Posted on 02/22/2011 11:45:51 AM PST by DemforBush
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – A northern Indiana restaurant that erected billboards referring to the 1978 Jonestown cult massacre in which more than 900 people died has removed the signs following complaints that the signs were offensive...
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Oof. I would love to have been a fly on the wall in the meeting where they came up with this particular campaign...
"We're like a cult with better Kool-Aid,"Re-Elect Obama 2012?
Bad taste tastes bad.
Wow, that is in quite poor taste.
Remarkably so...
Who could be offended by this? The families of the dimwit commies who took their own lives?
How often is the phrase “drinking the kool-aid” uttered every single day in America? Yet, no one gives a rat’s backside about that.
Ridiculous.
Ah yes, Jim Jones, the darling of
San Francisco limousine liberals in the ‘70s.
You could put it in San Francisco or the Bay Area and get a negative reaction.
The problem is there are people in both areas who had relatives and friends sucked into Jone's madness ~ and they died.
Otherwise it's kind of catchy ~ even if exceptionally offensive and with a high probability of triggering really bad memories in some people.
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