Lee on Nov 17 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Boy, I love this charming ad for the Washington state secret tax on the poor lottery.
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Lee on Nov 03 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008
It occurs to me that the sequence of cocktails is the best political indicator I know of on election night. In 2004 I was attending a Democratic election party and early on everyone was drinking wine and martinis in stemware, or beer and soda in tall glasses. The ambiance befit the beverages: general levity and [...]
Lee on Nov 01 2008 | Filed under: Economics, Foreign affairs
So, did you enjoy the much discussed post-American world order? Hope you didn’t miss it. Surely it didn’t lack for advertising.
But if you did happen to step out for a moment, we just lived through the end of market capitalism, the death of the dollar, the collapse of American power, the cultural and political atrophy [...]
Lee on Oct 19 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008
I’ve been seeing this amusing banner ad for Obama popping up all over the web. Given the behavior of some of ACORN’s representatives, it might not be an illegitimate question.
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Lee on Sep 16 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Like so many others, Elizabeth Johnson is out for that Palin look.
Sarah always has such choice footwear…and eyewear retailers are getting explicit in their advertising.
In case you were curious, this is where you end up when your anti-Palin hysteria finally hits rock bottom.
Finally, the sad sight of an ideologically indoctrinated childhood, at an anti-Palin protest [...]
Lee on Sep 13 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008
For two weeks, as John McCain’s national polls first rose above Obama and then solidified there, Democrats protested that the popular vote was irrelevant. Look to the state polls said they, in a sensible but amusingly opportunistic argument for the electoral college (for those of us who recall the venom of 2000). Alas, this was [...]
Lee on Sep 08 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs
Another splendid ad for SOSGeorgia. I say again, in the conceptual appeal to world opinion, the Georgians are simply better at this sort of thing than their far better financed adversaries.
(Carpetblog)
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Lee on Aug 06 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
The way to travel. (via Adverbox)
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Lee on Aug 05 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Jon Stewart hilariously ridicules the notion that McCain’s advertising contains hidden racist and sexist messages.
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Lee on Aug 04 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Lee's Page
David Gergen is the latest to detect hidden racist messages in McCain advertising.
I’d say that there’s two types of voters on this issue. The sort who sighs at an “obvious” effort to invent an artificial racism for McCain, and those who get angry at an “obvious” subterfuge to create a climate of racial fear against [...]
Lee on Aug 01 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Lee's Page
Perhaps Mr. Riley’s allegation in Newsday that the McCain “Celeb” ad exposed some sort of crypto-racist subterfuge, is more widely shared among Obama’s media advocates than one might have assumed. For the queen of that kingdom evidently shares the sentiment:
The ad gave us an uneasy feeling that the McCain campaign was starting up the same [...]
ChrisB on Apr 04 2008 | Filed under: Chris' Page, Humor
Many of you may have seen the Absolut Vodka ad that ran in a Mexican magazine recently in links around the blogosphere. Now the mocking has begun as well. I submit this more historically accurate version of their ad.
While California, Arizona, New Mexico and the rest of the green land may have been [...]
Lee on Feb 17 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
You don’t have to be Colombian for this beautiful advertisement to touch your heart.
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Lee on Feb 04 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
75% of Germans believe that their society is hostile to children. That’s a toxic attitude to combine with an appalling 1.3 children-per-woman fertility rate. Well below the replacement rate, the country is literally dying out over time. To attack the problem, a consortium of German advertising agencies and media firms have launched a €30 million [...]
Lee on Feb 03 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Fiorana is a new company that is manufacturing blue jeans specially made to accommodate a certain widely admired latina asset. According president Mike Braden, “The Latina body is different in waist and hip structure. When wearing Anglo cut jeans, there is always a fit problem around the waist area.” Laura Martinez is skeptical about the [...]
Lee on Jan 22 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Barack Obama launches the first nation-wide television advertising campaign (cable tv spot on CNN and MSNBC). Team Hillary is upset about the violation to the DNC Florida campaigning boycott. She’s probably more upset by how strong this ad is.
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Lee on Jan 18 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Behold, the best ad for fruit flavored condoms you’ll ever see in your lifetime. Very SFW.
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Lee on Jan 18 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Hillary has been modifying her voice lately. A new TV spot on the economy in California. Soooothing and feminine. Much improved from this.
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Lee on Jan 16 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Some people are very happy about the Michigan results: media firms. As Ken Wheaton points out in Advertising Age, with there still being no clear frontrunner for the GOP nom, spending on advertising is about to go through the roof.
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Lee on Jan 16 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Hyundai is contemplating pulling its Superbowl advertising, citing sudden concerns about US economic indicators. Traditionally ad budgets are the first to go when firms start believing they’re entering a recession. Not the most encouraging news of the day.
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