MTV Defends The Situation From Abercrombie Bullies

Vulture, Thursday, August 18, 2011, 7:15am (PDT)

By Adam K. Raymond

• The Situation.

  The war of words between two of the country's most obnoxious things — Abercrombie & Fitch and 'Jersey Shore''s The Situation — escalated today with the release of a statement from MTV defending its favorite son from the mall favorite, which recently offered to pay him to never wear its clothes again.

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  "It’s a clever PR stunt, and we’d love to work with them on other ways they can leverage 'Jersey Shore' to reach the largest youth audience on television,” the statement said, rather cattily.

  (At least it didn't argue, as an MTV blog did, that The Situation is better off without Abercrombie because he looks better naked).

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  This comes a day after The Situation responded to A&F by tweeting a link to a news story about its falling stock (it had nothing to do with him) along with the message, "Looks like Abercrombie got themself into a Situation!"

  Never misses an opportunity to pun, that one. [THR]

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