Snooki and Blago appearing in new ads for pistachios

This is purely a PR stunt. And look! It worked! Pistachio grower Paramount Farms kicked off a $20 million campaign Monday with ads featuring Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, star of MTV’s “Jersey Shore,” and former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was recently found guilty of lying to the FBI. The president of Roll International Corp., which owns Paramount Farms, told  The Wall Street Journal  that his company is “not looking for controversy, but looking for buzz fa…

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