The party conducted a campaign that had a simplistic anti-Conservative message.
Or maybe "David and Lisa," with its simplistic message about the healing touch of friendship, was always waiting for the psychobabble 90's to catch up to it.
One is left with only a cynical and simplistic message: men are strong, women weak.
Jenny Backus, press secretary of the Democratic National Committee, criticized the new commercial as "a simplistic, somewhat patronizing message" to Hispanics.
He continued: "Evan Almighty is a paper-thin alleged comedy with a laugh drought of biblical proportions, and a condescendingly simplistic spiritual message."
Its simplistic message is that it's a rough world out there and the best place to be is home.
This somewhat simplistic message has proved highly controversial.
For those unpersuaded by what seemed a simplistic message, that film's overriding virtue was a brilliant score by Philip Glass, laid seamlessly onto the action.
When the men place women in a sitting position, one can only hope this is not some sort of simplistic message about male domination.
Like any enjoyable pop fable, "Slam" relentlessly hammers home an uplifting, if simplistic message.