Obama ice cream ad stirs anger

[KiwiCoromandel]

A Russian advertising agency has used an image resembling US President Barack Obama to promote a new vanilla-and-chocolate ice cream, drawing the ire of human rights groups who said the ad was vulgar.

Ice Cream Plant No 3 in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg launched last week a new brand named "Duet".

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source: Reuters

image: Supplied: OBAMA/RUSSIAN ICE CREAM AD: "This isn't the first time President Barack Obama's image has been exploited in international advertising, but it might be the most bizarre. The idea behind this Russian ad, from Voskhod, for the ice cream bar Duet, is obvious, as are the racial overtones. But do we detect a bit of a sneer in the copy? The line "Flavor of the Week" does suggest that Mr. Obama's popularity was based on little more than fashion. And in these stormy days it's difficult not to read those rainbows in the background as ironic."

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[vernarial]

Sometimes I think us Americans need to get over ourselves. It's a frikin ice cream ad.