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This Brazilian ad for Rolling Stone, featuring a picture of George W. Bush,\u00a0reads: “We don’t show naked women to sell more. At the most, we show some asses.” \u00a0<\/p>\n This Chinese Greenpeace ad, portraying Bush’s spin on\u00a0global warming,\u00a0reads: “Everyone’s entitled to an opinion. Voice yours at forum.greenpeace.org.”<\/p>\n This Chinese ad for an erasable pen reads: “Everyone makes mistakes.”\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n In Malaysia, Bush is used to sell Smart cars.\u00a0 Text: “Still looking for weapons of mass destruction.\u00a0 Not smart.”\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Also in Malaysia, Amnesty International makes fun of Bush in their effort to inspire opposition to Guantanamo Bay.\u00a0 “Write to him and help stop torture at Guantanamo Bay.\u00a0 Remember, use simple words.”<\/a><\/p>\n This is a Mexican ad for a dog kennel.\u00a0 “We don’t discriminate any kind of breed.”\u00a0 (The source says that, in Mexico, like in the U.S., “dog” is a name for a bad person.)<\/p>\n \u00a0This ad for a Mexican newspaper reads: “Such a complex world needs a good explanation.”<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n This is an ad for the movie American Psycho in New Zealand.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n In Portugal, playing war games (paint ball) is advertised as equivalent to playing George W. Bush.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n This Swiss ad threatens, if you fall off your bicycle without a helmet, you may end up as dumb as George W. Bush.<\/p>\n These and more borrowed from here<\/a>, found via adfreak<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Update:<\/span> There have been some really nice points in the comments about how, in the process of making fun of Bush,\u00a0we are also seeing the further stigmatization of\u00a0“people with developmental disabilities, brain injuries, and psychological diagnoses” (that from Penny in the comments).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This Australian ad for Lipton tea suggests that it’s mind clarifying qualities are so good that it could help even George Bush achieve the feat of naming all 50 states. \u00a0 This Brazilian ad for Rolling Stone, featuring a picture of George W. Bush,\u00a0reads: “We don’t show naked women to sell more. At the most, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2124,129,1765,1813,1772,1823,1824,1790,1795,1805,85,221,23704,309],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-foodagriculture","tag-media","tag-nation-australia","tag-nation-brazil","tag-nation-china","tag-nation-malaysia","tag-nation-mexico","tag-nation-new-zealand","tag-nation-portugal","tag-nation-switzerland","tag-politics","tag-cars","tag-public-service-announcements","tag-warmilitary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29389,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions\/29389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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