View Full Version : Magazine Ad "Unleashes Hell" for Boeing & Bell
"Boeing and its joint-venture partner Bell Helicopter apologized yesterday for a magazine ad published a month ago — and again this week by mistake — depicting U.S. Special Forces troops rappelling from an Osprey aircraft onto the roof of a mosque."
Full story and picture here (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002532657_boeingad1m.html)
Personally I can't help but feel whoever came up with this idea needs his arse kicking if only for the crap slogan.
Laworkerbee
10-03-2005, 03:26 PM
Talk about a bad way to use that bird anyway!
nice fat juicy target sitting there :roll:
usm2b
10-03-2005, 03:27 PM
To be honest...I would LOVE to have a poster of that...however, what a stupid, stupid thing to do.
JoaMei
10-03-2005, 03:31 PM
Well, you know what kind of people work in the advertising branch... they just photoshopped the Helo and Background together.
nognig
10-03-2005, 03:47 PM
Jeeze! You'd think they'd have someone review these ads before they are published.
That's like the Vioxx "scandal". Merck's sales force put together a packet of information for doctors that was evidence against the claims Vioxx is dangerous.
Some brilliant guy named the program "Dodgeball".
:bash:
NN
2Sheds_Jackson
10-03-2005, 04:09 PM
My first question was - what makes them think that building is a mosque?
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2005/09/30/2002532395.jpg
The company statements were released yesterday in response to an outcry from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington, D.C.-based Islamic civil-liberties group. The building depicted in the ad has an Arabic sign that translates as "Muhammad Mosque," according to the council.
I can't even see the sign they're talking about. Anybody else see it? And for our members that speak Arabic...can you read it?
I guess we'll just have to take the Council's word for it. The sign (that I can't see) might just as well say McDonalds.
I'm also having trouble reading some of the text on the lower left hand side, perhaps it was clearer in the magazine print?
To be truthful I fisrt thought it was a mosque due to the dome and pointy bit on top (That's a technical architectural term). I'm not sure why but to me a dome and pointy bit say mosque the same way a spire says church.
Freibier
10-03-2005, 04:39 PM
Well I guess the original photograph has a much higher resolution and/or somebody simply recognized the building ...
panzerjager
10-03-2005, 05:08 PM
Well, we all know that Uncle Sam's foes have "never" and I really mean "never" used a mosque to house weapons caches or shoot at our troops.
:roll:
Laworkerbee
10-03-2005, 05:34 PM
Well, we all know that Uncle Sam's foes have "never" and I really mean "never" used a mosque to house weapons caches or shoot at our troops.
:roll:
Cmon PJ you know those weapons were planted by Zionists ;)
Zoomie
10-03-2005, 05:50 PM
I'm also having trouble reading some of the text on the lower left hand side, perhaps it was clearer in the magazine print?
It appears to be all the companies involved with the Osprey.
panzerjager
10-03-2005, 06:07 PM
Well, we all know that Uncle Sam's foes have "never" and I really mean "never" used a mosque to house weapons caches or shoot at our troops.
:roll:
Cmon PJ you know those weapons were planted by Zionists ;)
Haha, that's right. What's it called again, Global Zionist Conspiracy?
Hunterhr
10-03-2005, 06:34 PM
And how exactly is that offensive?
Would make a cool poster though.
And how exactly is that offensive?
Would make a cool poster though.
I'd imagine some Christians would be upset if an Arab company produced an advert showing one of their products being used in a raid on a church.
Telnyashka
10-03-2005, 06:58 PM
And how exactly is that offensive?
Would make a cool poster though.
I'd imagine some Christians would be upset if an Arab company produced an advert showing one of their products being used in a raid on a church.
Plus...they are using religion "it decends from heaven to hell" and since its rappelling into a Mosque it makes it seem like hell
Kilgor
10-03-2005, 06:59 PM
And how exactly is that offensive?
Would make a cool poster though.
I'd imagine some Christians would be upset if an Arab company produced an advert showing one of their products being used in a raid on a church.
actually, sony just had to pull a PSP ad featuring a jesus with crown of thorns shaped like the playstation controller buttons.
2Sheds_Jackson
10-03-2005, 07:07 PM
http://media.militaryphotos.net/photos/albums/2shedsjackson/adr.gif
Laworkerbee
10-03-2005, 07:46 PM
rofl
Zoomie
10-03-2005, 08:39 PM
And how exactly is that offensive?
Would make a cool poster though.
I'd imagine some Christians would be upset if an Arab company produced an advert showing one of their products being used in a raid on a church.
Plus...they are using religion "it decends from heaven to hell" and since its rappelling into a Mosque it makes it seem like hell
I'd re-read the poster again, it doesn't mention decending to hell, rather it unleashes hell, big difference.
Atlantic Friend
10-04-2005, 04:31 AM
My first question was - what makes them think that building is a mosque?
I can't even see the sign they're talking about. Anybody else see it? And for our members that speak Arabic...can you read it?
I guess we'll just have to take the Council's word for it. The sign (that I can't see) might just as well say McDonalds.
I guess the domed roof and the crescent on the pole in the center of the dome make the building a mosque, or at least sufficiently mosque-like to be seen as one by Muslims, the same way a gothic roofs with a bell tower and tincted glass would have made it look like a Christain church.
However, I think CAIR would have protested even if the ad had shown a bazaar or a typical Arab street.
Since we finally got over the "Freedom fries crisis", maybe the Osprey team should have the troops rappel into the Elysée Palace, or the Arc de Triomphe ? ;)
Creeper
10-04-2005, 04:44 AM
The script in the ad has a nice pitch !
Overall: CLASSIC.
Michael RVR
10-04-2005, 08:04 AM
I wouldn't think that it looks like a mosque (but hey, what do i know), but boeing certainly loses points for cultural sensitivity.
"We didn't mean it" :lol: , as if !
;)
Rakki
10-04-2005, 10:42 AM
Awful slogan.
demotivater
10-04-2005, 11:50 AM
What's all the hub bub? I don't get it?
Ayura
10-04-2005, 12:26 PM
Shaanxi Mosque, Urumqi, China
http://archnet.org/mediadownloader/LibraryImagesBig/image/90718/0/IAE0165.jpg
As we can clearly see from the image above, a Dome doesn't make a Mosque.
Hunterhr
10-04-2005, 01:03 PM
Apparently brought to you by the same people who want to change the British flag.
Anything else we can change while we're at it?
Laworkerbee
10-04-2005, 03:02 PM
Apparently brought to you by the same people who want to change the British flag.
Anything else we can change while we're at it?
Yes your religion p-)
rocket13
10-04-2005, 03:37 PM
People get offended so easily these days.
Tielir999
10-04-2005, 06:07 PM
i would love to have a poster of that
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