Posted on 02/04/2014 12:32:57 PM PST by Oliviaforever
Coca Cola's Super Bowl commercial featuring a multilingual rendition of "America the Beautiful" was refreshing to many — but left a bitter taste in the mouth of conservative pundits.
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as opposed to getting upset about Abortion or taxes or the economy.
A commercial. Sheesh.....
everyone who doesn’t want their money taken to buy Coke for welfare recipients ahould be angry.
The purpose of the ad was to paint as racist anyone who wants SNAP to pay for food and not sodas.
C’mon. It wasn’t the Star Spangled Banner. We’re beautiful in every language.
I think a bigger disgrace is the renditions of the star Mangled banner supposedly in English.
Not just a commercial, but a Coca-Cola commercial during the Super Bowl with 120 million Americans watching with their children!
Not only were unsuspecting Americans exposed to America the Beautiful in languages besides English, but the add also featured a gay couple with a child!
I’ve been a loyal Coke drinker for decades, but I’ve had my last Coke.
Last night I was at a restaurant for dinner. I asked them whether they had Diet Pepsi, but they told me they only had Diet Coke.
I ordered a sparkling water with lime.
I am so done with Coca Cola. And I am not a pundit.
I like a Coke or Pepsi now and then but I think we’d all do fine if we had water or beer instead.
Pepsi?
How much do you know about Pepsi and their advocacy of Gay Marriage?
“PepsiCo supports gay magazine with advertising”
“Company sends an “in your face” message to those opposing gay marriage”
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… that's idiotic.
America is beautiful, and other countries know it — one would have an argument if it was our national anthem, but it's not.
I was hoping you were wrong, but it's fairly obvious at about 0:48 in the commercial. Sad.
>> QUOTE: “...also featured a gay couple with a child!”
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> I was hoping you were wrong, but it’s fairly obvious at about 0:48 in the commercial. Sad.
I didn’t watch it, just listened — and the rage is about the language(s) not the other content
Huffington Post is reporting that Katharine Lee Bates was lesbian.
Which actually goes to the point of my consternation with the commercial, that being, who needs more liberal propaganda and during a football game? What a friggin’ crock; they have to propagandize during the Super Bowl? Really?
The purpose of the ad was to squelch in it’s infancy the talk of making sodas ineligilible for food stamps- like they were in the 60’s.
Ad campaigns are very carefully planned and work subliminally.
> C’mon. It wasn’t the Star Spangled Banner. We’re beautiful in every language.
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> I think a bigger disgrace is the renditions of the star Mangled banner supposedly in English.
I fully agree.
Of course I’m not wrong.
Can you imagine the distress of the millions of families that gathered together to watch the Super Bowl only to have to deal with the images of that gay couple with that child?
The makes that Janet Jackson indecent exposer at the Super Bowl look like an episode of Little House on the Prairie.
The only Pepsi product I really buy is the throwback with sugar.
Haughty much? ;)
Ya know, had these people sung the song in English WITH their respective accents, I would have been okay with that. That's what America has always been about...assimilation.
> The purpose of the ad was to squelch in it’s infancy the talk of making sodas ineligilible for food stamps- like they were in the 60’s.
Personally I don’t really care one way or the other — food-stamps ought not be a federal program IMO, but caring for our own citizenry is infinitely more moral than foreign aid (caring for other countries’s citizens).
> Ad campaigns are very carefully planned and work subliminally.
True.
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