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Pete Rose wins the Super Bowl! You thought it was only for cheaters.
Pete Rose gambled, he didn’t cheat, and this Superbowl ad was my favorite.
Hardees, Carls Jr, like you mean it
TRUTH IN ADVERTISING DEPT.– Critics of the latest Hardees & Carls Jr ad campaign don’t think the supermodel actually means to eat that egg & bacon cheeseburger, sandwiched between buns of mortarboard. Obviously she’s neither eating that burger, nor blowing … Continue reading
Posted in That's Rich
Tagged Advertizing, Carls Jr., fast food, Hardees, Pornography
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Facebook advertisers can repost “likes” in your name so you don’t have to
Users of Facebook are accustomed to seeing friends listed in right-column ads, mentioned liking such-and-such a brand, or two or three. It’s understood that those friends at some point visited the brand’s page and clicked “like”, permitting that company, Amazon … Continue reading
Posted in Info Virus
Tagged Advertizing, Amazon, Coca-Cola, Facebook, internet, McDonalds, social networks, Walmart
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Any surprise that China, McDonalds and ad world would be averse to sunshine?
Advertizing creatives Doug Nichol and John Benet made a wonderful behind-the-scenes “making-of” as they filmed two commercial spots for McDonalds China, and neither their client nor their employers are pleased. The title SUNSHINE works on several levels and hopefully this … Continue reading
Betty White’s muffin on the boob tube
Which came first: the Snickers ad, the Facebook group, or SNL’s crowdsourced mandate to fete American sitcom icon Betty White? To me this blonde’s netroots smack of a publicist’s hand, and White’s performance Saturday night all but validated SNL’s reluctance … Continue reading
Posted in Culture
Tagged Advertizing, Betty White, Facebook, Shirley Jones, Sitcoms, Snickers, SNL, Television
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Obesity is office equilibrium state
TRUTH IN ADVERTISING- Jimmy Dean urges its office Solar System to Fight the Morning Fade with fatty pork product. No sign of Pluto, only rotund planetary bodies floating high on chemical flatulence. The spheres are not size-proportional, but their shapes … Continue reading
Posted in That's Rich
Tagged Advertizing, Jimmy Dean, Nutrition, Pork Industry, Television
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sweet lies of high fructose corn syrup
I’m sure you’ve seen the Sweet Surprise commercials. There are several to target different consumer groups, but all involve a person #1 expressing hesitation at the offer of a high fructose corn syrup-laden “treat” and a smug HFCS-pusher asking sneeringly, … Continue reading
Posted in Perspective
Tagged Advertizing, Big Food, Corn Refiners Association, Film, Food and Drug Administration, Health, HFCS, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Lies
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The truth about Clean Coal is as plain as the nose on my face
It’s my favorite of the counter clean coal campaign. An industry spokesman in an opulent office pitches coal’s cleanliness like it came from a pure Irish spring, but when he puts it to his nose for a zesty fresh smell, … Continue reading
Mister Clean Coal
My favorite of the ads debunking “Clean Coal” features a coal industry executive telling TV viewers that coal is so clean, it even smells clean. Except that having held the lump of coal to his nose, the exec has left … Continue reading
Mining for photographs of Clean Coal
Posted in Sight-Bites
Tagged Advertizing, Child Labor, Clean Coal, Coal Mining, Pennsylvania
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Progressive Insurance clown makeup
My favorite TV commercial has to be the Dr Pepper candy aisle parade, but next best is Progressive Insurance’s painted lady Flo. The unselfconscious checkout geek is simply a brilliant solution to a daunting PR challenge. Who does not despise … Continue reading
Posted in Perspective
Tagged Advertizing, Flo, Mimi Bobeck, Progressive Insurance, Public Relations, Stephanie Courtney, Television
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Multitasking inefficiently, but fast!
Yo AT&T Fast Dude. With your AT&T Blackberry 3G cell phone, you “can surf the internet fast, download attachments fast, and send them to colleagues fast.” Okayyy… And while you’re thumb sprinting in 3G, a tortoise could email his … Continue reading
Shell Oil’s Green shell game
Shell Oil claims to be Green, Green, Green! Corporate Green is more like it though, yet that did not stop the oil company from running advertisements in recent years that included a picture of an oil refinery, with chimneys producing … Continue reading
Posted in Perspective
Tagged Advertizing, Africa, corporate media, ecology, Fort Carson sustainability, green washing, Military, Mobil Exxon, Nigeria, oil industry, Pentagon, Propaganda, Shell Oil
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Red Bull is dangerous
RED BULL contains: caffeine, ginseng and guarana (all legal stimulants) sugars, artificial sweeteners, taurine (an amino acid said to lower blood pressure). RED BULL promises: increased energy, better concentration, sharper cognitive performance, greater endurance, higher metabolism, faster reaction time. … Continue reading
Posted in Perspective
Tagged Advertizing, Energy Drinks, Food and Drug Administration, France, Health, Lies, Norway, Red Bull
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The Barack Plan to re-brand and re-market US occupation of Iraq
Obama Doesn’t Plan to End the Iraq Occupation There in the title to his commentary, Jeremy Scahill puts it quite simple for people to understand. Of course, there are plenty of people who simply do not want to understand The … Continue reading
Regulation, testing, law, and deception
In America we are seeing a convergence of the meltdown of all capitalist for-profit driven systems breaking down all at once, whether it be the Financial System, the Health System, the Legal System, or the Educational System. At the heart … Continue reading
Posted in Perspective
Tagged Advertizing, deception, Interrogation, Law, regulations, testing
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Thank you Mr. President for all you do
Isn’t it vaguely jarring when someone is asked publicly what would be their fondest wish, and they don’t say “world peace?” I feel that way about athletes and celebrities in these times of great conflict. They could say Impeach Bush, … Continue reading
Posted in Culture
Tagged Advertizing, Beach Volleyball, Beijing, Beijing 2008, Cheerleaders, George W. Bush, Health, Interrogation, McDonalds, Media, Mexico, Olympics, Propaganda, Sport
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An obsession with the boyish figure
Was this magazine ad for Calvin Klein’s OBSESSION FOR MEN controversial because it featured an underage Kate Moss disrobed, or because it winked at the greater fashion culture fixation masquerading as the androgynous waif look: the sexualized, pure, although suggestively … Continue reading
Mental detox
The idea is simple: take your TV, your DVD player, your video iPod, your Wii, your laptop, your PSP, and say goodbye to them all for seven days. Simple, but not at all easy. Like millions of others before you, … Continue reading
The Decembrists & The Bagman’s Gambit
I ran across an atrocious attempt to do Godard, post-Weekend. It was a David Spade infomercial for the pitiful AXE campaign, parading as an indie contest to make The Dirtiest Film in the World. Spade played a Salvador Dali impressario … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Notes
Tagged Advertizing, Axe, Film, Jean-Luc Godard, Music, The Decembrists
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Putting lipstick on a big fat pig
Brazenly pandering to a large local Asian population and hoping to attract members of a nearby Buddhist temple, a California McDonald’s has gone feng shui. The restaurant’s owners say the designs are aimed at creating a soothing setting that will … Continue reading
Shieldher for her own good
I had to elaborate on Tony’s clever post about the fun-in-the-stun state of Arizona. I am shocked at the idea of personal tasers becoming as ubiquitous as Tupperware! Did you ever carry pepper spray, or Mace as it was … Continue reading
