Sick of has-been actors selling stuff they wouldn't use?

[Flopper]

I like Tom Sellick but I doubt if he or his family would ever take advantage of the insurance (scam?) he is selling. Next thing you know I see a guy I really liked, Sam Elliott, claiming to be a Veteran. Technically he was a reservist in the Hollywood Air National Guard but he played a hard charging Soldier in "We Were Soldiers" so I guess that qualifies him to sell Insurance to Veterans. I wish the ads would be required to tell us how much a celeb. is compensated and if he/she ever used the product.

A man puts on a white coat and advises a women to us a marvelous new skin cream to prevent aging.
An actor who plays war heroes is selling second mortgages to veterans.

How effective would the ads be if audiences were told the guy in the white coat is no doctor and the war hero never came within ten miles of any military action.

Advertising is a special form of lying. What is said may be true but what is implied is almost always a lie.

 

[Flopper]

That's how they make a living. There are legitimate restrictions on commercials these days. Legally consumed tobacco products can't be advertised but prescription drugs with side effects ranging from "fatal incidents" to T.B. are offered for sale. Maybe Americans would gain some perspective about celeb sponsored commercials if they had to state the compensation given to the celebs for their endorsement. It's not that much to ask.

But they do tell you in TV commercials the side effects at the end of the commercial incredibly fast beginning with a head ack, nausea and ending with heath attacks, strokes, and death.