Posted on 11/16/2011 5:23:10 PM PST by GR_Jr.
Benetton returns to its controversial marketing roots with a new campaign that features President Obama and other world leaders engaging in a kiss. In two separate ads, Obama is seen kissing Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, and Chinese President Hu Jintao.
The Unhate Foundation, founded by the Italian clothing company, is an advocacy group for tolerance. The controversial ad campaign is an attempt for Benetton to regain its status from the “United Colors” ads that regularly shocked viewers with subjects that had nothing to do with clothing: A priest kissing a nun, a man dying of AIDS, a just-born baby with umbilical cord still attached, a trio of real human hearts.
In the new campaign, the leaders of North and South Korea lock lips, and the Pope kisses Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb, the Imam of al-Azhar mosque in Egypt. The Vatican condemned the image, and the company decided to remove it from all publications after complaints. German Chancellor Angela Merkel smooches Nicholas Sarkozy, president of France (What will Carla Bruni think?). Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also share a kiss. The campaign was inspired by a kiss between Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and East German communist leader Erich Honecker in 1979.
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here is the one of the Pope.
http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2011/11/16/BenetonAd_620x350.jpg
Somehow,I don’t think this whole campaign is going to last long
Some raghead is going to threaten to chop off the head of the CEO
Good Lord
Time for a REPUBLIC reset
Only a military coup can save us now.
The first fag p-resident in America. Larry Sinclair must be jealous.
Now there is a hope and change campaign poster for ya! Win the hearts and souls of 20% of the the electorate and make the rest puke.
With a little more imagination, the bowing pics of O’bummer could be put to good use.
Funny.
* snort *
I KNEW it!
UUUGGHH!
OMG!
I was thinking about Bennetton last weekend when I was visiting Evansville. I remember back in the late 1980’s, there was a girl who came to our parties there who worked there. The store was in the Eastland Mall off of Green River Road. I remember they were controversial at the time as well.
FLOL ! Ummm, I wonder that the right hand is doing ? LOL ! I know they would enjoy being a Ménage à trois !
That which has been seen cannot be unseen.
This is going to require some serious electro-convulsive shock therapy.
Just DAMN!
He’s so the chick in both pictures. eeww what a creapy looser.
“He could be kissing his wife for all we know...”
Could be. Looks like Yugo Chavez but its hard to be certain...
OH GROOSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
LOL!!!!!!!
Exactly! I noticed right away how much smaller Bambi appears against Chavez and Jintao. He was intentionally rendered the chick in these pics and rightfully so, considering how often he lays down in front of our enemies.
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