halliburton at the center of controversy - again!

why is halliburton always in the news for the wrong reasons?

a friend forwarded me this cartoon just a day after the televised debate between democratic vice-presidential candidate joe biden, and his counterpart on the republican side, sarah palin.

i couldn't help but laugh as it was hilarious how dick cheney, who is the current u.s. vice-president and former halliburton c.e.o. (in case you've been living under a rock for the last 8 years), is portrayed as a evil-looking old man and Palin as a baby-making machine, with one spawn hanging from every limb.

however, it makes me wonder if halliburton will ever get out of the dog house when news outlets keep perpetuating its largely untrue reputation as a corrupt government contractor and linking it into perpetuity to current (and hopefully not future!) republican administration(s)...

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a tin medal for olympic advertisers

sadly, the games of the xxix olympiad, which for the last two weeks had become my fascination - and excuse for doing absolutely nothing on the weekends but watch tv - have come to an end. although i will miss the nightly excitement of coming home to hours of uninterrupted sports coverage, two things that i will definitely not miss are the superfluous commentary and selective coverage of the "nbc family of networks", and the commercials.

one particularly lousy series of adverts, by exxon-mobil, in which highly coiffed executives (or actors?) claim to be helping to fight malaria by donating bed nets (really!!) will go down in the history of high-dollar advertising as the sorriest excuse for tooting your own horn by an already unpopular corporation.

what bothers me most is the cheekiness of this company, whose quarterly profits greatly exceed the annual gross domestic product of the developing nations they claim to be helping, to spend what must be chump change for them on this publicity campaign to pitch their so-called human capital initiatives, rather than donating said sums to humanitarian and environmental causes in the countries in which they operate.

word of advice for exxon-mobil leadership: i think you need a new marketing strategy; we’re not buying this gigantic crock of bs.