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Silly? How about outrageous (but not necessarily funny)? The first one that comes to mind is the television commercial paid for by the American Petroleum Institute. Americans (probably everyone else, too) hate oil companies cuz they make lots of money and cuz they feed our insatiable desire for oil. In response, the API is trying to make them look less evil. One recent ad tries to do this by pointing out that most of us own a piece of the oil companies in our pension funds, 401(k) mutual funds, and the like. So I'm supposed to now say "I have seen the enemy and they are me - so maybe they're not as bad afterall". I wanted to throw something at the television.
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