Adventures in Contextual Advertising: When Messages Cross, John McCain Gets Hurt

I love it when ads clash.

For some reason, we’re getting a ton of John McCain ads on the site right now. We’re pretty clear about our general disdain for Mr. McCain and our belief that if he won in November, our country as we know it would be finished. Barack Obama will save our country.

Anyways- I got a kick out of seeing these two ads juxtaposed on the site. The top ad asks “Which candidate was ranked 894 out of 899 students in college?” (Hint, they still used abacuses when this guy was in college). The ad jumps to a few videos Good Magazine has put together about each candidate. John McCain’s video, if you haven’t guessed already, points out that he graduated 894 out of 899 in his class at the Navy Academy.

The bottom ad is straight from McCain’s campaign. It asks the (stupid) questions “Is it OK to Unconditionally Meet with Anti-American Foreign Leaders” (answer: Yes! It’s fscking called Diplomacy you douchebag!) and jumps to some bullshit page trolling for email addresses and donations. I made a reverse donation by clicking on the ad and signing up as “McCainIsGoingDown@by20inNovember.com“.

I loves me the interwebs.

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