Blue Streak

摘要

" I told them to go jump in a lake!" jack Hugh McClung fumes, moments after ending a testy telephone exchange with Federal Trade Commission lawyers. The regulators have been hounding McClung about cure-all claims he made (until recently) in infomercials for Super Blue Stuff. The skin cream, he vowed, repeatedly and preacher-like, was "guaranteed to relieve all kinds of chronic pain in five minutes." Bald-headed and plainspoken, McClung, 68, apparently flew under the FTC's radar for almost two years even though he spent as much as $1.7 million some weeks―$46 million, or a spine-tin-gling 60% of sales, through the third quarter of this year―to air the hard-to-miss advertorials, which also starred semi-celebs such as former Major League Base-bailer Jim Lefebvre. "This is the most amazing product you are going to try," McClung raved.