Irony Follows Ad 'Parody' Debut

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The new campaign from the Detroit Project equating SUVs with terrorism is a sure sign that irony in advertising lives.

Arianna Huffington, the pundit be hind the program, slammed Ogilvy & Mather’s spots linking drugs with terrorism for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy in a column she wrote after the campaign broke during last year’s Super Bowl.

“To the terrible trio of Iran, Iraq and North Korea, we’ve now got to add millions of kids,” Huffington wrote on Feb.



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