Friday, January 24, 2014
TRUTH IN ADVERTISING: DOES IT APPLY TO THE WORD "AFFORDABLE"
WASHINGTON - Nissan went too far with a TV commercial that depicts its Frontier pickup truck powering up a sandy hill to save a struggling dune buggy, according to the Federal Trade Commission...And no, the Frontier pickup can't really do that. In fact, the FTC complaint says both the truck and the buggy were dragged to the top of the hill by cables. "Special effects in ads can be entertaining, but advertisers can't use them to misrepresent what a product can do," said Jessica Rich, head of the FTC's consumer protection bureau.
If this is true, something else is in BIG TROUBLE!
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It's not a lie if Obama says it or, if the chairman of the federal reserve says it or if Hillary Clinton says it or Harry Reid......or....
ReplyDelete...or Jim Bradley, or Kathleen Wynnebag, or Dildo McDinky, or...
DeleteIf you want a sample of their lies:
http://www.ene.gov.on.ca/environment/en/category/climate_change/index.htm
Funny how a company gets a spanking for not being truthful but an Ontario court said that although McGuinty had told an out and out lie he couldn't be sued or charged.
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