Exxon Hates Satire Even More Than Your Children TakePart
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Exxon Hates Your Children (other98)

Just because your pipeline bursts open, spewing hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into an Arkansas neighborhood, does not mean you hate children. Or so says ExxonMobil, this week after it went ballistic trying to cover up a satirical ad campaign that painted it as a corporate evildoer out to kill America’s kids.

“Exxon Hates Your Children” is a crowdfunded campaign spearheaded by Oil Change International with assistance from the activist groups Environmental Action and The Other 98%.

The campaign's tongue-in-cheek commercial is an attempt to draw attention to the more than $10 billion annually that U.S. citizens pay in subsidies to fossil fuel companies like ExxonMobil, even as they pollute our environment.

The spot above has been circulating online for several months, but attempts to get it national television airtime have been met with aggressive threats of legal action on the part of the oil giant.

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