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"Tsunami" Ad Offends Memory of September 11 Tragedy
NBC New York ^ | 9/1/09 | HASANI GITTENS

Posted on 09/01/2009 12:24:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway

It's enough to turn your stomach. Or, if you're a New Yorker who lived through the September 11th attacks, give you a serious case of the heebie-jeebies.

A new ad purportedly for the World Wildlife Fund features dozens of airplanes converging on lower Manhattan -- featuring the Twin Towers -- with the line "The Tsunami Killed 100 Times More People Than 9/11."

The ad was first brought to our attention by Gothamist, but was originally picked up by Adweek.com's AdFreak blog, which reports that the ad is from the Brazilian arm of the WWF.

Sure, the 2004 tsunami was a horrible tragedy that killed over 200,000 people, and probably gets less media attention in the West than it deserves, but that's no reason to pick a fight with victims of another horrible tragedy.

AdWeek called the print add "tasteless and nightmarish," but that's putting it mildly.

The final line in the ad is "The planet is brutally powerful. Respect it. Preserve it."

AdFreak notes that the ad won an award in the "public awareness sector" and is credited to agency DDB Brasil for WWF-Brazil -- but ran in Israel, of all places. A representative for the US headquarters of WWF said they had been unaware of the offensive poster until today. "We are actively investigating the source of the ad now, but we strongly condemn both the message and the images portrayed," said the WWF-US spokesman Steve Ertel. WWF-Brasil didn't return emails for comment.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 911; 911anniversary; advertising; agitprop; antiamericanism; badtaste; blameamericafirst; ddbbrazil; ecoterrorists; greenieweenies; hatespeech; moralequivalence; pravdamedia; tsunami; worldwildlifefund; wwf
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1 posted on 09/01/2009 12:24:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Communism killed more people than Nazism.

Abortion killed more people than Communism and Nazism combined.

And need I add tha the tsunami is just a drop in the bucket compared to all of them?


2 posted on 09/01/2009 12:26:20 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Kennedycare?Recall that "Animal Farm" begins with a Socialist Revolution to honor Big Major's legacy)
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To: nickcarraway

Well there will never be another World Wildlife Fund calendar in our house. SICK SICK SICK ANIMAL!!!


3 posted on 09/01/2009 12:26:48 PM PDT by BornToBeAmerican (We the people, ..... never)
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To: nickcarraway

To people in Brazil and much of the rest of the world, what happens to us is of no concern, and in fact, a cause for celebration.


4 posted on 09/01/2009 12:27:08 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: nickcarraway
9/11 was perpetrated by human beings who can be held morally accountable for their actions, and by an organization that seeks to do the same (or much worse) again.

What the Earth may do is beyond our control, and we cannot hold it morally accountable for its actions.

Those two facts totally refute the message of the ad.

5 posted on 09/01/2009 12:27:48 PM PDT by sourcery (Obama Lied. The Economy Died!)
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To: nickcarraway
The final line in the ad is "The planet is brutally powerful. Respect it. Preserve it."

Bomb it into submission.

6 posted on 09/01/2009 12:27:49 PM PDT by KarlInOhio ("I can run wild for six months ...after that, I have no expectation of success" - Admiral Obama-moto)
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To: nickcarraway

The tsunami was a natural occurence - and dare I add that if the third world countries who suffer the most from these natural disasters would focus a little more on preparing for the future they wouldn’t suffer so much!

The tsunami was directed by 19 Muslims.


7 posted on 09/01/2009 12:28:16 PM PDT by BertWheeler (Dance and the world dances with you...)
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“The planet is brutally powerful. Respect it. Preserve it.”

Spoken like another group of mentally ill people with too much time and money.

Think of the Brad Pit character from “12 Monkeys”.


8 posted on 09/01/2009 12:28:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: La Lydia
At least one Tsunami survivor was photographed wearing a professionally printed Osama Bin Laden celebrity t-shirt:


9 posted on 09/01/2009 12:29:18 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Kennedycare?Recall that "Animal Farm" begins with a Socialist Revolution to honor Big Major's legacy)
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To: La Lydia

Brazil also just put sanctions against the U.S. and won over cotton.


10 posted on 09/01/2009 12:29:50 PM PDT by Freddd (Government run health care=paying more and being denied what we already have.)
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To: nickcarraway

that is a disgraceful ad!!!!!!


11 posted on 09/01/2009 12:30:25 PM PDT by pollywog (staying...... " Under His Wings" Psalm 91:4)
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“Mr Gibbs......Does the President condemn the WWF and will he be making a statement about what a lowdown, insensitive, group of environmentalists they are.”


12 posted on 09/01/2009 12:30:37 PM PDT by LeonardFMason
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WTH moment ping!!! >:-(
These people are trying to totally eliminate ALL references to the seriousness of 9/11 from history, aren't they? I bet HolyO's one of their biggest supporters! I'm curious, I wonder just how much money this organization got from all the stimulus packages???

Note to self: remove ALL WWF items from house IMMEDIATELY!
13 posted on 09/01/2009 12:30:51 PM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
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To: La Lydia

Not in Brazil, of course ...

14 posted on 09/01/2009 12:31:36 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: sourcery
The myth is that WE (the Ugly Americans) created the tsunami because global warming. Or missile tests.

MEMRI provides roundup of tsunami conspiracy theories: "It was caused by U.S. ,Israel, India" (MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute) ^ January 7, 2005)

15 posted on 09/01/2009 12:32:44 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Kennedycare?Recall that "Animal Farm" begins with a Socialist Revolution to honor Big Major's legacy)
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To: nickcarraway

WOW, that’s tasteless!


16 posted on 09/01/2009 12:33:33 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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To: BenLurkin

I saw that movie at the dollar theatre. Less than 10 cents a monkey.


17 posted on 09/01/2009 12:34:31 PM PDT by Voter62vb
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To: Freddd

And President Obama just gave Brazil $2billion to drill offshore.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203863204574346610120524166.html

AUGUST 18, 2009, 1:45 P.M. ET Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling
Too bad it’s not in U.S. waters.


18 posted on 09/01/2009 12:35:55 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Kennedycare?Recall that "Animal Farm" begins with a Socialist Revolution to honor Big Major's legacy)
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Well that’s it—I’ll make sure to bring my own grocery bags to the store because our stores have started charging 5 cents per plastic bag and a part of it goes to the WWF.

I realize it’s a drop in the bucket, but...


19 posted on 09/01/2009 12:37:53 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (my former tagline "We can, and we will prevail" doesn't fit with the usurper's goals.)
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Ironically, these people want to decrease the human component of the planetary ecology by 80%, and yet cite the tsunami like it was a bad thing.


20 posted on 09/01/2009 12:38:28 PM PDT by John Titor
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