Apple Mac/PC Political Parody: Race (Democrat/Republican II)

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Second in a series of 12 Political Parodies of the Apple Mac/PC ads ("Get A Mac") originally starring John Hodgman as PC and Justin Long as Mac. These commercial parodies were created in 2006 during the mid-term Congressional Campaign which saw the US House of Representatives and the US Senate switch over from Republican control to Democratic majorities. They also continue into the beginnings of the US Presidential election of 2008 where we see the beginning of Sen. Barack Obama's rise to the top tier of Presidential candidates, alongside John Edwards and Hilary Clinton.
Starring Aaron Sjoholm and Shawn Girvan and Sherman Edwards. Directed by Jeff Hadick. Written and Produced by John T. Kramer.
The Get a Mac (2006--2009[1]) campaign was a television advertising campaign created for Apple Inc. by TBWA\Media Arts Lab, the company's advertising agency. Shown in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Japan, the ads in the campaign have become easily recognizable because each ad follows a standard simple template: against a minimalist all-white background, a man dressed in casual clothes introduces himself as a Mac ("Hello, I'm a Mac."), while a man in a more formal suit-and-tie combination introduces himself as a Windows personal computer ("And I'm a PC."). The two then act out a brief vignette in which the capabilities and attributes of Mac and PC are compared, with PC—characterized as formal and somewhat polite, though stuffy and overly concerned with work—often being frustrated by the more laid-back Mac's abilities. The older ones shifted focus away from comparing features of the computer systems to a more general comparison. The even later ones, however, mainly concerned Windows 7.

The original American ads star actor Justin Long as the Mac and author and humorist John Hodgman as the non-Mac PC, and are directed by Phil Morrison. The American ads also air on Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand television,[citation needed] and at least 24 of them were dubbed into Spanish, French, German, and Italian. The British campaign stars comedic duo Robert Webb as Mac and David Mitchell as PC while the Japanese campaign features the comedic duo Rahmens. Although several of the British and Japanese ads originated in the American campaign, they are generally slightly altered to suit local sensibilities. Both the British and Japanese campaigns also feature several original ads not seen in the American campaign.

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[scottbotics]

@CHAOSoriginal It's also funny that the Republican party(led by Abraham Lincoln) was the first to actually oppose slavery while the Democrats where varying from indifferent to advocating it.

[strangedayscraze]

Hahaha Tiger Woods.

[CloeBuckingham]

@wei495 dropthedash(dot)com

The Democrats about about dividing people into groups and then wooing those groups.

It's just so bigoted.

[wei495]

@CloeBuckingham Yeah well America was allied to the insurgents in Afghanistan 30 years ago to stop the Communist threat and invasion but times change,

[richleeburg]

typical liberal, always throwing in the race card

[CloeBuckingham]

@123ArcticIce321 Can you put a date on when they switched? The biggest racists, George Wallace and Strom Thurman were Democrats. Segregationalists are Dixiecrats.

[CloeBuckingham]

This is misleading. The biggest racists were the southern Democrats. The KKK was full of them. Lincoln was a Republican. And only Massachusetts Republicans opposed Vietnam in the beginning.

[youkeylaylee]

@scottbotics the democratic and republican were very different back then

[123ArcticIce321]

@scottbotics ha ha. You know what else is funny? You forgot to mention that after Lincoln's presidency, the two parties switched, thus making the modern Republicans the racists and the democrats the opposers to racism. Funny how many Republicans don't know that. Just goes to show how stupid you guys are.

[griffithomi]

@K3LL33MICH3LL3 They never really did. The only real progressive we ever had was Woody Wilson, a democrat. Then there was JFK, a personal hero of mine, who was a fairly liberal man, and there was FDR, who tried to create the insanely unconstitutional new deal. No, Republicans have always believed in what they have believed in, and Democrats have always been liberal, always been supported by the communist and socialist parties, and always passed big government laws.

[absolutetruth810]

@jgmm322 Actually, Lincoln wold have probably been a republican today. He was about giving people Life and Liberty. Last time I checked, abortion refers to an abortion of a life.

[K3LL33MICH3LL3]

@scottbotics True, although its funny how you can remember the Lincoln was a republican, yet you failed to mention the republican and democratic party"s motives switched