WORLD AIDS DAY AFFECTS US ALL

NY Post ^ | 12/1/05 | Liz Smith

[Millee]

'WE ALL have AIDS!" Remember this new slogan devised by fashion's Kenneth Cole.

THE FIGHT against AIDS has never drafted a better fighter than Ken, a handsome brilliant guy, who has already made his mark stating his various philosophies as part of his advertising formulas. He is wed to Mario and Matilda Cuomo's daughter, Maria, and they have three children. He has been a big success story in the fashion world for ages. When Ken took over as the head of AmFAR, joining Dr. Mathilde Krim, he didn't know what was coming. He spent a year working on how to proceed, and it has "taken over" most of his resources, says he. "I made an effort to reassess the AIDS situation. I asked myself: Why wasn't my own chosen organization, AmFAR, able to affect certain aspects of this crisis? AmFAR's mission is to find a cure for AIDS through research, and it has already been part of many meaningful breakthroughs. But today I am realizing that while we hope, and we are intent on finding a cure, one of the biggest problems is that 95 percent of the people that already have the HIV virus don't know they have it! So while a cure would be great, until we address whatever it is that keeps people from knowing their own status, we won't succeed. It is still true that just having HIV, in much of the world, is the cause of prejudice and unbearable stigma.

[Millee]

'WE ALL have AIDS!" Remember this new slogan devised by fashion's Kenneth Cole.

I hope this isn't the slogan on jock itch awareness day.

[Mr. Jeeves]

I guess Kenneth Cole's ad agency has been watching "Team America" for ideas. ;)

[Dallas59]

Nope.

[FerdieMurphy]

He is wed to Mario and Matilda Cuomo's daughter, Maria...

Say no more. His heart bleeds for the unwashed millions who want to continue their filthy, sinful methods of achieving orgasm.

The headline was "World Aids Day Affects US All," and I say no it doesn't!

[Revolting cat!]

Advertising, as you know, is about creating desires. In the early 1980s, when few knew what AIDS was (I wasn't sure myself), I saw a subway poster, attractively designed, advertising AIDS as if it was something desireable. The "World AIDS Day" and the sickening slogan "WE ALL HAVE AIDS" (and if we don't let's get it?) appear to be repeats of that campaign.

[RonF]

Hm. The poor fellow has obviously been misquoted.

So while a cure would be great, until we address whatever it is that keeps people from knowing their own status not getting it, we won't succeed.

There. Fixed it.

[Hack]

Mario Cuomo's son-in-law, who installs back bumpers on Chevrolets in an assembly line, says, "We all have to work for a living ..." (Fantasy quote)

[tumblindice]

And you thought AIDs was largely a problem for promiscuous male homosexuals and drug addicts?
Well, think again: "We all have AIDs!"

Or mebbe it really is largely a problem for rump-rangers and needle-freaks.
http://www.avert.org/statsum.htm

[garyhope]

I don't have AIDS, and I probably won't be buying any Kenneth Cole shoes either.

Another case of the self-righteous, narcissistic martyrdom complex.

AIDS is so 80's.

Keep your pants on, don't get AIDS. Simple.

[LongElegantLegs]

I cannot think of a reply that would convey the full effect of my scathing disrespect, so Puppy's going to help me out.

[Hoodlum91]

Artist: Trey Parker Lyrics
Song: Everyone Has AIDS Lyrics

Everyone has AIDS!
AIDS AIDS AIDS!
AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS!
Everyone has AIDS!

And so this is the end of our story
And everyone is dead from AIDS
It took from me my best friend
My only true pal
My only bright star (he died of AIDS)

Well I'm gonna march on Washington
Lead the fight and charge the brigades
There's a hero inside of all of us
I'll make them see everyone has AIDS

My father (AIDS!)
My sister (AIDS!)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS AIDS AIDS!)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades

Everyone has AIDS!
My grandma and my dog 'ol blue (AIDS AIDS AIDS)
The pope has got it and so do you (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
C'mon everybody we got quilting to do (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
We gotta break down these baricades, everyone has
AIDS! x 20

[Millee]

Funniest. Movie. Ever.

[rlmorel]

"I guess Kenneth Cole's ad agency has been watching "Team America" for ideas.."


No...Please...it took me MONTHS to get that visualization out of my head...GAAHHHHHHH!

[Mike Bates]

Oprah predicted this back in '87:
Research studies now project that one in five – listen to me, hard to believe – one in five heterosexuals could be dead from AIDS at the end of the next three years. That's by 1990. One in five. It is no longer just a gay disease. Believe me.
And, of course, I always believe Oprah.

[cvq3842]

Imagine if the "logic" of the Democrats regarding the Iraq war were applied to the "war on AIDS." "We need to set a deadline and stop the battle! To hell with the consequences if we 'pull out' of the search for a cure! It's not our problem! We've spent enough money! We're not making progress! These people are going to continue their homicidal ways whether we're involved or not - we can't stop them! We're losing!"

See how silly it sounds?

:)

[Dems_R_Losers]

VERY good!

I also wonder why the liberal evolution fanatics are so intent on fighting this disease, which is so clearly a part of the natural selection of the human race.

[knightshadow]

Aids...an absolutely preventable disease, that could be controlled and eliminated without one penny being spent. Liberals don't like to hear the word "morality."

[cvq3842]

Oh my! (My Iraq analysis works for the "War on Poverty" too.)

When a disease is "politicized" (especially an incurable, fatal, and transmissable one), then the basic health and safety considerations go out the window.

No way to run a society.

[Billthedrill]

Ken, Ken, Ken... (Puts arm around shoulder). C'mere, my boy, and let Uncle Bill tell you a secret. You can do your part in ending the AIDS epidemic by not sticking dirty needles or other people's appendages in yer butt. OK? That's it. There'll still be individual cases but the epidemic will go away.

Now off with you to play in traffic...