Driving SUVs promote terrorism?
Submitted by caffeinegoddess on Fri, 01/10/2003 - 04:34.
First there were ads linking doing drugs to supporting Terrorists. Now there are ads linking driving an SUV to supporting Terrorists. The two ads are already generating controversy even before they begin airing.
A group opposed to U.S. reliance on foreign oil are behind the 30-second ads, which their creator said are intended to be humorous parodies.
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One commercial features a child's voiceover connecting the dots between a man filling his gas tank and terrorist training footage. The closing statement: "Oil money supports some terrible things. What kind of mileage does your SUV get?"
The other ad features talking heads commenting about their SUVs. One person says, "My kids think it's cool." Another says, "I helped blow up a nightclub."
The Detroit Project was created by Americans for Fuel Efficient Cars, a group co-founded by Huffington, film producer Lawrence Bender, environmental activist Laurie David, and movie and TV agent Ari Emanuel.
The $50,000 cost of creating the ads was covered by thousands of individual small contributions. Major donors contributed the $175,000 to buy air time.
The ads, written and directed by Scott Burns, who was part of the creative team responsible for the "Got Milk" campaign, will air this Sunday on "Face the Nation" and "Meet the Press."
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Click here to view the commercials via the KCRAChannel.com
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The funny thing about this is earlier this evening while watching something on tv (I don't remember the show or channel), there was an ad with Cameron Diaz and Gwenyth Paltrow doing a "candid" spot talking about how using low energy lightbulbs and switching to a hybrid type car would help lessen the US dependency on foreign oil. Sadly the ad might have been slightly more effective if it wasn't completely obvious that they were reading off cue-cards. ;)
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Linking the SUV's [or big gas guzzling cars anyway] to the need for Oil aint as far fetched as linking drugs to sponsoring terrorism. [as the latter argument could be *puofed* with an instant "well legalize it then, and collect tax-money, save some from the old war-on-drugs budget, and cut crime down considerably in one swift swoop!"]
you guys don't use low-energy lighbulbs yet? what year are you living in? ;-)
Found this on adage.com the other day..."Marcie Brogan, managing partner of Brogan & Partners, sent e-mails to 800 people in her database opposing the Detroit Project's TV spots that link SUVs to terrorists. The Detroit Project, a coalition headed by syndicated columnist Arianna Huffington, broke a spot Sunday in four local markets, mostly during the broadcast of Meet the Press, that portrays SUVs as gas guzzlers that aid terrorists."
heh: Ms. Huffington "took the wonderful anti-drug campaign and twisted it to her own air-headded point of view." - but that wasn't too hard as the original ads were airheaded to begin with. ;-)
Marcie brogan seems to have lost the plot - but that other fellar , James Hall who said "There are vehicles with worse fuel economy," so why go after SUVs.. has really missed the point.
The cars with worse Fuel economy aren't as big sellers/common/popular as SUV's which are a dime a dozen. Of course SUV's would be used as an example of a gas-guzzler [he can't deny that they are that] as they are the most common gas guzzler on he road these days. duh. duh. duuuh.