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The U.S. Olympic Committee has asked the campaign to re-elect President Bush to pull an ad that refers to the Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee said on Thursday. The ad has angered Olympic officials because they feel it hijacks the Olympic brand -- a registered trademark -- even though it does not display the Games logo.
Apparently you're not even allowed to utter the word "Olympics" without permission from these asshats
The U.S. Olympic Committee had asked the Bush election "campaign to withdraw the advertisement they are running," International Olympic Committee spokeswoman Giselle Davies told reporters. The television advertisement, ahead of the presidential elections in November, does not feature the five Olympic rings -- one of the world's most recognizable images -- but an announcer tells viewers that at "this Olympics there will be two more free nations," referring to the U.S.-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq under Bush's presidency. Afghanistan returned to this year's Games after its Olympic Committee, controlled by the then ruling hard-line Taliban regime, was suspended in 1999 and missed the 2000 Sydney Games. The IOC reinstated Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein. The IOC said no official request had been made for the use of the reference to the Games. "We own the rights to the Olympic name and nobody asked us,"
"Nobody asked us! Whaahhh! WHAAAHH!" FOAD
Gerhard Heiberg, head of the International Olympic Committee's Marketing Commission had said on Wednesday.
A new low for the Olympic committee, which is saying quite a bit. Yup, giving the Olympics free advertising and making reference to the newly free Iraq and Afghanistan is wrong - especially if you're the man responsible for liberating those millions of people. No doubt the Iraq athletes would rather go back to being tortured and murdered for failing to win their events as they were under Saddam Insane. Why not ask THEM, Gerhard?
Gerhard Heiberg - Olympic Champion Idiotarian. |