volidity: IPA: /vəʊlɪdɪtɪ/
Noun
A style of rhetoric characterized by its focus on both minutiae and grand theory (and reversals thereof), tendency to embark on tangents, and provision of solutions where problems are not widely perceived. Often it attempts to make the fictional real and meaningless profound.
11.09.2010
Volid Review: Right-Wing Facebook Ads
So, perhaps, like any good filler kid, you have put your own face onto the master book of faces, known as The Face Book™? If so, you might have seen the advertisements that give this free website that doesn't seem to sell or produce anything of significance with an annual revenue of $800 million+ and an estimated value of $10-15 billion. They obviously know me very well, as most of the ads targeted at me are for time-shares, condos, joining the FBI/SWAT/CIA and teeth whitening (for only $1 because a "millionaire gives back").
But the overarching trend of the previous several months has been the build-up to the November midterm election, in which America Was Taken Back. Now the U.S. will have its first orange-American Speaker of the House in John Boehner, among other many other great victories for the Tea Party (and therefore America). Since politicians have always valued exposure to the public, or "face time", as some are wont to say, let us examine the ads on that modern place for face time, The Face Book™:
Keywords:
art has been evaluated,
chick-fil-a,
clip art,
crappy cgi,
facebook,
teabaggers
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