Crayola unhappy about parody video thanking tea partiers

No, that wasn’t really a Crayola honcho thanking tea party activists for their patronage.

It was the self-styled satirical group The Full Ginsburg, putting in its one-minute-11-second online video dig at the grassroots conservatives.

Crayola, a subsidiary Kansas City’s Hallmark Cards Inc., wasn’t chuckling.

“We’ve received a lot of calls, e-mail messages and postings from consumers regarding the video, which we did not create,” Crayola spokesman Eric Zebley said in a statement Wednesday. “Many of those consumers told us they thought that we created it and they were offended by it.”

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/04/28/1910810/color-crayola-not-amused-by-video.html#ixzz0mUKie4KB

In case you missed the video when it was on DU's front page: http://thefullginsburg.com/

who would be complaining about it.


BTW, I quit giving a damn about Hallmark/Crayola when they closed their Winfield KS plant and moved Crayon production to....China is it?

I used to always buy Hallmark because they are a hometown company. But then when Bush was selected, they were huge supporters and lost my business.

Here's a sign my friend made and held outside of Hallmark headquarters when Bush was there for a town hall:

I have never seen such unimaginative, literal-minded people in my life!

They have no creative artists. They have no comedians. (I'm not counting Dennis Miller or $arah Palin.) They have only fear, and sputtering, spittle-flecked outrage at whatever current event they are misinterpreting and missing the point of today.

What an embarrassment conservatives are to America.

I was just thinking that lack of imagination/creativity is why Conservatives are obsessed with their identity as Americans, and also why they are obsessed with paying less taxes.

Lacking imagination, strong personal identity, and creativity, the only way Conservatives can imagine their life getting better is having more money to spend.

Thought that was pretty funny. :rofl:

and even funnier that some think it is real.

Where did you hear that?

But the Halls are ruthless. I would expect a lawsuit any day now.

Quel Surprise.

TeaBirthers who are dumb enough to think this is real ought to just stop breathing. Right now. I mean, to not use a simple 30 seconds on Google or Wikipedia to find out who Crayola's actual CEO is (it's a guy) . . . come on. It's like those Republican dopes who thought The Onion was a legitimate news site (frankly, in some ways, it is . . . compared to Faux).

I'm thinking the dig at their apparent lack of spelling and grammatical ability hit a little too close to home.

supposing to exude soulful thoughtfulness with a mix of appropriate humor...

whose feelings got hurt. The dope behind this runs a blog nauseatingly entitled iowntheworld.com:

http://www.socialtimes.com/2010/04/youtube-pulls-tea-party-video/


...Today, the newest addition to YouTube’s pulled videos was added to the list. ‘Crayola Thanks the Tea Partiers’, a parody created by political humorists The Full Ginsburg, has been removed from YouTube thanks to the conservative blog iOwnTheWorld.

‘Crayola Thanks the Tea Partiers’ depicts an actress playing Crayola’s CEO. She thanks the Tea Party movement for a boost in Crayola sales, because the new political movement has been using crayons to make protest signs. As a parody, the video pokes fun at the Tea Party, and insinuates that the members are both racist and not the brightest crayons in the box (pun intended).

Conservative blog iOwnTheWorld responded to the video saying, “If we don’t hear that Crayola Crayons is doing everything they can to stop the makers of this video can we assume that Crayola endorses this video? If that is the case I will never use Crayola, or their affiliate’s (Hallmark) products, ever again.” The blog stated that the video was deliberately made to look like it was produced by Crayola and, therefore, Crayola is personally responsible if they do not take action. They insist that many viewers will believe this is a Crayola production and that Crayola should sue for this egregious violation of branding copyright. Personally, I think that it is extremely clear that this video is a parody and anyone in his or her right mind would be able to see that it was not made by Crayola.

Crayola responded to iOwnTheWorld with a letter stating that “Crayola was not involved in the making of this video, nor did we in any way authorize the use of our brand name, the Crayola logo or the products shown.” However, this was not enough for the conservative blog, which continued to push Crayola to take legal action and have the video removed.

Apparently the blog succeeded in pushing Crayola, and their parent company Hallmark, into taking action. The video was removed from YouTube today and replaced with the text “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Hallmark Cards, Incorporated.” However, the simple removal of the video may not be enough for the iOwnTheWorld blogger who says he now has a Pavlovian response to the brand. “I hear Crayola and I feel as if I’m being hated and my beliefs besmirched and my way of life ridiculed. I don’t think I can bring myself to buy a Crayola product anymore, or a Hallmark card – unless of course I hear that they are suing these filmmakers.”

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<The obvious question to ask: How the hell is he gonna make his protest signs until then? Finger paints? >

"I feel as if I’m being hated and my beliefs besmirched and my way of life ridiculed."

So now being stupid, ignorant, massively uninformed, hateful and stubborn is a "way of life"??

Weep me an Ibsen play, you teensy putz, and get a HELMET.

These people amaze me to no end. If Crayola caves to this idiot's ruinous demands . . .

He is being hated and his way of life ridiculed. What a horrible, horrible tragedy!

:eyes:

. . . but when you guys persist with the whole "show your birth certificate thing", combined with the whole "All Democrats and liberals are COMM'NISTS" thing . . .

and the whole

"Trickle Down Economics WORKS for the Middle/working/poor" thing . . .
"Tax Cuts for the Rich Creates Jobs" thing . . .
"Must Fight the Terrorists over THERE so we won't have to fight them HERE" thing . . .
"The horrible economy is all Obama's Fault" thing . . .
"The media is liberal" thing . . .
"Saddam had WMDs and a hand in 9/11" thing . . .
"Free Trade/Job offshoring is good for America" thing . . .
"Every Government organization is a wasteful failure" thing . . .
"Freedom is not Free and I don't want to pay taxes" thing . . .

. . . let's just say he isn't exactly shielding himself from ridicule. JUST a hunch.

Not surprising.

They lie cheat and steal. They foment hatred. Funny is not part of the agenda. They'd rather foam at the mouth than laugh. They also enjoy burning a cross from time to time.

is the president dressed up as an African witch doctor. Or an email about watermelons on the White House lawn.

Of course they wouldn't like it.

Some folks require the disclaimer. It's an unwritten law on the interenets, isn't it?

Crayola and charter schools sponsor coloring contest to draw the best (or worse) bigot