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If laying-off 100+ people didn’t convince you that OPUBCO was going through some tough times, just check out page 5A of the Sunday Oklahoman. On it, you’ll notice a full page ad promoting some interesting products OPUBCO is selling to help you “commemorate Obama’s inauguration.”
The best item, by far, is a $20 “keepsake t-shirt” that will “show a full-color reproduction” of the front page from Wednesday’s Oklahoman. From the website where you can buy the shirt:
Celebrate a moment in time and own a piece of history with these collectible, one-of-a-kind tees and posters featuring the Wednesday January 21, 2009 front page commemorating Barack Obama’s history-making Presidential Inauguration.
The Oklahoman is making a tee-shirt to commemorate Obama’s inauguration? What’s next, classified ads for “sensual massages” on the back pages?
Seriously, OPUBCO hocking stuff that commemorates the election of a Democrat president seems a little weird. It would be like us having a big party and letting Wimgo be the sponsor, or The Gazette selling pro-life coffee mugs. It just doesn’t make sense. That’s why I wouldn’t be surprised if the big article on Wednesday’s front page is an unattributed editorial on tort “reform” or a feature on Glenn Coffee, and the stuff about the actual inauguration is buried in the bottom left corner with the headline “Obama Sworn-In; Nation Mourns.”
Anyway, to buy one of the deliciously ironic shirts, click here. To view all the other “Go Obama” stuff that OPUBCO has hocking to stay afloat, click here. Or to buy an Oklahoman watch, click here.
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I think they would have a much bigger market for a “Oklahoma and the Oklahoman – Ridiculously Red, Behind the Times and Proud of It.”
Shirts, mugs, rifle cases. Those would sell like ho-cakes.
Don’t miss the “Republicans take control of Oklahoma Senate” on the top. I’m sure they could have cropped that out but why would they? It’s their own little “stuff you” to those buying the shirts.
That’s the Oklahoman’s way of saying that although change has come to America, our state is stuck in the past.
the economy has been a bit rough on me to pay $20. do you think they might have an iron-on for $10?
When can I get Berry Tramel or Jenni Carlson posters??? I would totally pay for a full size Jenni poster.
And by “stuck in the past” you mean “not in a multi billion dollar deficit” like those cool, trendy, progressive coastal states.
42 Billion in California, with the most hyper inflated prices in the country, and the 3rd highest unemployment per capita in the country.
5 Billion in Washington State.
Detroit, Chicago, Massachusetts, all asking for billions in federal money. While Draconian, archaic, ancient, Oklahoma living in the 19th century trots along with some of the lowest unemployment numbers in the country, housing prices that are still going UP, a buyers market, new industry, and despite growing fears of international and national economic collapse Oklahoma has shown only minor chinks in its fiscal armor.
Can I get it in black?
What makes this funny is that Oklahoma is the only state in America in which EVERY SINGLE COUNTY VOTED FOR MCCAIN OVER OBAMA. McCain hearts Oklahoma.
And it looks like you guys missed the saddest one of all.
http://www.newsok.pointshop.com/IBS/SimpleCat/Product/asp/hierarchy/06/product-id/449002.html
“Those Terrible Twisters Survival Kit”. What the hell? Big league city my ass.
Screw the poster TDaddy. Get one of the limited edition fatheads of her from OPUBCO. They have Jenni in a bikini eating corndogs at the dunkem tank at the state fair and Jenni wearing nothing but powdered sugar. Buy both and you are eligible for dinner for 2 with Jenni at the Waffle House and desert at the Marble Slab and a dozen of Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
Fair points, Bosley, but without the $4/gallon gas prices, the state would be backwards AND broke. We’ll see how good this GOP controlled congress looks now that prices favor the consumer.