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Monday, October 15th, 2007Soooo . . . they give the Nobel Peace prize to the man scaring the beejezus out of kids. Nice. Well, who was left after Jimmy Carter and Yasir Arafat?
A recent front-page Washington Post story revealed how the global warming hysteria is taking a terrible emotional toll on children.
I blogged earlier what it did to [...]
Selling The Reverend’s Ideological Pinata
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007It’s 1984 . . . do you know where your real-facts are?
I came across this little rant while on a research project and decided to address it here because it is after all, about marketing. In this case, it’s the marketing of ideological opinion as fact.
Sure, it’s an editorial from a small town newspaper, later [...]
Global Warming Hypocrisy - Seattle Style
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007Should we listen to anyone telling us he wants “Reduce Seattle’s dependence on cars” but who also enjoys a daily taxpayer-funded, chauffeur-driven limo ride to and from his home?
Hey, forget that you may not live in Seattle. I bet you have one of these hypocritical “eco-warrior” wannabes governing your city right now.
If not the mayor, [...]
Green Marketing Facts Mow Down The Hype . . .
Monday, September 24th, 2007While Starbucks promotes (key distinction, there) green activities such as recycling, they don’t actually do it.
Correct Ways To Market Your Cause: Darryl Hannah Vs Al Gore, Et Al.
Thursday, September 20th, 2007She believes in taking care of the environment and she backs up her Talk with totally congruent Actions — unlike the “Green Elite” of the global warming movement.
Marketing Fanaticism - Why MoveOn.org Won’t Move On
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007Three weeks ago the Wall Street Journal courageously laid bare the sheep’s clothing MoveOn.org has been hiding under with this line: “[MoveOn] doesn’t aim to engage in debate, but to punish and silence Democrats who dare think for themselves.”
More Marketing Of Intolerance - The Hypocrisy
Thursday, September 13th, 2007Continuing on from yesterday’s post . . . (actually 2 days ago, this post was bumped because of yesterday’s breaking news.)
Here’s what I want to know – whatever happened to civil debate?
While both sides of the political ideologically-driven camps stoop to it, there’s one side of the political spectrum that is know for attempting to squelch debate [...]
Global Warming Czar Caught On Tape Dumping 55,000 lbs. CO2
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007***BREAKING NEWS***
Al Gore has declared the “global warming emergency” to be over! I mean, he must consider it to be over since he’s still taking private jets during this “emergency,” right?
In one of the worst marketing mishaps ever, Al Gore and Tipper are caught on tape disembarking from a cross-country flight, using one of the [...]
Washington Post, Other Newspapers Afraid To Run Cartoon Mocking Radical Islam
Thursday, August 30th, 2007**UPDATE!**
This just in. Seems the global Muslim PR machine is in full swing as an Iranian minister calls the Swedish ambassador onto the carpet. See more details in my update at the end of this post.
Back to the original post . . .
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Big surprise. Cowards. While they all feel free to mock anything smacking [...]
Global Panic Marketing Heating Up
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007In response to my recent expose of how Gore and Newsweek magazine blatantly lied and mis-reported the facts (respectively), I got an snarky anonymous comment on my blog from someone whose email address was fake and I suspect the name was, as well — so “she” goes without mention.
And as you long-time readers know, my policy [...]