Comments on: The “Green Police” ad

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:40:41 +0000

Upon further reflection, I’m beginning to think this ad will do for Audi what the talking Chihuahua did for Taco Bell in the 1990s: succeed at getting everyone to talk about what a cool commercial that was, but fail to persuade anyone to purchase the product. In fact, I suspect that if one were to do a Venn diagram of ads that entertain vs. ads that succeed, you’d find the sliver of overlap between the two circles to be remarkably thin.

By: bill glass

bill glass — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:46:27 +0000

It was a great ad…not many commercials keep ‘em talking for as long!

By: drjohn

drjohn — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:24:07 +0000

This was Crap and Trade in action! Barack Obama’s America.

By: LC Gregory

LC Gregory — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:12:14 +0000

Actually, Carlos, they don’t fit this Administration QUITE as well as they did the Woodrow Wilson administration. But give Obambi time – they’ll get there. They’re still learning, after all, the little dears.

And your earlier question about the Betty White ad – remember, they don’t care about White or Mrs. Tebow at all. They were grasping for SOMETHING, Anything, to use against that Tebow ad, because they knew they couldn’t answer it directly.

(Except for out in the Fever Swamps of the left. I think I saw a comment somewhere about how li’l Timmy tried to kill her while in the womb and now he’s trying to finish the job. These people really are certifiable.)

Sarah, I get your point about it not being a joke and happening now – that’s why that ad was so important. I love it because it was a wake-up call.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:48:20 +0000

Sarah, I’ve always wondered how leftists/socialists/enviroweenies get off calling conservatives “Nazis,” since that indicates National Socialist?

I don’t mind being called a knuckle-dragger or backwoods or any of a number of other things, but I really get torqued when I’m called a socialist of any stripe.

And Nazi tactics certainly fit this administration better than any other American administration in history.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:37:19 +0000

It’s not really a joke and it’s not really funny, not when some of that stuff is already happening in some parts of the world. Check your Libertarian blogs out of UK for info. The green police already exist there and they’re here in the US, especially along the west coast cities, such as San Francisco.

I won’t spoil your fun researching by telling you just what those “green” (and in some cases “health”) “crimes” are and the punishments being doled out, but some are calling Green the New Red – and they’re quite right in fearing it – because it is really happening now. It’s not just wild speculation or a “joke” – at least to some of us who have experienced the rough end of the stick for our “crimes” and “sins” and see what’s happened to others.

By: Lorica

Lorica — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:04:11 +0000

I have read where Greenies are all a twitter about this ad. As if it is their version of “I have a dream”. The truly ironic thing is they are the ones who usually start screaming the nazi accusations, yet are too stupid to realize just how close they are.

Other than that I loved the ad. LOL – Lorica

By: Carlos

Carlos — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:02:07 +0000

LC, regarding the Tebow ad, one of the main complaints has been it promotes violence against women. Quite a stretch, but why don’t we hear about that same violence in the White/Vigoda ad? Do they think that Ms. White is not a woman?

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:44:47 +0000

I was only half listening when the ad initially ran, but I thought it was meant to be funny and thought provoking, not about a car. And isn’t Audi owned by Ford, one of the car makers in America that didn’t need bailing out?

Motto: Everyone is looking to cash in on the green (money, that is) that the green (environmentalist) industries will get from a red(bankrupt) government.

How’s that gonna work for ya?

By: LC Gregory

LC Gregory — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:07:49 +0000

Carlos – the real beauty of that ad is that not only were they dead serious about their car passing muster with such rampant Greeniac nanny-staters, they thought that that view of the future was a GOOD thing!

The Tebow ad was inoffensive. We’ll see if it directs any traffic to Focus, at least, any traffic that wasn’t in Focus’ corner already. The Pledge of Allegiance to the Debt ad was pretty good – that one really surprised me.

But THIS ad was the best thing conservatives could have hoped for. That was enough to really scare people. Did I see some Jackboots on those guys?

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:38:28 +0000

Excellent satire, whether intended or not.

By: Yax K'uk' Mo'

Yax K'uk' Mo' — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:37:18 +0000

When the commercial first started, I thought, oh, another tree-hugger commercial, but as the situations got more ludicrous, I was wondering what conservative group had the cojones to do a “look where excessive environmentalism is going to lead you” ad. And then it turned out that the joke was on me, because it was a (semi)serious car commercial.

Ah, well, at least I always know where I stand with Betty White and Abe Vigoda.

By: MikeAOR

MikeAOR — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:55:38 +0000

The ad is funnier the day after, but I was freaked out when it first aired. Liberals are willing to justify anything as a means toward their vision of “the collective good.”

By: Carlos

Carlos — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:45:10 +0000

It was a futuristic example of what the coming theocracy will be like.

Ya know, I can’t remember any traditional religion here in the United States (with the possible exception of Islam, but that’s for another day) going anywhere close to those extremes, even before the founding of our country, but I can sure see where the religious environuts are taking their religion.

As proof, I give you Audi’s reaction to what everyone thought was a satire: they were dead serious.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:38:10 +0000

I’m thankful for the commercial… Now my response to, “paper or plastic” will forever be, “PLASTIC!” then i will bellow an evil laugh and walk out of Albertsons cursing the environment.