOKITUPISBACK]

@colorsoc I first saw this in my 9th grade history class several years ago. I had never dealt with the Cold War or looked that much into it, but this ad had me SHAKING in the middle of the classroom.

[thermopylae85]

KKK? Who's going to bust the black flash mobs?

[brittaneeb19]

Classic ad! Beautiful piece of rhetorical literature.

[Bilytkid]

The people that hate Johnson, do so because LBJ busted the KKK, and enforced integration and equal rights

[Verbeke7]

@Bilytkid

Stomping all over personal liberty and the constitution in doing so. But that's okay, right? After all, LBJ "cured" racism with big government, didn't he?

Race-baiting dipshit.

[TennesseeOwnsMyBones]

@Verbeke7 LMAO... 'stomping all over personal liberty'... personal liberty to do what? Deny others - in this case southern blacks - theirs? Brother, plz. You better believe it had to do with race. It was not surprising Goldwater only won the Deep South and his home state.

[Verbeke7]

@TennesseeOwnsMyBones

He stomped all over personal liberty by using the government as a tool to enforce morality. Freedom comes at a price, and it's not always sunshine and roses. That's not even getting into the Medicare disaster.

You are right though, the campaign did have plenty to do with race. Johnson campaigned in the south by pointing out how Sen. Goldwater supported all the civil rights legislation that was constitutionally legal. He was a two-faced, lying scumbag and an opportunist.

[TennesseeOwnsMyBones]

@Verbeke7 I see. So it wasn't that important that millions of Americans in the South had no liberty whatsoever. No, more important was to keep up the status quo, whereby one group of Americans had all the liberty and all the political tools to secure their liberty, and one group had none. You are so thoroughly ethno-centred in this matter you cannot even see the inherent hypocricy of your statement.

[Verbeke7]

@TennesseeOwnsMyBones

Well, I see that you're taking the "make shit up and put words in my opponent's mouth" approach to debate, so I fear that your crippling mental deficiency will render any attempt to communicate with you moot. Nobody said anything about it "not being important" or "maintaining the status quo", but you're choosing to argue with emotion and histrionics.

[TennesseeOwnsMyBones]

@Verbeke7 Well, yes. I would deem it 'emotional' when on one hand you're crying about liberty being trampled on, while on the other hand dismissing the notion that this sacred liberty was unavailable to millions of Americans in the South. Pray tell: if the Federal Government had not stepped in - and enforcing what it is supposed to do, being guaranteeing Americans their fundamental civil rights - what exactly would have changed the status quo? We should have 'waited'?

[Verbeke7]

@TennesseeOwnsMyBones

Disenfranchising black voters and state-sponsored racism are examples of denying others their rights. So is denying a private business owner the right to do business with who they want to. The government should in no way favor one race of the other, we're in agreement here. However, the government cannot also strip the rights of others (As unpleasant as they may be). It's hypocrisy to decide that the freedom of one group is more valid than the freedom of another.

[TennesseeOwnsMyBones]

@Verbeke7 And that is exactly what you are saying: the freedom of white Americans was more valid than the concept of freedom for all Americans. For crying out loud...

[Verbeke7]

@TennesseeOwnsMyBones

That is the problem with having the government (Which itself is made up of flawed, irrational humans) try to legislate morality and enforce "equality". Look at the racism that's still in America today. Did forcing us to "play nice" get rid of it? No, it merely covered up the symptoms.

[TennesseeOwnsMyBones]

@Verbeke7 Oh I would say that having the ability to VOTE did improve the lot of black Southern Americans. But let me ask you: the government should have NOT intervened in the South?

[Verbeke7]

@TennesseeOwnsMyBones

I specifically said that I agreed with you that the government should not promote racial favoritism. I can't help it if you're choosing not to read what I've written.

[TennesseeOwnsMyBones]

@Verbeke7 And yet the Southern state governments did promoto racial favoritism. Therefore, the Federal government stepped in. Simple.

[Verbeke7]

@TennesseeOwnsMyBones

Yes, and they were in the right doing so. However, they took it too far by extending that to private citizens and business owners.

[Verbeke7]

I should clarify, I mean that "they" (the federal government) were in the right to step in and stop state government sponsored racism.

[TennesseeOwnsMyBones]

@Verbeke7 Well... we agree then. And Johnson was right. And Goldwater, unwillingly, as he himself was not a racist, would have done the exact opposite: NO federal intervention, and laissez-faire in Dixie.

[Verbeke7]

@TennesseeOwnsMyBones

It's hard to say for sure. He wouldn't have taken the same route as Johnson, but I don't believe he would've simply let it go on.

[Verbeke7]

@TennesseeOwnsMyBones

If a private business owner chooses to lose money and limit their financial opportunities by excluding a group, that's their loss, and it's not the government's job to force them to do so (As long as they're not relying on the government for subsidies or anything). Things like voting and participating in politics ARE fundamental rights, and the government should've intervened on the behalf of disenfranchised African-Americans.

[TennesseeOwnsMyBones]

@Verbeke7 And that is what Lyndon Baines Johnson did. And that is why he is one of the greatest presidents America ever had... as he was the president of ALL Americans.

[TennesseeOwnsMyBones]

Goldwater, unwillingly, defended the liberty of one group of Americans to deny libery to another group of Americans. That is why he lost, and rightfully so.

[Verbeke7]

@TennesseeOwnsMyBones

Goldwater voted in favor for every bit of civil rights legislation that abided by the constitution.

[TennesseeOwnsMyBones]

@Verbeke7 LOL which meant 'tough shit' for blacks in the South.

[TennesseeOwnsMyBones]

@Bilytkid Amen. LBJ would have been one of the greatest presidents if he hadn't been saddled with Nam.

[JohnnyDart76]

@TennesseeOwnsMyBones: "LBJ would have been one of the greatest presidents if he hadn't been saddled with Nam."

Perhaps so.

[mentalRCburnouts]

nuke all the stupid girls who cant count to ten

[NJBoston90s]

Vote for president Johnson on November 3...or else you will die!

[trilobright]

As has been pointed out by minds greater than mine, in all fairness Goldwater's own ads also strongly implied that he would start a nuclear war if elected. 

[tommykicks]

this ad may not be the most accurate, but political ads rarely are. but it is definately effective. it turned a candidate in favor of peace into one who is going to destroy everything. not necicarily accurate, but effective.

[mooninquirer]

The words that Barry Goldwater spoke are very wise, and would that we heeded them ! He actually was being an ADVOCATE for peace, and yet somehow that got twisted around to Goldwater being a trigger happy warmonger !

[r1100rider57]

They actually only aired this ad once on TV, on Disney Channel nonetheless, because it scared everyone so much. A lot of people were in a panic over it.

[angeliquecollins70]

Prove it..idiot. I'm just sayin' a child that age should freakin' know how to count.

[ElasticGiraffe]

"We must either love each other, or we must die."

I guess JFK wasn't loving enough for LBJ's taste.

[timsurftim]

what a stupid advert

[jeevesjonesthegreat]

LBJ LBJ how many kids did you kill today ?

[jeevesjonesthegreat]

LBJ LBJ how many kids did you kill today ?

[angeliquecollins70]

Idiot Johnson. Hired a child actor who can't even count to 10 properly.

[iconoclasm12345]

@angeliquecollins70 well it worked. lol. 'in your heart you know he might'.

[mazter101]

@angeliquecollins70 he did that to create an effect....idiot

[LODGE4444]

@angeliquecollins70 "Idiot" Johnson won the election and she's SUPPOSED to be too young to count to 10 properly.

[angeliquecollins70]

@LODGE4444 You're kidding, really? He won the election? And he was so loved by the American people that he ran again in 1968 and won, right? Oh no, wait, I seem to recall that he gave a speech telling us that he would not run again in the 1968 election. I wonder why?

[ttaz4dqm]

@angeliquecollins70 - My GAWD you're stupid...lol

[ttaz4dqm]

@angeliquecollins70 - What kind of asshole makes a comment like that? Be you a Conservatard SCUMBAG?

[angeliquecollins70]

@ttaz4dqm I am the type of person that doesn't call other people assholes. And no, I'm not a Conservatard SCUMBAG, nor would I call anyone that. Bleeding heart liberal Democraps are all so hateful to anyone who dares to disagree with them. You must be one, correct?

[ttaz4dqm]

@angeliquecollins70 - Actually, no, but I stand by my critique of you and your outlook. SCUMBAG!

[joe697]

@angeliquecollins70 That was actually the niece of the consultant who put together the ad.

[TheMadHatter741776]

@angeliquecollins70 Did you ever think that might've been the point? She is supposed to be young and cute. Not to mention they would've run a few takes to make the commercial the best they can. Maybe you should think your comments through before calling someone an idiot.

[angeliquecollins70]

@TheMadHatter741776 Yes, she is young and cute. But couldn't you count to ten a little better than that when you were her age? I was calling Johnson an idiot, and plenty of people would agree with me. And someone else wrote that it was the niece of the consultant who put together the ad. It would've been just as effective if she was counting normally. I never really thought that Johnson himself actually thought up the commercial, and auditioned little girls until he found just the right one.

[MyByakuran]

@angeliquecollins70 nahh i thought it was cute XD

[xCrzyKittenx]

@angeliquecollins70

The reason why they had a girl that couldn't quite count to 10 was to show how innocent and carefree she is. Then just to have all that blown away. People back then really thought that this was real! People were scared shitless because of this add and voted for him to stop any use of nukes. Goldwater publicly announced he wasn't afraid of using nuclear weapons. And so to stop WWIII from breaking out LBJ released this ad.

[savamounange]

@angeliquecollins70 That was actually an intelligent thing, because it showed how innocent the daisy girl was..Dugh?!

[exmark316]

@angeliquecollins70 notice what number was said three times in the video. Interesting.

[dopedogma]

dirty daisy..

[PineappleRaveOMG]

@dopedogma i think it was a black-eyed susan...