“The Deeds campaign sent out a fundraising appeal with the thesis as its main focus. The state Democratic Party produced a video, “Bob McDonnell’s Secret Blueprint for Virginia,” setting a news report about the document to driving, apocalyptic classical music.”—Amy Gardner, Rosalind S. Helderman and Anita Kumar, writing about Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell’s graduate-school thesis. The thesis criticized working women, homosexuals and “fornicators.”
Awesome! Yes! You’re the Virginia Democratic Party, you’ve just been given the gift of a Republican who told his academic advisors that women shouldn’t work outside the home and that the gays are all sorts of problems, and what music do you pick to frame this? The last movement of Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony (the so-called “Apocalypse”)? Shostakovich’s Eleventh Symphony (at 2:45)? Ride of the Valkyries? Or do you go with something more in the mixture-of-Gustav Holst-Bernard Hermann-minor-key-John Williams mode?
Yeah, I think we all know the answer to that, especially when you have all of 1:30 to make your point. Bring on the snare-drummed 16th notes and thudding chords!! The horror!