During the Super Bowl. Jason, CEO of Mahalo.com, denounces the commercials here.
Sales Genie Racist “Unphased”
Vin Gupta, founder and chairman of Salesgenie.com, conceptualized and wrote copy for the ads himself. While other brands battle for accolades, Salesgenie.com isn’t phased by boos and jeers from the audience. “It was judged to be the best by the real pros,” says Gupta. “Our ad was one of the few to feature a call-to-action, driving more than 25,000 people to the Salesgenie.com website. If it positively impacts business like it did last year, we’d be thrilled to be the worst again.”
UPDATE: At Shakespeare’s Sister, Jeff Fecke rails at Kristol’s “misogynistic” joke
Via geoffb in the comments, this is the Vin Gupta who has apparently unlawfully funnelled $ to Hillary’s campaign. For the children.
Meh. Appears that he may be in trouble with his shareholders more than anything else.
Wow. Vin Gupta made an ad that was apparently racist against Indians. Gupta, Gupta, Gupta hmmm. Isn’t that an Indian last name?
If you yell loud enough, you get your name in the paper.
As soon as I saw that ad I knew someone would complain. I feel vindicated.
The talking stain was the only good commercial, IMHO.
I enjoyed the Bridgestone ad where Richard Simmons almost gets run down; the Pepsi ad with Justin Timberlake getting clobbered by various things was also entertaining.
Yet the whole ad was based on stereotypes and it was highly caricatured – the Asian Indian with 7 kids and the short, balding, screaming white boss who doesn’t care. It was a cartoon!
Good god, you’d think people who were “offended” never heard of The Simpsons.
I liked the A-B commercial with training the Clydesdale to the Rocky theme.
whoops… forgot to close my italic’s tag after “cartoon”… sorry
Obviously, people still crave these kinds of things. People still seek out controversial things, and in the end, unconciously support them. And Gupta does sound like an Indian name. For shame. This stunt is another clear cut sign of capitalism.
I liked the talking stain, and the one where Timberlake got jackassed.
Vin Gupta, now where have I heard that name recently?
Oh yeah, he’s the Hillary supporter in trouble with the law who bought her list of contributers, that Vin Gupta.
So, hey — you can’t say he doesn’t know the value of networking!
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Read that Suitably Flip link more carefully. Hillary’s Committee is allowed to sell the list commercially to people like Gupta. People like Gupta are not able to extract and use the lists commercially straight from FEC filings.
Gupta, however, got in trouble with his own shareholders, for his apparent largesse to the Clinton’s as has been widely reported before and was touched on in the same link. He’s part of the Clinton Air Force among other things.
I realized later that I wrote “law” instead of “shareholders” which would have been correct.
Still the whole thing as a certain stink that comes from money and Clintons in proximity to each other.
I remember about this time last year, there was a lot of offense-taking after a Superbowl ad showing two guys pummelling each other after they shared a candy bar in a way that looked gay. Of course, if it was a woman pummeling a man within an inch of his life for trying to eat her candy bar, that would’ve been funny.
Hoping this ad will not make anybody who will read it get offended.