Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Cat Lovers Outraged by the Use of Kittens to Sell Obamacare


A commenter recently said (I'm paraphrasing) that Obama could come out and say puppies were cute, and Freepers would push legislation outlawing the canine menace. Well, that reminded me of this thread, where cute kittens are used to sell Obamacare. Freepers don't exactly come out against kittens, but they are not much more coherent - they just deny that the ad was any good.

slouper demands shame.
Didn’t they learn from the Pajama Boy debacle?

What debacle? I don’t think they see it that way. These weirdo’s are simply without shame.
JohnBrowdie thinks the kittens are somehow being threatened:
what’s next? “if you ever want to see your daughter again, sign on to halthcare.gov and . . . . “
Catmom knows what this is:
Animal abuse!
Moose Burger has been holding onto this analogy for a while:
This C-fuck of a program is doing to Public Relations and government programs’ reputation what Miley Cyrus did to sleazy cheap pop music. I like that.
Iron Munro knows who Obama has angered:
When a politician has offended the cat lovers he might as well start searching for a retirement home!!!
Baladas is unaffected!
I don’t think they’re actually giving away kittens but what they’re offended by is that such a cute animal is being used to sell such a dud of a product. The article said that they thought it would really work with young women, but the image made me wish they were giving away the kittens instead of hawking Obamacare.
TheOldLady is the wittiest:
I call it “ObamaDON’Tcare.”

8 comments:

  1. Honestly, as a marketing professional, it is kind of a lame ad.

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    1. Are people talking about it?
      Then it was a good ad.

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  2. The only ones talking about it Freepers, as far as I can tell. And a successful ad is determined by conversions and ROI. I'll give them this: they didn't spend much.

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    1. Bet they got paid a fair amount though.

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  3. Geronl just posted two of his fictional stories on FR and both have naked young children as a storyline. One has young naked girls as slaves and the other young boys.

    http://freerepublic.com/tag/by:geronl/index?brevity=full;tab=comments

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    1. Perhaps this guy is bait to draw out other crazies?

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    2. Geronl is not a liberal troll ..I know who he is..not hard to find his real name via google search. He is middle age and no job, lives with his sister and brother in law.

      He always talks about his BIL being schizo and disabled (due to mental illness) on various FR threads but I suspect he is talking about himself. I believe some mental illness is involved with geron and he incapable of working or realtng to everyday people to any extent.
      It i snot uncommon for him to post 60-100 times on FR per day and he does it to 4-5 in the morning.

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    3. Well, if he is truly ill, mentally or otherwise, I meant no harm or disrespect to him. The world is filled with lonely people. What I was thinking, since I don't know him, is that anybody who posts that many icky things might be an agent trying to draw out other lawbreakers. If he's not that, then I stand corrected.

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