California Solves All Its Problems With New Super Bowl Ad – Opinion

The sports desk is located just below decks at RedState’s Good Pirate Ship RedState. We get asked a lot of questions about why and, perhaps, how California could be our home port.

‘Tis a fair question, what with open-air drug dealing and unhampered retail crime and school officials freezing out (literally and figuratively) students who refuse to wear masks the primary images currently streaming from the tarnished Golden State.

It is simple. This is our home, and it’s worth fighting for. As we mentioned earlier, there are two.

While headlines focus on the mad policies of big cities, the vast majority of Californians can be found in the shadows of concrete and steel Babylons. They are just as proud of their country and love it, and they have the same values and devotion to family and the land that heart-dwelling Americans.

The government-dwelling jokers provide entertainment. The latest example of this unintentional largesse is Visit California, i.e., the state tourism bureau, dropping 22 million taxpayer dollars on an ad running just before kickoff of this year’s Super Bowl, extolling California’s virtues.

“Live sporting events are powerful for this kind of medium” because of how intently people watch, said Visit California President and CEO Caroline Beteta. “People are very much tuned into the pre-game right before kickoff, and maybe they’ve had a few less beers. The second half of the game could be a risky proposition” for an advertiser.

Who knows what visual delights await the intoxicated?

The ad, dubbed “Am I Dreaming?,” is meant to evoke a sense of excitement about California’s cultural cachet and world-class landscapes.

It follows a young woman soaring over and through some of the state’s iconic features — Highway 1, the snowy Sierra mountains, the Hollywood sign and the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, to name a few — while Queen’s pumping ballad “Don’t Stop Me Now” plays in the background. Mario Lopez and Anthony Anderson are also featured in the scene. One time, the San Francisco Giants’ shortstop Brandon Crawford almost makes a diving catch on the woman floating above the Golden Gate Bridge.

If one desired to pick a Queen song more appropriate for California today, “Is This The World We Created…?” would be far more appropriate. Regardless, for your benefit, gentle readers, here’s the song without the commercial.

The people who’ve assembled this ad, all of whom are handsomely compensatedThe taxpayers have likely omitted all imagery of tents erecting on the sidewalks and open-air drug trading, as well as the other visuals. It’s also highly doubtful the ad will carry a disclaimer that anyone wishing to do anything such as attend a Golden State Warriors game must be double jabbed. But who cares about that — when you’ve got Mario Lopez in a convertible, right?

Entertainment is endless, and entertainment can be found in many forms. This is fuel to our ever-deepening desire to protect our country.