Not trying to hijack the thread, but I am just wishing I could go get a new car and some pumpkin pie!
Last year's court...
*Except, perhaps, the Washington Irving reference.... ;-)
Posted on 09/23/2006 2:18:23 PM PDT by wagglebee
An Ohio auto dealership, declaring that "terrorists are fair game," is promising to launch "a jihad in the automarket" with an Islamic-themed promotional campaign, despite several radio stations' rejection of its ad for being "insensitive."
Keith Dennis of Dennis Mitsubishi in Columbus, who appears in the ad, promises prospective customers that the salesforce "will be wearing burqas all weekend long." One of the featured vehicles "can comfortably seat up to 12 jihadists in the back," he says.
"Our prices are lower than the evildoers' every day. Just ask the pope!" the ad continues. "Friday is fatwa Friday, with free rubber swords for the kiddies."
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Thus far, at least eight stations in the Columbus market have said they won't air the ad.
"We won't play that," Jeff Wilson, general manager of Radio One stations WCKX, WJYD and WXMG told the Columbus Dispatch. "With no disrespect to their creativity or their desire to build business, everything we're about is promoting the values of diversity. To air things of that sort would go against our mission statement."
Dennis Mitsubishi spokesman Aaron Masterson says the company, which writes and produces its own ads, was not prepared for the reaction from some stations and admits that the "aggressive" campaign is breaking new ground.
"We talk about the pope, fatwa, terrorists. You hear one of these words, and [the radio executives'] minds froze on it," he said. "According to the people who have heard it, it is the most controversial commercial they've heard in the last 15 years."
Asma Mobin-Uddin, president of the Columbus chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told the Dispatch that the ad's tone and imagery were "mocking and disrespectful to many different areas. One is Islamic faith and Islamic culture."
"Using that as a promotional pitch when so many are dying from the criminal activity of suicide bombers, that's not funny," she said. "I don't think it's appropriate when it causes real pain. It exploits or promotes misunderstanding in terms already misunderstood or misused. That type of ad does nothing but promote discord in a very difficult time. The timing is just amazing. Maybe that's part of the shock value."
Still, Masterson's neither discouraged nor dissuaded and promised that the commercials would soon air with few changes.
"It starts next Friday morning," Masterson said. "As far as I can see, the top 10 stations – minimum – in the market. We made it very clear we wanted market saturation to get the point across.
"This is one where we feel we're taking a bull's-eye on terrorists. After all the nonsense that the terrorists put the public through, they're fair game."
...and spreading to KMart, its BLUE LIGHT FATWA time.......
"Asma Mobin-Uddin, president of the Columbus chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations..."
Funny how we hear from this man now, crying about his "being offended". When Americans and Jews are attacked and killed by Islamic terrorists, we hear nothing but the sound of crickets from his office.
My mistake- from this woman's office.
I think these folks are funny and very accurate.
Bet they sell a ton of cars.
Not trying to hijack the thread, but I am just wishing I could go get a new car and some pumpkin pie!
Last year's court...
*Except, perhaps, the Washington Irving reference.... ;-)
Japan * ping * (kono risuto ni hairitai ka detai wo shirasete kudasai : let me know if you want on or off this list)
The VW commercial had to have been designed for England or Australia. If you noticed, the steering wheel was on the right side.
Heheh that reminds me of a scene from the TV series Rescue Me. Denis Leary is an Irish Firefighter in NYC 's finest and is riding in a cab to get to his station. (Leary's character is very sarcastic BTW its why I watch the show) He gets into an argument with the cab driver who starts cussing at him in some strange foreign language.
As Dennis gets out of the cab and pays him his parting comment is "Aren't you late for your sleeper cell meeting or something?"
I giggled for an hour over that one.
anyone know where the audio is to this commercial?
1) Which stations are running the ad
2) Which stations are refusing to run the ad
Then we can publicize this, and let the good people of Columbus decide whether they want to listen to those stations which censor free speech.
Thank you
"Insensitve" ads??? Oh that's rich. Jihads are noble right?
Of course, we might say that these are Colonial times, too...except that we're being colonized by other groups!
"Does this burka make me look Fatwa?"
ROFLOL
Doesn't Columbus have a fairly sizeable Muslim population, mostly Somali refugees?
Anybody here in the D/FW market remember this end-of-the-year auto ad? A group of monks is wandering through a dimly lit hallway chanting in Latin as the announcer talks about the "ad valorem" sale. At the mention of the Latin phrase, all the monks threw their hoods back and ran to the dealership.
I know this mockery of Christianity filled me with a desire to burn down an auto dealership.
I still have that VW ad saved somewhere on the puter!!! I loved it!! Too bad it didn't air here.
So if some jihadists & ELFists show up at the place at the same time, who gets first dibs?
The jihadists get first dibs on the ELFs, because the treehuggers are infidels. THEN the jihadies burn the dealership down.
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