[Maul of America] All the Angst That's Fit to Print
- From: GCCR <robustoman@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: maulofamerica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 13:58:04 -0500 (EST)
Leave it to a New York Times columnist to come up with a political
angle on the Super Bowl.In "Super Bowl Ads of Cartoonish Violence,
Perhaps Reflecting Toll of War", Stuart Elliott pines:
No commercial that appeared last night during Super Bowl XLI directly
addressed Iraq, unlike a patriotic spot for Budweiser beer that ran
during the game two years ago. But the ongoing war seemed to linger
just below the surface of many of this year’s commercials.
Later Elliott later comments on the Prudential Financial "What Can a
Rock Do?" ads.The problem with the spot, created internally at
Prudential, was that whenever the announcer said, “a rock” — invoking
the Prudential logo, the rock of Gibraltar — it sounded as if he were
saying, yes, “Iraq.”To be sure, sometimes “a rock” is just “a rock,”
and someone who has watched the Super Bowl XIX years in a row only for
the commercials may be inferring things that Madison Avenue never meant
to imply.Huh? Did anyone else REALLY think they were saying "Iraq"
instead of "a rock?"
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Posted By GCCR to Maul of America at 2/06/2007 01:58:00 PM
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