Japan firm scraps ad after racial controversy
(Reuters)
<p><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080627/i/ra467881939.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=roVQa0FY4ZqBb0VoZTpXtA--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is silhouetted by a television light during a campaign visit to the Las Vegas Springs Preserve in Las Vegas, Nevada June 24, 2008. REUTERS/Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun" border="0" /> (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080627/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_japan_ad)Reuters - A Japanese mobile phone firm has halted
an advertisement depicting a monkey as a political candidate
after bloggers said the commercial was a racial slur against
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.</p><br clear="all"/>
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