You Tube Ad Contest: Ron Paul Superbowl Commercial

Mckarnin, would you please address the above. Thank you.

There are several disclosures of salaries, the "expenses" part is the blackhole here.

Sure, the weekly salaries were reduced from $1000 every week for the "staff", but the mystery is the "expenses". That could mean anything.

They may be getting paid MORE than $1000 every week through "expenses".

1. I'd like to see a list of "expenses", and how much has been spent on "expenses" for everyone.

2. How much on hotels? The Holiday Inn, or The Hilton?

3. Dinner at McDonald's, or an expensive restaurant?

4. How tight are the controls on "expenses". Are there any controls?

I'd like to see full disclosure on the expenses paid to the staff every week.


5. I'd also like to see a solid plan of what where when how in terms of the ads.

No one else would dare come on here and say give me $100,000 and THEN I'll tell you exactly how I'll spend it.

I mean, everyone can give ME $100,000 too. I've also got an idea to buy ads. I'll pay myself, spend on expenses for myself,

and after I get all the money THEN I'll tell you exactly where what's left is going. Deal?
 
@Katharine

Has the Blimp team or any of its affiliates hired or recruited people, other than yourself, to post messages on the Web supporting the efforts of the Blimp or this SB advertising proposal?

Some have seen quite a few posts in forums and chat rooms that on the surface, did not appear to be organic.

I await your response and detailed explanation.

The following people are consistently doing work for us (paid and unpaid):

Katharine Memole-McKarnin (me)
Trevor Lyman-Sword of Shannarah
Elijah Lynn-Elijah
Jordan Le Doux--Jordan L
Bryce Henderson--Blimp Media Coordinator
Charles M--Trazan

Bucfish does some research for us on a volunteer basis.

Other than that no one here has any interest other than personal in their communications here.

The only times I have ever sent anyone to type something is a few times I have asked Bucfish or someone in my chat at "Blimpette" (www.justin.tv/blimpette) to throw up a post on the forum saying that I am on air.


If I missed the point of your question let me know.
 
Hi guys.

30 sec. commercial with standard massage, is just westing time and money.

You need to gave to viewers something very very very different.

Remember - where is the beef, this works, or maybe naked news.??????
 
BUMP

how much money has been raised? i cant find it on the site. and have we had any progress on picking the actual commercial yet?
 
The "War_Ends" is one of the most powerful videos I have ever seen.
Ad must not have text, many folks read too slow for the message to be effective.
At the current 1:07 runtime, it is much too long.
My Non-Linear editing skills are not up to the task.
Dr. Paul must actually speak the ending, no text.
Tug at the heartstrings! This is not dishonest.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNZgeYnpPDU

Ending more like "Thank You for Your Sacrifice........We Love You...........Now Just Come Home"
 
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Didn't make these but maybe one of these would be good to have:

http://youtube.com/user/PROTECTMAN1138

They're kind of reverse psychology sort of things and would probably stick with people more than others.

The one with the puppets, cleaned up very slightly, would be campy enough to catch people's attention and the message provocative enough to raise some eyebrows...

It's short time to do something new with high enough production values to really sparkle. Why not do hilariously LOW production values, instead? That would get you some buzz!

This one made me laugh!

Mike D.
 
The "War_Ends" is one of the most powerful videos I have ever seen. ...
Tug at the heartstrings! This is not dishonest.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNZgeYnpPDU

Ending more like "Thank You for Your Sacrifice........We Love You...........Now Just Come Home"

This one made me cry! Extremely powerful ... but apparently it's from a Budweiser commercial and therefore not available for use apart from you-tube.

That said, it is exactly one of the ways we could make a really powerful ad for Dr. Paul. One issue, important, clear, and immense emotional appeal.

Mike D.
 
mcKarnin,

1. Will the ads be run on the same channel as the SuperBowl will be on?
2. What will the overhead cost of your "advertising" company, be to we the supporters, to serve as the financial pass-thru for the super bowl ad? Please estimate dollars.
3. It is mentioned on your website that some advertising slots have already been secured. Would you please point me where we can find information on networks and time slots for these secured slots?
4. Are the "slots" that you have already secured, 30 second time slots, or 60 second time slots?

Thank you.
 
mcKarnin,

1. Will the ads be run on the same channel as the SuperBowl will be on?
2. What will the overhead cost of your "advertising" company, be to we the supporters, to serve as the financial pass-thru for the super bowl ad? Please estimate dollars.
3. It is mentioned on your website that some advertising slots have already been secured. Would you please point me where we can find information on networks and time slots for these secured slots?
4. Are the "slots" that you have already secured, 30 second time slots, or 60 second time slots?

Thank you.

Good luck on getting answers to hard, solid questions. Mine have been ignored since the bling started.

The ones above she's skipped twice now.

I don't see a need to pay an ad company when we have thousands upon thousands of local meetups who could do the same job for free.

ESPECIALLY since the ad company won't come clean on where all the money's going.

And people who still claim to be "volunteers" it turns out are getting paid.

There's no way to determine how much of the money is going into the company employee's pockets.

They ALL get "expenses". And we ALL know how expense accounts are "padded", and there's been absolutely NO disclosure on "expenses".
 
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I replied to those questions already.

I politely re-ask these questions or ask you to reprint the answers because I don't see them and I have looked 4 times now.

HOW MUCH MONEY ARE THEY TAKING FOR THEMSELVES?

I have seen several responses to the last question but they are unsatisfactory. You don't give a dollar figure. Perhaps you misunderstood. How much money is LPA taking out of the donations for this ad to pay staff, overhead, bills, expenses, etc. I may not have been clear. This includes the amount of money you are receiving from Fox as a kickback.

Is Ron Paul Rules correct? Do you really intend to use the money you get for other projects if this one falls through? If so, I would call that fraud. However, it was another member speaking for you, so I do not attribute this fraudulent statement to you. I am asking if this is true. If not, I suggest you have a little talk with RPR because those kinds of comments are very damaging to you.

Unless of course they are true - then I think people should be told the truth.

You keep saying these are super bowl ads but then also say you are looking into other times - so before money is forked over can you please respond to these questions?

Finally, you have a very long list of people that are supposedly working on this project and getting paid. It reminds me of the old joke - how many LPA associates does it take to screw in a light bulb?

You are not making this commercial, writing it, directing it, producing it, testing it on people to see how it plays, in short, you are doing nothing at all but running a contest and then asking the donors to support your staff so you can send a check to some channel?

Perhaps you think that "we are working on it" is an answer, but I am sorry it is not.

People want to know the answers to these questions before turning over any money.
 
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Let ME answer, even though I'm not involved.

If you read the original message, you will realize that they can't publicly post when/were the ads due to other candidates reading this. So, forget about questions 2 and 3.

How much money at they taking for themselves? From what I've seen, considering the hours these guys are putting in, it is considerably LESS than minimum wage. They have put their lives on hold for this.

As far as getting your money back, consider that you are donating to a very efficient organization that will use everybody's funds the best way they can. If all the money can't be used in the Super Bowl ads, then presumably it will go to fly the airplane banners of the sister company. It makes no sense to donate with an expectation of getting money back. Go back 20 years and try that with Mother Theresa.

I'm TOTALLY fine with their new project, and please give them a little respect. For weeks people were discussing Super Bowl ads and NOBODY was taking ACTION. Let them do their work and support them. Post your negativity somewhere else.


I am not fine with them taking my money I donate for a super bowl ad and spending it on an airplane banner. I absolutely think it makes sense to expect to get your money back if the project falls through. Another member on here recently also jumped the gun with an idea for a very expensive project. He asked for and received donations for the plan before any contract was in place and before he knew if the deal could go through. It did not. However, he was a gentleman and an upstanding guy and he returned everyone's money when the project fell through even though he could have spent it on other things.
 
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