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“It’s not the Holy Grail, folks. It’s a cranberry-colored, environmentally-friendly coffee cup. I stopped drinking Starbucks coffee years ago – back when their chief executive officer said he did not want to do business with people like me – a gun-toting, Bible-believing offspring of white privilege. So I figured – why spend my hard-earned money on a company that actively …

Ad Age recaps: Marketers have completed the pink breast cancer awareness promotions of October, but now it’s officially Movember, which means lots of brands doing promotions around mustaches to help raise money for “men’s health.” The Maytag Man this year gets in on the act, growing a mustache to raise $15,000 for the Movember Foundation and to encourage people to …

Britain’s John Lewis department store chain has once again gone viral with its annual holiday commercial. Some are finding the metaphors in this year’s clip to be rather puzzling. Via the Guardian: How come he’s on the moon? That’s probably the first question you asked yourself upon seeing the new John Lewis advert this morning. Well, maybe not the first …

Just in via email from Monica Cole: Dear Joe, Will Hardee’s ever learn? They are at it again with another disgusting ad. Their current sensual ad follows the pattern set by their last commercial featuring girls in skimpy shorts playing in a volleyball game. These ads are extremely degrading to women and should be pulled off the air immediately. The …

“Vote and support Ben Carson / For our next president he’d be awesome / If we gonna get America back on track / We gotta vote Ben Carson matter o’fack.” Carson and awesome don’t exactly rhyme, much less belong in the same sentence, but whatever. The ad launches this weekend in major markets. Listen below.

Sen. Bernie Sanders today launched the first television ad of his campaign. The Hill reports: The ad titled “Real Change” will air statewide in Iowa and New Hampshire and is part of a buy exceeding $2 million, according to a release from the Vermont Independent’s campaign. The ad’s title recalls President Obama’s theme of “hope and change” from 2008, but …

A young lawyer in Texas has gone wildly viral with his insane commercial: Bryan Wilson, the “Texas Law Hawk,” is totally Texas – and we love it. His commercials are somewhere between “Reno 911” and every Steven Segal movie ever made. They’re so awesomely bad, we thought they were too good to be true – but Wilson is, in fact, …

Buoyed by his new position atop the polls, Ben Carson this weekend launched his first television ads in key early states. NBC News reports: The $500,000 ad buy will air in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada, and includes themes centered on Carson’s history as a doctor and status as an outsider in the 2016 race. Both ads end …

“One Million Moms are furious that Campbell’s Soup is being associated with gay men. Psst…nobody tell them about Andy Warhol.”

You’ve been waiting for this one, right? “Dear Joe, A homosexual ‘married’ couple is featured prominently with a young boy (their son) in the new Campbell’s Soup advertisement. Campbell’s #RealRealLife campaign aims to change the face of the American family. It starts off with the first man feeding soup to the little boy and in a ‘Star Wars’ Darth Vader …

An Iowa fan of Hillary Clinton named Kevin McCarthy isn’t very happy to be the target of tweets meant for the possible next Speaker of the House. The Clinton campaign picked up on that and today the other Kevin McCarthy stars in a new ad. I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that this McCarthy is gay …

Via Knoxville’s CBS affiliate: In the market for a gun? An East Tennessee store is offering a deal, as long as you’re a Christian. The owner of Frontier Firearms says the mass shooting in Oregon prompted the sale. “If Christians are going to be targeted, we need to protect ourselves,” said Brant Williams, Owner of Frontier Firearms. “The best way …

Mediaite reports: Hillary Clinton‘s campaign has released its first national TV ad and, of course, it attacks Republicans over the Benghazi committee. In case you’re one of the few people who still hasn’t heard, potential next Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy went on Fox News last week and, when asked about Republican ineffectiveness in the House, touted the Benghazi …

Two gay dads do competing Darth Vader impressions in a cute new ad from Campbell Soup. Ad Age reports: Campbell Soup’s first major brand push in five years depicts real families, including a gay couple and their son, along with real weather patterns as the soup giant tries to tap into what’s really going on in people’s lives when it’s …

The Examiner reports: The Beatles have allowed the controversial animal rights organization PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) to use one of their best-known songs, “Can’t Buy Me Love,” for a campaign to promote the adoption of animals, the organization announced Sept. 29. The video was directed by Steven Willis and features cats and dogs who have been …

Going viral at Live Leak is a video of a ranting man smashing a bus shelter ad for the gay hook-up site Squirt.org. The man claims to have nine children and to have served in the Marine Corps, therefore his “motherfucking First Amendment” rights mean that he does not “have to put up with that shit.” The location of the …

Some folks aren’t very happy about the latest billboard from the United Church Of Bacon. From the Christian Post: A group of atheists who meet regularly under the guise of a church that worships bacon has attracted over 10,000 new members after offering free weddings and baptisms with the promise of marrying couples before something that is “real.” The organization, …

A pair of well-known Russian pranksters today claimed that they were the ones who called Elton John and pretended to be Vladimir Putin. NBC News reports: Turns out it wasn’t Vladimir Putin on the line after all. Two pranksters claimed credit Wednesday for what musician Elton John apparently thought was a phone call from the Russian president. The singer has …

Some of you thought yesterday’s hilarious Tide To Go ad was too good to be true. You were right. AdWeek reports: Tide has already made one commercial featuring a gay couple—it’s been airing in Canada, as Procter & Gamble considers bringing it to the U.S.. And now, an ad for Tide to Go about gay marriage has gone viral, garnering …

Going viral today is a rather amazing recreation of the famed Animal House toga party scene. AdWeek has the details: Nike celebrates its deep ties to the University of Oregon in a new, feel-good ad—featuring a horde of notable alumni (mostly sports stars, but also Modern Family actor Ty Burrell and ESPN anchor Neil Everett)—that recreates the famous toga-party scene …