The 10 Very Worst 9/11-Themed Ads

• any ad that exploits the tragic events of 9/11 is offensive. these ads take away the seriousness/sensitivity of those terrible events. it's a real shame that these ad agencies are not above using 9/11 to get their messages across.

• Christine O'Donnell really needs to stop talking right this moment. She's doing nothing except for making herself look like an absolute fool!

• Beginning to assume this all new GAP logo design is simply a PR stunt. It might be engaging!.

• What can you think of Phil Jackson's suggestions asserting Barcelona lacking level enough to play in the Nba once they whip Lakers?

• What can you think about Phil Jackson's remarks claiming Barcelona being without level enough to perform in the Nba once they beat Lakers?

• The personalities of TLC's newest show "Sister Wives" presently being looked into by Utah cops for possible felony bigamy, Kody Brown, as well as his 4 wives expanding publicity aided by the TLC show started to draw the interest and suspicion for the police, basically, law enforcement officials apparently all started evaluating the Brown family members sooner than their tv series even premiered last Sunday.

• I disagree with the author's viewpoints on almost every single advertisement. While the events of 9/11 were a tragedy, they are part of history and therefore should not be a taboo topic. There have been many times have Americans belittled foreign nations for censorship and suppression of freedom. Now it is suddenly okay to ignore a monumental event in America's history? Nowadays, everyone and everything is free game, especially in advertisements. There are ads ridiculing everything from children to Napoleon and from Canada to New Zealand. About the final "very worst" video ad, I thought it was very good. It was dramatic and serious, an attitude that many Americans do not adopt when handling the environment. Take a moment, right now, to think about the implications of this advertisement. I'm not talking about doomsday predictions from a lack of recycling, I'm talking about thinking about your fellow human beings. Now, I understand that you may not want the whole "you should be ashamed of yourself" lecture over a tsunami thousands of miles away, but it might be time to be more conscious of the message behind the ad instead of crying out in rage that it belittles your country.

• I think the criticism of these ads is a bit overblown. I'm from the NYC area, and 9/11 was a traumatizing event for me. But there is a huge difference between an ad making light of 9/11 (as the Belgian humor ad did) and using the horror of 9/11 to make a serious point (as many of the other ads did). As for the Lego ad, if it was in fact a real ad, it struck me less as an effort to sell Legos and more an effort to use a well-known brand to make an off-brand message. "Rebuild it" is a terrific message in light of 9/11. Being afraid to admit to ourselves is simply crumbling before our own horror of the event.

• Pop idol hi-jinks usually are not news. I can't worry about how stupid rich and famous women might be.

• Remember that money these days buys everything except of course simple pleasures like sleep, peace and insight on things that are far valuable than fame, cars and late-night parties.

• I just bought a Droid because it did the job I had in mind. There are way better phones than an iphone that don't have basic problems such as antenna issues, call quality etc. In addition, I think people have had enough of that Apple flavored kool-aid.

• This 9/11 ad is the most offensive of all, check it out: http://buildingwhat.org/buildingwhat-tv-ad/

• I hold with your thought , still, theres a few things I would have included in there myself.

• People blow up (eh?) when you try to put their tragedies into perspective.

• <em>...nobody who watched this didn't think that irrepressible damage had been done not just to causes or agencies, but to the ad industry at-large and thankfully, anyone who had ever attempted to politicize 9/11 as well.</em> Irreversible? irremediable? Surely not irrepressible, in any event. Nor permanent, nor even lingering. The US went batshit crazy for a decade and blew up most of two countries and parts of a half-dozen more, and you think a WWF ad did lasting damage to ... anything? Rudy 911 is still riding tall in the saddle, baby.

• if you think these ads are clever there is something wromg with you. it was an american tradgedy, if you live in america your an american. owen you hit the nail right on the head stop comparing tragadies, esspecially when your trying to paint your country as being selfish and deserving of such an act.

• I don't understand why people even have to bring up 9/11 in the tsunami ad. People dying and losing family and friends is not a competition. Why not just show respect for anyone dying? No matter how they died, or how many died.

• I believe taking an environment opportunity does not suppose to take advantage of others� Many people died on 9/11, so the ads may be good (as some of you said) but they are not right. In a way they have a lock of imagination, they are "just the recreation� of a sadly and extensively mass media cover event

• I bet there are more people who lost a loved one in the Tsunami.

• Startling, offensive ads; even more startling comments by people who clearly didn't lose anyone or know anyone who lost a loved one on 9/11.

• Damn, I must be the only native New Yorker reading the Village Voice online.

• The Lego one is NOT REAL. Please do the research next time.

• I liked the smoking one. People just ignore that smoking is an abomination of a habbit, of a way of contamination and one of most cancer producing sources.

• This is the very worst article on 9/11 related ads, most of them are actually brilliant if you think about it for two seconds, which the writer of this column seems to have skipped, especially when he chose a title. Yes, computers that crash can kill people, on many levels. Yes, killing trees can kill (Easter Island anyone). Yes, 9/11 was a immense tragedy but we have to understand why it was and why to some people it was something to cheer about. I don't know where the author of this article is from, but he actually forgot to think at some point, and this is really sad.

• I agree i actually really like all of these. the cigarette one is cute.

• I think Ads are great! Of course, US people will feel offended because you really don't care for other people...

• Some of the ads are quite clever and this video is very good.

• I actually enjoy the video. I think some these ads are actually good. I like the lego one as well. The only bad ones, in my opinion, are the ones that i can't really equate with the tragedy like the smoking ad.

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