The Tokyo Traveler » Change http://www.thetokyotraveler.com About Tokyo for travelers, visitors, and residents. Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:30:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Commercial Portraying Obama as a Monkey No Longer Airing in Japan http://www.thetokyotraveler.com/2008/07/commercial-portraying-obama-as-a-monkey-no-longer-airing-in-japan/ http://www.thetokyotraveler.com/2008/07/commercial-portraying-obama-as-a-monkey-no-longer-airing-in-japan/#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:33:15 +0000 http://www.thetokyotraveler.com/commercial-portraying-obama-as-a-monkey-no-longer-airing-in-japan/ Post from: The Tokyo Traveler

]]> EMOBILE, a Japanese cell phone company, created a parody of the Barack Obama series of “change” speeches as part of their summer sales campaign where Obama is portrayed as a monkey. Due to consumer complaints of racism they have been forced to pull the commercial. Here it is:

Check out this video of what the EMOBILE representative had to say. What do you think?

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