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The below clip began running on New Orleans television this week. A Chicago dentist has launched the 2012 presidential campaign a smidge early by running a pro-Hillary ad on television, reports CNN. The 30-second spot, paid for by William DeJean, says Clinton has “more experience working in and with the White House than most living presidents” and is “one of …

It’s sort of amazing that they got him to do this.

While I try to do something about these GOP and teabagger text-generated banner ads, feel free to go crazy clicking on them. I don’t know what they have to pay-per-click, but maybe you’ll feel better for having had to look at such garbage. (Clicks don’t affect my end, btw.)

Maxi-pads can remind one of September in Tuscany, according to an amusing hottie-infused ad campaign out of Canada. There are more: A Date With Brad and A Date With Ryan. (Tipped by JMG reader Chris)

Fake vintage ads for Twitter, YouTube and Skype are here.

Copyranter notes: “First of all, congratulations Egyptians on finally getting the convenience of soda bottles with twist-off caps. And secondly, homo-erotic humor on TV in morally repressed Egypt! Brave of the ad agency, Cairo’s Fortune Promoseven, since the country has a de facto ban on homosexuality.”

In one of the longest and strangest attack ads we’ve seen yet, California Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado goes after his 2010 opponent, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.

The new passenger safety film from Air New Zealand is cute enough and includes lots of hotties from the famed All Blacks rugby club. But I’m not sure how I feel about the kiss request from the male flight attendant, which is turned down with a grimace by the handsome player. At the 2:45 mark.

MoveOn.org’s national ad buy for their anti-Target campaign has been rejected by MSNBC. MSNBC spokeswoman Alana Russo says the commercial submitted by the liberal group MoveOn.org violates its advertising policy by directly attacking an individual business. MoveOn announced plans earlier this week to spend $35,000 airing the ad on MSNBC nationally and on three networks in the Twin Cities. The …

MoveOn.org has launched a television campaign against Target. The campaign begins tomorrow on three networks in Minnesota and will air nationally on MSNBC.

Above is one of the images from an ad campaign for the Academy Of Martial Arts in Key Biscayne, Florida. Via Copyranter: Yeah, Pops. Nip that gaiety in the ass, and get junior kicking some ass and karate-chopping some wood, all while listening to Eye of the motherfucking Tiger. That’ll knock those show tunes out of his head and some …

(Via – Copyranter)

Wingnut Atlas Shrugged blogger Pamela Geller has forced NYC’s public transit authority to accept her bus ad campaign against the mosque near Ground Zero. The MTA initially forced Geller through several revisions of her image, asking her to remove the smoke, flames, and plane from the photo, saying that “images of 9/11 are too controversial” for city buses. Geller responded: …

Last night the Rachel Maddow Show had a lot of fun with the Family Research Council’s hissy fit about Amtrak’s plan to advertise to teh gays. (Via – Towleroad)

The SFist is questioning the appropriateness of the above ad which is now appearing in San Francisco. LAN Airlines, a “gay-friendly” airline that served as the official international airline for San Francisco Pride 2010, has a new ad campaign popping up at Muni stops all over San Francisco. Hmm. Do you think LAN — who, we repeat, markets to San …

NBC and CBS have refused to air the GOP’s Kill The Ground Zero Mosque ad. Politico reports: In her letter rejecting the spot, NBC Universal advertising standards manager Jennifer Riley wrote: “An ad questioning the wisdom of building a mosque at ground zero would meet our issues of public controversy advertising criteria. However, this ad which ambiguously defines ‘they’ as …