SELLING TORTURE TO AMERICA - THE MAD-MEN DID WELL

Promotion of smoking half a century ago by the "smart" people [Mad-men] of Madison Avenue, who knew the truth, led to countless deaths. Advertising and its twin, public relations, became a way of deceiving on a scale imagined by those who had read Freud and applied mass psychology to anything from cigarettes to politics. Just as the Marlboro Man was virility itself, so politicians could be branded, packaged, and sold. It is 100 days since Barack Obama was elected president of the United States. The "Obama brand" has since been named Advertising Ages "marketer of the year for 2008," easily beating Apple. Deploying the Internet and a slogan plagiarized from the Latino union organizer Caesar Chavez Si se puede! "yes, we can," the "mass-level, automated technological community" marketed its brand to victory in a country desperate to be rid of George W. Bush. No one knew what the new brand actually stood for. So accomplished was the advertising a record million was spent on TV commercials alone that many Americans actually believed Obama shared their opposition to Bushs wars. In fact, he had repeatedly backed Bushs warmongering and its congressional funding. Many Americans also believed he was the heir to Martin Luther Kings legacy of anti-colonialism. Yet if Obama had a theme at all, apart from the vacuous "change you can believe in," it was the renewal of America as a dominant, avaricious bully. "We will be the most powerful!" he declared. In his first 100 days, Obama ...
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