Sam Elliott's Cussing In Folksy Campaign Ad May Make You Giddyup To Vote For Harris

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Yahoo! News/Huff Post

Mon, September 23, 2024 at 1:37 PM EDT


Sam Elliott swears by Kamala Harris in a new campaign ad. (Watch it below.) The 80-year-old actor, known for his down-home delivery in Westerns and other movies and TV shows, implored voters to embrace the “courage” of the Democratic nominee and avoid the “lies and hate” of Donald Trump.

“Are we really going back down that same fucking broken road?” Elliott says in the video put out by the Lincoln Project on Monday.

The imagery is often the stock stuff you might find in other campaign commercials ― wilderness, farms and the American flag ― but Elliott’s words penetrate as if they flew out of a crackling campfire. “It’s time to be a man and vote for a woman,” Elliott says.

We hear ya, pardner.

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[OAITW r.2.0]

1. What a voice. Thanks Sam!

[ArizonaLib]

2. F - yeh! Time to be a man!!!

Love me some Sam Elliott!

[groundloop]

3. That ad (minus the "F" word) would be GREAT on network TV

[Atreus]

12. They could *beep* it out...

same impact, IMO.

[meow2u3]

17. Or they can edit it for network television use

by using the socially acceptable f word: freakin'!

[Talitha]

13. Sure would be great! Hopefully he did two narrations for that reason.

[doc03]

4. I figured Sam would be right winger. How can she lose with him on her team. nt

[rpannier]

11. He might be in the same way that the Lincoln Project is

In 2020 he did an advert for Biden through the Lincoln Project
This one is also done through the Lincoln Project

[ET Awful]

15. I always thought he was. . . maybe it's just the role he plays that made me think that

Loved it!

[twodogsbarking]

5. I choose Sam's wife.

[nikatnyte]

6. This is fan-f**king-tastic!

One of the best TV spots I've ever seen. Succinct, direct, to the point, and calls out sexism as the stupid obsession it is. And all delivered in Sam's delicious, hard-as-nails voice.

[Enter stage left]

7. Sam Elliott & James Earl Jones...

Two of the greatest voices in entertainment.

[Paladin]

8. The perfect statement, delivered by the perfect spokesman.

Bravo to everybody involved in this one.

[NNadir]

9. With or Without Sam, I'm an Old, Bald, Fat, White Guy Giddyupping to Vote for Harris.

I can't wait until my ballot comes in the mail.

[TNNurse]

10. Did not think I could love Sam more, I was mistaken.

[Shoonra]

14. Maybe keep the F word

I remember Iimperfectly) an election in NYC in the 1970s in which one candidate ran a radio commercial in which he described opposition assertions as "bullshit". And the commercials were played uncensored on the radio. Evidently federal regulations that a candidate's commercials must be run as submitted, without any alteration, trumped (if I can use that word) the usual FCC regs about rough language. I do remember that several interviewers tried to get this candidate to use that word in interviews but he was aware that news programs and interview programs were not as sacrosanct as a candidate's own commercials.

So run Sam Elliot's commercial with the F word. Not only will people pay attention but some will eagerly look forward to repetitions of that commercial just to verify that Sam really used that word on TV.

[tavernier]

16. I think Sam's voice is very powerful

and maybe more so without the most boring and overused word on the planet these days. And frankly, just vulgar to a fairly large part of the population.

My vote is no, even though I’ve been known to curse like a sailor, with great enthusiasm, quite regularly.

[Qutzupalotl]

19. I agree. A wider appeal is better at this point,

but notoriety is what breaks through the noise these days, so…. We'll see how much air it gets or even needs with all the cord-cutters.

AFAIK, Sam kept his beliefs close to the vest until this cycle, where I think I heard him in an uncredited ad for Biden around February. I think he's old enough not to care what his fans and relatives think … this one is too important.

[Bayard]

18. Sam Elliot: The Man, The Myth, the Legend

Sexiest voice on the planet, even if he was just reading the phone book.

[TommieMommy]

20. Love Sam Elliot 💙 great job 👍