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In this article in today’s New York Times, writer Stuart Elliot reads way too much into yesterday’s Super Bowl advertising. Mr. Elliot argues that there were many ads that had underlying references to Iraq and violence. I watched most of the ads and while making comparisons to various other things, none of them made me think of Iraq. Did any make you think of the war?

The Kevin Federline ad was not one mentioned by Mr. Elliot when referring to Iraq (thankfully) but it was a good one. I wonder if he’ll take Taco Bell up on that offer to work there for an hour. Anyways, back to The Times dilusional interpretation of the Super Bowl ads.

Stuart says this among a few other dumb things:

Then, too, there was the unfortunate homonym at the heart of a commercial from Prudential Financial, titled “What Can a Rock Do?”

The problem with the spot, created internally at Prudential, was that whenever the announcer said, “a rock” — invoking the Prudential logo, the rock of Gibraltar — it sounded as if he were saying, yes, “Iraq.”

No, he was just saying “a rock.” Yeah, you know, their logo. In honor of Stephen Colbert, Sirened is giving its first wag of the finger to the NY Times for a very stupid article.

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