Hey, dumb Americans, did all this poly-tikkin' going on have you worried you were going to have to get the fuck out of the Applebee's booth and start paying attention to the world around you? Well you just stay put and order another helping of the crispy cheesy chili crab salsa rolls—the world is coming to you!
Exactly one week after they released an ad proclaiming John McCain had won the presidential debate before it had even happened, the obnoxious deceivers at the McCain camp today dropped this gem, an ad fawning over Sarah Palin with A QUOTE TO BE ATTRIBUTED TO SOMEONE AT A LATER TIME!
See the full-sized propaganda machine below, as it appeared on the Washington Post's site:
The Lifetime channel is making it very clear that it's sick and tired of being a punchline B-list comediennes use when talking about what they do when they get dumped or are on their periods.
First the network sneakily snatched away Bravo's trendy reality program Project Runway. Now it's delving even deeper into the hip fashion game with a new original reality series, Blush: The Search for the Next Great Makeup Artist. Because culture just doesn't celebrate the useless but moneymaking fashion industry enough!
After a fare hike whose implementation saw neither the subway's efficiency increase nor its piss smell decrease, the New York MTA has a plan to drum up some much needed cash to cover next year's $900 million deficit: whole subway cars wrapped in hideous advertising.
MTV is at last acknowledging that the only people who still watch their station are pallid, sad hermits. Thus, their newest project: MTV Switch.
According to its Web site, "Switch is MTV Networks International's Global Climate Change Campaign. We'll be looking for the best ideas and innovations that can help us reinvent how we live in ways that are cool for us and the planet." Neato! What a hip and helpful way to continue pummeling the MTV brand into unsuspecting children's minds.
It used to be that air travel was a breeze. You could smoke up there, call the flight attendants "stewardesses" and get up to move around every once in awhile. But then the health nuts got lawyers and the terrorists won. Anymore, vacations are book-ended with gruff orders to "Remove your shoes" and "Not linger around the cockpit." Aren't you ready for a return to the glory days of air travel? Too bad, kid. It's 2008; these days, things only get worse.
Oh whoops! How embarrassing when your company's tag line is proven to be a load of shit following a massive government bailout of your crumbling operations.
If movies and television are rated to warn potential viewers they contain foul language, drug use and/or boobs, why can't they be rated to warn potential viewers they contain not so subtle ads for crap like Old Spice, also? This is the central question of a new piece in today's Slate. A piece in which Alissa Quart slowly unravels an argument, asks a lot of questions and then never really approaches a conclusion, as writers at Slate are wont to do.
Were you under the impression that fun, exciting wars were reserved for disputes between races, religions, tribes and nations? Wrong, silly. Computer companies can do battle also. Sure, it's even more stupid and offensive than regular combat, but at least the only casualties are money and dignity.
"Display ads have fallen on hard times. The graphic ads that border a Web page are among the slowest-growing formats in the online-ad marketplace, and they are seen by many marketers as stodgy and ineffective. But some ad-technology and Web-measurement companies are trying to engineer a comeback for display ads, offering data that they say show display advertising is more effective than marketers think. Microsoft is the latest company to make this declaration, with new evidence coming next week that it says proves display ads are actually better than searches at triggering consumers." [WSJ]
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