Product placement for Sharpie markers?

[Cocoa]

We all know the reason Bush uses Sharpies is because he likes the fumes, but that doesn't explain the need for Scott McClellan to drop the brand name.


http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/06/20040628-10.html

And then the President wrote back on the note in a black sharpie, "Let Freedom Reign!"

[Bozita]

1. This entire note thing stinks ... badly!

Who in hand-to-hand memos has ever started such a note with an actual title?

Mr. President,

...


Just more bullshit from the folks who brought honor and integrity back to the White House.

[Kolesar]

3. Are you fumed about it?

Totally??

[mark0rama]

2. Nope, just mistaking a brand name for a generic name.

Note that it's not capitalized in the document.

Lots of people I know use the name Sharpie to refer in general to fine-point markers because they own so much of that market.