Take a Wild Guess as to Who Paid For This PSA
THIS IS THE GREATEST AD EVER CREATED. IT WILL SINGLE-HANDEDLY DOOM AL GORE’S POLITICAL COMEBACK.
So, you’re against carbon dioxide, huh? WHY DO YOU HATE TREES?
CARBON DIOXIDE: THEY CALL IT POLLUTION. WE CALL IT LIFE
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Unbelievable. Let's spin, spin, spin and it will be true.
Katrina never happened. If you believe this ad, then breath in some carbon monoxide. Just close your garage, crank up the car and just breath. Take deep breaths. Yeah baby. Hmmmm...smells good daddy. Light headed? That is your body getting used to it. Don't worry about it. It is all about life. Breathe
by Matthew on 05/19/06 02:31 PM
OH MY GOD! THE TREES HAVE HIRED LOBBYISTS AND PR FIRMS NOW!
I knew we should have burned them all down when we had the chance.
by jfruh on 05/19/06 02:34 PM
This was really funny when I kept expecting there to be a punch line about Global Warming being the result of fewer Pirates on the high-seas or some other such nonsense -- but then it was real, and I sad.
And today is bike to work day...
by Scoop on 05/19/06 02:47 PM
it takes me back to the heady days of sonny bono and michael kennedy when the trees had an open policy of assassination.
The ad was a production of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Here is a quote from their website:
"The Competitive Enterprise Institute filed a major constitutional challenge to the $200 billion tobacco settlement on August 2. The suit alleges that the 1998 agreement between 46 state attorneys general and major tobacco companies violates the Compact Clause of the Constitution and harms consumers and small businesses."
So the tobacco lawsuit harms consumers, but lung cancer doesn't. These guys really have their heads up their asses, don't they?
by FlaTipster on 05/19/06 02:52 PM
It's not too late, jfruh. If we don't bring the saws to their trunks, we will be forced to ride our bicycles through hail like the poor man in the commercial. We must be able to take our nine children to soccer practice and visit Times Square, what with all its glitzy glamour.
We must do such before these tree overlords grow fingers and start surfing the Internets and learn of our plans. That's if they don't get us on the way to ballet lessons first. Fuck!
by thomas on 05/19/06 02:52 PM
Too bad they don't explain that those other studies show that glaciers are growing in height (not area) because of increased participation that is a result of global warming.
by Chrisafer on 05/19/06 03:02 PM
I love how they imply that the environmentalists' agenda would force people to bicycle to work in a snow storm.
by aeroining on 05/19/06 03:22 PM
This is the work of "Scott McLellan: IMAGINEER". Do you see what happens when a man like that is cut loose to work his will on the world? Fact becomes fiction, fiction becomes especially twisted fiction. Reality becomes a perverse anal hook on which to suspend the world!!
by Alfonso X. Alfonse on 05/19/06 04:04 PM
It's a Michael Milkin situation: we don't really want what heppens when bankers learn to think too creatively. The same goes for ad men. Disbelief is agreeably suspended. You can say anything you want because it's tee vee or whatever and lying is just part of how the hive mind makes itself up.
Compulsive honesty is soooooo last century. Me, too.
by Hugo de Naranja on 05/19/06 04:41 PM
It's so far out of the park, it could almost pass as a parody...
I say lock these assholes in a room filled with CO2 until they cry for mercy! ;)
I feed the trees--isn't that a Belly song? As far as slogans go that one's going way beyond your typical tree hugging liberal slogan. Too bad about the brazenly dishonest first 30 seconds of the ad.
there's nothing funnier than liberals getting all uppity and faux-violent about someone questioning global warming. not even this ad.
by ogz on 05/19/06 09:52 PM
Puhlease! Everyone knows Katrina was the result of a vacuum caused by Michelle Malkin shooting out a ping-pong ball.
by Montecore on 05/21/06 12:31 AM
I love how the shot for the "light up our lives" quote is of Times Square at night. Because you know, Times Square is all about the average American's everyday energy necessities. They wouldn't have been better off using say, a shot of a hospital operating room.
by Congressman Bob Arnold on 05/22/06 09:24 AM
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