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Rose Siding

(32,623 posts)
Sat Oct 15, 2016, 10:31 AM Oct 2016

From our neighbors: Tell America It's Great



Enter Canada, with a small, yet poignant show of support during our year of discontent. A Toronto-based creative agency called The Garden has created the "Tell America It's Great" campaign, complete with a hashtag and a video.

"It's no secret that America is going through a hard time right now," the company said in a blog post. "The election has exposed some pretty scary realities that will likely challenge them for years to come, regardless of who's elected. They've been bombarded with a tremendous amount of negativity and it's likely that for many of them, the immediate future seems rather bleak."

The company put out an open call for Canadians to share videos of what they like about America and what makes it great, and then made a mashup video of a diverse group of Canadians singing America's praises, extolling the virtues of things like national parks, Tupac and Biggie, and the disability rights movement.

Of course, this moment of international cheer could seen as partisan. Naming your campaign #TellAmericaItsGreat, when one candidate for president uses the slogan "Make America Great Again," seems to purposefully be in opposition. That said, The Garden, in its blog post announcing the campaign, and in the video is released, never mentions Trump by name.

http://www.npr.org/2016/10/14/497986850/canada-just-wants-to-tellamericaitsgreat?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=politics&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews
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From our neighbors: Tell America It's Great (Original Post) Rose Siding Oct 2016 OP
#TellObamaHesBeenGreat Mr. Ected Oct 2016 #1
Our sweet, gentle, rational Canadian neighbors...we love you! spooky3 Oct 2016 #2
That was nice to hear. texanwitch Oct 2016 #3

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
1. #TellObamaHesBeenGreat
Sat Oct 15, 2016, 10:34 AM
Oct 2016

So tired of the lies that ignore the miracles he's performed with an obstructionist Congress in place for the entirety of his 8-year term.

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