A Hybrid of Environmentalism and Politics in Online Honda Ad

February 8, 2009 - 8:01 PM by Karin Kloosterman

We recently came across this alleged Honda commercial online, which fuses environmental activism with political opinion. It speaks for itself, so take a quick look:

It is unclear and very unlikely that Honda actually sponsored this ad. It’s more probable that somebody cut and pasted a news clip together with the taglines of another Honda commercial. Whomever that person is will probably remain anonymous. It is still an interesting phenomenon, though and we’ll leave it up to you to decide whether the makers of the clip are dangerous carborexic types or legitimate activists of the first degree.

The clip has caused quite some interest in the blogosphere. Here are some excerpts of the online dialogue that the clip has generated:

Darryl Wolk blogged that he is “not sure if this commercial is real, but it is why I take the global warming agenda seriously. America and the West must break our dependency on foreign oil. Green technology, public transportation, tough auto standards and a cap and trade system are the way to go.”

According to another blog, Current, there were originally two of these clips – one focused on the Hezbollah in Lebanon (as shown above) and one focused on Iran. (To read the rest of this entry, written by Karen Chernick, click over to Green Prophet)

UPDATE: the video, if you haven’t noticed yet, has been taken down. Guess some exec from Honda got whiff of it…

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