NOT THE SHARPEST KNIVES IN THE DRAWER: Cartoon Network’s Juvenile Marketing Campaign
Clearly, Boston public safety officials overreacted to finding 38 LED screens depicting characters from the Cartoon Network’s "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" show on buildings, along roadways and under bridges all over the city. The viral marketing campaign was launched in ten cities two to three weeks ago, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Austin, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. "[O]nly Boston saw police action," according to Media Daily News.
Turner Broadcasting System Inc., which owns the Cartoon Network, "did not forewarn local authorities, because they never imagined the campaign would cause alarm," reports The Boston Globe. The company will reimburse the city something like $500K to cover the cost of emergency response personnel and the economic impact of the city being brought to a standstill while the LED devices were checked out.
So there was an outbreak of stupidity all around. But The Stiletto objects to the campaign because it is vulgar. The "Mooninite" character was flipping drivers the bird on one of the roadside signs. Parents ferrying their children to school did not have the option of changing he channel to shield them from the obscene gesture.
Runner Up: Politics abhors a vacuum, and The Stiletto is relieved that Joe Biden has so quickly stepped in to fill John Kerry’s role as "the gaffe-prone" candidate in the Dem field. Oh, and many thanks to Al Sharpton for divulging that he bathes daily. The Stiletto hopes never to get close enough to the odious, but apparently not odiferous, race-baiter to determine whether this is true.
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