Some ad geniuses apparently tried to put out the message that young Republicans are thinking people, too. They created an ad campaign called, "Republicans Are People Too" which features one ad called "ImARepublican." It showed a serious young man in white shirt and conservative tie reading a newspaper. He could have been an accountant or an insurance salesman. The ad copy says: Republicans read the New York Times in public.
There is just one little problem. Apparently they used stock photos, and an observant Wall Street Journal reporter looked carefully at the fuzzy, partial heading of the newspaper page, and recognized that it was the "Money and Investing" page from the Wall Street Journal.
Which makes this really delicious; because what the New York Times symbolizes to the liberal world, the Wall Street Journal does the same for the conservative world -- especially their respective editorial pages, one for liberals, the other for conservatives.
So now I get to use one of my favorite German words that can't quite be captured by translation into English: Schadenfreude -- something like: joy in another's misery. My other favorite in this category is: Weltanschauung.
Wunderbar !!
Ralph
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