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TV Drug Ads Are Not About Selling More Pharmaceuticals, They’re About Big Pharma Buying off the Media
Liberty Daily ^
| Feb. 21, 2024
| Ethan Huff
Posted on 02/21/2024 10:50:45 AM PST by Red Badger
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Duh, Ethan. Did you just wake up from a 20 year coma?.......................
To: Red Badger
Oh that’s what they are about; I thought they was about showing off the singing ‘talent’ of fat broads.
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posted on
02/21/2024 10:52:35 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: PIF
Those two commercials are the most annoying ads I have ever seen.......................
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posted on
02/21/2024 10:54:52 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
I've noticed the drug ads dutifully reflect leftist themes: we see a lot of open homosexuality, women doing traditional men's jobs, families without men, people doing yoga and other non-Christian practices, and - lately - a lot of overweight women, in keeping with the left's war on "body-shaming." And, or course, the ads are full of people doing that stereotypical "black" form of dancing, and often they do it in the middle of the street with passersby and street vendors joining in.
Perhaps the silliest ad - for Oak Street Clinics - featured a middle-aged black man dancing and jiving his way through the clinic, even sliding down the hall on a wheeled office stool. Of course, the smiling staff all join in. Someone in my local bar said that if someone did that in real life, the staff would call security and the man would undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
To: Red Badger
Health through pharmaceuticals…….not.
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posted on
02/21/2024 11:05:18 AM PST
by
yelostar
(Spook codes 33 and 13. See them often in headlines and news stories. )
To: Red Badger
The “jig is up” has become clearer when you consider the numbers of ads for certain medicines for certain ailments far exceed the representation of the ailment in the population. 100% of the population obtain no benefit from the dominance of ads for ailments the majority do not have.
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posted on
02/21/2024 11:06:03 AM PST
by
Wuli
To: Red Badger
I think Big Pharma must pay some posters here on a per-pro-vax-post basis. There are a handful here who tirelessly defend and promote the bullsh*t “COVID” “vaccines”, and constantly call everyone else “anti-vaxxers” and spreaders of “disinformation”.
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posted on
02/21/2024 11:12:22 AM PST
by
Sicon
("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
To: Steve_Seattle
This is really a reflection of the society we live in.
80% of the population are low IQ idiots............
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posted on
02/21/2024 11:14:43 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
Related: “Dr. Robert Califf, former Food and Drug Administration commissioner, told CNBC in May that companies can't promote their products under an Emergency Use Authorization – and currently, all three COVID-19 vaccines are authorized via EUAs. Once the vaccines are fully approved by the FDA, that would change.”
This is the excuse for why the jabs aren't advertised on TV, where all side effects must be addressed. “With A Little Help From My Friends” the various octopus arms of Govt work together.
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posted on
02/21/2024 11:17:31 AM PST
by
SaxxonWoods
(Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
To: Sicon
Maybe they are just paralyzed by fear, that malady still exists too.
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posted on
02/21/2024 11:18:21 AM PST
by
SaxxonWoods
(Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
To: Red Badger
LOL. Really? I thought it was a great way to sell their product by having woman riding a bike through a park while a voiceover says that the product can cause diarrhea, migraines, vomiting, insomnia, stroke and death.
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posted on
02/21/2024 11:24:28 AM PST
by
Opinionated Blowhard
(When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
To: Steve_Seattle
Gee, I’ve missed so much I want to miss for many years now. Thanks for the reminder!
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posted on
02/21/2024 11:29:47 AM PST
by
SaxxonWoods
(Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
To: Red Badger
I’m old enough to remember when pharmaceutical companies were forbidden to pitch their drugs on TV. Years later, in seeing the consequences of Big Pharma advertising, it’s easy to see why it wasn’t allowed.
To: Red Badger
I don't watch much television, particularly commercial TV, and tend to see it when I'm out or visiting. I even have music on media for my car because AM/FM radio is obnoxious with ads and I don't pay for satelite... but it amazes me how many and how annoying drug commercials are.
First of all, in most ads, the people are happy and rarely fit the profile of the people who would need them. People are always fit, active, on vacation, and on the beach or dancing. Diabetes and cholesterol drugs have young slender people on them, just smiling away, soooo happy they are taking these drugs, while the narrator lists all the scary side effects.
The absolute worst one is turning their drug into some sort of broadway musical!
Really? I mean realllly????
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posted on
02/21/2024 11:54:28 AM PST
by
z3n
(Kakistocracy)
To: z3n
That and the other one with A woman in an office setting, same song and dance, is the most obnoxious ad on tv ever!........................
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posted on
02/21/2024 12:05:58 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Steve_Seattle
I told my wife that we must be missing out on life.
We don’t dance and jive all over town, etc.
But maybe what ever that old guy is on will cure our dull life?
To: Red Badger
Turn on the tv today and you get the MyPillow show, Car Repair Insruance and the pill pusher’s cabal. My goodness.
To: drypowder
Around here we have Lawyers, Lawyers,Lawyers,Lawyers,Lawyers,Lawyers,......and car dealers...........
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posted on
02/21/2024 12:11:14 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: PIF
She wouldn’t need the drug if she lost 75 pound.
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posted on
02/21/2024 12:16:28 PM PST
by
Fledermaus
(Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
Seems the worse side effects are moving in slow motion, smiling at every thing mundane, staring at sunsets, etc.
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posted on
02/21/2024 12:18:32 PM PST
by
Fledermaus
(Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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