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Contextual advertising Henry Kissinger can get down with

by David Donadio | September 7, 2008
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The New York Sun is running a story by Ladane Nasseri of Bloomberg News on an Iranian military exercise scheduled during Ramadan, and GoogleAds has introduced a hilarious juxtaposition into it:

Come to think of it, it’s kind of a nice gloss on the story. “We want to kill you,” said the scantily-clad Iranian spokeswoman, “but we want to be hot about it. We want to kill you with cleavage and leopard print.”


2 Comments - add your own

Evan — September 7, 2008 at 5:33 pm

A few months, I experienced a similar juxtaposition, only with a darker overtone: next to newly released pictures from Gitmo, there was an advertisement for skin care products.

Sonny Bunch — September 8, 2008 at 11:19 am

I wouldn’t laugh too hard, David: those ads were prominently featured on James and I’s sites when we were arguing about what to do over Iran.

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