Rush: "Can't get 'em to eat the dog food" was thought to have originated -- now, this is open for debate here. It was thought to have originated from testimonial-type TV ads for Alpo dog food in which the actor Lorne Greene claimed that he fed Alpo to his own dogs.
This is all well and good, but "Did he eat it?" is the point. Did Lorne Greene go out and do television commercials, then open a can of Alpo and start eating it and then feed it to his dogs?
No! Juan Williams said they "can't get the American people to eat the dog food." Marketing term or not, he has stumbled across a big truth.
I doubt Lorne Greene ate the dog food himself but it can't be a good trend for all the new darker, more confusing, reimagined Battlestar mythology SyFy is cranking out.
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