Alltel’s Chad gets a good solid roasting In pointing me to this rant about Alltel’s ads, my editor prefaced it by warning me that “someone really doesn’t like Chad.” What he should have said is that someone has way, way too much time on his hands. Whoever “Future Man” is, he’s put together an exhaustive and furious screed condemning the ad character’s myriad failings, with corresponding video evidence. It’s an impressive effort, but I haven’t been witness to this much misdirected hate since I stopped listening to AM radio. Chad, who is a fictional character, is lambasted for adopting “the brash and boastful manifest of Charlemagne” to shill Alltel’s services. “Did Jesus,” Future Man further asks, “strap the Pharisees and heretics in the Temple to a cross and shove the beattitudes down their throats?” And that’s just the third paragraph. —Posted by David Kiefaber

April 6, 2007 in Kiefaber | Permalink

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Is this rant by "future man" supposed to be a humourous attempt to create a self entertaining buzz about his blog? It's just advertising with a f-i-c-t-i-o-n-a-l character. Sometimes it's not "all about the Chad."

Posted by: adguy | Apr 6, 2007 5:19:01 PM

hmpfff... shit like this is so not where it's supposed to be about. Lame is the word. Give the duck his 15 minutes (secs, that is) and let's go on...

Posted by: vos b | Apr 7, 2007 3:17:14 PM

Maybe this guy should tell Chad how he feels. www.myspace.com/supportmycircle

Posted by: justsurfin | Apr 7, 2007 9:44:59 PM

I think Future Man needs either a hobby or a girlfriend.

Posted by: | Apr 8, 2007 7:26:28 PM

Hello? He's joking. What's wrong with you people.

Posted by: bobbyob | Apr 10, 2007 2:07:44 PM

Maybe bobbyob you're really "future man".

Posted by: anti-bobbyob | Apr 10, 2007 2:14:40 PM

futureman just plain suks!!!

Posted by: get a life | Apr 30, 2008 3:15:37 AM

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