And, this is supposed to shock us?
If Obama smooched some famous capitalist in an ad we’d be shocked.
But this?… pft.

Obama kisses commies Hugo Chavez and Chinese President Hu Jintao in a new Benetton ad campaign.
The Washington Post reported:

The Benetton has dropped the image of the Pope kissing an Imam from the campaign after complaints.

Benetton returns to its controversial marketing roots with a new campaign that features President Obama and other world leaders engaging in a kiss. In two separate ads, Obama is seen kissing Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, and Chinese President Hu Jintao.

The Unhate Foundation, founded by the Italian clothing company, is an advocacy group for tolerance. The controversial ad campaign is an attempt for Benetton to regain its status from the “United Colors” ads that regularly shocked viewers with subjects that had nothing to do with clothing: A priest kissing a nun, a man dying of AIDS, a just-born baby with umbilical cord still attached, a trio of real human hearts.

In the new campaign, the leaders of North and South Korea lock lips, and the Pope kisses Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb, the Imam of al-Azhar mosque in Egypt. The Vatican condemned the image, and the company decided to remove it from all publications after complaints. German Chancellor Angela Merkel smooches Nicholas Sarkozy, president of France (What will Carla Bruni think?). Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also share a kiss. The campaign was inspired by a kiss between Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and East German communist leader Erich Honecker in 1979.

 

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  1. #1 November 16, 2011 at 7:06 pm

    Gus commented:

    Cutting edge.

    NOT.

  2. #2 November 16, 2011 at 7:07 pm

    USMC Thomas commented:

    Wouldn’t their derriere be more appropriate for SØBama?

  3. #3 November 16, 2011 at 7:13 pm

    Granny commented:

    Well, they have him kissing the right people anyway. I’m surprised they forgot Ahmanutjobdinnerjacket though.

  4. #4 November 16, 2011 at 7:15 pm

    dba vagabond trader commented:

    Why the photoshop? I’m sure there are real pics out there.

  5. #5 November 16, 2011 at 7:16 pm

    CV1 commented:

    Obvious question: are there pictures of past US presidents locking lips with foreign male leaders?

    …or is this just an Obama thing?

  6. #6 November 16, 2011 at 7:17 pm

    Ella commented:

    http://www.blogtalkradio.com/hillbuzzandmrsfox/2011/11/16/hillbuzz-mrs-fox-premiere

    Anyone listen to the Hillbuzz talkshow last night? (See above link). This is where this Obama kissing business was literally discussed in detail.

    Very, very interesting.

  7. #7 November 16, 2011 at 7:20 pm

    CV1 commented:

    The pics are definitley altered as both pictures of Obama are the same, but sized differently and mirrored. This causes me to question the authenticity of either of them.

    These pictures are not credible.

  8. #8 November 16, 2011 at 7:22 pm

    KC commented:

    @7
    Ya think?????

    I say run the ads, they’re fitting

  9. #9 November 16, 2011 at 7:22 pm

    Objective Analysis commented:

    I am just shocked they did not include him bowing and kissing their tush as well. LOL!

  10. #10 November 16, 2011 at 7:25 pm

    Gus commented:

    I think the Venezuelan Commie is HOPE and th Chinese Commie is CHANGE.

  11. #11 November 16, 2011 at 7:26 pm

    StrangernFiction commented:

    OT Avoid Outback Steakhouse.

    http://www.verumserum.com/?p=33474

  12. #13 November 16, 2011 at 7:33 pm

    Granny commented:

    #7 November 16, 2011 at 7:20 pm
    CV1 commented:

    The pics are definitley altered as both pictures of Obama are the same, but sized differently and mirrored. This causes me to question the authenticity of either of them.

    These pictures are not credible.
    _____

    Obviously

  13. #14 November 16, 2011 at 7:35 pm

    Gus commented:

    StrangerN ….I e-mailed Outback/Carraba’s/Flemings on Monday, they replied. It was hilarious.

  14. #15 November 16, 2011 at 7:36 pm

    Granny commented:

    #14 November 16, 2011 at 7:35 pm
    Gus commented:

    StrangerN ….I e-mailed Outback/Carraba’s/Flemings on Monday, they replied. It was hilarious.
    ______

    Are you going to share?

  15. #16 November 16, 2011 at 7:36 pm

    Joanne commented:

    I should be a picture of Obama kissing their *sses.

  16. #17 November 16, 2011 at 7:40 pm

    Liz commented:

    I have a black public figure friend you always told me Obama is gay and likes to get…..from white men. He did an entire radio show on it.

  17. #18 November 16, 2011 at 7:43 pm

    pink tie Republican commented:

    Where is the Reggie Love pic? No photoshop needed there.

  18. #19 November 16, 2011 at 7:43 pm

    Gus commented:

    Granny, they told me that she wasn’t fired for wearing a TEA PARTY BRACELET.

    I “educated” them, that the GADSDEN FLAG has nothing to to with the TEA PARTY, it is associated with the earliest MARINE CORPS of America.

    I also informed them that no where in my correspondance to them, did I ever mention anything about a TEA PARTY.

  19. #20 November 16, 2011 at 7:49 pm

    CV1 commented:

    Not sure I understand the purpose of this onviously faked campaign. I mean, Obama disgusts me as much as he disgusts anybody, but faked pictures like this serve no purpose.

    One does not need to make stuff up to make this president look bad.

  20. #21 November 16, 2011 at 7:51 pm

    vityas commented:

    Kal Penn next.

  21. #22 November 16, 2011 at 7:52 pm

    Granny commented:

    #19 November 16, 2011 at 7:43 pm
    Gus commented:

    Granny, they told me that she wasn’t fired for wearing a TEA PARTY BRACELET.

    I “educated” them, that the GADSDEN FLAG has nothing to to with the TEA PARTY, it is associated with the earliest MARINE CORPS of America.

    I also informed them that no where in my correspondance to them, did I ever mention anything about a TEA PARTY.
    _________

    That is hysterical . . .

  22. #23 November 16, 2011 at 8:03 pm

    Mope commented:

    Well, doesn’t that just bring the Penn State debacle full circle? I’ll have to Update.

    Thanks, Mr. Hoft!

  23. #24 November 16, 2011 at 8:06 pm

    moron commented:

    It’s the distal end of the gi tract, not the proximal end.

  24. #25 November 16, 2011 at 8:13 pm

    ar05075 commented:

    Larry Sinclair is seething.

  25. #26 November 16, 2011 at 8:37 pm

    Ella commented:

    #25 – Larry Sinclair knows a thing or two about barack hussein obama. That’s what my link under post #6 details.

  26. #28 November 16, 2011 at 8:43 pm

    Patty commented:

    We have many problems. 15 trillion in debt. 9% unemployment. A president who is collapsing America. Scandals.

    Unions recalling Politicians. These pictures are disgusting but our nation is hurting. We all love the rainbow, sunshine and flowers.

    But we aren’t living Obamaville. We are living in America and I see a great nation, once Obama is out of the “White” house.

  27. #29 November 16, 2011 at 8:45 pm

    Clutch commented:

    Damn, I didn’t even know that Benetton was even still in business. This isn’t going to help them but it sure is gonna give us plenty of ammo to make even more fun of Teh Won.

  28. #30 November 16, 2011 at 8:56 pm

    DMartyr commented:

    “…the Pope kisses Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb, the Imam of al-Azhar mosque in Egypt. The Vatican condemned the image, and the company decided to remove it from all publications after complaints.”

    Somehow, I don’t think it was complaints from Catholics that prompted Benetton to nix that image….

  29. #32 November 16, 2011 at 9:18 pm

    owl commented:

    Mercy. Someone really does not like China.

  30. #34 November 16, 2011 at 9:27 pm

    HeavyDee commented:

    Hu said he’d take 100 million off of our debt for a “happy ending.”

  31. #35 November 16, 2011 at 9:31 pm

    PatrickA commented:

    Next thing you know they’ll depict Obama with AIDS legions on his face.

  32. #36 November 16, 2011 at 9:43 pm

    Got Billy Ayers on Speed Dial commented:

    Is the picture with Larry Sinclair next?

  33. #37 November 16, 2011 at 9:57 pm

    Larry Sheldon commented:

    That is not the part he usually kisses, is it?

  34. #38 November 16, 2011 at 10:20 pm

    Ella commented:

    So he has humongous scars on both sides of his head? Or is this just the left side. It sure looks similar on the right side though….. Why is it that everything about this guy is weird?

  35. #39 November 16, 2011 at 11:00 pm

    SpideyTerry commented:

    Wait, these pictures aren’t real? Really? Cause this seems like the kinda nonsense he’d engage in.

  36. #40 November 17, 2011 at 12:48 am

    S. Wolf commented:

    Granny #3

    But, but… none of those are Hussein’s enemies as in ‘punish our enemies’.. shouldn’t he be kissing Alan West, Eric Cantor or Rick Perry? And he has plenty of enemy women, Michelle Malkin, Sarah Palin… not that he’d kiss a woman.

  37. #42 November 17, 2011 at 1:07 am

    jorgen commented:

    That’s so wrong! Obama kisses their feet!

  38. #43 November 17, 2011 at 4:01 am

    Theadora commented:

    Oh – it’s too early in the morning to look at this.

    I’m going to gag!

  39. #44 November 17, 2011 at 4:26 am

    Ella commented:

    In all seriousness, shouldn’t he be afraid that his daughters may see this?

  40. #45 November 17, 2011 at 5:27 am

    eaglewingz08 commented:

    I think that the Imam of that Egyptian mosque would have blown up bennetton hq if he had found that he was being called the homosexual lover of the Pope by bennetton in that ad.

  41. #46 November 17, 2011 at 5:39 am

    eaglewingz08 commented:

    Of course my last comment about “blowing up” was metaphorical as there is no culture of violence in islam. Indeed I wonder if it was a call from the Vatican that got the ad pulled rather than either calls from muslim groups or the realisation that this incendiary ad could incite real violence in muslim lands if disseminated there. I choose to believe the latter since I’ve never seen in the pst thirty years any leftwing ad or screed against catholicism pulled because the Vatican or cardinals or bishops rail against them. On fact the progs libtards and media want to incite such reaction to increase sales. Indeed just this week we havethe Brooklyn Museum holding an Anty Christ video with insects crawlimg over a bloody crucifix. The exhibit wasnt pulled despite widespread catholic protests. So I find it harder to believe a vicious leftwing company would pull their anticatholic ads because the Pope requested it.

  42. #47 November 17, 2011 at 9:53 am

    Paul commented:

    Ah, the magic of Photoshop!!!

  43. #48 November 17, 2011 at 10:20 am

    wolf commented:

    Beats pictures of kissing Michelle!

  44. #49 November 17, 2011 at 11:54 am

    Rachel Maney commented:

    THAT IS SICK! Where is Capt. John Price. He will straight them out.

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