Wednesday's Donesbury--Still on Cheney and Haliburton--Hooray!

[joeybee12]

[Hubert Flottz]

1. Nice!

And the truth!

[Bridget Burke]

2. Has anybody seen the Halliburton ad on TV?

I caught it yesterday & was appalled. (During a local news broadcast here in Houston.)

"Halliburton Co. fired back at its political critics yesterday, introducing a television commercial that declares it was awarded lucrative Iraq reconstruction contracts 'because of what we do, not who we know.'
...

"The new ad opens with Lesar saying, 'You've heard a lot of Halliburton lately. Criticism is okay. We can take it. Criticism is not a failure. Our employees are doing a great job. We're feeding the soldiers. We're rebuilding Iraq. Will things go wrong? Sure they will. It's a war zone. But when they do we'll fix it. We always have -- for 60 years for both political parties.'
...

"Tim Calkins, a marketing professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, said such advertising campaigns rarely work. 'It's a noble effort but you can't imagine it will be very effective. Even in the best of times, advertising is difficult. But when you're putting forth a point of view that is controversial and self-serving, it's met with a skeptical view.'"

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17593-2004Feb5.html

It surely didn't convince me. Since Halliburton is being "attacked" on the comics page, will Mallard Fillmore come out as a Halliburton fan?

[Hubert Flottz]

3. Do a google search the father of SPIN, 'Ivy Lee'!

PR = Propaganda!

Ask your self, how many companies would keep right on landing more government contracts, after they admitted that they had cheated the taxpayers out of tens of millions of dollars in a time of WAR? Halliburton's ads and fines are chickenfeed when you look at their take!

Because of what they do and who the own, was what the ad should have said! What they do is support and uphold the people who award those contracts! What they do is unpatriotic!