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Posts Tagged ‘political advertising’

First-Ever MTV Political Ad Stars ‘Both Ways Barack’

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

We miss you 'Downtown' Julie Brown!For many moons, MTV was the channel where you could watch Downtown Julie Brown in her fingerless gloves talking about music, and then the Genesis video with the Claymation people would come on, and you could dance around your living room wearing your jelly bracelets and baggy neon shorts. Sadly, those days are over now and the only thing on MTV is a series of progressively more depressing/humiliating reality shows featuring drunk idiots who have sex with each other in the shower. But now there will be political ads, too, on this channel that never allowed political ads before, and the first one just aired! It is shockingly bad. MORE »


It’s 3 a.m., And Fate Of Nation Hangs On Single Political Ad

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Sleep tight, child who is about to get killed by terrorists!Hillary Clinton’s reverent homage to the cult film genre known as “red phone ads” may pay off big with cinema buffs in Texas. Or it may backfire horribly and leave Texas, and by extension the world, with a President Barack Obama who thinks he can speechify terrorism out of existence. Which will it be? MORE »