Watch your back, haters: The ACLU aims to counteract your abhorrent trash-talking with a new advertisement in Times Square. The video billboard (watch below) starts with a photograph of a woman in hijab standing before graffiti reading "Muslims Go Home." This is followed by a photo of "young Americans" holding signs reading "Support Freedom of Religion" and "Love thy Neighbor." (We're pretty sure this photo is from the "Ground Zero" mosque counter-protests over the summer.) The ad's message is "Fight Hate Speech With More Speech." Ironically, it's silent. But maybe you are supposed to provide the soundtrack with some love speech?
The ACLU says they were able to buy the empty 520-square-foot ad space at a discount ($16,500) from Neutron Media, which was looking to fill space formerly occupied by a Two and a Half Men ad on the north side of 42nd St. between 7th and 8th Avenues.
The ad is running 36 times a day from 6 a.m. to 12 a.m. and yet somehow Charlie Sheen still hasn't taken credit for it?
