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Great!! Now I’ve got a fkn earworm! 🎶 1-877-Kars for Kids

What are we going to be hearing next? The kids didn't really play their own instruments?!?

. This fake news, brought to us by Hamas, Hezbollah and their Iranian masters, is designed to demonize Jews. And obviously, it's working. Meanwhile, Never Again is Now. Deal with it. And stop supporting the perpetrators of the Oct 7th massacre. #amchaiyisrael

The corruption is deep

They were also horrible ads.

And the music was terrible

Wow No idea Think its was them that I did this on Long Island years ago Months later I get notice from NYC that i’ve got 7 parking violations in Brooklyn Seems the gave car to someone but never re registered car. I was last known owner so I got ticket notice Disputed by sending their receipt

1-877 That's a twist.

I already hate those ads for their incredibly annoying earworm music. Now I hate the organization they’re advertising.

I wouldn’t donate to them just for that shit song. Knowing how the money is used just gives me one more reason to ignore them.

And what of all those commercials that try to convert people to "Christian Nationalism"???😡

In an indirect way, by funding matchmaking, the group funded the creation of kids. So where is the lie?!?! 😂🫠

They lied about where the money was going.

I don’t know the case facts but I think bashing any specific group is a bad idea and if something helps kids learn or experience their own cultural pride I don’t care what color or religion they are. Maybe run with the idea “cars for Muslims” Cars for “Buddha ” or in my case “cars for atheists”

You can’t trust the truth from anyone nor any organization in this country. Hell, we don’t even get the truth from the idiot president & his lap dogs. Trust in America has eroded…we’ve become a country of deceit, lies & lawlessness. Trump sure brought the bar down on decency. Who let the trash in?

I wonder if John Oliver will have anything to say about it this week?😂

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This commercial always bugged me as a kid because they weren't actually playing the instruments and they were doing a very very bad job of trying to convince you they were. Now it bugs me because I'm extra woke and that's okay

Those are the worst

At the time my line was, " well, at least as a Canadian, I know some Jewish kid got to go to a camp in upper New York to get mentorship and learn how to play an instrument" Now I'm not sure that even happened But I'm guessing the originator has a very big house. This is a wild guess

Crazy. The country that gets billions per year in funding from USA and help from other countries is somehow needy for instruments and the biggest victims.

I had read the money went toward helping disabled and special needs Hasidic children in Kiryas Joel, NY. Apparently there are a lot of them, and they don’t go to secular public schools.

The gratuitous use of the Ks already ruined it for me.

Paint them both evil.

While I'm not the least bit surprised that this 'charity' is a cover for a fundamentalist religious group, I am surprised at which fundamentalist group !

Anyone who spells Cars with a K is considered suspect in my book.

Shande

Apolitical and agnostic about this issue, but thrilled as a Californian that I won't be hearing that mind-numbing earworm again. I'll donate my Kar to NPR, thanks.

cars for hoes?

Lucky! I want a ban in NJ. These ads are annoying!

Wow 😳

That f’ing tune sends me into seizures. I HATE that commercial

I didn’t know this. Good to know. But by the same token, Salvation Army is deeply Christian, & pushes their agenda. I won’t give to any charity that is religion-based. Help shouldn’t have anything to do with religion. Charities should give based on humanity, doing the right thing.

THANK GOD!!! That kid's voice is like nails on a chalk board.

Typical.

I hit mute immediately. It's like nails on a chalkboard.

It's the commercial you can't get to the remote fast enough to switch channels on.

Omg yes!! 😂

In The Good Place, this was the song the Bad Place people amped themselves up to

It’s too late for us grownups in CA. That soul-crushing ditty is seared into our brain cells. I think they may have gotten the proceeds of a van I totaled years ago. 😡 More troubling: In the years since this this tv ad first aired, this kind of grift has become a national pastime.

@lastweektonight.com

No you here it on MSNOW and CNN I hate that commercial

Yeah, they started advertising in Oriole games, which is pretty much the only TV I watch.

On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for every Tercel drops to zero.

We’ll always have the Taco Bell drive thru at 2 a.m.

Why do the comments from this require translation bro?

I watched the 700 Club as a kid, and I remember being really confused that they had commercials asking people to donate money to send Jewish people on pilgrimages to Jerusalem. All the other commercials were Christian-themed.

Borders on naked fraud.

Because they can and it’s profitable while they don’t get exposed.

Not only is Kars is deceptive, there are thousands of children with incredible music skills who could be used instead of this gang of dweebs who can't even lip sync

Thanks for this. That jingle has been pervasive for decades, and I never knew how scammy it is.

And the commercial is really annoying.

There must be a successful subliminal message for somebody cause nothing gets me to the mute button or turning the channel faster than that irritating jingle/chorus.

This isn't the Onion?!

I think this commercial should not only be banned in one state but for the rest of North America! Bunch of scammers!!

Yes, I was being funny. I watched the legal eagle takedown about it on yt yesterday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrYB...

Kars 4 Kids was an obvious scam day 1. But of course this is a nation that elected trump.... twice.

I agree

Jewish or Zionist? There’s a huge difference. // Nazis will be blocked //

Watch the Court of Koch overturn this ruling. The freaks at the Court of Koch have ruled against every political advertising restriction effort in California up to and including a law voted on by the people that banned out of state monies spent on ballot proposals, taxes, laws.

Wow! Who would have guessed....

The MOST annoying kids ever....their parents must be insufferable.

Who knew an organisation with so many Ks in its name would turn out to be evil?

WELL...WELL! Are we surprised? Not.

Oy gevalt.

Me too. In the first 5 notes…

I made the mistake of donating a car like 10 years ago. Got nothing off my taxes. 🤬

our reaction here in California

As part of the judgment, they will be forced to hand over that black and pink Dean to me. Tough, but fair. I don't make the rules.

Their website claims they’re 503C. www.kars4kids.org/tax-benefits...

Oh habitat takes car donations? I had no idea. That’s cool.

So it's a lie and all they did was ban just the ads?! How about dismantling the company and throwing the CEO in jail?! Oh, that's just too much justice, it seems these days. I'm willing to bet the judge was called antisemitic for having the audacity to go against a jew-run company.

You mean to tell me those kids aren't getting the cars they were promised 3000 years ago?

All these things are scams always have been. The worst of them all is anything to do with religions and feeding children.... USAID proved that recently! Scams always contain some "religion" or politician in the shadows.... the kids still die or are trafficked! #EpsteinClass

Typo *an*

Agree.

Maybe (hopefully?) it’s just the first step. And it has an immediate effect to protect people. Whereas a court case would take more time and they’d still be scamming people.

They need to stop this organization everywhere, and not just the commercial. Tons of charity money is being redirected from where it is supposed to go. We need to stop all the fraudulent activity going on under the guise of charity.

Thanks now that song is in my head. 😂

I don't care why it's banned, just glad that it is. Now do the whole country.

So dishonest. Fake charity.

OMG, I have been saying for YEARS what a shitty ad this is because it says NOTHING about how the donations are being used to help kids. Now we know why.

To be fair, the OP's Substack article cited this source along with several others. While it's tone is a bit edgy, the topic is well-covered and thoughtful. Worth a read (5 mins, maybe).

Long known (since mid-2010s at latest) this was a sham charity. And those ads are one big reason a radio can't be left unsupervised and unattended. Fortunately through vigilance on my part (not trying to brag) I've never once been subject to more than a couple seconds of one of those ads

WTF

Their website is still up, and they’re tax deductible.

Did they also ban Christian nationalists from inflicting their hate upon the public?

My brother donated a couple of cars many decades ago thinking he was helping out kids in our area. I just cannot tell him where the money actually went.😞

... Another group of religious fanatics using children for profit ...

Anything that irritating has got to be a scam.

Those ads are very annoying. Turns me off.

Not that I ever have or would give them a penny, but I cannot fucking believe this shit.

I’m Jewish and this fraud is appalling

Yeah, fuck those kids…

Good, cos they're annoying AF

What a bunch of turds.

Hell, even the Trumps charity was brought down for corruption. You can’t trust anybody anymore, do your research before you donate anything.

Theres a reason why its the official anthem of The Bad Place.

Same as it ever was

All these years they have been lying to folks

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🇨🇦 I was mad when I researched it a while back. The jingle and the exported donations.