Re: [MOPO] Is Ebay using the GOP Presidential race and Sarah Palin to promote itself?

This is so weird, I just have to ask the question: Is Ebay so desperate that it is trying to promote itself through the GOP Presidential race? No doubt everyone knows by now that former CEO Meg Whitman was previously an advisor to Mitt Romney's failed presidential campaign and is now one of John

Re: [MOPO] Is Ebay using the GOP Presidential race and Sarah Palin to promote itself?

MessageTechnically, in her speech she said she put it on eBay, she didn't outright say she sold it on eBay, though, you're right, that's what was implied. As for eBay's connection to the campaign, Whitman of course is no longer CEO of the company but by her presence in the campaign it wouldn't

Re: [MOPO] Is Ebay using the GOP Presidential race and Sarah Palin to promote itself?

No. Actually she never said that she sold it on eBay at all - her line was that she put it on eBay, which of course is absolutely true. (You can watch that part of her speech again here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82hn63DSjGE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82hn63DSjGEfeature=related

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I don't think Ebay is trying all that hard, and let's be honest, they don't have to.  Ebay, for better or worse, has worked itself in the pop culture lexicon.  People don't say sell it or auction it anymore - they say ebay it.  I don't believe Palin is trying to mislead anyone.  She hasn't said

Re: [MOPO] Is Ebay using the GOP Presidential race and Sarah Palin to promote itself?

Franc, Methinks it's the other way around. The GOP is the brand here. Ebay is, for better or worse, still seen by the majority of the public as a highly successful business venture with no legitimate competitors as an internet auction site. The GOP, not Ebay, is thus promoting itself by

Re: [MOPO] Is Ebay using the GOP Presidential race and Sarah Palin to promote itself?

Yes, Sean, but that's a distinction almost without a difference. She didn't say she failed to sell it on ebay. She said she put in on ebay which amounted to a little plug. Hey, the Dems have their backers too. Letting the political stuff edge in on MOPO will be detrimental to the list, so

Re: [MOPO] Is Ebay using the GOP Presidential race and Sarah Palin to promote itself?

But you've never let the truth stop you before, so why do it now? You don't even know me. The fact is she implied that she SOLD it on Ebay and her surrogates that hit the afternoon talk shows all said She sold it on Ebay. She didn't. That's called lying. And my question was Why the

Re: [MOPO] Is Ebay using the GOP Presidential race and Sarah Palin to promote itself?

I totally agree with your last comment about not letting political stuff edge in on MOPO. I only asked the question because I found the whole Ebay plug (or deception, as I see it) incomprehensible and since there seems to be a lot of Ebay experts on this board, I thought they'd have some

Re: [MOPO] Is Ebay using the GOP Presidential race and Sarah Palin to promote itself?

FRANC SHUT UP!!! Check out our shop video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-n2AznLA8o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCP7PaO-2tk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCP7PaO-2tkfeature=related feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fojAZcbvL7E

Re: [MOPO] Is Ebay using the GOP Presidential race and Sarah Palin to promote itself?

No keep going! Maybe the Obama campaign will hear about it, and make the focus of their remaining two months the horrifying SCANDAL that Gov Palin merely put up, rather than successfully completed the sale of, the state jet on eBay! And the even greater scandal that McCain doesn't recognize the

Re: [MOPO] Is Ebay using the GOP Presidential race and Sarah Palin to promote itself?

MessageEverybody take a valium. There. That's better, isn't it? Dave - Original Message - From: CK MacLeod To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 3:36 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Is Ebay using the GOP Presidential race and Sarah Palin to promote

Re: [MOPO] Is Ebay using the GOP Presidential race and Sarah Palin to promote itself?

however in the short film about her yesterday it did say she sold it on ebay At 08:26 AM 9/5/2008, Dave Rosen wrote: Technically, in her speech she said she put it on eBay, she didn't outright say she sold it on eBay, though, you're right, that's what was implied. As for eBay's connection

Re: [MOPO] Is Ebay using the GOP Presidential race and Sarah Palin to promote itself?

It's funny... I thought I was probably the activist in the group. The one most likely to pack up and go to Denver (if my daughter wasn't at an important show that week)... And here you are going at it...politics on MoPo. People, it's amazing I've kept my mouth shut! Must be all those

Re: [MOPO] Is Ebay using the GOP Presidential race and Sarah Palin to promote itself?

It was not my intention to do politics on MOPO. I was simply trying to draw out a discussion about the Ebay connection and branding but some folks on this board are apparently so uptight about anyone potentially speaking negatively about the GOP that I've now virtually been accused of being a

Re: [MOPO] Is Ebay using the GOP Presidential race and Sarah Palin to promote itself?

MessageMaybe mentioning e*ay is like kissing babies or shaking hands with pop stars in funny sun glasses espousing causes. You don't have to like them, know anything about them, care for what they do, but that picture shows you're either nice, kindly, fatherly (female pollies never seem to