Seems to be the question of the day for so many things: Evil or Stupid?

Joe

Totally tasteless and irresponsible!

That anyone expects corporate capitalism to have a sense of morality or decency just shows that people don't understand corporate capitalism.

--Joshua Hendrickson

I think clueless sums it up more than anything else. Marketers are probably 22 years old and Abu Ghraib is sooooo 8th grade.

It was a stupid and incomprehensible ad anyway.

I was at a KMart today and noticed a "Terrordactyl" in the toy department. As someone who works in the field of human development, I say American Western society is about 90% numb to the reality of it's humanity. On the one hand one can say, "Great! Look at all the room for improvement", on the other hand...time might be running out for improvement(though for the last year I've noticed an increase in the marketing of peace symboled cloths, jewelry and artwork; at KMart and other major retailers...so maybe it's about "all the room"?).

Verizon is one of the gods of High Society that rule our Empire, surely and keeping us “little people” reminded of our doomed existence is their primary tool of enslavement.

It's time for boycott. I'm dropping Verizon first thing in the morning, and I am telling them why. I am also sending this ad to everyone I know, and urging them to drop Verizon as well.

Let's act!

Verizon is the biggest violator of the 4th amendment,

not only do they wire tap your phones,cell phones , and internet activity for the purpose of collecting data to hand over to the 800000 contracted spy analysts in Washington ,,, they also participate in community watch ground surveillance and gang stalking.
Trust me when I tell you you , these gang stalkers love torture, they come from all walks of life and businesses , part of the infragard , citizen corps , americorps ,nation wide network. Our country is being inundated with volunteer stazi gang stalking tailgating law less torture freaks.

Verizon is run by a bunch of unconstitutional pricks, and are protected by immunity.

For 6 months in 2007 , I had Verizon trucks tailgating me every where I went , walking into clients offices I visited, and hading out NSL letters, they are one of many in my three years of being stalked that have slandered my name without probable cause or signed warrants.

Those adds , are exactly what you think they are, sick and twisted conceived by a bunch of torture freaks.

One more very good reason to avoid Verizon!
I am sure, though, that there are people (plenty even) who find this kind of ad/commercial amusing....

It's a corporate America thing.

God Bless Corporate Amerika, One Nation ABOVE The Law.

All the Droid ads are very creepy.
Check them out.
Wow this is off the charts.

Verizon : "Are You wiretapping me now?"

Damn, I thought those alien invasion stories were just another urban legend.

This is the way the 4th branch of the government (aka the media) normalizes and trivializes very serious issues like torture in day to day life. Absolutely disgusting!

Verizon is a lousy company, anyway. Unfortunately it's the only phone company in my area. It has this great trick of sending me a huge bill every 3 months and then charging me for late charges on the bills I never got. They suggested I get online billing. Guess what? They don't bill me online every month, either.

Verizon are so reprehensible that they make me wax nostalgic for the days before Ma Bell was broken up.

Verizon is a criminal enterprise, a branch of the criminal government.

Over the years, it's become fashionable to accept advertisements, especially teevee ads, as at least potentially an "art form".

The utterly tasteless and tacky use of this imagery belies this notion.

Infotainment and communications corporations have actually exceeded motor vehicle corporations in their shameless manipulation and naked inculcation of expensive services as status symbols.

I notice innumerable tawdry micro-melodramas promoting the meme that the Good or Right parent MUST own and rely upon state-of-the-art smart phones and services to keep track of their kids, remotely-supervise their kids' shopping sprees, and even quickly summon replacement entertainers for their kids' parties if the scheduled entertainer doesn't show, or isn't suitable!

Oh, and for Serious Emergencies too.

On another note, which is relevant but probably won't make sense to anyone: you know how PBS stations have little PBS ads between programs? I think they're called "bumpers" in the trade-- the tarted-up descendants of "station identification" displays.

Well, some division called "PBS World" has such a bumper which appears to show people bouncing up and down within a plaza of skyscrapers. I presume they used gymnasts or dancers on trampolines to achieve this effect, but one doesn't see the trampoline.

The visual image is just an eerie, slow-motion pan of these... bodies... going up and DOWN in front of a dark façade of skyscrapers.

I'm the LAST person to buy into 9/11 hysteria and maudlin sentimentality, including the bogus "Ground Zero" label. But this freaking PBS bumper strikes me as a truly eerie, creepy inadvertent (?) "parody" of the desperate WTC jumpers on 9/11. I find it particularly weird because the visual is so ominous and seems disconnected from the "PBS World brings you the world" motif or whatever the blurb is supposed to be.

Sorry to take up so much space describing this, because I've never been able to find anyone else who's seen this brief interlude and will either validate or disabuse me of my perception. If you watch channels with "PBS World" broadcasting, keep an eye out and see for yourself.

Talk about "clueless". What were they THINKING?

"Yes, we're very sick and we don't care who knows it."

What could they hope to gain from sending such a message?

Are they allowing Verizon to be used in serving the agenda of some behind-the-scenes controlling interest?

I smell Big Zio.

what an effective ad campaign

it sure got the blogosphere talking :wink:

making a mockery of war crimes ... how clever and cute ..