Worldwide Obama Ad Exploitation Tour Continues…
Pepsi is pathetically doing it. Ikea is doing it. Budweiser is doing it. Even pro-life Catholics are doing it. Bereft of original ideas, advertisers are desperately glomming onto the world’s new glowing Hope and Change icon. Here’s two more examples. First, ad agency Grey in Tel Aviv created this knockoff Yes We Can poster for Berlitz, a language training service with 470 centers in 70 countries. The bottom symbol is the Hebrew word for “yes” and is pronounced “ken.” Compared to the other Obama usurpers, this one is pretty good. After the jump, take a look at Obama’s beautiful stately visage defaced by a Photoshopped finger imprint. It’s an ad for the online version of the Mexican newspaper El Universal.
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by Copyranter on January 30, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Editor-in-Chief:
While I understand your perspective, I really think it's unfair to lump IKEA into the same category as all the rest. In fact I'm about 1/2 way though a whole series of blog posts explaining WHY I feel that way: http://www.ikeafans.com/blog/tag/obama/ though I know that some folks prefer to simply vent, I'd love to hear responses.
There's a lot more to the IKEA sustainability commitment than most people appreciate though, and they are DANG sure more focused on green practices and environmental responsibility than Pepsi!
The Joint Chiefs of Staff HAVE AN ABSOLUTE CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY to stand behind Guantanamo Military Judge James Pohl UNTIL OBAMA OVERCOMES “RES IPSA LOQUITUR†BY SUPPLYING HIS LONG FORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND PROVING HIS ELIGIBILITY TO BE PRESIDENT UNDER ARTICLE 2 OF THE US CONSTITUTION.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff HAVE AN ABSOLUTE CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY to stand behind Guantanamo Military Judge James Pohl UNTIL OBAMA OVERCOMES “RES IPSA LOQUITUR†BY SUPPLYING HIS LONG FORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND PROVING HIS ELIGIBILITY TO BE PRESIDENT UNDER ARTICLE 2 OF THE US CONSTITUTION.
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Somehow I don't believe that if you watched Obama being born in the United States that you would be satisfied.
I would agree to this as soon as Bush proves that he actually did win Florida in 2000 rather than have a conservative court decide he was President.
[...] manipulation. The tagline is “Have your own opinion.” Switzerland now joins Israel, Mexico, Russia and IKEA on the worldwide Obama ad exploitation tour lineup. His administration has gotten [...]