Showing posts with label ill-considered advertising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ill-considered advertising. Show all posts

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Police brutality's so hot right now

The Boston Police Department has a union. This union has a newsletter. This newsletter is uproariously terrible, full of diatribes against liberals and multiculturalism that would feel right at home in an AM radio show in 1993. Interestingly enough, it also includes advertisements from those corporations seeking to curry favor with their enforcers, which also functions as a useful list of corporations whose office windows a liberal multiculturalist might -- wink-wink -- want to a throw a brick through.

Here, for instance, is Converse praising the police state with an ad featuring, curiously, the sort of insufferable hipster whose skull the uniformed dipshits producing the newsletter would probably kick the shit out of if they saw him at an Occupy protest:
If you hate yourself and want to extend that hate to the world around you, check out the rest of the issue (the final stab to the gut: it's a PDF).

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Bail out . . . cancer?

Don't get me wrong, I understand the message they're trying to get across in this ad in the DC metro, but if you actually think about it -- do you really want to bail out lung cancer? I know I'd sure be happy to see it go the way of Lehman Brothers.



Now, if only the government would stop bailing out economic cancers . . .