I can’t find this spot online yet, but if you’ve seen it, you’re not likely to forget it. This commercial shows an old man holding onto a large bunch of balloons, and he’s flying through the air like in the movie Up or something. So this old man is enjoying flying through the air, looking over treetops and woods, and then, all of a sudden, his balloons start popping! Oh, no! And as he goes on flying through the sky, we see that the balloons are being popped by arrows being shot at them by someone down on the ground! The murderers! Or are they? Let’s see what’s “up” here.
Let me ask you this: how long do you think an old man could hold onto a bunch of strings with his hands if they’re the only thing holding him up from falling down to his death? Not long, I’d say! So what happens when the arrows start popping the balloons? Does he come crashing down to the ground? No, he comes floating down comfortably! So I think what’s really going on here is that a bunch of concerned citizens saw an old man holding on for dear life, and they decided the only way they could save him was to start popping the balloons one by one until he came floating safely to the ground. So they shot little plastic arrows from children’s toys at the balloons and saved his life from an almost certain horrible death from falling like a stone out of the sky! So they saved his life!
Oh, but they twist this rescue mission all out of context and try to act like forcing this guy to hold on until he loses his grip and falls to his death is the better thing to do! And then they act like Medicare kills old people by forcing them to hold on for dear life until they can’t hold on any longer, and then they fall to their deaths, dying in a pile of crushed goo that can’t be traced back to them because the balloons will have all floated away! Well, if they’re torturing seniors this way, I’m shocked! No wonder this ad says we need to fix Medicare: they’re trying to kill seniors with balloons!
