Posted on 07/13/2006 2:07:07 PM PDT by ICE-FLYER
Kayak.com has started running an ad that is amazingly poor in honesty and is activism wrapped up in emotionalist lies. The add at THIS link shows how you should visit pristine Alaska and see it before BIG OIL does. The scene is cartoonish, showing animals and such all of a sudden being covered in oil along with the landscape.
I sent them feedback on-line and called as well. Below are contact numbers if you care, but this is disgusting leftist activism at its worst.
Kayak.com 27 Ann Street, Suite 300 Norwalk, CT 06854 Tel (203) 899-3100 Fax (203) 899-3125 Kayak.com
Press Contact Kellie Pelletier prcontact@kayak.com VP, Communications Tel (203) 899-3111 Kayak.com
Partnerships Keith Melnick corpdev@kayak.com VP, Business Development Tel (203) 899-3105
That is a ridiculous ad.
I don’t see a problem with this add. They are targeting the idiot market. That is fine by me, I am not going.
I wonder what the travel industry would look like if the petroleum industry didn't exist.
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Some of their ads are funny (not that one), but their political leanings are way too obvious.
Yawn. The last thing I care about is an ad that takes a jab at oil companies.
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That's like the "Daisy" ad of eco-left travel ads.
"Don't elect Goldwater, he'll use the nuke!"
I more afraid of moose bites than I am big oil.
Did you watch the video? Or just yawn at the politics involved?
Why didn't they create an ad campaign for the useful idiots, er "human shields" who travelled to Iraq to protect Saddam's prized locations?
Darn, I thought I was going to see people exposing themselves! :-)
I can't show this one to my wife she will never go Kayaking again. haha
He just landed on him. He/she looks ok.
I saw the one they had about planning a hunting trip
and with a cartoon VP Cheney holding a shotgun they added,... "a safe one"
"Did you watch the video? Or just yawn at the politics involved? "
Kayak.com is a business. They are trying to plant a sense of urgency to their CUSTOMERS to go visit Alaska using their tour packages(or whatever they are selling). What I see funny is people getting offended for no reason and giving the ad a free publicity.
Never heard of Kayak.com before... but sure do now.
This is what is amazing to me. Humor is a great carrier, of both information and a point. The issue of ANWAR is one where the left is out right LYING about how it will impact Alaska and about the oil companies that are there now and will do the work if allowed. The Left is LYING about it and many believe their LIES. Now, I can laugh at nearly anything, even the dark humor I hear all the time being in the military, but what is dangerous is humor that is both politically designed and motivated. Its perception creation to feed the LIE to make their world view your world view. If you think it has no impact then I defy you to tell the ad agencies that work for the politicians during campaigns to stop what they are doing because it must then be a waste of time and money.
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