(February 9, 2024 at 5:43 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: Evidently, some less scrupulous lawyers saw a Get Out of Jail Free Card with this defense and applied it with everything.
Remember Joe Isuzu? I thought those commercials were great. And very meta, because they're playing on the idea of dishonest advertising.
You make a good point -- the existence of such obvious fakes opens the door to the argument that nobody would ever believe any of them.
And while I think the legal argument is pretty slimy, it's true that a person has to be pretty naive to believe what the TV tells them.
