Captain Kirk wrote:The difference is that the FR threads were only seen by a few thousand people tops, and were obvious parodies.
These weren't ads in a technical sense but they were certainly never pulled. I am not complaining mind you. It seems rather strange for the same freepers who smiled (like me) at these threads to now complain when someone engages in tit for tat.
The 30 second video ads that they are showing over at MoveOn.org were finalists in a contest where the winner will be shown on various broadcast outlets. The winning ad will have a media buy of $7 Million or so I think.
And one of these ads that morphed President George W. Bush into Hitler was shown (briefly) as one of the finalists for that contest.