[ SECRET POST #6810 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6810 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Richard Corrigan from Great British menu, Siobhán McSweeney as Sister George Michael from Derry Girls]



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Can you elaborate, OP?

[(Anonymous)]

Uh... what's the connection?

Explanation

[(Anonymous)]

He aired several infomercials in primetime a month before the 1992 presidential election.

https://retrospectjournal.com/2023/03/12/infomercial-agenda-ross-perots-1992-presidential-campaign/

Senior campaign operators left the campaign due to Perot’s unwillingness to take their advice on issues. The staff turnovers led to Perot declining in the polls. On 16 July, Perot announced he would end his campaign to seek the presidency. This move only furthered his decline as many supporters felt betrayed by Perot’s poor campaigning. Perot managed to slip back into the race on 1 October. With only one month left to campaign before election day on 8 November, Perot employed a unique and dynamic method of campaigning: informercials.

Sitting in his office, Perot’s thirty-minute infomercials aired in between sitcoms and the World Series baseball games. Despite the blunders of his initial campaign, his first infomercial garnered 16.5 million viewers. This type of campaigning was unheard of in American politics and surprisingly down to earth. “We learned a lot from the first program from your comments” said Perot, addressing audience wants for larger print slide cards and a less intrusive pointer. All his infomercials contained a detailed analysis of economics, explaining statistics and the impacts of policy on the American people. It was more in the make of an educational program than a political campaign piece.

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https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_1140576

Texas entrepreneur Ross Perot, an independent candidate in the presidential race of 1992, is credited with delivering the 1st presidential campaign infomercials. From early October to just a day before the election, Perot bought several primetime slots to air 30 to 60 minute programs on the 3 major television networks, the first presidential candidate to adopt this strategy. Most of these programs featured Perot sitting at a desk speaking directly to the American people. Because he believed “America needs more than six-second answers,” Perot relied heavily on physical visual aids like this line graph titled "Purchasing Power of the Dollar: 1950 to 1990." Although he didn’t win, Perot received almost 19% of the popular vote, making him the most successful non-major party candidate since Theodore Roosevelt in 1912.

The last four episodes of the show aired in the time period that these infomercials occurred.

Re: Explanation

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Well damn, that's actually kinda interesting. OP definitely has a point, I'd say. Thank you for the explanation!

Re: Explanation

[(Anonymous)]

Ahhh, gotcha, OP. Thank you for explaining!

Re: Explanation

[(Anonymous)]

Ohhhhh. Oh, dang! I feel that!

I hate O.J. Simpson for a lot of reasons, and one of them is how his murder trial damn near got Gargoyles cancelled.

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[(Anonymous)]

Basically he bought their timeslot, and destroyed any momentum the show had in building its own audience to fail to build his.