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Racist Japanese Commercial?

published by castles

3 months 1 week ago • 685 views

tags: Obama, Change, Monkey, Tears, WTF

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The monkey is much smarter than Obama, so this video insinuates nothing.

*comedy

written by BillOreilly

| 3 months 1 week ago | CH

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Invocations (comedy) cannot be called by BillOreilly because BillOreilly is not privileged - sorry.

written by siftbot

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I suspect this has nothing to do with Obama. There's a Japanese drama airing right now called "CHANGE" (yes, they use all caps in the title) in which a political neophyte suddenly finds himself elected Prime Minister and goes about reforming Japan's corrupt political system. The commercial may be trying to capitalize on the popularity of the drama.

The commercial itself is for 'E-Mobile,' a cell phone provider whose name is a pun that basically means "Great cell phone." Also, E-Mobile's mascot has been the monkey from before this commercial was shot (another reason why it isn't likely an insulting shot aimed at Obama).

Commercial's content:

"Everyone, E-Mobile is now now 1980 yen (about US $20) every month. For just 1980 yen a month, you can talk as much as you want 24-hours a day with other E-mobile customers. E-mobile brings... CHANGE!"

(Crying monkey shot)

"Cell phone... revolution."

(Caption)

"Don't think it's possible? E-Mobile."

E-mobile web site (English): http://www.emobile.jp/en/index.html

Photos of the monkey used in previous EM campaigns: http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=4930#postcomment

written by SDGundamX

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*1sttube

written by nibiyabi

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Invocations (1sttube) cannot be called by nibiyabi because nibiyabi is not privileged - sorry.

written by siftbot

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*1sttube *comedy

written by Zonbie

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Adding video to channels (1sttube, Comedy) - requested by Zonbie.

written by siftbot

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so the racist is...YOU castles, for drawing a similarity between a monkey politician promoting change with an African American politician riding on the same platform!

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