{"id":9799,"date":"2018-03-29T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9799"},"modified":"2018-03-28T00:45:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T05:45:57","slug":"return-of-the-demon-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/return-of-the-demon-sheep\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of the Demon Sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s probably not news that footage used in campaign ads will be reused and recycled over the course of multiple elections. But there&#8217;s one now that takes the reuse to a new level because the original content is somewhat notorious.<\/p>\n<p>The ad is from the Iowa Credit Union League, in response to a bill in the Iowa Legislature that would tax credit unions the same as banks while reducing banks&#8217; tax rate. It aired on KGAN between the Kansas-Duke Elite Eight game and the &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; Stormy Daniels interview (right in that period when a network goes through an unavoidable tonal shift).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kdSfFtL633A\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The clips originated with Carly Fiorina&#8217;s 2010 Senate primary campaign in California. Time magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/content.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,1960405,00.html\">reported at the time<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>The ad was so weird \u2014 employing montages of pigs and sheep, a robotic wolfman dressed in wool, graphic illustration evoking\u00a0<i>Monty Python<\/i>\u00a0\u2014 that it spread online like swine flu on a pig farm.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Demon Sheep segment starts around the 2:20 mark; frames above match around 2:26 and 2:51.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rKWlOxhSIKk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d put a string of sheep puns here, but the ads covered all of them already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s probably not news that footage used in campaign ads will be reused and recycled over the course of multiple elections. But there&#8217;s one now that takes the reuse to a new level because the original content is somewhat notorious. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/return-of-the-demon-sheep\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9799"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9806,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799\/revisions\/9806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}