Slate‘s Ad Report Card column considers the offensive Nike ad everybody’s buzzing about. The ad’s been pulled, but you can click on links here to view it in Quicktime or the Windows Media Player. The columnist’s take: it’s not nearly as bad as everybody made it out to be. My take: Everybody wants to know how Nike could risk advertising budget on such a colossal flop. But Nike is thriving on the buzz, negative as it is. They knew exactly what they were doing. And see? I’m doing involuntary Nike advertising by discussing it here…