Saturday night funny: Pizza Hut ad “outrages” Kucinich supporters

The Cleveland Plain Dealer blog reports today that a few Dennis Kucinich supporters are outraged about a new ad Pizza Hut is running, which features all the presidential candidates, including Rep. Kucinich:

“Are people seeing lower prices now?” the announcer in the ad asks before cutting to a debate segment where Kucinich says: “More people in this country have seen UFOs.”

When the vegan congressman disappears from the screen, his image is replaced by meat-covered pizzas.

Operators of several websites that admire the Cleveland congressmen are urging readers to complain to Pizza Hut. They’re not mad about Kucinich being linked to pepperoni despite his meat aversion, or being linked to chain pizza despite his anti-corporate rhetoric. It’s the UFO reference that’s given them indigestion.

“I am going to encourage all Kucinich supporters to boycott your restaurant until you change your “debate” advertising,” wrote the operator of a website called Dandelionsalad. “That was a low blow to a viable, electable presidential candidate. Consider the word OUT! I also think Pizza Hut should publicly apologize to the Congressman!”

The “outrage” is ridiculous, something I think you’ll agree with once you view the ad:

The ad isn’t in any way disparaging of Kucinich as it uses his own words about UFOs. If his supporters are upset about the fact that Pizza Hut used a direct quote from Kucinich about extra terrestrial activity, they ought to direct their ire to the man who made the comments in the first place.

I’m with McQ, who wonders if faux outrage has crippled our ability to laugh at ourselves. Not only that, but this is Dennis Kucinich we’re talking about here, whose entire candidacy is pretty much a joke.

Me? I’ve always wondered if Kucinich and Mr. Spock were separated at birth:

Spock - Kucinich

What do you think? :-\

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