Paper sorry for Holocaust ad error

Herald Sun ^ | 1 February 2006

[Shermy]

Right you are.

http://www.tvacres.com/censorship_playhouse.htm

[GLDNGUN]

I could too. If it's deliberate, which I doubt, I'd be offended.

I also doubt that it was intentional; however, one can still be offended at the thoughtlessness. It would be akin to reading a story on the horrors that faced the people trapped in the burning WTC Towers on 9/11 and in the middle of the story, finding an ad for a job placement service that read "Are you so sick of your job, you're ready to jump out the window?" or an ad for a cruise to a cool climate like Alaska that read "So hot you feel like you're on fire sometimes?". One wouldn't think someone could be that tasteless on purpose, but you'd probably still think "geez, if these people actually thought about what they were doing for 2 seconds, this wouldn't have happened".

[dighton]

That's it, thanks.

[DannyTN]

Sounds like a good spot for an ad featuring your local Mosque.

[PAR35]

an ad once in the Hartford Courant

Was he selling German cars, or perhaps Fords?

[joem15]

The guy laying out the ad probably isn't looking at the story. he was just trying to put a big jig saw puzzle together. The ad and the story need to fit into the space that's available. The fact that they came together at the same place doesn't mean that we should draw and quarter the editors or owners of the newspaper.

Unless, of course, if they support Kerry, Kennedy, Durbin,et al. Then they should be drawn and quartered and have their faces ripped off.

[muir_redwoods]

"Was he selling German cars, or perhaps Fords?"

Actually it was a Ford dealer located in West Hartford, a largely Jewish community. Out of business these days for some reason.

[GAB-1955]

After the Second World War, my uncle Bob (Lt.Col. AAF, DFC x 8, B-17 pilot) went back to his job with Virginia Electric Power. He had the opportunity to visit a trade fair in Europe as part of the job. There was a German appliance manufacturer demonstrating its goods. He was talking to their salesman, who said, naively, "Ja, we Germans make very good ovens."

My uncle replied, "Yeah. We KNOW you do."