On Fox News Sunday today, Rick Santorum continued to draw a strong conservative contrast between himself and Newt Gingrich. Chris Wallace played a clip of an ad Santorum released recently, claiming that he not only “talks a good conservative game, he lives one.” The line is accompanied by a picture of Santorum surrounded by his immediate family. Wallace asked Santorum if that was a veiled attack on Gingrich’s troubled family history.

People should be expecting a surprising number of political ads during the Super Bowl tonight. And one of them was played on today’s Meet the Press, when host David Gregory asked New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg about a gun control ad he made with Thomas Menino. In the ad, Bloomberg and Menino admit they don’t agree on much (including which team to back in tonight’s game), but they do see eye-to-eye on the issue of gun safety.

Doubling down on its efforts in South Carolina, Mitt Romney‘s campaign has unleashed a political ad calling former Speaker Newt Gingrich‘s “discipline” as a leader into question. The ad features Susan Molinari, a former congresswoman who worked with Gingrich and who, evidently, found his leadership abilities to be lacking.

For the past few months of the presidential campaign, Newt Gingrich has bemoaned the infamous climate change ad that he filmed with Nancy Pelosi as one of the dumbest things he’s done in his political career. He continues to do so, despite the many attack ads against him specifically targeting it. But on CNN’s State of the Union today, Pelosi hinted from her time working with her former Republican colleague that it might have some competition with other things Newt has done over the course of his career.

Rick Santorum is unveiling a new ad today in Iowa, offering up something fresh and different from your usual ol’ crop of “Guy Smoking into Camera” or “Guy In Jacket Telling The Story of how the Gays Stole Christmas” political ads.

Apple has been wildly successful in creating more than simply a demand or desire for its products; it has created a veritable cult of consumers who view Apple products as status symbols and absolute necessities. Because like, what, you’re going to attract a hot freelance graphic designer with just the right amount of fair trade coffee breath if you’re using a VAIO? I laugh at you.

Samsung is hitting back, however, by poking fun of Apple-obsessed zombies with its new ad.

Disclosure: I’ve never been to Russia, much less participated in one of its elections. But from what I’m able to piece together based on this ad for Vladimir Putin‘s United Russia Party, their voting process is ever so slightly different from our own. Here in the States, for example, one enters a voting booth prepared to get entirely screwed over, but in democratic Russia… You screw the voting process! Literally! Remarkable!

Do you miss those bygone days when a horse was really a horse, and dudes rode the rugged range carrying bouquets? Herman Cain knows how you feel.

On Wednesday night, Fox News’ Sean Hannity reported on the controversy surrounding Ford’s much-publicized commercial commenting on the auto industry bailout and on an article from the Detroit News that said the commercial had been pulled by the company following questions from the White House. Ford maintains that the ad was removed from circulation after running for a normal, standard length of time. To comment on this, Hannity brought on none other than Chris McDaniel — the Ford driver who appears in the commercial.

Earlier this month, we looked into a report Fox News’ Megyn Kelly presented on an anti-bailout ad from Ford Motor Co. Was this commercial, she wondered, trying to piggyback onto the Tea Party movement’s energy (and its wariness) by voicing disapproval of American car companies that, unlike Ford, agreed to take government bailout money?

Well, now Detroit News columnist Daniel Howes is reporting that the car company has pulled the ad after questions from the White House.

This afternoon on America Live, contributor Mike Tobin reported on a new Ford ad that casts a negative light on the government’s bailout of the motor industry. You’ll recall that Ford Motors refused to take bailout money from the government — bailout money which happened to breathe new life into and create additional jobs for Chrysler and GM despite the fact that both companies are still in the process of repaying their debts. Well, it would seem that this refusal resonated deeply with at least one car buyer.

In the commercial, an “average guy” is pulled off the street and into a press conference, where he is asked various questions about buying a Ford vehicle, including whether driving an American car is important to him. His response was interesting.

In an ad set to run in British papers, News Corp. head Rupert Murdoch has apologized on behalf of the since-folded News of the World for its unethical — and potentially illegal — methods of obtaining information, including hacking into the phones of various public figures, victims of national tragedies and a missing teen.

“We are sorry,” reads the ad, signed by Murdoch. “The News of the World was in the business of holding others to account. It failed when it came to itself.”

I like Newsweek. I’m a subscriber, and read most of the magazine on a weekly basis.

But the internal ad in this week’s issue may be one of the most pretentious self-advertisements of all time. Let’s take a look.