Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:06:00
Anti-Bush sentiment in advertising - so what?
OK, follow me here. I found this story at Jawa Report, who got it from Kesher Talk, who ganked the pics from Manhattan Chowder.
The story: A NYC company called Manhattan Mini-Storage likes to use topical satire in their ads. At one point they were mocking Queer Eye For The Straight Guy and Brokeback Mountain...which means they are fine with skewering what one might call a typically leftist cause. Now they’re making fun of Bush & Cheney. Rusty at Jawa and Alcibiades at Kesher are both calling foul. Alcibiades called it weird and says a small minority will refuse to use their services, while Rusty categorized it as Jon Stewart-style anti-Bush message dressed up as a “zinger.”
I’m calling foul on both of them, unfortunately. I don’t think Rusty followed the link from Kesher Talk to Manhattan Chowder at all, where he would have learned that previous to this, the same company was making fun of gays in the same satirical, wink-wink all-in-good-fun style.
Call me crazy, but when the same person/company mocks Brokeback, Queer Eye, Bush and Cheney...it’s hard to claim they have Bush Derangement Syndrome. Seems to me they just like to be edgy and satirical with their ads.
The last thing we who call ourselves members of the right - to any degree - need is to become reactionary jerks like those of the leftist ilk. Let’s face it, this and worse have been said online about every Democrat that has ever made the news in the last ten years.
If you’re conservative/right wing/Republican, don’t type an answer to this question in the comments. Just look into your own mind and answer for yourself.
If this were a company that mocked Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy or Bill Clinton, would you be offended?
If the answer is no, then this is much ado about nothing. if the answer is yes, how do you sit with that stick jammed so far up there? I kid, I kid! I love Dr. Rusty Shackleford, I just think he’s a wee bit off this time. Don’t get me wrong: I can totally see why a person would jump to this conclusion given today;s ridiculously partisan climate. It’s not as if BDS doesn’t exist, as if we aren’t slapped in the face with it at every turn. You can’t watch TV, read a magazine or go to a movie without being punched in the face with some frigging cause or another, and 90% of those come attached with a healthy dose of hatred and deranged complaining about Republicans, the President and/or Israel. I just don’t think this is one of those times.
Hey, I could be wrong, the owner of Manhattan Mini-Storage might be George freaking Soros for all I know. ;)
Posted by JimK at 06:06 PM on March 23, 2007
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