I watch quite a bit of anime on Hulu, and in the last week Wisconsin-specific political ads have started popping into the mix.

That’s hilarious on a number of levels, though I curse the ease with which you can look up the geographic location of an IP. Damn you, TDS, for not using a bigger dynamic pool. Damn you to hell!

Ahem. I just find it humorous that the technophobic halfwits who run our government, or in the Republicans’ case, want to do so after the election, have short ads running on Hulu. I can almost see the conversation going on now in the media consultant/demon’s offices:

Old Luddite Politician: What’s this here? 40k for ‘Hulu’? What are we spending 40 grand on hula hoops for?
Media Demon: Not ‘hula’, ‘Hulu’. It’s a video streaming service online, sort of like television you can watch on the internet.
Old Luddite: There’s TV on the internet? Next you’ll be telling me it has pornography!

I wonder if they have any controls over what content their ads show next to, or if you could get a Ron Johnson ad in some unrated T&A show, of which Hulu has, err, quite a few. That would be some messaging.

“Vote Ron Johnson, but now, back to your breasts! They’re bouncy!’