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April 24, 2006
Does The White House Know?
I won't go into why I was watching videos of seven comedians doing stand-up comedy on the Motherload section of the Comedy Central website. The comedy sets were three to five minutes long, I estimate, and before and after the sets the website pre- or post-rolled commercials. Five out of the seven comedians I watched did material that bashed the hell out of Bush and Cheney--mostly about the mistakes they made in the Iraq war. Guess what products the commercials were for?
As you might expect, McDonald's was one--clearly going after Comedy Central's 18-34 male audience. The other advertisers were the US Army, Navy, and Air Force recruiting. How's that for editorial environment for advertising--five minutes of a comedian riffing on how stupid the Commander and Chief is, how he lied to get the U.S. into a moronic war, and how horrible the war is followed by a commercial trying to sell young men into joining the Army and fighting in Iraq.
I have a good friend in a digital ad agency. I think he ought to get in touch with the person in charge of recruitment advertising for the Army, Navy, and Air Force and ask that person, "Does the White House know where your current agency is placing your recruitment advertising?"
If the White House finds out who placed that advertising before my friend gets to him or her, they'll probably have that person sent to a secret prison in Eastern Europe.
Posted by Charles Warner at April 24, 2006 12:03 AM
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