Canada worried about ‘ganging up’ on Bush

After ridiculing him on billboards like this one across Toronto, Simply Audiobooks suddenly feels bad for George W. Bush. The company says it’s taking the ads down after reading about Lakehead University’s anti-Bush Yale Shmale campaign. Says Simply Audiobooks’ CMO: “We quickly realized we had to pull the billboards to minimize the potential for offending our friendly neighbors to the south.” Adds the company’s CEO: “The Lakehead posters took us completely by surprise. We didn’t want to create the impression that Canadian businesses have a political agenda, or are ganging up on the Bush administration.” You can judge for yourself how sincere this is. Yale Shmale got much more press, but with this generous act of diplomacy, these guys are catching up.

—Posted by Tim Nudd

September 5, 2006 | Permalink