Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks-- famous for his whistleblower website-- managed to piss off an entire nation on Friday when he leaked the outcome of the XLV Super Bowl. Super Bowl Sunday kicks off with the Green Bay Packers battling against the Pittsburg Steelers at the Cowboy Stadium in Dallas, Texas. Not only is the Super Bowl a revered landmark among American culture, it's quite possibly the pinnacle holy day among large advertising companies and marketing gurus alike.
Assange has been praised and condemned for his work with WikiLeaks. In 2010, he published classified details about American involvement in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the USA, there have been calls that he be arrested or treated as a terrorist. But Friday, the bat-shit crazy whisteblower went too far when he published the outcome of the SuperBowl. If Americans were pissed before, they sure as hell want him locked up now for good for "complete devastation and assassination of traditional American culture" and "a waste of millions and billions of dollars dedicated to thirty-second TV spots promoting superfluous amounts of beer, chips and dip, candy, credit cards, and E-trade."
Some football-watching analysts foresee the economy dipping into anther full-blown recession, making claims that viewers who already know the outcome will be less likely to watch the game, therefore, driving down the impact advertising has on its consumers. Currently, the American government is determined to shut down anything that is Wiki-related, for the sanity of the football nation. Fret not, pig-skinned aficionados. We can still have our beer and drink it, too!
