Good news: Tiger Woods return to advertising. Bad news: Involuntarily and for PETA. ;)
Moments after his sex scandal was revealed, companies pulled their Tiger Woods ads and the golfer went from ubiquitous to pretty much invisible. Is Tiger's days as product endorsement champ over? Not to PETA!
The animal-rights group came up with the "cheeky spay-and-neuter" billboard above (without the golfer's approval) that will surely bring a resurgence to all those bad Tiger Woods jokes:
It will be a challenge to find an advertiser to put up the sign, acknowledged Virginia Fort, a campaigner with PETA who is working on the project.
"It's a fun, tongue-in-cheek approach. We hope these billboard companies will understand," Fort said.
She said the billboard isn't meant to offend the golfer, his family or fans, but to prevent millions of cats and dogs from being euthanized at shelters each year. [...]
"We're sure Tiger will appreciate our attempt — from a story that's distracted the world and followed Tiger — to turn it into something positive for little tigers," she said.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/os-tiger-woods-peta-billboard-plans-20100224,0,7790838.story
Just wow.
On a related note, I have no idea why the nice door-to-door PETA campaigners ran away screaming for their lives when I made the same request to them a few days ago...
http://www.splicetoday.com/pop-culture/eating-chicken-is-like-eating-people
hope the link displays)
Or do you think that George W Bush posed for all of those anti-Bush ad campaigns, signed off on them, and was paid for them?
It's a little tougher and more risky to use someone for whom you did not get a release form; for example, if you make it appear that they are endorsing your product, and they haven't, you can get in a lot of trouble. But I don't think too many people will be confusing this billboard with Tiger Woods endorsing anyone.
I don't care about PETA one way or the other, but if you're going to comment about stuff, is it too much to ask that you have a hint of a clue about what you're talking about? Oh wait, this is neatorama... never mind.
-fred
4:1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, 2 through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, 3 who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. 4 For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,
It might make you think twice about how great PETA is if you are behind them.
PETA(n): the village idiot who does not know how to hunt of fish.
This doesn't mention that the only place they planed to put the billboard up was in a city very near his home town, these people are ridiculous.
Wow...
Michael Vick was involved with dog fighting.
That is way, way, way worse than being a homosexual--whether that homosexual eats fruits off the naked bodies of his/her fellow homosexual friends or not. But thanks for sharing your secret little fantasy with us.
Why don't you try to stay "busy and nicer" and not be such a homophobe?