Posted on 04/05/2008 6:10:55 PM PDT by DogBarkTree
The Absolut vodka company apologized Saturday for an ad campaign depicting the southwestern U.S. as part of Mexico amid angry calls for a boycott by U.S. consumers.
The campaign, which promotes ideal scenarios under the slogan "In an Absolut World," showed a 1830s-era map when Mexico included California, Texas and other southwestern states. Mexico still resents losing that territory in the 1848 Mexican-American War and the fight for Texas independence.
But the ads, which ran only in Mexico and have since ended, were less than ideal for Americans undergoing a border buildup and embroiled in an emotional debate over illegal immigration from their southern neighbor.
More than a dozen calls to boycott Absolut were posted on michellemalkin.com, a Web site operated by conservative columnist Michelle Malkin. The ads sparked heated comment on a half-dozen other Internet sites and blogs.
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Half-hearted disingenuous “apology” won’t cut it.
Cram it, clown.
You got that right.
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Their Parent company Pernod just bought Absolut about 3 days ago. They must be flipping!
Withdrawal and apology are too late for me. Grey Goose, Skyy, Finlandia, Ketel, Chopin will be my choices for an adult beverage henceforth.
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IN Absolut’s blog linked from that thread, there are almost a thousand comments from p-od customers.
I did run a search. Noticing a different headline and source is YOUR friend.
I don’t care for Vodka, and Skyy does nicely for the few bloody mary’s I drink. I will however bid a fond farewell to Chivas Regal and Glenlivit though.
I live in CA and this ad that I guess was only showing in Mexico makes me mad. I love a good Martini but not with ABSOLUT anymore. Think if an American Oil Company did an ad like this with oil the outrage and of course they would have blamed it on Bush.
Of course the map of North America never looked as it is depicted, since in the period before Texan independence, Panama was still part of Mexico, and the US and Great Britain jointly occupied the Oregon Country.
Thank you fellow freepers, for shining the spotlight on the hating game that absonot is playing. How typical of these smug elitists, to push their anti-american crap on us, then when they are called on the carpet for it - typical liberal move.....two snaps and a retreat!!!!!!/Just Asking - seoul62.......
They should just apologize and shut up.
About that treaty... Time - 1848 - in the American SouthWest.
The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo.
When the Mexican commissioners made advances for peace at the beginning of the year 1848, they were given terms almost as liberal as those offered them before Scott had stormed and occupied their capital.
By the treaty concluded at Guadalupe-Hidalgo, February 2, 1848, Mexico was required to cede California and New Mexico to the United States and to recognize the Rio Grande as the southern and western boundary of Texas. In return, the United States paid Mexico $15,000,000 cash and assumed some $3,250,000 more in claims of American citizens on the Mexican government.
Considering the facts that California was scarcely under Mexican control at all and might have been taken at any moment by Great Britain, France, or Russia; that New Mexico was still the almost undisturbed home of Indian tribes; that the land from the Nueces to the Rio Grande was almost a desert; and that the American troops were in possession of the Mexican capital, the terms offered Mexico were very generous.
Polk was urged by many to annex the whole country of Mexico to the United States, but he refused to consider such a proposal.
History is SUCH a bitc& in this things. BTW, the US paid Russia 7.2 Million in 1867 for Alaska.
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