Great moments in advertising: the McGreevey edition
: Half paying attention during Letterman, I jerked up my head when I realized that a Jim McGreevey tourism commercial had just appeared. I swear — really, I do — that this is what he said in the tagline:
“Come out and see what’s new — in New Jersey!”
Indeed.
: UPDATE: And this morning, I am listening to NJ101.5 (which I do only for traffic and gubernatorial scandals) and heard another McGreevey ad, this one a public-service announcement with a woman saying she got AIDS from her husband and with McGreevey urging everyone to get HIV tests. You couldnt’ cut this irony with a chainsaw. (Though I suspect that it wasn’t merely ironic; NJ101.5 doesn’t know how to spell eyerunee; I’m sure a wag scheduled the spot quite on purpose.)
