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DUMB FOLK JUDGE DUMBNESS
Fairfax - publishers of the Melbourne Age - take aim at George W. Bush’s stupidity in a billboard campaign promoting Fairfax’s online real estate business:
Why outsource? Fairfax could’ve used any of the inmates from its own barn of dumb - Traceeee Hutchison, Jim Schembri, Marieke Hardy, Terry Lane - for the ad. Perhaps they thought Bush was more attractive.
I guess they’re trying to imitate those stupid GEICO “A Caveman Could Do It!” commercials here in the USA.
Posted by Patrick Chester on 2007 02 09 at 01:00 PM • permalinkIt’s one thing to use a photo or caracature of a political leader for satire or to engender discussion or debate. But it’s considered extremely poor taste to use a photo of the President or an obvious look alike for commercial purposes.
I recall some years back that the producers of the movie Contact included film footage of Bill Clinton discussing the space program. The White House cried foul and the producers apologized.
This is worse.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 02 09 at 01:06 PM • permalink#2 Patrick Chester
I guess they’re trying to imitate those stupid GEICO “A Caveman Could Do It!” commercials here in the USA.
Trying to imitate? Ripped off, more likely.
Actually, a couple of the Geico commercials have been pretty funny.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 02 09 at 01:10 PM • permalinkThe meme machine works. Anti-American bigotry is fashionable among ‘tolerant’ global progressives, ‘Piss Christ’ OK, Mo-Toons a no-no, ‘Bush lied’, etc., etc.
Where we once saw questions about Bush’s ‘legitimacy’ after the 2000 election tussle, we now see phrases like ‘failed presidency’ and ‘discredited policies’ creeping into media coverage—this about a guy elected twice to the planet’s most powerful office despite media cheerleading for his opponents, who sits atop a roaring economy, a stock market in record territory despite the dot-com meltdown, corporate scandals and a hot world war, unemployment under 5%, productivity increases, GDP growth, home ownership, and on and on.
I have plenty of gripes with this administration—not appearing to fight the war TO WIN and spending like a drunken sailor among them—and there are plenty of structural challenges facing us—like deficits and debt—but the demonizing and vilification this man has endured is simply beyond his real shorcomings.
Speaking of Fairfax and the cretinous Mike Carlton, in today’s paper he says, As ever with the Tories, it was not what they didn’t like so much as who they didn’t like.
Forget the subject - it’s just the usual Howard-hating spew, but why do leftoids refer to the Coalition as “Tories”. We do not have Tories in Australia, there is no such thing as a Tory Party in Australia, the word is meaningless in Australia.
Or does it hark back to Carlton’s pitiful attempt to crack the radio market in England, a moment of star-struck ambition he yearns to return to?
#8 - Actually, Dubya already has a house to go to after 2008. A whole ranch, in fact.
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 02 09 at 05:24 PM • permalinkThe billboard reflects the stupidity of those who put it there. Why on earth would an Australian media company use an American (albeit probably not a real one) to promnote an Australian real estate guide?
Rhetorical question, no answer necessary. We all know - well, except for the lefties who cruise through here and I’m not about to tell them why.
Fred Hilmer, former Fairfax boss was troubled by left-leaning editorial culture
Fuck ‘em . . . . visit realestate.com.au instead.
Posted by Young and Free on 2007 02 09 at 08:44 PM • permalinkTim, the telegraph should put up an a similar ad, with GWB (bless him, not insult intended) prominantly reading The Age.
The large text along the bottom reading: “Be smart. Read the Daily Telegraph.”
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 02 09 at 09:20 PM • permalink#9 Cosom, I com pletel;y agree. The problem is the leftoids control academia and pass their infection along to the young and stupid.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 02 09 at 09:23 PM • permalinkTim, can you tell us how obligatory voting affecxs results?
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 02 09 at 09:41 PM • permalinkGeorge W. Bush can use domain.com.au (heaven knows why, It sucks like myspace), but Terry “I wanna believe” Lane can’t use google. I wonder who the dumbass is?
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 02 09 at 11:10 PM • permalink“Why outsource? Fairfax could’ve used any of the inmates from its own barn of dumb - Traceeee Hutchison, Jim Schembri, Marieke Hardy, Terry Lane - for the ad. Perhaps they thought Bush was more attractive.”
They also could have picked a leader of a nation who is/was obviously way dumber than George Bush, like the late Saddam Hussein, for example.
Only they aren’t likely to make mock of one of their own.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 02 10 at 10:24 AM • permalink
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Fairfax should have used Lane along with the slogan- ‘There’s no place like your current dwelling’.