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    Image of Mike Byhoff Mike Byhoff
    07/21/09

    In reply to Fake Sprite Ad Director Speaks: It Was Fake. Duh.
    Swish for Gawker, or Sad Trombone for everyone else?
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    Image of funyonjr funyonjr
    07/21/09

    In reply to Fake Sprite Ad Director Speaks: It Was Fake. Duh.
    What fact checking? Saying it was a spec, ad (which it wasn't - it was just fake) isn't checking facts, that's making an educated guess. Updates come after a story has been posted, so, yeah.
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    Image of Hamilton Nolan Hamilton Nolan
    07/21/09

    @funyonjr: It said in the description on YouTube that it was a spec ad, so, yeah.
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    Image of funyonjr funyonjr
    07/21/09

    @Hamilton Nolan: That's fact checking? I thought that was called, "reading the description"? Fact checking is calling Sprite or their whoever, no? Whatevs.
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    Image of Hamilton Nolan Hamilton Nolan
    07/21/09

    @funyonjr: It's called "stating correctly that it was a spec ad rather than an official ad produced by Sprite." The only notable thing about it is that all anyone had to do was look at the description. I'll be the first one to admit it's not Pulitzer-level work.
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    Image of funyonjr funyonjr
    07/21/09

    @Hamilton Nolan: Tru. Please consult this highly official definition of spec. http://advertising.about.com/b/2004/07/30/tip-of-the-week-whats-a-spec-ad.htm
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    07/21/09

    In reply to Fake Sprite Ad Director Speaks: It Was Fake. Duh.
    PPS My next spec ad will feature claymated lemons and limes making little Sprite babies. I hope you will assist in its going viral. Thank you Gawker!
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    07/21/09

    @Aaron Altman: I think your idea has a lot of appeel.
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    07/21/09

    @DennyCrane: If you have any juice, make it happen!
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    07/21/09

    @Aaron Altman: Like they say, if life gives you lemons, make a spec ad of them having sex with limes.
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    Image of Gawkchalk Gawkchalk
    07/21/09

    In reply to Fake Sprite Ad Director Speaks: It Was Fake. Duh.
    The other source was The Onion
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    05/31/09

    In reply to Barack Obama On George Tiller's Death: "Shocked and Outraged"
    And these are the same people who can't understand why anyone of another faith would kill US for their beliefs.
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    Image of BonMorte BonMorte
    05/31/09

    In reply to Barack Obama On George Tiller's Death: "Shocked and Outraged"
    Let's not be anti choice now. After all this was only the 167th trimester.
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    05/31/09

    @BonMorte: Right. Because the gunman's own physical integrity and health was being compromised by the existence of the doctor, and given that he was only making his choice based on his own valid rights to those things, this was a perfectly legitimate extension of that concept. Except totally not, moron.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    05/31/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: Holy christ, how did you possibly dredge up a moronically heartfelt answer to a pretty funny stupid statement? Are you drunk? Is your indignation gland inflamed?
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    Image of BonMorte BonMorte
    05/31/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Yeah! What he said!
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    Image of Cicada Cicada
    06/01/09

    @BonMorte: The fact that you basically applauded the murder of Dr. Tiller on another thread means that you get no free pass to be "witty" on this one.

    Jerk.
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    06/01/09

    @BonMorte: Sorry, I confused you with a different person. You didn't applaud Tiller's murder, you've just made some stupid jokes about it.


    Apologies.

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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    05/31/09

    In reply to Barack Obama On George Tiller's Death: "Shocked and Outraged"
    Glad Obama said something. From what I've read, Tiller's work in late term abortion had to do mostly with terrible life-threatening deformities, conjoined twins and the like. He was one of the very few doctors in the entire US to meet with anguished couples and help them with their very hard decisions.


    And that ignorant bastard Bill O'Reilly practically put out a death warrant on him.


    All I know is the best thing is for abortion to be safe, legal, and rare. We cannot go back to the dark ages where desperate women are at the mercy of criminals. Back alley, wire hanger, yes it really happened , it's true. It's very mainstream now to sneer at "Choice" on television, as if the alternative were any better, to understate it. All I know is that women's right's, health, and well being matters to me a lot. We can't go backwards.

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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    05/31/09

    @Baroness: APPLAUSE!!!
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    Image of ginger rant ginger rant
    05/31/09

    @Baroness: Agree with all you say. Re: Going back to women dying in back alleys: unfortunately, that argument will never sway anti-choicers to see the light. Thinks they: "If women are dying in back alleys because they're murdering their babies, well, that's what they deserve."
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    Image of Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
    06/01/09

    @Baroness: They arrested my mother in the hospital bed after her wire-hanger, no sterilization, drunk doctor experience. If you have a choice, you don't go into dark alleys.
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    Image of bess marvin, girl detective bess marvin, girl detective
    05/31/09

    In reply to Barack Obama On George Tiller's Death: "Shocked and Outraged"
    "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." -Ghandi
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    05/31/09

    In reply to Barack Obama On George Tiller's Death: "Shocked and Outraged"
    He should have said, "The pro life people should really stop killing people."
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    Image of Krashstar Krashstar
    05/31/09

    In reply to Barack Obama On George Tiller's Death: "Shocked and Outraged"
    I (dis)liked the way that the nasty pack of fundies that operates in the area said they, too, were shocked and that they hoped the good Dr. had received the grace "that only Jesus Christ can provide".


    Really? Did you have to go and turn that into a sales pitch? What is it with these people?

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    Image of Gonkette Gonkette
    05/31/09

    @Krashstar: Are you suggesting that Jesus is like a Ped Egg?
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    Image of shavethatsoulpatch shavethatsoulpatch
    05/31/09

    @Gonkette: "You're gonna LOVE my Jesus!"
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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    05/31/09

    @Krashstar: right. what you have to understand is, they're horrible people.
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    Image of forwardmotion forwardmotion
    05/31/09

    @bluebears: Horrible and unbearable.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    05/31/09

    @bluebears: You know, wishing happiness and religious grace on someone who you regard as having committed very serious spiritual offences is actually a pretty nice statement. It's saying you hope that all people come to a state of redemption, and end up in heaven.


    For heavily religious people, it can be a difficult thing to wish happiness on other people. There should be more of that.

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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    06/01/09

    @shavethatsoulpatch: Stop having a boring lord and savior, stop having a boring life.


    @Krashstar: I guess they felt the need to sell religion since getting shot on one's way into church is kind of negative?

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    Image of Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
    06/01/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: While I agree with your statement, I can't help but to hear that statement in a very "shame on you now you're going to your judgement where you will be found wanting" voice.
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