I was in Canada a year and a half ago, working with the largest Canadian labor union,…and one of the leaders of the union, an aboriginal woman, comes over, takes her stance, stares me straight in the eye, and says, “George, why have your people abandoned your President?” I had nothing to say, because we [...]
Politics
The Groupon Faux Pas
Exhibit A: This is one of three Crispin Porter + Bogusky-produced ads for Groupon, a site that delivers one huge deal each day for a particular city. This is the only ad I’ve seen and I’ll tell you, when I first saw it, I was plenty pissed. I thought it was tasteless and made light [...]
Saturday’s Tragedy in Arizona
We’ll have to see what the upcoming weekly news cycle will bring, but my fear is that both sides will be pointing fingers at each other by Friday, which misses the point entirely. And that is that our current political climate is not the reason this took place. Loughner is a special breed of conspiracy [...]