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Go Daddy CEO Won't Apologize for Gross Super Bowl Ad, Claims to Think It's "Hilarious"

Imagine that -- people at Go Daddy are happy the company's Super Bowl commercial caused controversy, as watching and listening to some fatso make out with a supermodel made people feel like they wanted to vomit.In fact, the Scottsdale-based company that has relied on cleavage for many of its previou ... More >>

Kyrsten Sinema Doesn't Like America, but Loves Flower Power, According to Vernon Parker Ad

It's not every day that a Republican congressional candidate releases an ad that probably requires the consumption of hallucinogenic drugs to get the full effect.Yet, Republican CD9 candidate Vernon Parker has this downright groovy ad out that's just too awesome to ignore, regardless of the politica ... More >>

Ben Quayle Has a New TV Ad, and You'll Never Guess What He Says (Yes You Will)

Stop us if you've heard this before, but Congressman Ben Quayle thinks Barack Obama is the "worst president in history."Quayle's got a new TV ad out in Arizona's Sixth Congressional District ahead of his August primary with fellow Republican Congressman David Schweikert, and sure enough, Quayle's go ... More >>

Russell Pearce's Worst Nightmare Bob Worsley Wins Chamber Endorsement

A Worsley TV ad, part of a $10K ad buy, according to the Worsley campAs disgraced ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce recycles old signs from last year's historic recall election, his GOP primary rival Bob Worsley is running $10,000 ad buys on cable TV and racking up endorsements from Mesa Mayo ... More >>

Super Stereo @ Crescent Ballroom

Will Ferrell's Old Milwaukee Beer Commercials!

It turns out that Arizona missed out on a very important commercial during this past Sunday's Super Bowl. It featured an American comic genius, a field of flowers, and a can of ... Old Milwaukee beer.

Women's Funding Network Sex Trafficking Study Is Junk Science

Schapiro Group data wasn't questioned by mainstream media

Joan Rivers Go Daddy Body Double Looks Way Too Much Like Joan Rivers

Go Daddy's new "girl," 77-year-old Joan Rivers.​As we mentioned yesterday, like many, we were duped by Scottsdale-based domain provider Go Daddy into calling Joan Rivers hot. Today we learn that River's body double for Sunday's Super Bowl ad (the actual woman to whom we referred as "hot") happens ... More >>

Go Daddy Tricks World into Calling Joan Rivers Hot

Go Daddy's new "girl," 77-year-old Joan Rivers.​We were betrayed...For the last two weeks, the PR department for the Scottsdale-based domain provider Go daddy has been sending out press releases with images of body parts of this year's "Go Daddy Girl." We were shown legs, a great ass, and a really ... More >>

Go Daddy Releases Photo of New Girl's Rack. Full Identity to be Revealed in Super Bowl Ad

Things are shaping up nicely for Sunday's Go Daddy Super Bowl ad.​Go Daddy continues to tease men everywhere by gradually releasing images of various body parts of the woman who will be featured in the company's Super Bowl ad this year, and we gotta say, things are shaping up nicely.The chest pict ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Spent More Than $500K on His Boy Bill Montgomery, According to Invoices

Bill Montgomery: The half-million dollar man, and then some According to records provided to special counsel Jeffrey Messing by Sheriff Joe Arpaio's political guru Chad Willems of Summit Consulting Group, Arpaio's re-election campaign committee spent more than $500,000 in media buys for TV ads ... More >>

John McCain Campaign Fires Back at J.D. Hayworth Over "False" Ad

​Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth's latest TV ad has given the John McCain campaign an opportunity to re-package the old "wrestling match with a pig" analogy. As the saying goes, getting into one is a bad idea because "you both get dirty and the pig likes it."The McCain campaign would argue that H ... More >>

Matthew Lesko -- Of Question-Mark-Covered-Suits Fame -- Tweets in On Latest McCain Ad

www.nndb.com​If the whole U.S. Senate thing doesn't work out for former Congressman J.D. Hayworth, he should find some solace in the fact that his work as a TV pitchman -- namely his pimping of "horse-love repellent" in a John McCain campaign ad -- is getting noticed by some of the big-shots in th ... More >>

Glenn Beck Says J.D. Hayworth's Campaign is Over

www.44diaries.comGlenn Beck​Glenn Beck took some time off from weeping over the word "America," gushing over the founding fathers, and scaring the ever-loving shit out of his far-right followers with his chalkboard of doom this morning to call Arizona's GOP Senate primary for Senator John McCain n ... More >>

Using Fatties in Marketing Campaigns Unlikely to Work, ASU Study Finds

Kirstie Alley's Jenny Craig ad campaign. Looks like someone took a wrong turn after Cheers​A researcher at Arizona State University found that ads featuring plus-sized models are unlikely to work on their intended audiences: fatties.Sorry, Kirstie Alley, the Jenny Craig endorsement buffet ma ... More >>

Facebook Feud Over Billboard "Objectifying Women" Forces Furniture Store to Change Ad Campaign

​Take a good hard look at the above advertisement. Are you aghast? Offended? Does it put you in the mood -- to buy furniture?The ad campaign is for a Phoenix furniture distributor called Furniture Affair -- a sort of edgy boutique where people can get pretty good discounts on designer gear.For ... More >>

Advertising in Movies Expected to Double, Says Study Exposing Consumer Response

  www.repmanblog.comJust when we thought we didn't have to watch commercials anymore, with TiVo ending the corporate enslavement of our subconscious, advertisers snuck back in. And we didn't even notice. A study released by the Department of Research and Economic Affairs ... More >>

Craigslist Announces it Will Drop "Erotic Services" Category Associated With Murders

Last week, New Times featured an in-depth look at the hype surrounding the "Craigslist Killings." Much of the controversy and opposition centered on the "Erotic Services" section of the Web site. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Sheriff Thomas Dart of Cook Count ... More >>

Sunday's Worst Super Bowl Ad

Is this what you think of the American public, Pepsi? There were some truly awful ads on during yesterday's insanely competitive Super Bowl. The economy is changing, America is changing, and the past two Super Bowls have been some of the best games in Super Bowl history. I remember watching some Sup ... More >>

Digital Billboards Coming to Town as Tolleson Okays New Signs

More digital billboards will be sprouting along Interstate 10 through Tolleson after the town gave the signs the green light this week. The town debated for more than a year whether to allow the billboards, which have popped up alongside freeways in other communities . Some residents believe the ... More >>

The Most Interesting Show in the World Tour feat. Jim Rose

Terri Ouellette, "Craft Queen," Pitches Book For Crafty Ex-con Kevin Trudeau

New food critics debut at Phoenix Mag

Tom Waits

Andrew Thomas spends public money to bring sinners to Christ

Valentine's Day Massacre

The Republic's newsroom runs red with blood...and ink.

Kapusta Kristmas

Thanks to the Internet, you no longer have to be on Al Kooper's holiday list to hear some of the funniest tapes in history

Duncan Sheik, and David Poe

Flavor and texture

Critical Fatwa

For their sins, they will suffer

Moby

Hotel
(V2 Records)

Letters

Letters from the week of January 13, 2005

Minus the Bear

"Prog-core enigma"

That's All, Folks?

Warner Bros. delivers a merchandising vehicle that falls flat

Dirty Tricks

A call to an ex-gubernatorial candidate's campaign cell phone is linked to forged documents used to slam Napolitano and Salmon.

The Pain Train

Two years later, a digital-video short film became an overnight ad sensation

Indian Ruin

The Zuni tribe's plans for Phoenix billboards were abruptly canceled by Clear Channel

Ooh Child

MTV's blockbuster TRL Tour proves black is beautiful and profitable

Mel Sells Out

What Women Want is a movie that's better than this two-hour advertisement

Best Hard Rock Station

KUPD-FM 97.9

Best News Talk Show

The David Leibowitz Show
KTAR-AM 620

Best Post-Court Retort

Former beauty queen Jill Scott

Good to the Last Flop

Will new e-zine celebrating Failure succeed in spite of itself?

Don Wan

Valley-based infomercial czar Don Lapre has made millions selling his Money Making Secrets to late-night-TV viewers. So what's the secret behind his bankruptcy?

The Selling of ASU Football

No matter what happens on the field, ASU athletics hits pay dirt every game--with a nonstop stream of advertisements

Mrs. Good Retch

The state's antitobacco ads get more nauseating--and popular--by the week

The Payne of It All

COOKING THE BOOK

A MASSIVE FEDERAL INVESTIGATION UNCOVERS EVIDENCE OF UNION CORRUPTION AT THE YELLOW PAGES. WHILE COMPANY MANAGENT DOES NOTHING, EMPLOYEES AND CUSTOMERS PAY THE PRICE.

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