Posted on 12/13/2003 8:52:08 PM PST by yonif
DALLAS -- A holiday shopping flier that's been distributed to thousands of households in north Texas is creating controversy because a message of hate is included within an advertisement.
An ad for "Party City" was supposed to highlight a sale on Hanukkah items, but it also contained a hateful anti-Semitic message.
The advertisement includes the sentence "CC Hates the Jews" in large, bold letters.
According to ADVO, the company that printed the advertisement, a graphic artist working on the ad had left his desk for a moment, and a co-worker with the initials C.C. changed the text on the ad.
The graphic artist didn't notice the change and the ad went to print.
However, despite the explanation, the Anti-Defamation League wants more questions answered.
"How did it get out of the graphic shop in Pittsburgh? How did it get by ADVO? How did it get by the printer and all of that?" Mark Briskman said.
ADVO representatives in Dallas said they are mortified by the oversight and that they are trying to figure out why the error was never caught.
Party City is good chain, a safe haven, for instance, of all parents looking for birthday party supplies. And now who knows how many rightfully horrified Jewish Dallasite customers are going to be calling and letting Party City they're in BIG trouble. And as hard as Party City tries to get out the truth, it's still going hurt them through no fault of their own.
The phone calls between furious Party City executives and the ADVO CEO must have been....um.....really loud! I wonder if ADVO can survive all the law suits CC's extra work will cost them?
Must be something in the aquifers.
You know, if you had bothered reading all the article you might have noticed one little fact.
THE ADS WERE PRINTED IN PITTSBURG, NOT DALLAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"How did it get out of the graphic shop in Pittsburgh? How did it get by ADVO? How did it get by the printer and all of that?" Mark Briskman said.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by simple stupidity
what a stupid thing to say. you do know that Dean's wife is jewish.
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