RUSH: Have you seen, ladies and gentlemen, the new Cadillac commercial for their new electric car? (interruption) You haven't? It features the actor Neal McDonough. Do you watch Justified? (interruption) Well, Neal McDonough was in Justified two years ago. He's got this baby-shaped head, blue eyes, short, blond hair. He can play the nicest next-door neighbor or the evilest villain you've ever found.
He is the actor in this commercial. The left hates this commercial. There are caustic posts on leftist websites, and even mainstream news sites, Huffing and Puffington Post. They're outraged over the Cadillac ad! If you've seen it, you might know why.
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RUSH: Let's get to the Cadillac commercial. There's a headline here at the Huffing and Puffington Post. It's by a woman named Carolyn Gregoire, and I don't know she pronounces it that way. G-r-e-g-o-i-r-e, Gregoire, Gregoire. It's probably Gregory, if I had to guess. But anyway, headline: "Cadillac Made a Commercial About the American Dream, and it is a Nightmare." This commercial has hit a nerve in the left that is such a teachable moment!
This commercial itself and the reaction to it by the left is all anyone needs know about what really has become of the Democrat Party and the American left. The actor is Neal McDonough. You've seen him in Justified. He was in some other TV series that ran for four years. I can't think of the name of it right off the top of my head. You'd recognize him if you saw him. He's playing the part here of a successful American male, who happens to own one of these new Cadillac electric cars.
Here is the ad. This is 43 seconds here. It'll go by here pretty quickly and I'll do the transcript myself when this is finished.
MCDONOUGH: Why do we work so hard? For what? For this? For stuff? Other countries, they work, they stroll home, they stop by the cafe, they take August off. Off. Why aren't you like that? Why aren't we like that? Because we're crazy, driven, hardworking believers. Those other countries think we're nuts. Whatever. Were the Wright Brothers insane? Bill Gates? Les Paul? Ali? Were we nuts when we pointed to the moon? That's right. We went up there, and you know what we got? Bored. So we left. It's pretty simple. You work hard, you create your own luck, and you gotta believe anything is possible. As for all the stuff, that's the upside of only taking two weeks off in August. N'est-ce pas?
RUSH: As for all the stuff, that's the two weeks off in August. He also says in the ad about the moon, and we're gonna be the first to go back. Now, the left is simply outraged because they perceived this to be an attack on Western European socialism. This is Cadillac. Remember what I've always told you about advertising? Advertising that works is advertising that properly, correctly takes the pulse of the people it is targeted to.
It takes the pulse of the American culture at that moment, that snapshot. So here you have Cadillac and their ad agency, and what are they using to sell this thing? The American dream, the old adages: Hard work, success, climbing the ladder. You just work hard and work hard, and you don't think about vacations first. You think about your work. You find something you love, you go out and you do it.
And, yeah, you acquire stuff. There's nothing wrong with acquiring stuff, and there's nothing wrong with improving your lifestyle. The left is just livid. A pull quote from this Huffing and Puffington Post story: "a completely shameless celebration of our work-hard-buy-more culture, with a blanket dismissal of 'other countries' and their laziness tossed in for good measure."
One of the things that liberals love to hate about America is wrapped up in that one sentence. Let me read it to you again. The pull quote from Carolyn Gregoire, the Huffington Post says, this Cadillac ad is "a completely shameless celebration of our work-hard-buy-more culture, with a blanket dismissal of 'other countries' and their laziness tossed in for good measure."
If there's one thing that this commercial misses and -- well, not really. There's a lot of Americans who can't work anymore. There aren't any jobs, no matter how hard you work. There are just some people that can't find work, but Cadillac is targeting those who have jobs and are trying. You know, whatever you do, don't feel guilty about climbing the ladder. Don't feel guilty about improving your life.
Don't feel guilty about wanting a Cadillac, an electric Cadillac.
Don't feel guilty about this.
Why are we looking to Europe for guidance? They take the month of August off, there's 14% unemployment, they're welfare states. They sit around and they move at a leisurely pace. They can't defend themselves. They rely on us for that. What in the world is there to model ourselves after? And the left is just loaded for bear. I'll share with you further details from this piece. Here. Grab sound bite 18. Quickly we can squeeze it in. Here's Robin Roberts on morning America today.
ROBERTS: Oh, my goodness. And what's wrong with taking more than two weeks off? You're made to be felt guilty because you're not working hard?
RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That commercial, oh, wow! That makes you feel guilty if take more than two weeks off. That Cadillac commercial is making me feel guilty. I'm telling you, the left is afraid of that commercial. It's such a teachable moment here.
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RUSH: No. No, no, no, no. The point is, the left really is anti-American tradition. The left really does not believe in the all American dream. It's not that they don't even believe it; they advocate against it. That's what this Cadillac hullabaloo illustrates and is all about. You know, we think we're all in this together. We might have our disagreements, Democrats and Republicans, but we all want the same things. We don't anymore.
There is not a singular American culture that's oriented around growth and prosperity and individual achievement and success. That's not what the Democrat Party's about anymore. Their power base is not rooted in people like that. Their power base is rooted in the failures and victims of our society. And they are trying to create even more of them.
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