Posted on 11/17/2011 10:32:09 AM PST by mdittmar
An advertising campaign that depicts President Barack Obama kissing two male world leaders on the mouth drew a critical response from the White House on Thursday.
"The White House has a longstanding policy disapproving of the use of the president's name and likeness for commercial purposes," said White House Spokesman Eric Schultz.
The "Unhate" campaign for Italian clothing firm Benetton showed various world leaders kissing, including Obama lip-locked with Chinese President Hu Jintao and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, a longtime Washington adversary.
The White House jealously guards Obama's image and objected last year when a garment company transformed a picture of him, in what appeared to be one its winter coats during a trip to China, into a billboard overlooking Times Square in New York. The advert was subsequently taken down.
Schultz declined to say if the White House would contact Benetton directly to express its objections.
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The truth hurts!
Now we know how Hugo Chavez got sick.
Sonow I understand more clearly who was behind that hit and run a few daze ago on the journalist who wrote a book about the 0 and his elitist foray into sodomy -how the 0 and his preacher Rev.Wright did the disappearing act on the body of a dead queer. Shortly after the book is news the author ends up roadkill. -Guess the WhiteHouse was just protecting their Presidents image—eh?
Sonow I understand more clearly who was behind that hit and run a few daze ago on the journalist who wrote a book about the 0 and his elitist foray into sodomy -how the 0 and his preacher Rev.Wright did the disappearing act on the body of a dead queer. Shortly after the book is news the author ends up roadkill. -Guess the WhiteHouse was just protecting their Presidents image—eh?
Why is zer0’s arm jerking?
LOL, it’s 0gandhi!
Woah! Do you have a link?
Run one showing obama and Larry Sinclair is a mutual vacuum move... make him deny that... then let’s spend two weeks talking about Larry’s book on the subject... once a fag... always a fag huh obama?
LLS
“The White House jealously guards Obama’s image”
Only this White House thinks it has the power to dictate how Obama’s image is used. The arrogance and ignorance of these people is staggering.
Great pic! 0dumb0 likes men (certainly more than he does his phat ass, butt ass ugly chimpanzee mabelle michelle man-wife), and he’s a socialist-marxist commie bastard pig like Chavez. I think the picture of him kissing Chavez is a perfect depiction of 0dumb0!
I think they got it wrong. The main message of the ad series is peace, unification, etc, In general, they put people of opposite spectrum in politics, religion, and so on. 0bama and Chavez belong to a same side of the spectrum. Politically, they are bed mates already.
Especially since the photos weren't Photoshopped.
Actually, for once I agree with the WH. This is a nauseating ad campaign (photoshopping photos in the public domain to present mostly same-sex world figures smooching) and the Vatican is actually suing for the one depicting the Islamic mufti soul-kissing BXVI.
It’s disgusting and I don’t think being a public figure should mean that your image can be manipulated at will for advertising purposes.
are these actual photos or photo-shopped??
LOL!
Did the White Hut object to Barry being featured on the George Lopez commercials? hmmmm?
What the hell? What planet are we on?
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