Video Saved From The Memory Hole: The Pulled DDB-B/WWF 9/11 YouTube Clip
September 3rd, 2009 - 5:08 pm
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If you click on the YouTube video we embedded yesterday from the World Wild Life Fund and/or DDB-B (The Brazilian branch of the agency founded under the name Doyle, Dane, and Bernbach) showing a digitally-created fleet of passenger jets crashing into the World Trade Center, you now get a black screen and the message, “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by DDB Brasil.”
Fortunately, we managed to save a copy before the clip was pulled. Click on the above video to get a sense of why the WWF and/or their ad agency wanted to pull this clip down. And if you’re coming in cold to this story, click here and here for our posts on what the hubbub is all about.
Wow!
That’s really incredibly stupid. Tsunamis are acts of nature, not humans. It sort of negates all the point of humans trying to save anything when nature can wipe out every living thing in a matter of minutes – either by tsunami, hurricane, earthquake or forest fire. All the ‘restoration’ projects pffft, down the tubes.
Besides being offensive, it is just plain dumb.
Not a cheap ad to produce either.
I, for one, support the War on Earth.
What would be your stance when DDB Brazil makes a copyright claim against your video?
What I mean is they claim not to have created the video at all. And yet, somehow mysteriously they’ve gotten YouTube to pull the video citing copyright claims.
Curious.
At any rate, I’ve canceled my monthly donation to the World Wildlife Federation. If this is how my money is being spent, then it’s a total waste.
I’ve given them tens of thousands of dollars over the years.
Nice Save Ed DDB produced a really repugnant ad and they should lose the account
With different captions this ad could be used to remind Americans of the ongoing threat of Islamofascism.
I like their panda logo.
I like pandas.
Especially with a little garlic and butter.
“Our world is brutally powerful. respect it.”
because if you don’t, it will wreak vengeance on you? The rock we live on is sensitive about being disrespected? This is making earth (pardon me, Gaia) into a deity, and a very jealous one at that.
But that’s no surprise. I am reminded of what geologist Ian Plimer wrote, “Eco-guilt is a first-world luxury. It’s the new religion for urban populations which have lost their faith in Christianity. The IPCC report is their Bible. Al Gore and Lord Stern are their prophets.”
Hoqw about world-respected physicist Freeman Dyson? “There is a worldwide secular religion which we may call environmentalism, holding that we are stewards of the earth, that despoiling the planet with waste products of our luxurious living is a sin, and that the path of righteousness is to live as frugally as possible.” [From, "The Question of Global Warming."]
See also my post, “Environmentalist religion explained.”
So…to prevent tsunamis…I suppose to hunt, kill and skin panda bears?
OK. I could use a new fireplace rug.
Horrible commercial. Good save.
But I don’t think all of the blame can be placed on DDB, even if the commercial was not released. They are an contractor to WWF. All companies have a dialog with their agencies. It isn’t like a bullet point memo that gets posted on the equivalent of “Craig’s List”.
For example, a company like GM has a lot of conversations with their ad agencies about what they want their commercials to look like. In most cases, a dialog and sketch are made before any filming or CGI are created. In long shoots, GM will send a rep to watch the shoot and make adjustments on the fly. It isn’t left entirely to the agency’s discretion.
Someone at WWF had to encourage or approve of the brash perspective that motivated this type of imagery.
Didn’t I see a clown on the TV after the Tsunami blaming Bush? The science is settled: Pandas cause Tsunamis, that in turn cause planes to be drawn to buildings. And shut up all of you deniers!
Uhmmmmm A Tsunami is caused by an earthquake triggering an underwater landslade. Even the most crazy environmentalists haven’t gotten around to explaining how more CO2 in the atmosphere causes earthquakes.
Obama plans to manipulate the meaning of 9/11 like everything else. This is just the beginning.
First he needs some school children and their handlers who will listen to his indoctrination without talking back.
“Uhmmmmm A Tsunami is caused by an earthquake triggering an underwater landslade. Even the most crazy environmentalists haven’t gotten around to explaining how more CO2 in the atmosphere causes earthquakes.”
Believe it or not, at least one moonbat has. All those tons of CO2 in the air increase atmospheric pressure, you see, which pushes down on the oceans which disturbs the ocean floor….
I am NOT making this up!
Yeah, Donald, they really need to get their act together. Which is it? Is the earth brutally powerful or is it so weak that humans driving some cars around are in danger of “destroying” it (after it’s been around for 4.6 billion years)? It doesn’t seem to me you can have it both ways. Or does the earth have a glass jaw?
Wouldn’t you expect something supposedly for a Brazilian audience, to, ya know, be in Portugese?
Hey, DDB didn’t have anything to do with the video and WWF didn’t authorize it. Yeah. Right. Anyone want to buy a bridge?
This gets to their 1)hatred of all things American – never mind many of those who died on 9/11 were NOT American’s, they just worked here. and 2)their worship at the alter of AGW implying that Tsunammi’s are anthropogenic. (again, want to buy a bridge?)
2. Rose:
Tsunamis are acts of nature, not humans. It sort of negates all the point of humans trying to save anything when nature can wipe out every living thing in a matter of minutes
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Well, that would explain why they want to push a message that tsunammi’s are anthropogenic – if nature can do that much damage in a matter of minutes, what would the point of supporting their organization be? Must be humans, after all, nature would *never* sink an island, change the course of a river, increase/decrease temperature, etc. (/sarc.)
God caused the tsunami because the morons that work at WWF pissed him off.
Each and everyone of them is to blame for not respecting him.
6. Sammy Benoit:
Nice Save Ed DDB produced a really repugnant ad and they should lose the account
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don’t let WWF cries of “we didn’t authorize this” fool you – production wouldn’t have gone this far if they hadn’t.
911 was a manmade event, a tsunami is a natural event. 911 was an act of war, not a tragedy. Learn the difference, and always correct people when they say it.
Mgh. Me sacrifice virgin in volcano. Make Gaia happy. Gaia like eat virgin. Mmmm. Gaia no make tsunami. Gaia make hot love to virgin. Gaia lezzy. Give Gaia what Gaia want. Mgh.
True enough. This was more than an afternoon at the computer.
The DMCA takedown notice is an admission of authorship of the ad, which the mealy-mouthed managers at DDB have been denying.
You just busted yourselves, DDB.
The reason that the ad is in English is that it never was a real ad to sell anything: it was a “demo” ad which was made to win awards at competitions. They probably ran it once at midnight somewhere in Amazonia to make it technically qualify.
This was not created without sign-off all the way to executive level at DDB (and not just in Brazil). You can safely assume that this is what most of DDB’s employees (and indeed most admen — this might have won its competition if not for the controversy) think of 9/11.
It looks to me like they’re amoral scumbags — a truly evil company full of truly vile people.
Idiocracy on crack. “Batin’ here!”
It’s a fine ad for National Socialist Volunteer day, that whole WTC attack stuff is so old hat. Didn’t you folks hear the good news about 9/11 and how it has been erased as anything other than a celebration of Volunteerism?
You know it’s coming, you know it’s just a matter of time before all sorts of stupid crap will be granted the same status as the heroic firemen and police who laid it all on the line at the WTC.
Regards
Reminds me of the Capri Sun commercials:
Respect the Pouch!
Respect it!!
Amazing how they thought they could get away with making a moral equivalence between a tsunami and a massive terrorist attack: They’re both just terrible tragedies.
I guess in their little environmentally deranged minds, all man-kind is assaulting nature (i.e. it’s a man-made “terrorist” attack). So…. a tsunami is… natrue’s way of getting back at us?? Man even for a lunatic, that must be a hard sell!
I don’t get it. Why would the WWF run this ad? It doesn’t seem to have anything to do with wrestling.
What this ad tells me, is that we should immediately begin truly massive terraform-like reconstruction of the planet Earth. Obviously, if the Earth is so powerful, and is also so likely to strike out at us at its whim; we’d better get on the stick and begin seriously wrestling this thing to ground.
Massive reconstruction of the planet must commence immediately in order to make it safe for us. Levee’s are a right, right?
I suspect it’s not just me that thinks this message just does not jibe with WWF’s stated purpose.
I can do that. Easy. You should see me go when I get really angry.
I could take all of New York and most of Long Island, if I wanted. Trust me, you don’t want to see me when I’m in a bad mood. Even when I burp you really do sit up and take notice.
So respect me? Ha! You think your puny forelock-tugging makes me feel better? Think again, humans…
I will be back no matter how many global warming conferences you have, no matter how many carbon credits you issue. Believe me, when you can get a buzz from shifting continents you aren’t going to be the least interested in people sending money to something called WWF or waving banners at climate change protests.
Oh yes, climate change… let me see. Ah yes, new ice age. Yep, got it pencilled in.
Enjoy
Absolutely incredible, abominable, depraved. WWF and BBDx (the worldwide agency with so many names) should be boycotted, condemned, reviled. My heart goes out to 9/11 families who stumble upon this.
The WH probably uses it as a screensaver!
Great save, Ed.
Where are the “DDB-B/WWF 9/11″ truthers when we need them? The president knew about this ad…it was created by the CIA (and the rich jooos of course)
Maybe we could sacrifice a virgin or a newborn like they did in ancient times. Hail to Yam.
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Yam_(god)
Any volunteers? No? Well then we’re gonna hafta…
and I just bought five pounds of Brazilian coffee…damn. this video is a jihadist’s dream come true. yikes.
Respect me or else!
I thought the World Wrestling Foundation was outlandish and cartoonish, but these clownish propagandists have got them beat by an over-the-top and out of the ring mile!
This whole line of “advertising” makes no logical sense at all. “The earth is a more dangerous and powerful force than us puny humans,” but for some reason we have to protect and preserve it? That’s like saying the Crips are the strongest and most violent gang in town, so we need to work hard to keep them around. WTF? if anything, this advertisement argues for large scale human eco-engineering to reign in and counter these destructive forces, not personal and economic sacrifice to perpetuate them.
Way to keep it classy WWF. Stupid greenies. I’m sure the families of the 9/11 victims appreciate you minimizing their devastating loss, that was caused by TERRORIST. FYI, just because someone doesn’t recycle or drives and SUV, doesn’t make them a terrorist. Our troops are fighting to keep us safe from real evil. If you want protecting from natural disasters, don’t turn the the creation, turn the the creator. If you stopped taking God out of everything, He might keep His hand of protection over America. That’s the only way to “preserve the planet.”
@Chileno:
Reminds me of the Capri Sun commercials:
Respect the Pouch!
And see, that would be an enjoyable commercial…sorta..lol
Respect it!!
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haha, yeah, it does!
See? The terrorists were actually working for ‘mother earth’ to help her get rid of evil, destructive humanity.
Mother Earth’s Destructive Forces [MEDF] = GOOD
Human Destructive Forces [HDF] = Bad
Examples of HDF:
1). Burping
2). Flatulence
3). Exhaling
4). Survival <–Worst crime EVVA
It is not called terrorism anymore, it is called “man-caused disaster” (new Obama foreign policy lingo). Combine this narrative, with the ecofascists’ claim that all highly destructive natural events result from global warming/climate change, which in turn is caused by man, and you can see the thinking by which the green morons arrived at this ad equating terrorism to the tsunami:
1. terrorism=man-caused disaster
2. global warming/climate change causes extreme weather/tsunami
3. global warming/climate change is man-made
4. therefore, tsunami=man-caused disaster
5. using 1 & 4 above, tsunami=terrorism
Think about this: the mayor of NYC (BloomingIdiotberg) said that “global warming is much worse than terrorism.”
Is it any wonder why such an ad was made?
18 Cris. Ah, that would be Brazilian. You know, like it would be Austrian if they showed it in Autria.
#47.
BR. Ah, there’s no such language as Brazilian. The people of Brazil speak Portuguese, which is the official language of the country. A few also speak German, English, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and some Amarind languages … but no ‘Brazilian.’
Achillea, There’s no “Austrian” either, but don’t ell Dear Leader, OK?
Next Weekend, Part Two: Friday, a Day of Remembrance
(Part One reminded America that a massive march on Washington is scheduled for next Friday, a march designed to once again ignite the sleeping giant, the too-silent majority, to rise up and take back our country from the radical Leftists now running it–into the ground.
Part Two represents another reminder–of what could happen, again, if we fail to take our country back.)
The day preceding the March on Washington, Friday, September 11th, 2009, is a day that should forever be commemorated as the day on which America and all Americans were subjected to a horror exceeding any other horror visited on our nation in its 220 year history: September 11th, 2001.
That late summer day dawned with all that was good and true and beautiful in its clear skies in New York City, in Washington, D.C., and in Shanksville, PA. Regrettably, rarely can the good, the true, and the beautiful endure long on our fragile planet.
Collective memories tend to fade over years as the human psyche relegates to its recesses that which is disturbing, that which we would rather forget, that which we hope will not re-occur, and certainly not occur near us.
Unfortunately or not, that psychic tactic only affords a temporary, and perilous, self-delusion.
President Obama, America’s Delusionist in Chief, was still a lowly Illinois state senator in 2001, still a parishioner seated in a pew in Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church.
He may even have heard Jeremiah’s jeremiad concerning 9/11, you know, the one when he ranted that we deserved what we got that day, when he screamed, “God damn America!” and “America’s chickens have come home to roost.”
Obama may have skipped church that day or surely he would have stormed out, Michelle and the kids in tow.
And maybe not.
Suggestive of Barack/Barry’s missing the point of 9/11 and buying into Wright’s thesis, he now absurdly wants that date to be celebrated as some vague “day of service,” more aptly called, “Obama’s Plan to Desecrate 9/11:” http://bit.ly/agXaD.
That desecration, that violation of the sanctity of September 11th, is repugnant beyond imagining, except by those who consciously or unconsciously have already forgotten its meaning.
A scant eight years in our past, 9/11/2001 should not require reminders . . .
(Read the rest and see the pictures at http://genelalor.com)
What I wouldn’t give for a few hours of the NBC/FOX/CBS/ABC footage from that day! I watched hours of it from the airport manager’s office as we accepted two United Flights from Boston and one Air Canada Flight from Dallas at our airport in southwestern Kansas. If fact at a briefing the next day in the EOC (Emergency Operations Center)The Captain of one of the United Flights told us that HE had switched flight assignments at the last minutes with one of the captains who died crashing into the World Trade Center.
James Douglass
Garden City, Kansas
Actually, WWF disclaims all knowledge of both the print and and the video.
Plus, DDB says somebody took our print ad and made an exact dupication in video??!! How’d THAT happen? Wasn’t us, no sir!
AdAge, AdWeek, and all the industry mags are all over this. Read mre here: http://grandrants.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/bad-agency/ (please).
So how many acres of rain forest were clear cut today DDB?
Man,whenever I see a picture of 9/11,it’s like when I hear bagpipes.A chill goes down my spine and I have an urge to kill something.
46. Trainwreck,
Oops. I forgot ‘terrorist/terrorism’ is a ‘no-no’ word now. lol
Yep. I could totally see some loon coming to that conclusion in exactly the way you laid out in your example. Crazzzzzy.