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Holiday Ad Has Hidden Hate Message
NBC 5 ^ | December 11, 2003

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: antisemite; antisemitism; hatespeech; jews; partycity; racialdivision; religion; religiousintolerance
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To: ecurbh; aculeus; general_re
Some kinda headline goes here

Hey, I kinda like it.

61 posted on 12/13/2003 9:40:55 PM PST by dighton
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To: dighton; ecurbh
Nov 6, 2002!!
62 posted on 12/13/2003 9:42:24 PM PST by GeronL (Is your Tagline weak, limp and ineffective? Has it hurt your relationship? Try TiAGra today!!!!)
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To: yonif
Who was the proof editor, Helen Keller ?
63 posted on 12/13/2003 9:43:22 PM PST by John Lenin
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To: yonif
"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?"

How was OJ found NOT GUILTY? Because the DAs did a lousy job, because 99% of the workforce today is ignorant, illiterate, and doesn't possess a smidgeon of common sense? Oh, but they have degrees and LETTERS behind their little names, therefore, they can't do any wrong... Don't even ask how this could happen, THEY WERE INCOMPETENT all the way down the line, no mystery here, no racism here...
64 posted on 12/13/2003 9:43:25 PM PST by tinacart ((I STILL hate hitlery!))
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To: tinacart
Someone who was INCOMPETENT could very well have been the reason.
65 posted on 12/13/2003 9:47:33 PM PST by yonif ("If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem, Let My Right Hand Wither" - Psalms 137:5)
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To: yonif
graphics shop in Pittsburgh?
Something's missing in this story.
66 posted on 12/13/2003 9:48:46 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Texas has a law

It doesn't look like Texas law would apply. They were using foreign labor to make the ad: "How did it get out of the graphic shop in Pittsburgh". Pittsburgh is north of the Mason Dixon line.

67 posted on 12/13/2003 9:51:07 PM PST by PAR35
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To: tinacart
Don't even ask how this could happen, THEY WERE INCOMPETENT all the way down the line, no mystery here, no racism here...

I doubt "CC hates the Jews" was an innocent typo

68 posted on 12/13/2003 9:51:25 PM PST by WackyKat
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To: Ciexyz
Yesterday's reports had that "CC" was fired.

One would think that modern computer software would catch something like this, if nothing else to prevent accidentally offensive headlines.

My of my favorite newspaper stories had an extremely graphic description of a brutal murder on the front page. Under the victim's name on the obit page, people were informed that he "died after a long illness."
69 posted on 12/13/2003 9:52:39 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (Proud member of the right wing extremist Neanderthals.)
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To: GeronL
Nov 6, 2002!!

Umm... yeah. Am I missing something?

70 posted on 12/13/2003 9:52:52 PM PST by ecurbh (Fire futon torpedo!)
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To: WackyKat; tinacart
I doubt "CC hates the Jews" was an innocent typo

Same here. However, the issue of whether or not the printshop etc. had competent people who would spot it or read this before printing, is.

71 posted on 12/13/2003 9:53:03 PM PST by yonif ("If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem, Let My Right Hand Wither" - Psalms 137:5)
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To: tinacart
Oh, but they have degrees and LETTERS behind their little names, therefore, they can't do any wrong...

But at least you aren't bitter!

72 posted on 12/13/2003 9:53:55 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (Please don't break the plates!)
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To: yonif
The worst of it is that there are several zip codes around here where the residents are predominantly Jewish and that's probably where the ads were targeted. I'll ask my Jewish friends whether any of them got a copy. Shoot, if it weren't so cold and I wasn't so lazy, I'd go check my mailbox and see if I received a copy myself.

The recent rush of blatant anti-Semitism has me concerned. I thought that they were safe in America but now I'm not so sure.

73 posted on 12/13/2003 9:54:10 PM PST by DallasMike
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To: scott7278; All
Strange huh? Well you guys try not to let this get to you. You have a lot of Christian friends in Texas. Night.
74 posted on 12/13/2003 9:55:01 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: ecurbh
ROFL!!!
75 posted on 12/13/2003 9:56:40 PM PST by stands2reason (What good does it do you to win a debate in an insane asylum?)
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To: HairOfTheDog
"Oh, but they have degrees and LETTERS behind their little names, therefore, they can't do any wrong...

But at least you aren't bitter!"

Oh, but at least I'm not STUPID or INCOMPETENT, hiding behind the pretense of being "intellectual!" (Thank you for noticing :) )

76 posted on 12/13/2003 9:57:50 PM PST by tinacart ((I STILL hate hitlery!))
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To: yonif
is this for real?

the truth has some very funny ways of being 'shouted from the housetops,' sometimes.

77 posted on 12/13/2003 9:58:01 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Separate and apart from this issue, the Texas law is in violation of The First Amendment. It wouldn't be the first time that a Marxist like Martin Frost created a law in violation of the United States Constitution.
78 posted on 12/13/2003 9:59:52 PM PST by henderson field
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To: PAR35
Pittsburgh is north of the Mason Dixon line.
Pittsburgh is a nice, friendly city and is one of the few northern cities that feels like home to me. I figure that they can't help it if they're Yankees.

79 posted on 12/13/2003 10:00:11 PM PST by DallasMike
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To: yonif
Not much to say on this, only that it demonstrates a trend. Even in humor, Jew hating has become popular. I just have to think that it's cumultive effect in Europe, the middle east, Canada and othere places eventually allows for a desensitizing of sorts.

The end result is of course violence. Having lived through it as a child, it seems to be gaining a life of its own again. Hope I am wrong.

80 posted on 12/13/2003 10:00:30 PM PST by Nachum
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