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 How Not to Blend Current Events, AdvertisingPosted on Feb 3, 2011
Well, this was just a colossally bad idea. Kenneth Cole, manufacturer of strangely expensive yet consistently mediocre shoes, decided to do a clever (read: not clever at all) ripped-from-the-headlines blend of promotion and news commentary via Twitter on Thursday, and the resulting tweetertisement was a debacle in under 25 words. —KA
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By azythos, February 6, 2011 at 9:43 pm Link to this comment
Tut, tut.
You cannot agree to the primacy of private property over the public good and at the same time inveigh against the “excesses” of capitalism.
Before straining at this gnat, you have already swallowed all sorts of camels, including the legal selling and buying of Congress members and Presidents.
These guys are simply exercising the one and only guaranteed freedom in the US: that of screwing the boobies to sell them cheap shit.
Report thisBy reynolds, February 5, 2011 at 4:06 pm Link to this comment
two words for kenneth cole; john lobb
Report thisBy Christian Welch, February 5, 2011 at 12:26 pm Link to this comment
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I have recently noticed a number of male folk shod in what appear to be updated versions of the pointed-toed pigases worn in certain quarters by some in medieval Europe. I assumed they had been purchased either under duress or in a misguided attempt to be “cool” from a local thrift store. I have now learned that these ridiculous shoes are actually by design and that one of the main manufacturers of such is a company called Kenneth Cole. Judging from this crude and inappropriate ad, it would appear that KC’s lack of taste and judgment extend well beyond cobbled leather…
Report thisBy Brian Dykstra, February 4, 2011 at 11:19 am Link to this comment
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what douchebags.
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