What is 'is'? Truth-less advertising?

If ever there were a 'good-guy' in the ruthless world of advertising, it WAS the Ad Council.

They helped put out forest fires with Smokey the Bear. With a teardrop from a Native American Indian, the Ad Council created a societal conscience to keep America's roadways clean. During wartime, we entrusted them with the power to lead our psyches to victory over the Germans and Japanese with campaigns like, ‘Loose Lips Sink Ships’ and can-do themes sporting Rosie the Riveter.

The attacks of September 11th, 2001 left our people wounded and they launched 'I am American' and the ‘Campaign for Freedom,’ which tended to our needs once again and helped us rally for the future.

We have come to trust The Ad Council. What is it that they have been up to lately? It is a different ‘is’ than we expect and, in my American opinion, not be so noble anymore. 

What societal conditions does the Ad Council now consider worthy of attention? From 1942 to 2002 sixty years are chronicled in one publication called, “Matters of Choice.” The byline is ‘Advertising in the Public Interest’. Sixty years rallying and resurrecting the American people’s steadfast exceptional heart, recorded here.    

Until recently, an occasional repeat of a campaign sufficed to simply encourage people to remember to ‘Give the Gift of Life’, donate blood to the Red Cross, ‘Crash Test Dummies’ were a good visual for us to slow down and drive more safely.

But in the last three years there has been a marked increase in ‘societal concerns’ in the eye of a ‘reformed’ Ad Council. In 2011 alone they have added a multitude of ‘issues’ of their own choosing.

As an experienced marketing professional my eyes and ears are trained to notice when commercials have repetitious themes, and when ads are competing with show content. This I call ‘ad disease’.

Ladies and gentleman, the line has been crossed from marketing and advertising into the slippery slope of propaganda. That is not good. Ads can shape the psyche of society. Targeted, coordinated and repetitive ad themes can control masses.

Unfortunately that's what we are in Obama's America, which has conveniently softened and disguised mind-controllers and brain-washers, into 'thought leaders' of the 21st Century! Working to transform us from liberty loving individuals into big-government dependent masses is the goal of this Administration and the Ad Council has helped by pounded new social depths into our poor little brains. 

We've been convinced that being 'energy efficient' is tantamount to winning an Oscar. That a dirty yellow, squiggly-shaped, mercury-filled poison light bulb is better for your family home than Edison's trusty, amazing and efficient incandescent one!

A productive way to capture and rewire someone’s reasoning ability is through propaganda! What is the Ad Council working on these days? They’ve been marketing ‘multiculturalism by force’ and ‘diversity by guilt’. The non-gay person is the target of themes and campaigns to ‘nudge’ them into acceptance of LBGT lifestyles.

Non-bullying zones in schools are teaching our youth to complain and be woeful of life’s challenges. The home-grown American is the intolerant one in The Ad Council’s crusade to empathize with the ‘undocumented’ worker.

Propaganda twists one’s personal reasoning ability. The Ad Council can no longer be trusted as they were. They have become destroyers of American moral values rather than defenders of them. Since our kids are not being taught American history, which would enlighten them, they are made dependent on government instead of themselves. 

There has been no relief from the onslaught bombarding in the last few years. Sounds like mad science, certainly can't be true? They have injected their own ideas into marketing ‘at’ us in the form of PSA’s (Public Service Announcements).

Already this year the Ad Council has published three volumes of PSA’s! Keep in mind that you can only be propagandized (brainwashed) if you are not aware of it! Now that we’ve taken care of that, you’ll be able to recognize it and either hit the mute button or look away! 

The Ad Council has become an arm of the establishment, instead of a loyal friend to a trusting people. Its purpose has been compromised. When you see; brought to you by a government agency and the Ad Council you should question why!

How many chronic illness commercials are enough! If you don't have a problem, you will once the commercial is through with you! And what about Energy Star? Government (energy efficient) products, marketed with our tax money? Then legislated and mandated to be purchase, to comply! That doesn't sound like free-market capitalism to me.

Finally, how much 'Viagra' does one segment of a country’s population need! Oh and for the women in the audience, we have, not enhancements but criticisms, with endless weight loss ads, wrinkle creams and face lift offers!

Do you see a theme? It is our money being spent on this grand attempt at global social engineering!  With the Ad Council defamed, what is 'is’? Nothing but truth-less advertising.

Who will let the lab rat out of the maze? 

-Becky Lynch (a.k.a. cLYNCHer)