Ad Fail: Tea Party Obama
In Mason City this week, the North Iowa Tea Party compared Obama to Hitler and Lenin. The billboard has come under close scrutiny since, and earned our approval as this week’s Ad Fail.
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Category: Welt | Tags: Ad Fail, Advertising, branding, Hitler, Iowa, Lenin, marketing, North Iowa Tea Party, Obama, Tea Party, Welt Branding 6 comments »
July 14th, 2010 at 9:21 am
The latest poll by Democracy Corps, the firm of James Carville and Stan Greenberg . . . 55% think Obama is a socialist…
When asked about “a socialist,” 33 percent of likely voters say it describes Obama “very well,” 22 percent say “well,” 15 percent say “not too well,” and 25 percent say “not well at all.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/230874/55-percent-likely-voters-find-socialist-accurate-label-obama
Your analysis should be changed to “Ad Pass”
July 14th, 2010 at 10:41 am
Rich, is this poll an indication of reality? Real quick, could you give me a solid explanation of “Socialism”? Then when you’ve done that, can you explain to me how an elected official in a representative-electoral democracy, that took money from corporate interests to get elected, continues to promote a strongly corporatist agenda, and is actually “center-right” in orientation could ever represent a threat of socialism?
The fact that the tea party “advertises lies” is what makes this an Ad-fail. The truth about the current administration, aside from the fact that they took the job in the worst economy we’ve seen in 40 years, and are dealing in an over politicized environment, where everything is partisan, are behaving very similarly to the the government that was administered by the “then patron saint of conservatives” Ronald Reagan. The way that the Obama administration is prosecuting the war effort is very similar to the way that Bush jr. did. COIN and the same chief that ran Iraq under Bush, right?
Look Rich, what makes this a “fail” is the fact that it is dishonest. Misinformation in Advertising, even if it is political is a crime. Not that it would matter much to the people that believe it-
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07/11/how_facts_backfire/?page=2
July 14th, 2010 at 11:50 am
Are they also implying our President is a dictator? Last I checked, he does not hold absolute power. Besides, the detractors are vascillating between him being a wimp to his being a bully. Can’t have it both ways.
July 14th, 2010 at 3:12 pm
Caption:
Radical Leaders prey on the weak and Naive…Except in the case of this billboard, cause we are definitely telling the truth!
July 14th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
Put Vlad in some M-Frames, Hitler in some jam shorts, and I think there’s some real early-nineties cross-marketing potential here:
“Radical Leaders Do the Dew!”
Come on….you can’t tell me you don’t want to see Obama in Hypercolor….
July 19th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
Radical leaders all have mustaches. Obama doesn’t. Case dismissed.