Salon Finally Discovers "Our Leader" Billboards, Mentions DU

[otohara]

Cue the band and start marching?



"George W. Bush: Our Leader."

That message, stamped in looming letters alongside the president's smiling mug, currently graces several billboards in Orlando, Florida, along Interstate 4. Some images of the billboards were posted on Democratic Underground.com just before the Thanksgiving holiday, and have been making the rounds on the Web since. The billboards in question are controlled by media juggernaut Clear Channel Commuications, and also carry a tag saying that the contents are a "political public service message brought to you by Clear Channel Outdoor."

Raw Story's John Byrne reports that Clear Channel corporate spokesmen are brushing aside any responsibility for the billboards.

"In response to inquiries from Raw Story and the Associated Press, Clear Channel Outdoor issued a statement asserting that the billboard’s content was the product of the local office of the company, and not a corporate decision.

"'Clear Channel Outdoor markets are operated locally,' Tony Alwin, Senior Vice President, Creative for Clear Channel Outdoor, said. 'Local managers determine what copy to use when a location has time that is not sold to an advertiser.' Clear Channel Outdoor Orlando said they could not respond to requests for comment this week because their press person was 'away.' They referred calls to their San Antonio corporate parent, which did not return two messages for comment.

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html

[Jo March]

1. Whatever. These billboards make me sick and CC

is a propaganda tool of the ** regime.

[SmokingJacket]

2. Love it.

DU is the place to be, man!

[Maat]

5. DU is the place to be!

What a bunch of jibberish coming out of the Clear Channel offices. Are they proud of their display or not? Do they believe in its message or not? Are they ashamed after having been outed as blatant propandists or what?

[otohara]

11. What's Sad is Salon No Follow Up

from original OLD story. Wished someone, anyone would have gotten a "quote" from CC Orlando. Nice follow up Salon...way to go!

[Stephanie]

3. That's cool

We had a good time that day.

[Jack_Dawson]

4. Post the Pic, Please

I need to purge.

[tkmorris]

8. Pic

[Jack_Dawson]

10. OH PUKE

:puke:

THANK GOD ALMIGHTY I LIVE IN A BLUE STATE. THAT BILLBOARD WOULD SURVIVE ABOUT 5 SECONDS IN CA

[Quill Pen]

16. Installation art

Oh, I'd love to see one of these in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood (kind of like a junior varsity San Francisco). You could come back in a week and find Chimp's face pocked with generous samples of every kind of excretion ever produced by man or beast. It'd be worth an NEA grant by that time.

[steve2470]

6. just sent a LTTE to the Orlando Sentinel nt

[Yuugal]

13. You guys are sooooo lucky!

If they want to put those up here on Long Island you wont see anybody complaining. The possibilities are just endless!!!!!!!!

[kentuck]

7. They were talking about this on the Ed Schultz show also...

Someone suggested they replace Bush's face with that of Alfred E. Neuman.

[Kat45]

18. Schultz mentioned a new billboard, I forget in what state

I apologize, but I can't remember the exact wording but the gist of it was: don't question or second-guess, support our president and the troops! Schultz said he found that even more outrageous than the other one.

[Liberty Belle]

21. Ohio and Florida.

There were threads here on both; most recent included photos of AZ billboards by Clearchannel and Viacom, but they were different than the Florida ones.

[mbee]

9. Stuff like this is what Walmart can blame for their

poor sales which will probably get poorer and poorer! People are fed up!

[Quill Pen]

14. I heard last night...

...that Wal-Mart's blaming "higher gas prices, which are discouraging families from driving."

Ah, that must be it. Perhaps if they sold gas at Wal-Mart, they could force all the refineries to move to China. And then, hooray, owners of mammoth Lincoln Terminators could fill their tanks for $5.

[OneTwentyoNine]

12. I saw a "congrats"sign for Congressman Todd Tiahart here in Wichita...

If I remember right at the bottom it was paid for by the Outdoor Advertising Association. Yeah sure...as in Clear Channel.

[JanMichael]

15. About fucking time. Nimrods.

Seriously, these billboards are practically calling out the Brown Shirts and no I don't mean UPS.

And they just now do a story?

whatever...

[otohara]

19. Not Just Any Story

they pretty much copied word for word from the original story posted in TheRawStory... which is going on 2+ weeks old.

http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=442

[sandnsea]

17. SEVERAL billboards???

Just how the hell many of these are there?

[steve2470]

20. I've seen at least 3 nt

[Stephanie]

22. Here's one of our original threads on this:

This one is from later in the day - wish I could search archives to find the thread that had all the pictures in it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2743969

[JNelson6563]

23. Salon is useless

they remind me of some of the Dem "leadership".

Julie

[livinginphotographs]

24. Just a general, unrelated question:

What does "mein fuhrer?" mean?

Not that it's related to this discussion at all....