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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:
What do you think? ![:-\](http://sistertoldjah.com/smilies/yahoo_question.gif ":-\"){kind=small}
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They better be careful, or the Keebler Elf supporters will boycott PizzaHut. All two dozen of them.
Why do the staffs of candidates get so snippy? He said he saw an unidentified flying object, Pizza Hut didn’t. I see UFOs all the time, but then I’m in the flight path of NYC’s area airports, and I don’t always have my telescope handy.
As a Star Trek fan I am greatly offended that you would compare Mr. Spock to that weirdo from another planet!!
Geez!!!!! Let’s have SOME boundaries, shall we?!?!?
No, not even close, ST. You leave Spock out of this, or me and NC Cop are gonna come over with a Costco sized drum of whup-ass!
I have no idea what the drum is for, it was NC’s idea.
No, wait, I mean Lorica – he insisted!
I insisted?? I would like to come on over to Charlotte, but not with a big ole can o’ whoop ass. I like Spock, you do have to admit there is a similarity between the two. But let’s face it Dennis could never ever hope to attain the genius of Spock, so I don’t actually like the comparison no. Now if left to me I would compare Dennis to the Zergling from Starcraft. Just another idiotic automaton, whose last original thought died soon after puberty.
Infact, I think we need to start denying these wastes of space Federal matching funds. If you can’t poll above 10 percent, youse got no chance of winning so why are you wasting the money. Get that Biden, Dodd, Paul, and all the other nobodies wasting money and our air waves. – Lorica
I beg to differ! Big difference between Spock and Kucinich…Spock had a human mother!
Oh, c’mon! Lighten up! It was a joke!
…as opposed to two aliens! Sheesh! (I’m not dissing Kucinich’s Mom!)
Too late to try weaseling your way out of this one, Lorica! And after you went to all the trouble to put on the blue shirt and fake, ears, too. Anyway, the fingerprints on the drum are not mine. I do like the Starcraft reference… “You wanna piece of me, boy?”
Actually, Kucinich reminds me of Nilz Baris, the dorky undersecretary in charge of the grain in The Trouble With Tribbles.
While we’re on the subject of Star Trek, Think Geek has a great t-shirt. It’s red, has a black collar like the Star Trek original series security uniforms, and has the words “Expendable” written on it in a Star Trek type font. LOL!
Jeff Darcy, cartoonist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer has lampooned Kucinich far worse than the pizza people have! One example is here: Jeff Darcy
Or here: Jeff Darcy
I don’t know, Sis- Dennis looks too orange to be a vulcan.
No way Spock and Kucinich are related. Try comparing Kucinich to Harcort Fenton Mudd.
Got your back, NC Cop.
Signed,
The Klingon Captain.
My Brother works for a local TV station here and he told me Friday that they have made over 5,000,000.00 extra due to all the political ads being aired. Also this week they are going to go virtually wall to wall political ads. Thank God I am not a big fan of NBC, and cable. – Lorica
Lorica,
I once was a Explorer scout at WFRV tv in Green Bay back when they were the NBC affiliate. I sometimes miss those days, although the copywriting skills I learned did help me get a job for a radio show in L.A.