French Guy Pats America On Head For Electing Obama
The French CEO of huge ad conglomerate Publicis thinks Barack Obama's election shows America is smart again! Also, that all this economic trouble is the fault of shady corporate lies. But not advertising lies:
Maurice Levy is an easily caricatured Frenchman: cosmopolitan, liberal, wealthy, condescending, probably a fan of escargot (I was just in France and man, they really eat that, for real yall, no fooling!). He sent this message to all 15,000 of his employees worldwide after the election:
“Congratulations on such a great choice,” he wrote. “Once again the American people have proved that they are right there when it comes to turning points in history — and they know how to make history.”
Haha, as long as you don't extend that logic back, say, four years! Publicis is going to get slammed like every other ad conglomerate in the coming year because of the shitty economy. Which he blames on the following: "Capitalism cannot only be about profit." How does his multibillion dollar ADVERTISING firm, for fuck's sake, fit into that?
“We don’t lie to them, we don’t cheat them,” he said. “We don’t tell them something is a triple-A product when it is not a triple-A product.”
