Google Adsense or Content Partner - Expanded Clickable images in Google Adwords ads

Below is a screenshot of a google content partner Shopping.com. What is troublesome about this Google partner is that they have expanded the clikable area of the ad by adding an image. The image has a click out event as follows:

http://stat.dealtime.com/xClickOutEvent/ClickOut?
gc=10002*10010*10038*10450*10462*shopping&Target