National Ad Makes Fun Of Bush

[JABBS]

A major corporation is poking fun at President Bush.

The latest installment of Holiday Inn Express' award-winning "Stay Smart" advertising campaign shows a towel-clad man sitting at Bush's Oval Office desk. When he announces he's balanced the budget, the Bush character asks what accounting firm the man is from, to which he replies that he isn't an accountant, but "I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express."

The ad follows the running joke that staying at a Holiday Inn Express allows its guests to do the impossible. Other ads feature a hotel guest conversing with a dolphin, or performing a delicate surgical procedure with no medical training.

To be sure, this isn't some Michael Moore production. Holiday Inn Express is part of British corporation InterContinental Hotels Group, whose U.S. offices are in Atlanta -- deep in the heart of Red State America.

And I'm guessing InterContinental is pleased with the latest ad: earlier this week, it promoted a key figure who helped guide the ad campaign.

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This article first appeared at Journalists Against Bush's B.S.

[eleny]

1. He's damaged goods

[rasputin1952]

2. Yep...and everyone knows it. Now he's becoming the butt of many a

joke....:evilgrin:

[kansasblue]

3. I saw that ad but I don't have that view....

it could have worked with any president. I didn't feel it was anti-Bush.

[A Brand New World]

4. I haven't seen the ad but it sounds effective. Even though it doesn't

directly state Bush, I figure most people would associate the ad with him, considering he is the sitting President (HA! HA!) and he has record high deficits.

[JABBS]

6. c'mon

The president was a slim man with graying hair and an obvious southern accent. Which president do you think it was?

[kansasblue]

8. I'm not saying it wasn't Bush.....

I'm saying any president could have been in the parody regardless of approval standings. I'm saying the same ad would work during the Clinton years, Bush I, Reagan, etc. I don't think they chose to use Bush because of low standing.

[gratuitous]

9. The ad probably wouldn't have worked during the Clinton years

Because, quite simply, Clinton balanced the budget. In fact, America was so prosperous during the Clinton years that we actually retired some of the national debt for the first time in ages.

[JABBS]

11. The joke is

That someone who stays at the hotel can do the impossible, like talk to dolphins, or in this case, balance the budget. The joke wouldn't have worked under Clinton, because he did balance the budget.

The president is clearly Bush.

[MADem]

10. It is an OLD ad, too--been running for months n/t

[nookiemonster]

5. Time to crank up the RW smear machine,

and go after the wicked Al Holiday-a.

[JABBS]

7. LOL

I'd love to see the "conservative noise machine" try a boycott.