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?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.

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.

If you look at the banner advertising on a site like Myspace.com (which originally was for adults 18+ but now aims for a decidedly younger demographic), there are flash animation "games" ("win ringtones" "win a new computer" etc...).

In many of them, the visitor is cast as "Bush" getting pummeled in boxing or any of a number of competitions to make him seem weak. The games play whether or not the visitor clicks any buttons (so the majority of the outcomes, Bush loses). There is another one where the visitor is some slacker teen (the player) vs. a military officer and the two blow a hand grenade at each other through a tube.

These are subtle but they are anti-authoritarian.

Moveon.org bought a full screen ad (that situated between login and content) immediately after the Katrina disaster, tacitly as a way to "recruit volunteers for the victims" but the greater purpose was to highlight pictures of the damage every time you visited the site you check your email throughout the day.

We've already seen the NEWS sites that embedded obscenities directed at the president and his supporters (in the rollover or filenames for pictures). This crap does go on.