Israel Likud Party (Conservatives) Campaign Ad: “Bibi-Sitter”
Binjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Political Advertisement
Arutz Sheva reports that Binjamin Natanyahu’s latest campaign ad is proving a hit:
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is getting excellent reviews from commenters following the release of his latest campaign video.
The video features a young couple that is about to leave for a night out when the baby-sitter knocks at the door. “You asked for a babysitter? You got a Bibi-sitter,†says Netanyahu.
“Look, it’s either me or Tzipi [Livni] and Buji [Herzog],†he explains to the bewildered couple. The couple immediately protests that their children would need to babysit Herzog, and not the other way around. In addition, “by the time we return we’d have no house… he’d even hand over the carpets†– a play on the Hebrew words “shtichim†(carpets) and “shtachim†(territories).
As for “Tzipi†– the woman says she doubts that she would stay in the same place for two hours, and Netanyahu agrees she would probably have gone over to the neighbors’ by the time they returned. This, of course, is a swipe at Livni’s frequent migration from one political party to another.
At one point in the video, Netanyahu can be seen sitting in the couple’s living room, watching Likud’s earlier, banned campaign video, which featured Netanyahu as a kindergarten teacher trying to control rowdy children, who played the roles of Livni, Yesh Atid’s Yair Lapid, Jewish Home’s Naftali Bennett and Yisrael Beytenu’s Avigdor Liberman. The video was banned because of the illegal use of child actors, but it seems the new video is a spin-off of sorts.
When the couple returns and greets him with the word “Shalom” – hello – but also the word for “peace”, Netanyahu responds “but not at any price.”