Opie & Anthony, John F. Kerry and Porn

www.FoundryMusic.com ^ | Sept 27, 2004 | Vanity

[Murtyo]

Opie and Anthony the Radio show from NYC that was cancelled 2 years ago after a scandal involving inappropriate behavior at New York's St Patricks Cathedral have their online presence hosted on by a site called www.FoundryMusic.com, this site contains ads for Pornographic web sites, the site itself also contains questionable material AND ADS FOR JOHN KERRY Presidential Campaign.

[Murtyo]

What's Going On Here??

Is this "OK"?

Does the Kerry Campaign know about is?

[Army Air Corps]

They don't call him John "F-ing" Kerry for nothin'...

[Murtyo]

WARNING, THIS LIKELY CONTAINS SOME BAD STUFF TOO, THE KERRY AD CYCLES ON THE SITE

[NJ_gent]

A single server can hold, literally, thousands of different, unrelated, websites. I doubt that the Kerry campaign knows, or cares, with whom this hosting company decides to do business.

[Dallas59]

I hope it doesn't have Tahreezah on there nude....*shudder*

[SunnySide]

The face of gratuitious objectification and debauchery is over grown 4th graders aka philosophy poseurs

[SunnySide]

Jerk is sheeple mentality

[Murtyo]

But doesn't the Kerry Campaign buy its ads on Specific Sites??

[fishtank]

Hannity was giving these guys a free hour of advertising on his how last week.

What a moron (Hannity).

[nfldgirl]

Agree your comment on Hannity..."Mr. Moral" man...straddling the fence, like so many others

[Volunteer]

A couple of things....
1. I am an Opie & Anthony fan.
2. FoundryMusic is the "unofficial" website. The authentic Opie & Anthony site is http://www.opieandanthony.com
3. If you heard Opie & Anthony on Sean Hannity's show last week, you would know that Anthony is voting for Bush. Opie is not voting.
4. O & A return to the air on XM on October 4.

[NJ_gent]

Ok, so you're saying that the Kerry campaign is buying up banner ad space on this website? Well, I doubt Kerry's going to get much response from 'Moral Majority' types of websites. That leaves him with the many, many folks who frequent sites in search of Opie and Anthony-style comedy and porn. Ads are supposed to target audiences that can actually be targetted. I don't really care where Kerry runs his ads, so long as the revenue they generate isn't used to fund illegal activities. Kerry could run ads on FreeRepublic for all I care. He'd be wasting his money, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. :-)

[don-o]

I thought that was them.

Yes, he is way off on that.

[Murtyo]

Appreciate that info

BUT is the Kerry campaign buying space on this site??
And if they are is that OK??

[fishtank]

The content of their show aside, why is Hannity advertising a satellite radio show?

Aren't broadcast radio and sat radio programs in competition with each other?

I guees I don't have enough info to follow the money here, but I bet that's the reason for SH's show last week with O&A.

[don-o]

Lemme see if I can get an e-mail answered.

[OriginalChristian]

Anything to reach your core demographic.

[spudsmaki]

free hour of advertising

I heard the whole thing, my guess is XM Radio paid handsomely for it, an editorial placement. This would make it even worse.

Why a Hannity listener would respond favorably to it, and why an advertiser would make a hostile placement like this, is beyond me. Mebbe it was becuz Hannity is also on XM somebody figgered it was worth it.

O&A are just repulsive, at least Stern occasionally shows an ounce of creativity.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I hope it's an endorsement ;-).

[Volunteer]

As the FoundryMusic site is "unofficial" (i.e.- O & A aren't paying for it), then I assume that someone is paying for it with advertisements.
Most of the banner ads are for things I am not going to support - porn, Kerry, etc.
But, you do pose an interesting question. Is this the type of place where Kerry wants his message? Given that these guy have had a big Internet following even after being off the air for 2-years, this may be the only smart thing the Kerry campaign has done. People are going to see these ads.
But, I am a Conservative and by definition that means that I have faith in people to do the right thing and to be intelligent. No matter how many times people are exposed to these ads, I still don't think they will vote for Kerry.