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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Deutsch, Los Angeles, is picking up more work from Dr Pepper Snapple Group. The marketer has returned creative agency of record duties on its $25 million Snapple account to the Interpublic Group of Cos. shop after a review.

I used to work on the Coors business, so I know how hopped up the Goldenites are on the concept of drinkability. If the idea is foreign to you, simply put the theory is it’s easier to drink more beer if it’s properly watered down and too cold too taste.

Now Bud Light wants some of the drinkability action, according to Adweek.

The new work seems to be a response to MillerCoor’s strategy to take on the No. 1 beer brand by positioning Miller Lite as a beer that offers “great taste” and Coors Light as “The world’s most refreshing beer.” The new Bud Light ads take on both slogans with mentions like “easy drinking taste” and “that just right taste that won’t fill you up.”

Say it isn’t so.

Keith Levy, vp, brand management at A-B, however, said the Bud Light campaign is not a direct response to competing brands, but the evolution of a concept that the brewer has been advertising since the fourth quarter of 2007.

“We’ve been on this for quite a while now,” said Levy. “It was a bit of an aha! [moment] for us as we looked at research. We have this unique superiority claim that other light beer brands don’t enjoy.

I know that people spend their lives researching things like “which mass produced American beer is most drinkable.” So, I want to be sympathetic. But alas, I can not. Beer is meant to have the flavor of hops. You can find such flavors in copious supply thanks to the legion of craft brewers who consistently brew truly “drinkable” beverages.

Earlier this week when the House defeated the Wall St. bailout, I thought we might be glimpsing a populist uprising. Wrong!

According to NPR, the U.S. House just passed a $700 billion financial rescue package by a vote to 263-171, paving the way for the government to start buying up troubled assets from financial institutions caught on the wrong side of record home foreclosures.

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is against the bill. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson “pulled the fire alarm and cried fire, fire from the roof,” she said on CNBC. The Senate’s version of the bailout bill is nothing more than a dressed-up version of what she voted against Monday, Bachmann said.

“This doesn’t address the fundamental problem of the credit crisis,” she said, adding that she had not changed her mind and was prepared to vote against the plan. “Coming down the road for the next few years, we may rue the day that this passed.”

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The Bailout bill has just passed the house. Some folks in Congress have got to be nervous. Lets see who gets re-elected and who doesn’t.

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MINNEAPOLIS (AdAge.com) — After all the speculation, America was very, very interested in last night's vice presidential debate between Sen. Joe Biden and Gov. Sarah Palin. Preliminary Nielsen fast-affiliate ratings are in — at least for four networks (ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC) during the 9 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. ET period the debate was scheduled — and they were up big, with an approximate 32% household ratings rise over last week's presidential debate between Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama.

Wait. What? There’s haircare product in this ad?

Two by Four/Chicago has had to take a second look at one of its operating units. According to the Chicago Tribune, “five staffers, or about 10 percent of the 45-person shop, have been let go.” According to President David Stevenson, the Hammer unit, which operated at as a low-cost ad shop will now just focus on promotions.

Stevenson also said that : “Any leader of an ad agency that doesn’t think we’re heading into a difficult period is crazy.”

The shop was one of the principal change agents behind the resurrection of this year’s Chicago Creative Awards. We’re sad to see them have to cut staff. Sorry, dudes.

More: The Rise Of The Chicago Creative Club

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