Let's Beat Those Folks Into a Coma

Namely: The people who advertise pharmaceuticals.

Tonight I was watching a show that has, as its target audience, people who care about current events. (You know, the folks whom Hillary Clinton regards as "elitists.") A commercial came on that featured a bunch of dancing water balloons, which apparently had something to do with bladder control, the same issue that bothers the Copper Pipe People. There was some other ad awhile back where the side effects included a risk of halitosis, paralysis, farting and death. There is a drug for people who physically split in two on their walks through the woods, presumably because they don't want to have to think about having to choose which side of the tree to walk around.

And let's not forget ol' Restless Leg Syndrome, something that nobody had ever heard of before the drug companies started to advertise it.

This is all crazy. If we are not going to permit the routine advertising of firearms or hard liquor, why the hell are we letting the drug companies push their products in any form of popular media? And please don't trot out the pathetic excuse "we are doing this to educate the American people." I call "Bullshit" on that line. It has nothing to do with educating anybody, it has all to do with pushing prescription snake oil.

For that is all that it is.