The DPP yesterday unveiled a TV campaign commercial to celebrate the XXXVI International World Cup tournament in Taipei, which brings back memories of the country's past baseball craziness.
The party's television spot yesterday featured DPP Aboriginal legislative candidate Chen Yi-hsin (
Chen, a famous baseball pitcher dubbed the "holiday fly-cutter" (
In the spot, he promotes a "teamwork ethos" for baseball and politics, concluding the ad by saying, "Go for it, Taiwan," in several Aboriginal languages.
"Putting aside one another's personal resentment, [we] as a team should be united to achieve the mutual goal of winning ball games," Chen said in the ad.
"Likewise, I hope that political talk should be left out of the ball games and let's all stress the importance of team work," Chen said yesterday at a press conference.
Echoing Chen's view, DPP spokesman Phoenix Cheng (鄭運鵬) yesterday also upheld the ideal of unity to generate strength for the country.
"Let's all translate the sportsman's spirit into politics," Chen said, adding that all politicians in Taiwan should learn a lesson from sports and put an end to political boycotts against the ruling party.
The KMT yesterday attacked the DPP in yet another big-budget TV advertising broadside for its inefficiency in governing the nation, especially with regard to the economy. Justin Chou (周守訓), spokesman for the KMT's Culture and Communications Affairs Committee, said his party wants to tell the DPP with this commercial that "Taiwan cannot wait any more."
"We hoped the DPP would come up with solutions early on, but they are only capable of putting on political shows and wagging off their glib tongues," Chou said.
Alongside footage of DPP members staging a demonstration and of President Chen Shui-bian (
"But after they come to power, they ask the people to wait for a rescue of the stock market and for a resolution of the unemployment problem," the narrator continued.
The commercial ends with footage showing victims of last year's Pachang Creek tragedy standing amid turbulent waters waiting for help -- just before they were washed away -- that never came.
Also yesterday, the People First Party launched a trio of TV commercials championing the PFP's ability to form a solid team that will promote ethnic harmony.
"We hope the country will hit a home run, and not keep making mistakes," said PFP spokesman Liao Tsang-song (
In one of the commercials, PFP Chairman James Soong (
In another commercial featuring PFP Vice Chairman Chang Chao-hsiung (
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