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Title: Anti-Bush Billboard Challenged in New Zealand (You've gotta see this!)
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Crooks and Liars
URL Source: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/02/23/write-your-own-caption-30/
Published: Feb 23, 2007
Author: One perceptive human being
Post Date: 2007-02-23 21:32:47 by Arator
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Keywords: Hell, 2Good4, Bush
Views: 737
Comments: 31
Complaint against Bush billboard upheld By Sarah McDonald A complaint made against a Hell Pizza billboard featuring US President George Bush has been partially upheld by the Advertising Standards Complaints Board (ASCB). The advertisement featured Mr Bush and the words "Hell. Too good for some evil bastards". Objections were made to the use of slang in a public place, the alleged denigration of Mr Bush, and perceived blasphemy. One of the complainants described the billboard as a vicious smear campaign against an openly Christian person. But advertising agency Cinderella Ltd defended the billboard, saying that it tapped in to a growing sense of outrage about the invasion of Iraq. The agency also said that use of the term "bastard" is widespread and can be considered a compliment. The board ruled the choice of words was irresponsible, but the association with Mr Bush did not cause serious or widespread offence. Other ads to fall on the wrong side of the ASCB include a Telecom television ad for the company’s Freedom plan, which lets customers make calls between a landline and a Telecom mobile for a flat fee of $10 per month. The ASCB ruled that Telecom should have made it clearer that the flat fee only applies for the first hour of a call, after which normal rates apply. Telecom’s main competition Vodafone did not escape either: its Best Mates campaign was censured for not making it clear that the offer was for Prepay customers only. Burger Fuel was judged to have crossed the line with a cheeky pun on the phrase “white Christmas” in a direct mail piece, but a television ad for the Frank drink range with a voiceover saying “nothing beats a perfect sunset and a nice cold ginger and lime, except nailing a woman half your age,” escaped the ASCB’s wrath. The ASCB is part of New Zealand’s self-regulatory system for monitoring the content of advertising.
Poster Comment: Now that's one damn fine billboard!
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#8. To: Arator, BeAChooser (#0)
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Yes it can't get much better than that EXCEPT if it were part of a pair with Mama Bush on an adjoining billboard looking admiringly at her son with the following quote: "Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Oh, I mean, it’s not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?" Barbara Bush on "Good Morning America," March 18, 2003 ROTFLOL!
Barbara Bush on "Good Morning America," March 18, 2003 What a sick, dysfunctional old witch.
Yep. Mama Bush is definitely all of that and more. Recall the other sick comments Mama B made about the Katrina victims. http://www.discourse.net/archives/2005/09/the_modern_let_them_eat_cake_m oment.ht ml NEW YORK Accompanying her husband, former President George H.W.Bush, on a tour of hurricane relief centers in Houston, Barbara Bush said today, referring to the poor who had lost everything back home and evacuated, "This is working very well for them." The former First Lady's remarks were aired this evening on National Public Radio's "Marketplace" program. Then she added: "What I’m hearing is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. "And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this [she chuckles slightly]is working very well for them." And here's a link to the audio of the NPR Marketplace segment containing this incredible quote. It's real. Although some people might I suppose call it a nervous giggle rather than a chuckle. PS. E&P actually ameliorated the quote from la Bush. What she said on the tape about New Orleans' newly destitute is: "What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is that they want to stay" in Texas.
I think the GOP damage control finally stopped allowing her on public television. Too bad.
#19. To: robin (#18)
Mama Antoinette and her old man, both of them, can't keep their mouths shut. They'll live to see their Guard's heads on a pike on the long ride to the Capitol.
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#14. To: scrapper2, arator (#8)
"Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Oh, I mean, it’s not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"
#17. To: IndieTX, arator (#14)
What a sick, dysfunctional old witch.
#18. To: scrapper2, IndieTX (#17)
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