Comments on: Best Ad Ever? Most Offensive?

By: HWD

HWD — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:08:36 +0000

Cute? Seriously – cute?
Check this out:
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By: ck

ck — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:20:27 +0000

Mikeleh, Ya think the IDF launched tear gas as a response to a ball being kicked over the fence? If only the protesters at Bilin restricted themselves to just kicking balls then everything would indeed be relatively yoffi toffi achlah bachlah. Instead however they throw rocks, hurl invective and try to cut the fence. If you really believe that “This is how a soccer ‘match’ between real IOF soldiers and Palestinians really looks” then I have a video idea for you! Go to Bilin. Bring ten soccer balls. Put on a keffiya and wave a Palestinian flag. Kick a couple of balls over the fence. See what happens. I’m betting… nothing.

But other than that thanks to the link to that lovely piece of staged political propaganda. Maybe we can get a Nike Soccer endorsement?

By: mike darnell

mike darnell — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:25:26 +0000

Adding my daily dosage of “Hyperbole & Hysteria”:
The reality behind Mccann Erickson’s ad for Cellcom.
What really happens when u toss a ball over the fence –
tr.im/thFE.

Mike

By: blip

blip — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:02:40 +0000

Mike, you add nothing but hyperbole and hysteria.

You can’t even articulate what it is you find offensive, just that you’re offended.
Why do you even think someone is on the “wrong end of the advertising stick” with this commercial at all!? Here we are talking about the wall and Israelis in Tel Aviv are confronted with the realities of the wall existence while in their living rooms. How knee jerk of you to miss the value of that just to play the outraged Leftist parrot.

So wait, you don’t like the wall? You don’t say. Well that’s a deep. Truly original, when even those who support the wall, don’t particularly like that it’s there.

By: mike darnell

mike darnell — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:19:00 +0000

I wonder how many people who live barricaded behind the wall, or spend their days & nights patrolling it, find Cellcom & Mccann Erickson’s joint production of this abomination to sensibilities “cute”.

Of course when it’s Jews at the wrong end of the advertising stick we “Can’t help but wonder”: jewlicious.com...

Is that the acrid stench of hypocrisy I detect?

The only way I can justify the ad is if they were targeting the contractors that made a fortune building the f*cking wall…

Mike
ROIcom?
Don’t forget to FEED ME – tr.im/feedme

By: josh

josh — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:54:58 +0000

I wasn’t thinking about Arabs, but rather that the soldiers were playing with settlers that had been fenced out of Israel and left on the other side. There are also no religious soldiers that came to the spontaneous party.

So all in all, I thought it was a nice religious-secular getting connected piece. Thumbs up.

By: Jess

Jess — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:41:32 +0000

blip – that’s what i’ve been trying to say! some people just missed my point and baited me into further discussion. and yes, there is no doubt that they intentionally filmed it at the banksy mural.
it still reminds me of top gun, and ck, i’m still gonna kill you.

By: blip

blip — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:34:19 +0000

The ad is genius. The fact that it’s generating this much talk is proof.

It’s cute and clever advertising with a subtle provocative message…and you’re gullible as all get out if you don’t think it’s intentional….. did they really just accidentally happen to film at the Banksy piece ? Of course not.

The wall is saving lives, and it’s a reality of daily life…which painful as it may be for some of you to admit, does still offer light hearted magical moments….kind of like that really gross, but well executed Banksy mural people love so much. Chew on that.

By: Jess

Jess — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:18:50 +0000

if you think my reaction is “shallow,” so be it, i’m not going to argue the virtues or non-virtues of americans. you don’t know me at all to make that assessment and i’m not going to sit here and defend myself. all i did was state my opinion of the ad, and reasons for it. they happen not to be shallow, but whatever. if you want to extrapolate from that that i am shallow, so be it. damnant quodnon intelligunt.

CK – I’M GONNA KILL YOU!

By: caput58

caput58 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:55:45 +0000

It just seems that most, if not all Americans “happen” to be so shallow…