Frank Strategies: The Blog

I thought Hollywood understood how to make an emotional connection with audiences. Melodrama. String music. Sympathetic characters. And then yesterday a group called “Artists for Workers Choice” released this incredibly boring video in support of card check legislation – featuring pampered millionaire actors reading from a teleprompter and saying the same thing over and over. And over. And over. If you actually get through this entire video without nodding off and drooling on your keyboard, you probably consumed far too much coffee this morning:

Contrast that video with the emotional one below, which was recently released by the House Republican Conference. Has white become black and black become white? Are GOP staffers actually producing better online videos than Hollywood now?