I Told You So – “In a joint statement posted on both of their Web sites, WWF Brasil and DDB Brasil are taking shared responsibility for the creation and initial approval of this ad … “
Update – They also produced a video. Someone approved a production budget.
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Relax.
It’s probably just a promotional campaign for this year’s World Wildlife Fund “Round The World” private jet expedition.
Ed Morrissey has an update – “WWF says they may sue [the ad agency] for releasing this print ad without authorization and with their logo prominently featured”.
Sounds like backpeddling to me. Only one year ago, this same organization was perfectly content to have their logo prominently featured in an ad in which a passenger jet threatens King Kong.
IOW “Preserve the brutal power of the planet”
Yeah,. Through economic suicide. Good plan, WWF.
wwf has already pulled this ad as being over the top. These people are truly nuts. Here again, the inmates are running the asylum.
You have to ask yourself what kind of sick minds come up with stuff like this?
I already know what kind of sick minds come up with stuff like this….Leftists.
Stupid, insensitive, and insane…typical left-think.
How’d they get all those planes in the shot?
Decency has never been a leftie strong point.
Such bean counting of deaths is incredibly simplistic by people who profess to be sophisticated thinkers.
Three thousand died in NY but the toll it took was extensive. It tipped the world’s biggest economy into recession costing the world many billions of dollars in lost economic activity, triggered two wars and restricts the movement of hundreds of millions of travelers to this day.
How many of the hundreds of millions of poor were made even poorer? How many were pushed over a very thin line into early death because fewer dollars tricked down into health, aid and food?
The WWF likes to drone on about the earth being very complex, but so is the modern economic world. Many, many people not in NY on Sept 11 paid a heavy price for the murderous act of 19 barbarians.
And here we thought The One’s photo op of Air Force One, buzzing the Statue of Liberty was over-the-top!
I’ve modified it a little, to reflect their true feelings.
http://www.lassooftruth.com/my_weblog/2009/09/the-next-logical-step-in-the-campaign.html
This truly is unAmerican NGO. It appeals to anti-Americanism and profits from blame fixing. It harvests the guilt neurosis of the champaign socialists – And they do it with remorseless manipulative sophistry.
They should call this effort the tasteless greedy bugger’s campaign.
Must be using the same ad agency that does the PETA work.
I dropped support of WWF several years ago when they first leaped upon global warming and the plight of polar bears. I switched and give my wildlife contributions to the Marmot Foundation that is reestablishing Vancouver Island marmots.
A lot of people support the WWF. They are well meaning people who have no clue of the change in agendas of the organization. They also have a Obama coffee cup. I really wanted to call it a sippy cup.
No doubt about it, the ad has punch. Makes the point.
The point could also be made that the tsunami paled in comparison to, say, Europe in WWI, or Europe in WWII. Using images of one of the extermination camps to make the point that Fascism is more powerful a killer than tsunamis would be, what, tasteless? and verboten?
that Fascism is more powerful a killer than tsunamis would be, what, tasteless? and verboten?
that SOCIALISM is more powerful a killer than tsunamis would be, what, tasteless? and verboten?
There fixed it for you.
And here I thought that there was a difference between preventable (man-made) disasters and nature’s fury (acts of God), silly me.
All this talk of liberal leftie lickspittles reminds me that hunting season is almost upon us and I still haven’t checked the zero on my rifle. There are critters to be kilt!
Good luck with that ad,you eccentric ecotard eggheads, and give my regards to Gaia The Earth Mommy!
Thanks for reminding me jim, I’ll have to sharpen my hunting knife too.
I see at the Mop & Pail this same buch of rice maggots are claiming that the arctic is about to dissolve
http:/ /www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/arctic-climate-change-at-tipping-point/article1272939/
Down with earthquakes! Stop continental drift!
The real tastelessly clueless are the SDA sheeple populating this blog. Sheeple take note of the weasel keywords, all of which indicate the source as being unconfirmed. In your misdirected zeal don’t you think if the WWF really produced this ad it would be very easy to confirm.
Look to your own rightoid rightard tasteless ranks to discover the true culprit of this propaganda.
Sheeesh, is their no end to this type of conbat nonsense.
Not stirred,
Everything and anything that comes from your side of isle must be scrutinized and verified because the left is a world a lying compulsive, misinformed, childish, evil, bastards.
That, among other reasons is why we on the right must verify and fact check shit like this.
Obama’s National Day of Service is 9/11. He said it was for Martin Luther King’s birthday,(a Republican) and the day before his inaugeration. It is his attempt to hijack the day and he will do something in the public service. Classy. Resign then.
First, you have to wonder what type of person is able to dream up an ad like this.
Second, the WWF should reflect on why such a person wants to make ads for them.
I love it when the Left screws up and says exactly what they are thinking. WWF ad a beauty peek behind the Lefty smokescreen.
Now, as to Not Smart Enough Said At, who can’t find the shift key on Mum’s computer, lets lay it out for the poor boy who obviously didn’t read the article:
http://www.advertolog.com/wwf/print-outdoor/tsunami-327351/
“The advert titled Tsunami was done by DDB BRASIL advertising agency for WWF company in ISRAEL. It was released in the August 2009. Business sector is Public awareness messages.
Credits:
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Agency: DDB Brasil
Title of Ad: Tsunami
Advertiser/Client: WWF Brasil
Product or Service: Environmental Awareness
Executive Creative Director: Sergio Valente, Rodolfo Sampaio, Julio Andery
Creative Director: Sergio Valente, Rodolfo Sampaio, Julio Andery, Guilherme Jahara
Copywriter: Adriano Matos, Rodolfo Sampaio
Art Director: Guilherme Jahara
Photographer: Getty Images
Illustrator: Big Studios
Art Buyer: Carmen Castillo, Carolina Galastri, Clariana da Costa
Account Supervisor: Alcir Gomes Leite, Ana Paula Grassmann
Advertiser’s Supervisor: Heloisa Helena de Oliveira
Producer: Nereu Marinho, Edson Harada”
See? No rightoid rightards, just the usual WWF EMPLOYEES doing what they really really REALLY like to do. WWF is only p1ssed off because it reveals their true intentions a little too baldly.
I’m sorry if these facts interfere with your fantasy, little boy. Pretend harder, maybe the meanies will go away.
The logical response to an ad reminding us that nature would kill us all in a minute, would be to fight back against nature and pave everything you see.
There is nothing you can do to stop nature, so don’t bother being nice to it.
Hardly on message for WWF.
I think this ad, by contrasting the two events, helps to remind us who caused BOTH events to happen. It was Bush and/or the Jews depending on how you lean.
That being said, I think this ad does a horrible disservice to the dedicated men and women that worked hard to create the device that caused the Tsunami. Nature is brutal my a**!
Many affluent, western, urban atheists had the same reaction to 9-11 as the “Arab street”. The Arabs were just more open and honest about expressing their true feelings.
Let’s not be so hard on the WWF. They are simply appealing to their base.
Leftoid/AGWers/Moonbats think Bush caused 9/11 on purpose, so have no appreciatation of what that event meant in the world dynamic and how deeply rooted this is an issue for most Americans.
They showed their cards.
The wingnuts will marginalize themselves right out of the debate and will kill any hopes of future action an Climate Change because they keep getting shriller and more ridiculous and that is because they are a fringe group who on the back of the UN and MSM made it to the big stage. Now here they are revealing themselves to be the people we thought they were (fringe radical environmentalists) before the great climate scare.
They will go from being “socially relevant” and a subject of fund raisers to being jokes told at cocktail parties and subject of much ridicule from the media who will claim they were mislead.
How about “subversives or perhaps revolutionaries” eh ?
If you want to see just how nutty the WWF has become, see here for an “artistic” event that was sponsored by them:
http://www.winnipegsun.com/news/world/2009/09/02/10719526.html
“Everything and anything that comes from your side of isle must be scrutinized and verified because the left is a world a lying compulsive, misinformed, childish, evil, bastards.”
Death Panels
Macarthism
Weopons of mass destruction
Iran contra
prisoner torture
wire taps without warrents
abortion clinic bombings
gay bashing
segragation
claiming mixed race marriage is the downfall of our society
yeah bad lefties indeed
Oh come on roc, you don’t really want a list for the left do ya?
I mean do you really have a couple hours?
McCarthyism, not Macarthism
Weapons, not Weopons
warrants, not warrents
segregation, not segragation
education, not edumacashun
Comparing 9/11 to a natural disaster? Try Bhopal instead, you clueless culturejammers.
I support the idea of a WWF protecting biodiversity for their charitable supporters, but when it becomes an anti-people propaganda machine – it can join the ever-growing list of acronym NGO’s which justify their bureaucratic existence with agit-prop stunts signifying nothing except to their naive adherents.
Ok looking at Right of Center’s list… any of this happen in contemporary society or did it happen in a much different social and political climate? Lets see…
Bunch of Cold War Stuff
Bunch of Pre Civil Rights Stuff
Oh here is WMDs, I am not sure of the point… are you saying WMDs do not exist at all or just happened to all be shipped out/hidden in Iraq before the televised invasion began?
Ah the Patriot Act … Voted for by Liberals, name a case where an wire tap has resulted in a false arrest or retaliation for free speech, please.
Conservatives want to monitor communications for threats to security and Liberals want to stifle free speech..which is worse?
Torture? That is a grey area, you would not force information out of a terrorist to save lives because it would damage your conscience, I say innocent lives are worth any personal moral discomfort.
Well so far nothing here is really a valid point in regards to the act of invoking 9/11 for the purpose of saying it is insignificant compared to climate change to serve an environmental cause…but thanks for playing.
Better change your name to “way out left of center” if you think these past issues even define a modern conservative and you use them for your scale to define the center.
I reluctantly rented Disney’s new nature documentary “Earth” yesterday telling myself it will be probably filled with leftoid GW/CC claptrap. Well, they did show a polar bear that swam to a walrus beach because “the ice was too thin/gone” and their narative was that the bear was too weak to kill because he was exhausted and hungry (He was not skinny though). The worst was that the bear simply went to sleep but they narated it as he was dying.
To Disney’s credit though, they do mention the Arctic is warming but they never say it’s caused by man or even hint at that.
Apart from the “sleepy” bear part, it is a very good show with absolutely stunning cinematography. Worth seeing.
Meanwhile, back at the courthouse.
Hate speech law unconstitutional: rights tribunal
Someone at the ad agency MAY have been over the top… but the green/environ(MENTAL)/animalactivist types REALLY do think the way portrayed in the ad.
Industry bad…nature(without bears, malaria,algae blooms)…good.
They conveniently ignore they need factories to produce parts for their flutes, banjos, guitars, tv’s, ipods…get the picture?
Nuts is putting it mildly.
Re foobert @ 1:02
Somewhere in Calgary, Ezra Levant’s head just exploded.
For some people, taste exists only in their mouths.
(looking right at WWF and the trolls here)
Segregation was brought on by Southern Democrats after the Reconstruction Period ROC. Look up the Jim Crow laws.
When the tsunami hit, who was it that parked an Aircraft Carrier off the coast, ferried clean water, food, and medical supplies to the survivors, and provided medical help to the injured? Oh yeah, those nasty, earth killing, capitalistic pig Americans! (How much of the raised relief funds ended up in corruptocrat pockets while politicians like Martin posed for photo-ops sipping Mo Strong’s water?)
There is evil in this world and its coming for your freedom via the vile progressive left.
Don’t go confusing roc with facts and crap like that Kaga.
There’s an old saying in advertising goes something like this:
“The price of clarity is the risk of insult.”
I’ve been in the industry 20 years and I have to say I like this advertisement fine, conceptually, if lacking the political correctness many of you hold onto OH S0 DEARLY on this website.
This was a case if an agency pitching to show it’s thinking as powerful and out-of-the-box. It’s done in the industry, behind the scenes. If it wasn’t so compelling, (and possibly insulting) we wouldn’t be discussing it. It’s gone viral now. I wonder if that wasn’t part of the plan.
However, implemented and escaped from Pandoras’ box it will punish both organizations, and certainly will be a long-wearing stain on the agency. for like five minutes, maybe.
BJH
Wow Brad, sounds like you buy your own BS.
BTW – political correctness is the last thing this site holds dearly.
“If it wasn’t so compelling, (and possibly insulting) we wouldn’t be discussing it. It’s gone viral now. I wonder if that wasn’t part of the plan.”
Where I come from strategies or plans such you describe are not “compelling” – rather they are deemed tasteless. No doubt the the brain child of a cad. When will advertisers show some intelligence and come up with an angle other than “shock value” – reminds me of a child acting out to get his parents attention. Boring, boring, boring – seen that movie way too many times….yawn.
Wow Brad, sounds like you buy your own BS.
BTW – political correctness is the last thing this site holds dearly.
“If it wasn’t so compelling, (and possibly insulting) we wouldn’t be discussing it. It’s gone viral now. I wonder if that wasn’t part of the plan.”
Where I come from strategies or plans such as you describe are not “compelling” – rather they are deemed tasteless. No doubt the the brain child of a cad. When will advertisers show some intelligence and come up with an angle other than “shock value” – reminds me of a child acting out to get his parents attention. Boring, boring, boring – seen that movie way too many times….yawn.
If they really wanted to be bold, controversial, and insulting, perhaps the New World Trade Center in Dubai should have been used as the target for all those planes.
I apologize for the semi duplicate post, thought I aborted it in time to add the last line.
Just doin the Obama Chicago Hustle …. let the real stuff out and then shut it down when a fuss is made… pretend it was someone elses fault and go on to the next one.
First off 2 cents, obviously sarcasm is lost on you. Secondly, related to the first thank you so much for your opinion. And yes I do buy it, ’cause I hit far more than I miss, pal.
Maybe you should seek employment, or volunteer as a member of focus group. Otherwise, your annoying bleatings amount to little more than a fart in wilderness, just where they belong.
cheers
BJH
“Who knew people who tell lies for a living could be so bad at it?”
Sort of says it all.