There is some intense live-blogging action going on now that the Big Three automakers are back in Washington asking for a bailout for a second time, only this time they apparently have a "plan" to help out the American people…and are asking for $13 billion dollars more than they originally thought.
Because: why should Citigroup get $306 billion for their banks, and Freddie and Fannie get their bad loans taken care of by Uncle Sam, but Chrysler, Ford, and Chevrolet have to beg for a measly $25 bill? No fair, you guys!
Meanwhile Viacom is letting go 850 positions including old-timey MTV News anchor John Norris, NBC is cutting 1,3500, and AT&T is hitting staffers hard today with 12,000 new members of the unemployed ranks. So sure, let banking chairman Chris Dodd and Sen. Sherrod Brown debate the diner merits of what kind of transportation would have been appropriate for the auto execs to come in the first time as to not appear to lavish. We'll wait.
The Ingredients:
• MTV's sometimes-redemptive, voyeuristic guilty-pleasure, Made
• Ford Motors
• James Bond: Quantum of Solace
Put 'em in a pot and what do you got? A corporate marketer's wet dream:
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Does the American Family Association have an overinflated ego? It sounds that way.
The right wing non-profit called off its long-standing boycott against Ford Motors after striking what AFA leader Don Wildmon called "an agreement." The AFA toots its own horn, saying that Ford agreed to stop buying ads in gay rags, donating to pro-gay causes and the like. Ford, however, has a slightly different take.
In an astonishing display of marketing genius, a promoter for tonight's Pink concert is capitalizing on the same punchline Amy Poehler did for a Weekend Update segment: public displays of Hollywood's most private parts.
The concert, backed by Ford Motor Co., will broadcast live on MSN Music's website tonight and feature banner ads placed side-by-side with photos of exposed celeb genetalia. Featured vaginas are said to include Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, and the ever-modest Britney Spears.
As you might imagine, Ford isn't pleased to be attached to images of genital lips waving about, and the car company promptly issued a statement denying any affiliation to the campaign and that they're going to "investigat[e] the situation" more thoroughly.
A Ford spokesperson stated, "Ford knew nothing about this. We would never be involved in this kind of activity."
When asked to comment, Paris Hilton's vagina informed us that she was "temporarily indisposed."
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