MSN’s Waterboarding Ad - Someone needs a new Ad Agency
I think someone at Microsoft’s MSN advertising agency needs a dictionary.
Waterboarding is not Wakeboarding
Wakeboarding is a surface water sport which involves riding a wakeboard over the surface of a body of water behind a boat
Waterboarding is a form of torture which consists of immobilizing an individual and pouring water over his or her face to simulate drowning. Waterboarding has been used to obtain information, coerce confessions, and also to punish, and/or intimidate. It elicits the gag reflex, and can make the subject believe his or her death is imminent
This was the ad that was rotated on YouTube.
We were able to duplicate this at least once.
Microsoft must be going political with their ads, because this is totally off the wall… or an honest mistake.
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