Sunday, March 16, 2008

Row over sleeping minister

Some respect for humor among the Czechs

"Czech authorities have demanded an energy drink company take down a billboard ad campaign featuring a government minister asleep during a debate. The ads for the Kamikaze energy drink show foreign minister Karel Schwarzenberg sleeping and the slogan: "Stay on your feet longer."

The 70-year-old minister who has not objected to the campaign admitted he had fallen asleep during a debate on the country's two-candidate presidential election in February.

The Czech Advertising Standards Council said the posters breached its ethical code that bars the use of public figures in commercials. The company though has refused to act. The sleeping minister meanwhile has not complained, saying only: "Let people have some fun."

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I guess he wasn't a Muslim.