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It's Tuesday October the 6 around 9:00PM and

Tourism Vancouver Hates Drudge Report

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(Image Credit: Scout Magazine)

Nice little local controversy. Here's the skinny: It seems that Tourism Vancouver ran a banner ad on the popular website, The Drudge Report (Drudge, Drudge, Drudge). Scout Magazine reported this a few days ago, and this morning the Metro paper had on the front as Tourism Vancouver caved and took the ad down. A couple of things bug me about this:

1. Seems like the bigger fail here isn't running ads on Drudge, but that they are targeting Vancouver computers. We live here and stuff. Staycations are stupid. Any questions?

2. Would anyone have had a problem with this if this wasn't on a right wing site? Like Drudge readers somehow don't have money to spend here, and we wouldn't take it I'm sure. I'd bet if the ad was on Huffington Post or Daily Kos no one would care.

3. One blogger and a few comments and Tourism Vancouver pulls its ad. Wow, they are worse than the Canucks right now. Zing!

4. Please note that tonight Shaw, HP, Honda, Quiznos, Best Western, TD Canada Trust, and MSN were all happily spending their targeted ads like drunken sailors on us lowly Drudge craving douchebags in Vancouver who happened to be reading the entertaining a very entertaining news site.

Hilarious.

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