Audi Green Police Ads Downright Offensive

Dakota Voice ^ | Feb 8, 2010 | Bob Ellis

[xenob]

I thought it was a funny ad... Mocking the green nazi’s, but showing you can still get a decent MPG in a cool car. (Not the clown cars the green police were driving.) TDI are excellent. What’s wrong with getting 40+ MPG, while having room for 5 people with the ability to go 100mph. (yes, i know that’s speeding)

I also realized that some people on here can really suck the fun out of anything...

[Sandy01]

Actually......Audi has a series featuring the individual “green policemen” educating us on being environmentally good citizens on youtube. They are pushing the green thing....

[Major Matt Mason]

I think Audi is guilty of trying to have it both ways in this commercial. On the one hand, they do rip on the Eco Fascists in the commercial via the Green Police. At the same time, though, they are trying to point out how wonderful and environmentally correct their product is, which sort of negates their mocking of the Eco Fascists.

Of course, one of my favorite Cheap Trick songs was the background music, so I at least enjoyed that part of the commercial.

[YOUGOTIT]

The so called Greens are direct offspring of Hitler and Stalin and are anti human and could care less about the environment as they want to have all humans taken off the earth.

[Red Badger]

Liberals have no sense of humor.................

[Cicero]

What’s creepy about those ads is that they are very funny. They successfully mock the idea of the Green Police. But then at the end of the ad, they declare themselves to be ON THE SIDE OF the Green Police. That makes no sense.

This would make a great ad for a big, gas-guzzling SUV or a Hummer. The ad would say, “To hell with the Green Police. I’m a free American and I’ll drive what I like.”

On the contrary. What these ads do is mock the idea of Green Police and then go on to say: “Kneel down to the Green Police. Our little green car will help you do it.”

I don’t know what on earth they were thinking of to run something like that. It just goes to show that liberals are even more out of touch with reality than we thought.

[Condor51]

Somehow I missed the Audi Green Police Ads. Good thing I did, I prolly would have ‘done an Elvis’ to my TV.

[Little Ray]

It was funny in a creepy sort of way. Only crypto-fascist Greens could have actually liked the behavior of the “Green Police.”

[GOP_Party_Animal]

Wait a minute - how do you know those critters weren’t endangered?! You may have destroyed a natural habitat!!

[byteback]

The commercial is presented with too much seriousness

Someone needs to lighten up. This was Reno 911 dressed in green.

[LadyPilgrim]

I didn’t like that ad at all! Very anti American if you ask me!

Do away with the EPA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[YOUGOTIT]

When the EPA makes the laws concerning CO2 and other so called green gases there will be Green Police that could care less about the Constitution as does the EPA and their left wing idiots who lie every day about the environment.

[Skenderbej]

Um, yeah, just watched those videos. It’s pretty obvious to me that they’re making fun of the green movement. But, I’m no expert.

[Gay State Conservative]

There's no way that that ad could be interpreted as being anything but a slap at Eco-Whackjobs,IMO.Owning a diesel myself (not an Audi) I can assure you that it's a blast to drive.You touch the pedal and it takes off like a rocket...*and*...it gets 42-43mpg on the highway.The fact that it's "environmentally responsible",to me,means less than nothing.

If Washington really wanted to do something positive regarding energy policy (apart from opening up our huge oil reserves to drilling) they'd encourage the use of diesels in passenger cars.

[scan59]

I personally don’t find anything wrong with better, cleaner technology, as long as the market supports it and I’m not forced by legislation to use it.

That's a key point that many on both sides miss. Conservatives don't hate the environment, they hate being legislated and lectured to. If the market -- that is, consumers -- will support it, then fine. If the market won't, then the government has no business forcing us to buy it.

[stevio]

The only thing I can think of is that it’s so scary it’s offensive. I think (hope) it will wake more people up to the direction that we’re going and stop it.

[Cyman]

I found the ad to be hilariously funny and said aloud to the other people in the room that Audi had a lot of guts poking fun at the crazy left wing tree huggers and subsequently at itself. Ads are not designed to be true or funny or enlightening but they are designed to be noticed(and talked about).

This ad agency hit the ball farther than a steroidized Mark McGuire.

[JerseyDvl]

It was great use of ridicule to marginalize the kooky greenies. The subsequent squealing proves that it was extremely effective.
If you are catching flack, you are over the target.

[Navy Patriot]

I think it served as a huge warning. All this “controversy” is GREAT.

Of course, while I was watching it, I was saying - time to shoot back.

You get it.

The portrayal of the average Joe's not "shooting back" was a vicious hit at the watermelon thugs, as the "green police" were portrayed as jackboot thugs, even toward the real police.

Socialist authority always ends in ordinary citizens ending up in Gulags, camps and mass graves, and the ordinary person can extrapolate easily from this ad.

[lack-of-trust]

Thankyou Audi!!!!

This is the image I want Joe average to have in his mind when he hears “Green”, “Renewable” or “Environmentally Friendly”! I want the Cheap Trick tune ringing in their ears when Dem Pols are talking.

I don’t know what their intentions were, but I applaud the results!