History Channel Rocked By Anti-American Ad Campaign

May 21st, 2009 (9) Posted By Pat Dollard.

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Red State:

The History Channel is a generally well-respected brand in the United States. The shows routinely make “water-cooler” conversation at sites like Redstate. Indeed, the sister networks like The Military Channel are staples among conservative viewers, as anyone who spends any time around conservatives and veterans is well aware. So you can imagine my surprise reading an article earlier this week titled “Anti-American History Channel Ads You Won’t See In The US Or Online” at the Business Insider website. There were three images included which are, to say the least, inflammatory.

The campaign, titled “History is Written By The Winners” was represented by three images (History Channel logo has been removed)l

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Highly inflammatory, as well as disputable, and clearly anti-American. I immediately started looking into the story to find out why, or even if, the History Channel would actually run such vile ads, and why Ogilvy & Mather would create them. While I was researching, the story changed.

Less than day after I read it, the article was updated with the following information:

Update: A rep for A&E Television, which owns HIstory Channel, says these are not authorized History Channel ads. This rep did not know if they were created by Ogilvy and Fran Luckin, as they were attributed on Adsoftheworld.com. We’ve updated the images with watermarks reflecting their inauthenticity.

Interesting. But a number of questions still remained. If A&E didn’t order the ads, who did? And why? Are they actually fakes?

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  • GF

    These ads were commissioned by DStv, the satellite provider the the History Channel runs on in South Africa.

    CLIO Silver
    DStv History Channel
    British, Iraq, Pearl Harbour Ogilvy Johannesburg
    SOUTH AFRICA (Zuid Afrika)

    http://tinyurl.com/page26

    Other info:

    British Babies print ad for DSTV(Digital Satellite Television) in South Africa by Ogilvy SA

    Advertising Agency: Ogilvy, Johannesburg
    Creative Director: Mike Martin, Jonathan Beggs
    Art Director: Mike Martin, Kamohelo Chakela
    Account Executive: Sharleen James
    Copywriter: Alison Hingle
    Photographer: David Prior
    Typographer: Mike Martin, Kamohelo Chakela

    DSTV is a subsidiary of:

    MultiChoice

    Head Office
    Physical Address:
    251 Oak Avenue
    Ferndale
    Randburg
    2194
    South Africa

    Postal Address:
    PO Box 1502
    Randburg
    2125
    South Africa

    Telephone: +27 11 289-3000
    Fax: +27-11-789-7804

  • Johnny Doe

    The Military Channel is pretty good. The History Channel is pretty much full of shit. Lots of liberal/socialist garbage, revisionist history and shows about truckers, loggers and big fish. Occasionally there’s something watchable. Good show on the modern relevance of Sun Tzu’s teachings the other day.

    The “History International” channel is even worse. Overflowing with one-world propaganda. For a while there, after plugging some of their shows during breaks, they would repeat the slogan “Globalize Yourself.” Anybody remember that?

    As for the pictures, looks like some scumbags trying to capitalize on the History Channel’s “credibility.”

  • tarantula

    south africa? say no more. releasing those ads there … they have already spread and the damage is done. bastards.

  • CBL

    Because South Africa has a leg to stand on…..hypocrisy it’s fantastic.

  • wGraves

    Somebody call Goebbels. Tell ‘im ta ditch da logos.

  • GregGS

    Yes! so?… History IS written by the winners, do these idiots want to be losers?
    Lets win! I like the UK one, I like the Pear harbor one, those are just the facts,
    to bad the facts are a lie on the Iraq one. I just don’t feel guilty about winning
    especially when one is not the initiator of force/violence.

  • http://bb.bbboy.net/themainepatriotboard Poe

    Books > TV.

  • Cold Dead Hands

    I know the scoreboards are supposed to be a slap at the U.S., but I like them. When order is restored and the world isn’t upside down any more, I suggest a new service mark/ slogan for the United States of America: “Fuck with us and we will kill everybody in your entire country. No more Mr. Nice Guy.”

  • mike3481

    If you’re unable to open the link to the rest of the article, here’s the rest of it. :wink:

    http://www.redstate.com/absentee/2009/05/21/history-is-rewritten-by-the-winners/