The Justice Coin commercial has been around for a few months, but it gained more recognition over the holiday when folks staying up late — including myself — began spotting it around 3 a.m. on MTV or A&E or The Discovery Channel or any number of other places where it could qualify for the “As Seen on TV” brand. Mixing footage of 9/11 and President Obama’s speech announcing the death of Osama Bin Laden with solemn music, the Historic Coin Mint introduces a “rare” commemorative 24 carat gold coin paying tribute to Seal Team Six “with their distinctive trident and their classified stealth helicopter.” On the other side of the coin, “the tragic reminders, the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, Flight 93, along with the powerful words of our presidents, ‘Justice has been done.’”
Yeesh.
It may be one of the most ridiculously reductive, hilariously crass, shamelessly exploitative ads I’ve ever seen, wrong in more ways than I can possibly count. And the clincher: If you’re one of the first 500 callers, you can get the Operation Geronimo Briefing Pack, a $79 value, yours for free (plus shipping and processing)! In all, that’s $200 worth of faux patriotism for only $20. What a steal.
(Via Dave Chen)
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I just think it’s funny that they think their target demo is people who watch MTV at 3 in the morning. Then again I guess it would make sense for coin collectors with no conscience to be big fans of “Teen Mom 2″ marathons.
Look at it this way, it’s $19.95 that won’t go to Michelle Bachman’s or Rick Perry’s campaign.
You get a free warrantless wiretap with each purchase.
“Made from the fillings of real 9/11 victims!”
After the E-Pulse-apocalypse-Thetan War-climatic flooding-black helicopters-whatever’s comin’ for you and all the libraries are converted to bathrooms for the homeless, these will come in very handy reminding us that Brawndo is what plants crave.
I saw this yesterday during an It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia marathon and was just glad it wasn’t another commercial to save polar bears, tigers, children or abandoned dogs.
These 911 commercials have been around for years. And I think one of them was even a scam. Cracked did the deed on exposing.
Is “Cracked did it” the new Simpsons did it?
It’s plated in gold. I wish it told us how many milligrams of gold. The other current GOLD COIN FOR $10! is the buffalo nickel. While I don’t remember how many milligrams it was plated with, it at least told us. And one day, when gold was slightly over $1600, I was bored and figured out that the the total gold value value in the nickel was 85 cents.
USA! USA! USA! USA!
I have to think a Venn diagram of the people who buy commemorative coins and the people who celebrate something President Obama accomplished has to look like this:
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Ha! Brilliantly accurate.
I would not buy this piece of cr@p right wing racist coin. It quotes Bush prominently on top, the guy who said he didn’t know or care where bin laden was, and on line from Obama, they guy who spent three years tracking him down and killing him, his quote is like an after thought. It’s Navy Seal coin as if they had anything to do with the decision making. I’m a Navy vet and and am embarrassed by this blatant display of disregard for our Commander in Chief. This coin is not worth one red cent.
@jackejo:
So Obama -personally- tracked down and killed Osama? Pretty sure it was the CIA, DEVGRU, and a shit ton of other intelligence and DoD agencies that did all the work.
You’re an idiot if you think he had any part other then authorizing the raid. Nothing more, nothing less.
It’s a shame they forgot the pepole in all three planes the ones that hit both towers and the one that hit the pentagon what the fuck is wrong with you mether fuckers
They make coins comamerating the otherf flights and not the ones that hit the World Trade Center and the pentagon that’s a fucking real shame
Why not make a coin comamerating those flights it would only be the right thing to do the dissent thing to do but then against you bastards are goin to do as you please
Y’all all a fucking joke may you burn in helll