World Wildlife Fund: Hey! We Want to Politicize 9/11 Too!
Not to be outdone by the Democratic Party, the World Wildlife Fund is getting in on the act of using 9/11 to push an agenda.
They hired an agency to create an ad for them but when the ad was released and caused a furor, the WWF denied the whole thing.
“The usually gentle World Wildlife Fund was on the warpath Tuesday after a tasteless ad exploiting 9/11 appeared online bearing its famous panda logo.”
“It showed dozens of planes diving at lower Manhattan with the tag line: “The tsunami killed 100 times more people than 9/11. The planet is brutally powerful. Respect it. Preserve it.”
Today, the WWF is singing a slightly different tune:
“Sergio Valente, president of DDB Brasil, said the ad was presented to the WWF in Brazil in December 2008 and approved; it then ran once in a small local paper.”
“After the WWF appeared to initially deny approving the ad, DDB Brasil and the WWF hammered out a statement posted in Portuguese on both groups’ Brazilian websites Wednesday afternoon apologizing for the ad and attributing it to “the inexperience of some professionals on both sides, and not bad faith or disrespect toward American suffering.”
“The statement continued, “WWF-Brasil and DDB Brasil reaffirm that the ad never should have been created, approved or run. They deeply regret that this happened, and apologize to everyone who has been offended.”
And now, here’s the video version of the ad, one of the most tasteless things you will ever see.
