But the video isnt about fun a fact obvious to
anyone who watched the audience reaction when it debuted October 13
on the Jay Leno Show. The video showed to an audience that rarely
made any noise at all during the more than two-minute diatribe
against Big Box-Mart, the videos made up name for Wal-Mart.
Wastler even went further in his assessment of the
video, claiming, It shows the economic cycle of eventually you put
yourself out of work and end up working at Big Box-Mart. Even the
CNN team didnt try to pretend that video meant any store other than
Wal-Mart.
The October 17 Lou Dobbs Tonight also welcomed the
online satirists with open arms. Dobbs referred to the video as a
devastating, hilarious look at the state of our nations economy.
He then argued it shows how major retailers are helping out the
middle class. The broadcast was then turned over his program to
JibJab, broadcasting the entire video.
Dobbs followed up by interviewing the geniuses behind
the video that made us laugh. Dobbs continued his attack on
Wal-Mart and this business practice that we consider
extraordinarily wrongheaded.
Dobbs continued by calling it a devastating piece of
satire. He did briefly address Wal-Marts position, because the
firm had pointed out that the JibJab video was wildly one-sided. He
gave Wal-Mart a back-handed compliment saying that Wal-Marts
request for a sequel that lampoons Wal-Marts critics was about
as a humane expression as Ive heard from Wal-Mart in some time.
The October 14 Your World with Neil Cavuto on Fox
News hammered home the lack of balance in a stronger way. Foxs
Stuart Varney asked the JibJab duo directly, So, are you going to
come up with a sequel that lampoons Wal-Marts critics, guys? After
laughing, hemming and hawing, Gregg Spiridellis vowed that we will
definitely take it into consideration, which likely was a nice way
of saying no. Varney also dared to ask the JibJabbers whether they
were very much left of center, although they denied it.
CNNs In the Money Team Loves Jabs at Wal-Mart
October 24th, 2005 2:00 PM
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