UNCONVENTIONAL THINKING BLOG

Can all the marketing skill in the world, successfully market abject losers?
Can we make losers be perceived as objects of worship?
Or as technological marvels.
Could David Olgilvy have convinced the world that the Maginot Line was really a masterpiece of war?

Of course not. Ridiculous worthless junk is always ridiculous worthless junk. Bill Ford used Madison Avenue [...]

Okay so Wal-Mart takes some heat (for what, I’ll get to in a moment) and hires the “distinguished” civil rights leader, Andrew Young, to build bridges to the inner cities/minority groups and the like. And Young promptly does what these demagogues so often do: disgraces himself with racist remarks that smear nearly every minority [...]

Hollywood is a buzz with advance word of Mel Gibson’s rumored new epic “Why I Hate Jews.“ Based on the Gibson family’s real “PASSION,” the new film will reportedly reveal heretofore unseen newsreels of David Ben Gurion, Albert Einstein, Marc Chagall and their cohorts planning the myth of the holocaust.
Marketing genius that he [...]

Imagine if Kofi Annan was a product. Would he sell? Well, he doesn’t do anything of value. Zero. I mean a total wastoid.
But wait, this guy whose performance sucks, is a marketing magician. I mean there is turmoil in the world requiring solutions to complex issues and [...]

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