The world of advertising has become a hovel of ineptitude as finance the world over very quickly crumbles, thus proving what we've known for years: ad people are cowards who will break under pressure.

At right is a Fox Business ad, complete with a lie about being LIVE when the bailout happened (the bailout didn't happen, of course). Then there's the world's banks, most of which are trying in vain to sound rock-solid as they collapse like castles made of sand.

And the political advertisers aren't doing any better. Twice now McCain's camp has screwed up by sending out ads that never should have been. First was an Internet ad proclaiming on Thursday that Senator McCain won Friday's debate, and next was an RNC TV spot whose main point assumed the bailout went through. Of course, McCain didn't win the debate and, again, the bailout didn't go through, but those facts didn't stop some marketing dolts from brainstorming them and then loosing them on a confused public.

Nice to see that in times of crisis people are quicker than usual to abandon facts and good sense.