Bad Corporate Mistakes
Who on earth advises corporations that it's a good idea to try and stifle criticism with heavy-handed lawsuits? And how come an advertising agency – which you'd think would understand about public opinion – like Warren Kremer Paino Advertising can be perfectly sanguine about the consequences of behaving like this?
Gosh, all they had to do was laugh, acknowledge their simple error, and it would all have gone away having given a few people a smile.
Instead, they may have made sure that, for the rest of time, they are branded on Google as bullying clowns.
Perhaps "intense and congenial" WKP President Tom McCartin should bail out fast, drop this anti-free-speech lawsuit, sack his advisers, and spend the money saved on rebranding his company. Truth and lies go halfway round the world at about equal speed now.
