Comments on: George W. Bush is Our New Favourite Pitchman http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/08/27/george-w-bush-is-our-new-favourite-pitchman/ Joey deVilla's Personal Blog Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:07:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1-alpha-10188 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/08/27/george-w-bush-is-our-new-favourite-pitchman/comment-page-1/#comment-8083 Anonymous Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:22:38 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/08/27/george-w-bush-is-our-new-favourite-pitchman/#comment-8083 Does anyone else see the irony in addressing text based ads to non-readers? @Knuckles: Your comments reflect my exact thoughts when I saw the ad... if the customer isn't reading enough they should admit themselves to the nearest library or McNally - earphones aren't the answer. But, methinks the ad is just meant to cause discussion and give a laugh, and we're just looking into it a little too deep. Afterall, it's a hiway billboard sign. It's entire reason for being is to momentarily distract and be quickly understood by passing motorists, who's attention should normally be more foccused on the road ahead. Anyways, I can't say I've ever given any thought or discussion to simplyaudiobooks before, so if it's only meant to familiarize a few more individuals with their name/service I'd say the ad is effective... even if it's bit silly. Does anyone else see the irony in addressing text based ads to non-readers?

@Knuckles: Your comments reflect my exact thoughts when I saw the ad… if the customer isn’t reading enough they should admit themselves to the nearest library or McNally - earphones aren’t the answer.

But, methinks the ad is just meant to cause discussion and give a laugh, and we’re just looking into it a little too deep. Afterall, it’s a hiway billboard sign. It’s entire reason for being is to momentarily distract and be quickly understood by passing motorists, who’s attention should normally be more foccused on the road ahead.

Anyways, I can’t say I’ve ever given any thought or discussion to simplyaudiobooks before, so if it’s only meant to familiarize a few more individuals with their name/service I’d say the ad is effective… even if it’s bit silly.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/08/27/george-w-bush-is-our-new-favourite-pitchman/comment-page-1/#comment-8086 Anonymous Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:06:14 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/08/27/george-w-bush-is-our-new-favourite-pitchman/#comment-8086 FWIW, Mallory attended Grant College. FWIW, Mallory attended Grant College.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/08/27/george-w-bush-is-our-new-favourite-pitchman/comment-page-1/#comment-8085 Anonymous Mon, 28 Aug 2006 02:56:53 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/08/27/george-w-bush-is-our-new-favourite-pitchman/#comment-8085 Bush is an idiot. That he got into both Yale & Harvard Business is yet another chapter of being from the right family with the right amount of cashola. Obviously SAT & GMAT scores don't count when you're the grandson of Prescott Bush & an heir to his fortune. But Last Chance U shouldn't be so snotty themselves. There's a reason why smart people don't want to study there. That they're a step up from Centennial, Humber or Seneca College (for your Torontonians) is only a matter of geography - the government needed to put a university up in Thunder Bay. Otherwise, it's just another community college. Bush is an idiot. That he got into both Yale & Harvard Business is yet another chapter of being from the right family with the right amount of cashola. Obviously SAT & GMAT scores don’t count when you’re the grandson of Prescott Bush & an heir to his fortune.

But Last Chance U shouldn’t be so snotty themselves. There’s a reason why smart people don’t want to study there. That they’re a step up from Centennial, Humber or Seneca College (for your Torontonians) is only a matter of geography - the government needed to put a university up in Thunder Bay. Otherwise, it’s just another community college.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/08/27/george-w-bush-is-our-new-favourite-pitchman/comment-page-1/#comment-8084 Anonymous Sun, 27 Aug 2006 22:23:48 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/08/27/george-w-bush-is-our-new-favourite-pitchman/#comment-8084 Lakehead also being the university which won't allow wi-fi access on campus because the university president doesn't think there's enough compelling evidence to suggest the wireless signal doesn't cause health issues. http://argus.lakeheadu.ca/index.php?section=1&article=432 Lakehead also being the university which won’t allow wi-fi access on campus because the university president doesn’t think there’s enough compelling evidence to suggest the wireless signal doesn’t cause health issues.

http://argus.lakeheadu.ca/index.php?section=1&article=432

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/08/27/george-w-bush-is-our-new-favourite-pitchman/comment-page-1/#comment-8082 Anonymous Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:30:16 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/08/27/george-w-bush-is-our-new-favourite-pitchman/#comment-8082 The audio books ad is baffling. Every customer who responds positively to this ad is accepting the shallow premise that because they don't read enough books, they are as dopey as Bush. The ad also implies that Bush is so stupid that he can only absorb audio books. But the customer won't get any books to read...the product being sold here is audio books, ergo, the customers by default are identifying with Bush. That's why the ad might be the most subversive plot hatched by Karl Rove to date. The audio books ad is baffling. Every customer who responds positively to this ad is accepting the shallow premise that because they don’t read enough books, they are as dopey as Bush.
The ad also implies that Bush is so stupid that he can only absorb audio books. But the customer won’t get any books to read…the product being sold here is audio books, ergo, the customers by default are identifying with Bush.
That’s why the ad might be the most subversive plot hatched by Karl Rove to date.

]]>