(Tired of the activism-as-advertising, shock-for-attention culture.)
This is really an example of "viral" advertising: getting attention because of being outrageous. Awhile back, there was _supposedly_ a commercial for VW (IIRC) in which a terrorist
gets into a VW which then explodes (his bomb went off
prematurely, I guess). It wasn't an actual ad, but an ad-maker released it on the Net almost as a "demo".
It got attention, and never saw the light of day on TV. But it also have publicity to VW (and forgive me if it's not VW,
but whatever company the "ad" was for). So these guys go out and do this outrageous stuff and it gets attention. Sure,
people like us will get outraged (and I guess I played right into it by posting it, but i thought it was a good example
of "unhinged liberals"--Malkin can put this in "Unhinged Vol. 2". But the target audience for this will hear about it and go, "Awright! I'm buying THEIR album!"
Am curious what would have happened if Kerry had been elected and a band called, say, the Kerry-okies
went up on stage and burned a pic of him then urinated
on it. It would be front page news in the MSM!