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Instamonkey: Jonah Goldberg on Audi's 'Green Police'

Wed, 02/10/2010 - 14:25 — Ben

I still think the Super Bowl ad was more fundamentally serious than irreverent (and Zaius agrees), but I can't help but nod approvingly at Goldberg's take:

It will be interesting to see whether the ad actually sells cars. The premise only works if you take it as a given that this Gorewellian nightmare is inevitable. The commercials arrive at precisely the moment when that inevitability is unraveling like an old pair of hemp sock.

Read the rest; but, yeah, that's about right.

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Wed, 02/10/2010 - 14:34 — crywalt

Gorewellian

Did he coin that word "Gorewellian"? Because it's FUCKING AWESOME.

Wed, 02/10/2010 - 14:45 — Khabalox

I'm so old school....

I read this in the print edition of the LA Times. The Times has gone to a narrower sheet, and it looks and feels godawful.

I had to laugh/cringe when I read the first two paragraphs. Talking about the snow in DC he says:

We’re slated for another foot by Wednesday.

Suffice it to say I’m not panicking about global warming right now.

I laugh because that is so moronic (but probably intentional), and I cringe because this self-adopted misnomer is taken at face value by a much larger portion of the population. Global warming must be a sham, because it's snowing. *rolls eyes*

Wed, 02/10/2010 - 15:35 — Capuchin the Wry

I Concur

it does people no good to doubt science that might be deserving of doubt, by resorting to foolishness. A simple glance at the stock market value will suffice to illustrate, for the average citizen, the principle of "random short-term flux" within an overall trend.

let's not compound the stupidity of the "settled science" that sells us climate change as being uniformly detrimental for "the planet" with even more stupidity about micro-variation. ;o/

Wed, 02/10/2010 - 14:55 — crywalt

Available on YouTube

Does anyone else wonder when we wandered into a universe where people watch commercials on purpose? Aside from those European ones with the nudity, that is.

Wed, 02/10/2010 - 15:01 — Ben

Re: Available on YouTube

It's been 20 years at least, hasn't it? Don't you remember those specials with names like "World's Most Outrageous Commercials!" or "The Wackiest Commercials Ever!" I think maybe NBC or Fox would run them from time to time. And, Lord help me, I'd watch.

I like YouTube's Super Bowl commercial set up. Some of the ads are worth a couple of chuckles, and it spares me from watching the game.

Wed, 02/10/2010 - 15:04 — Khabalox

RE Available on YouTube

From Nielson:

Fifty-one percent of those questioned said they most enjoy the commercials that air throughout the game when compared to the Super Bowl game itself. Forty-nine percent said that they enjoy the game more than the ads. Results were based on a sample of more than 25,000 households in Nielsen’s Homescan panel.

Wed, 02/10/2010 - 15:39 — Capuchin the Wry

Commercials Best Part? That's Perfect

it is, after all, why television was developed into the boob tube that it is. I tell my students that commercials are the most important part of the broadcast, and they look a little perplexed, bless their hearts.