Vaginas and insurance: Billboard wars

Pub date September 10, 2009
WriterTim Redmond
SectionPolitics Blog

By Tim Redmond

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The group Consumer Watchdog is going after Mercury Insurance. Absolut Vodka is going after guys, I guess, with what appears to be a giant vag in the sky.

And guess which image the billboard company removed?

Steve Lopez at the LA Times says “its funny what passes for offensive these days.

Now, I don’t find pictures of vaginas offensive (it’s supposed to be a mango, but WTF?). But I agree with Lopez that removing a billboard critical of an insurance company is, at the very least, a free speech issue.