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- UNACCEPTABLE WONKETTE AD NOTED, REMOVED: Argh, so we go out to dinner and come back to see the former nice Obama T-shirts ad “updated” with Barack Obama as a monkey. Sweet. Ad is deleted. Thanks for letting us know. UPDATE:
All the ads are gone now, as we can’t get that one ad to vanish.All fixed @ 2:37 a.m.
still seeing it.
Erm, I can see the ad right now.
Still there.
Again, still there.
Still there…
There’s an echo here. And the ad is still there!
Maybe it’s just some long-jawed big-eared fellow who enjoys his bananas, and the text pairing is entirely coincidental.
…you’re tech monkeys deserve a severe beating, because I’m still getting the AD
This ad is wrong, of course. But in this forum, where we all want our Hopey elected, we want him elected enough to be nice t HRC’s crazy followers just to make it easier on our Hopey. is doesn’t do the damage it would elsewhere. It’s right to have it removed. But as we are all adults we understand that Wonkette is going through a transition, and we will not hold it against you. We know that this site is trying to do what most site cannot even imagine. But get it down soon. And give me my damn star back. Thank you.
By the way, it really is still there. But my star is sadly not.
Please say you can’t see it now. I’ve killed the whole adstrip.
Just logged on and it’s still there
Ad’s still there. Pretty sure the Interwebs are racists and resent not seeing their creator win in 2000.
That is one inadequate black monkey.
(also, ditto to graceless)
okay, now they’re (all) gone
Mine’s gone
Okay, ad’s been replaced by Snorg girl. Thank God.
You fucking fool (with love). You are now getting page views without ads? Denton would eat your ass for this.
Not seeing any ads at all right now. Lock your tech dudes in a room with Alan Keys until they figure it out.
The monkey’s gone, as far as I know
If your website manager could kindly make his services available to Al Quieda, we could all breathe a lot easier.
It’s gone. Good work!
I bet the kewl kids over at Gawker don’t have no freakin’ monkey teeshirts…
That sponsor owes a lot of money to that on-racially transcendent bar owner in West Virginia — what a rip!
you know, we could give you our spare change / side of the car / in the sofa / ’cause we believe in you’ fund / thingee…
you guys could just ask.
*non-racially transcendent
Maybe you guys could get Caroline Kennedy to vet your sponsor list?
ladymacbeth: Yeah, like they do over on the Wickeypedium. That would be all right.
Or we could get the “Hillary in the House” guy to put on a musical to raise money!
Eh, the motherfucker submitted an ad with a standard hopeful Obama t-shirt, then switched it out for this racist bullshit.
I approve all ads, myself. A monkey eating a banana captioned “Obama” is not going to get by me, no matter how drunk I am.
I would give wonkette money easier than I would give amnesty international money. I think that makes me a horrible person.
Ken Layne: Ken, a pox on his house! Let’s rain down punishment on him like he was a MySpace suicide sockpuppet and we were O’Fallon, Missouri.
FYI, kids, I have BlogAds on my site, and sometimes even after the adstrip has been revised, the old version lurks in the “cache” of your browser, just as racism lurks deep in the heart of American society. The former problem can be solved by reloading the shift key, while the latter will require many more years of Hope and change.
Ken Layne: Eh, don’t worry. How long are you planning on going without ads?
Hey folks, if they don’t have ads, they will charge us. As I would prefer not to pay, let’s not be mad. Correcting them on an error is different then being angry. They will get it worked out. They love our Hopey as much as we do. Give them a break. They are trying to do something that hasn’t been done before. It’s do-able, but daunting.
All the ads are gone for me. Nice going, Wonkette!
InsidiousTuna: Oh just until the ad crew gets that thing off the strip. There is a night crew, so it should be only an hour or so.
Josh Fruhlinger: er, that is, by reloading while holding the shift key, not whatever incoherent nonsense I just typed.
um, yeah, it’s gone. but …. i kinda want to see it now. now that there’s been this fuss and everything.
Thank god I missed all this earlier.
This shit ain’t funny and I’m glad I Missed it.
Now, I would threaten that advertiser with a law-suit upside his dumb-ass head.
Ken Layne:
Thanks for dealing with the problem promptly. A less scrupulous blogmaster would have said that the t-shirt needs of hardworking white Americans should be met.
Whoa, integrity. I’m starting to feel a tinge of “hope” or something…
Nope, it was just a burp. But i’m still “whoa-ed”.
… and Travis Childers said nothing.
The “hilarious” thing is that I wrote a whole post tearing a few new assholes into these rednecks who were selling similar shirts in Georgia: http://wonkette.com/390464/rednecks-enjoy-obama-monkey-t+shirt
Ken Layne:
Thank you for being ready from day one.
I’d pay a monthly subscription (say, about $5) for Wonkette if it included more, uh, community/forum stuff and story or diary submission features. The totalfark or somethingawful model, if you will. Not clear if this site has enough users to make that worthwhile.
Just throwing it out there, because it’s late and I’ve been drinking.
Again, I repeat my call for an internet witch hunt. We can get those unfunny ‘Kos enlisted, fire up the torches, post this dude’s contact info, and fuck us up some cracker.
(Of course, there are the moral ramifications of that approach, the privacy and other concerns, and the general liability issues for our Wonketteers, but it sure is fun to make believe I’m an internet superhero. Thank you for letting me share.)
Hopey McSlamdunk: We could have a carwash or a bakesale.
Seriously, good job getting rid of this ass clown’s ad in a very timely manner. You should make his name mud by exposing the guy and decreasing his pool of future victims (if you can afford the lawsuit). That’s what you poor shlubs get for taking an hour off from your baby to go get dinner.
It is obviously a chimpanzee, not a monkey, but I guess all primates look alike to some people.
Ken Layne: I remember that…
I don’t know how many of you, if any, have Facebook, but you can be a fan of Wonkette, and I just discovered the Wonkette Facebook Group, with 3 people in it.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18303785909
Okay, 4 members, since I joined. But you can add photos and video, so people should join it, so that way we can look at pictures again.
tunamelt: But if I joined, you all would know my real name, and then how would I keep working as Hillary’s chief campaign strategist??
jagorev: I hate to break it to you, but I don’t think you’ve got too much job security as it is…
jagorev: I don’t you think have too much job security as it is…
Dammit.
jagorev:
Have you recently received an email directing you to turn your expense account receipts by the end of the week? Did the email also ask you if you happened to have $20 million that you could spare?
dude, ad. block. plus.
Wow, there are seven people. I guess if it gets really big/active you could see if Wonkette could ever be a subscription service…
yourwildhorses: Yeah, that’s what I was sayin’..
But imagine if this ad turned up at 3 o’clock in the morning!
yourwildhorses: No, dude. Ad block the sites you enjoy for free and those sites will go away. Real world example coming up soon at Wonkette. Be a “rebel” on your own dime.
There’s also one a wonkette facebook page where you “become a fan”… presumably, by “fan,” they mean terrorist.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wonkette/6714602333?ref=s
yes, we can (drink heavily): Now we will all know what we look like. Judging from the thumbnails, we are all either relatively young and attractive, or good with Photoshop.
dude. will all due respect to you and obama, you guys gotta make a living. either get with a better media network or deal with the shit that’s bound to come up, you can’t be too sensitive.
i say this as someone who works in the advertising industry and in my early days was relegated to making obnoxious “punch the monkey and get a free ipod” ads so i might just be justifying myself…
Ken Layne: I come to this site to enjoy the content, commentary and only that. The content itself will always keep me laughing and interested. That’s all I really want. Do I have to buy a bunch of shit and acknowledge others’ websites (just for a mere click) to make this site sustain itself? C’mon..
tunamelt: Um, so I joined, and now I’m all freaked out that people from Wonkette have… faces. I know, I know. It’s FACEbook. But even seeing my own face kind of freaked me out there.
metropolitan: DAMN you and your monkey-punching.
Oh, and Ken et al - I’d totes pay a subscription to keep Wonkette going. No one else tolerates my drunken blathering about being actually butt-fucked by random Republicans that I pick up at bars, and $5 a month would be cheaper than the therapist that the judge ordered me to see.
AnnieGetYourFun: Well, we can’t all be sandwiches in real life, too.
Smoke Filled Roommate: Hmm yes it’s almost as if this content you come to enjoy costs certain people money to maintain
hopefully the wonkette facebook page will actually do something. i’m the rakish young man with the castro hat and the big ass glasses, btw!
Ken Layne: Thank you for removing the ad. I’d also be on board with a subscription fee. Thanks for keeping Wonkette alive and kicking!
Shanghai Gumbo: Freedom costs a buck oh five.
konstantConsumer: I’m the nerd in the graduation gown.
Shanghai Gumbo: Yeah, I’m aware of that.. However, I’m an adult and this isn’t 1998. And, it’s not my site! I don’t really understand the ‘grassroots’ illusion anymore (especially for this particular site that has been mentioned just about everywhere).. I guess I’m from a different time, but in the 80’s, advertising and bullshit is what I was trying to get away from. Am I wrong for utilizing adblock? I think it’s just personal taste.
Jim Newell has one facebook friend in common with me!
OH MY GOD I AM ALMOST FAMOUS
I clicked on the newly appeared ads. Hopefully I made you guys at least .33 cents.
I strongly encourage all of you to join the Facebook group if you have not already done so…
http://www.facebook.com/wall.php?id=18303785909#/group.php?gid=18303785909
Whore diamonds for everyone.
Eh, ads happen. At least you finally have the monkey off your back, I presume.
No way am I joinin’ the facebook thing! I shall remain as anonymous (as possible) like Zorro or Zero or whatevs. MOO HA HA! Also, I must make sure Hills can’t track me down for boff sessions, because all of that is soooo last month.
tunamelt: What are you, nuts? Karl Rove checks that nightly to update his hit list.
TGY: Yah I hear the kool kids are using Plurk for booty calls anymore.
So how old do you think that “Snogs T-Shirts” girl is anyway?
tunamelt: Nerd in a graduation gown? Around this time of year, that is about half the Facebook community, doesn’t exactly narrow it down.
Hope this doesn’t get me banned, but if it’s
smarmy right-wing merch you crave, go here:
http://0cents.chainreactionweb.com/product_info.php?products_id=30
Josh Fruhlinger: Dude, I need some technical help. I think I successfully unloaded the shift key, but am having trouble reloading it. The little spring thingies won’t go back in the little holes. Help!
Ken Layne: and that motherfucker was Harriet Christian. Don’t let her age fool you into thinking she can’t work the interwebs.
ladymacbeth: I’d actually throw a few buck to Wonkette. Crooks and Liars’ site monitors act like assholes most of the time.
WhatTheHeck: Yeah, I was a little taken aback when I saw it. The thing is, alot of blogs can’t control the ads most of the time, that’s why you might see some conservative ads on liberal blogs (eg, Glen Beck ads on C&L). I wanted to write to them, but I just assumed I would hear the “wish we could, but we can’t” speech.
Smoke Filled Roommate: you don’t have to click, but c’mon, the ads are hardly an annoyance worthy enough of blaocking - the more adviews they get, the more likely it is that Wonkette will survive. And if there’s an interesting ad, I’ll click on it once in a while just because I like this site and would like to see it stick around.
Ken Layne: For this ad creator’s treachery can we start plotting to CRUSH him? Some kind of Wonkette stealth attack? I’m guessing he punked you after the post condemning the Curious George shirts.
NotAnEvilLobbyist: Well, I’m the one who made the “Hi, My Name Is…” discussion thread thing.
There are 43 people in the Wonkette Facebook group, now, for those of you playing the at-home game.
Even if he punked you and submitted a nice happy Obama shirt and switched it out for the racist shirt, you still should have known not to accept ads from George Allen.
Mmm… integrity. Yummy.
I work with online ad targeting. However it looks like you aren’t using doubleclick so I has no usefuls advice.
I had happily loaded lots of add-ons to Firefox and had forgotten that adblock plus was one of them (along with recommended blocking subscriptions). Looks like it was working pretty good because I haven’t been seeing any ads at all. I’d like to be a good lil’ contributing Wonketteer and view/click on ads for this site. I know I can middle-click the ABP logo and disable it, but my ancient brain is unlikely to remember to do this very often. The filter writing rules are unfathomable to this 61-yr-old. Does anyone have a “put this here, dummy” explanation for how I can write the adblock rule to go to sleep only when it sees this site?