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TPM Advertises for a Site Which Sells Tees Advocating Animal Abuse
Oh, I am rolling on the floor laughing at this T-shirt slogan:
"A Cat Will Blink When Struck With a Hammer."
Maybe you will blink when I kick your ass up between your shoulder blades, dirt bag!
How in the fuck can TPM allow slime who would sell T-Shirts with such disgusting messages to advertise on the site?
Get rid of that ad, or this is one of the last times I will visit your site. And I humbly entreat others to follow my example.
Robert
P.S. Try clicking on the picture of the floozie in the tired, '70-esque slogan "Save Water..." if you don't know what I am talking about.
"A Cat Will Blink When Struck With a Hammer."
Maybe you will blink when I kick your ass up between your shoulder blades, dirt bag!
How in the fuck can TPM allow slime who would sell T-Shirts with such disgusting messages to advertise on the site?
Get rid of that ad, or this is one of the last times I will visit your site. And I humbly entreat others to follow my example.
Robert
P.S. Try clicking on the picture of the floozie in the tired, '70-esque slogan "Save Water..." if you don't know what I am talking about.
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Dude. There's worse. The 50,000 battered women T?
Yeah. That's gotta change.
November 10, 2008 8:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Do cats bounce if they are alive?
TPM gets ads sent to it by Google and other adservers. Zero real control of content. True of most other sites, I'd guess.
November 10, 2008 8:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
A friend canceled his Google AdSense when an ad pushing Prop 8 showed up.
Then again, his blog is not his business - which is a business at which he does quite well.
November 10, 2008 8:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
You do realize that mentioning "t-shirt" in your post automatically triggers all the t-shirt ad bots to toss their ads at this page...
The scantily clad bimbo in the "waste water" outfit kind of bugged me, too. Especially when my 10-year-old came in and started reading TPM over my shoulder. I'll bet that if TPM really wanted to, they could find a filter, or a more enlightened ad company...
November 10, 2008 8:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Information Week Article on how to do it.
November 10, 2008 11:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's not Google Ads serving the T-Shirts advert, It's the Liberal Blog Advertising Network, and the irony of this is delightful.
November 11, 2008 5:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hate to say this, but liberals tend to have a narrow construct of what constitutes humor. Lighten up, dudes.
My uber-rightwing older bro used to drive an old Bronco with a license plate frame which read, "Cats flattened while you wait". This from a man (and his wife) who had half a dozen of the damn things; all loved and well cared-for.
I love animals. I also am fond of pretty women (hence my objection to those who wish to censor the t-shirt ads featuring nubile models). More importantly, I've got a whole helluva lot better things to worry and kvetch about than this silliness.
For example: as Josh posted up front, that reichwing congresscritter in GA warning of Obama's plans to create a new Gestapo.
On the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, no less.
November 10, 2008 11:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is what annoys me about the larger liberal world. This attitude that "I'm personally insulted by this so let's all stand in solidarity against all which may potentially insult anybody!!, who's with me!!?".
Lighten up, Francis.
I guess they call it Political Correctness. I call it uptight and humorless.
This ad is served by a sort of ad-conglomerator where TPM has very little control of its content and the advertisers get to choose which audience or site they want to target. TPM gets paid for this and I find it appropriate and smart. This ad model keeps a very important channel of news media viable in general. Specifically it keeps THE BEST political news website viable. - you think TPM could survive if it had to pay an ad sales team? And knock on every corporate door and ad agency in America? No, it couldn't.
And I've visited this so-called offensive t-shirt site. I think it's funny. I think it's hilarious. I've bought a shirt at one of these sites - it was for a party where we had to find funny t-shirts to give to a person who was a girl I'd met once (we drew names). It had a romantic pic of two people hand-in-hand on the beach and it said, "I like long walks on the beach and anal." People thought it was funny. Mostly because it is supposed to be. This Cat t-shirt you mention is funny too. And if you can believe it, I can laugh at that pic without actually being a person who would kill a cat or even remotely wish a cat harm. I'm a dog person, but I've had cats and loved them. The shirt, shockingly, did not make me want to harm cats and I'm quite certain if I saw a cat harmed that shirt would in no way dull my outrage.
I'm more offended by your attempt at censorship.
Protest if you like, that's your right. Boycott if you must, that's your prerogative. Try to recruit others if you wish, that's your time and effort. And then... disappear from this site so I don't have to continue to hear the whining about more and more specific nuanced perceived offenses, that'll be my relief.
November 11, 2008 1:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
Dude...CHILL.
November 11, 2008 5:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
Your complaint would be much more effective if you did three things:
November 11, 2008 9:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
Interestin commentary, all. And yes, I did get a bit carried a way in using profanity. Sorry.
Robert
November 11, 2008 1:31 PM | Reply | Permalink