Government Advertising
ANYONE who has spent any time in NSW would be familiar with the provocative “small-penis” advertisement aimed at combating hoon driving.
The ad, filmed in slow motion with a classical music soundtrack, features a pimply-faced youth, still on his P-plates, who almost loses control of his crappy old Toyota Corolla while trying to do a burn-out.
His mates in the back seat look at each other, raise an eyebrow and smirk, then make a wiggly gesture with their little finger as if to say their driver friend must be so poorly equipped tackle-wise that he has to compensate by being a big man with the car.
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Isn’t it amazing Mr Rudd has a get out clause to allow him to run an advertising campaign worth $38 million of tax payer’s money without any scrutiny at all. How pathetic!
A ‘cancer in our democracy’ his words for tax payer funded government advertising, when done by someone other than him and his government, suddenly turns into a national emergency to tell porkies about his opponents.
A quick analysis of the so called implementation of his promise to have the Auditor-General be used to give his campaigns legitimacy is interesting.
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DC says:
You’ve gotta love Bronwyn Bishop - she has the gall to call other people names (Swan the con) and then to have a go at the Greens for their preference deals, and yet she completely forgets that her own Party has been guilty of the very same thing with One… Read more »
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DC says:
Wow - hypocrisy at it’s best. How many times has the Liberal party mentioned Whitlam recently? Believe it or not, it’s actually quite relevant for anyone to raise anything that the Howard Government has done. Why? If you haven’t noticed, most of Abbots shadow ministry are former Howard ministers (and… Read more »
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