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Q. Pheevr
q_pheevr
16 Maj 2009 @ 21:31
Political advertising  
Poll #1401069
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 15

Here (scanned from the Toronto Star) is a frame from a TV ad by the Conservative Party, which attacks the Liberal Party leader, Michael Ignatieff, for running attack ads: (Note in particular the inset showing part of a Liberal ad with an image of the Conservative Party leader, Stephen Harper.) This is an example of:

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intertextuality
4 (26.7%)

cognitive dissonance
8 (53.3%)

recursion
6 (40.0%)

chutzpah
10 (66.7%)

why voter turnout is so low in Canadian federal elections
9 (60.0%)

 
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Merle: lambda[info]merle_ on 17. Maj, 2009 10:53 (UTC)
I am more surprised by the pseudo-"I clipped these letters out from some newspaper" style. All three letter blocks, aside from the first character of each row (and the dangling characters at the end)? That's a strange way to do it. Between such regularity and the obviously single source for the letters it looks fake to my eye.
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Q. Pheevr: socialized asskicking[info]q_pheevr on 17. Maj, 2009 19:15 (UTC)

I'm not sure they actually are in three-letter blocks, exactly—the image in the newspaper has a rather low resolution, but I think each single letter is slightly out of alignment with its fellows, though the larger disparities do seem to come at three-letter intervals. Maybe the Conservatives are trying to create a subliminal association between Ignatieff and ugly typography?