Propaganda: the Creepy Guy

This video is propaganda for a number of reasons. First and foremost, the purpose of the video is to manipulate the audience into thinking that McCain doesn't care about children and is an old politician that will say anything to slander his opponent in order to succeed. Furthermore, it shows seemingly unrelated images in order to promote Obama and attack McCain. The image of the creepy adult watching children get off the bus has nothing to do with planned parenthood. In fact, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund which paid for the advertisement values pro-choice legislation, improved sex education and more affordable health care (according to their website). The image of the creepy guy is shown to be associated with McCain so people will be repulsed by him. Lastly, the part where it says "Now John McCain is twisting the facts and attacking Senator Obama" shows nothing specific or necessarily has anything to do with McCain not wanting children to protected by sex offenders.

This video has over 78,000 so I don't know how viral that is but it probably became popular because it was released just a couple of months before the election. Furthermore, the user that released it was "campaigntvads." So it was probably easily accessible at a time when people were craving such youtube videos.