MARKETING MEETING: “Hey, I have an idea, let’s turn-off half our customer base and potential customers!”
Boycott or have a sense of humor. I choose to laugh at the silliness of it all.
I choose to boycott.
There’s a MILLION other brands to buy.
They just messed up.
They are TARGETED.
No one learns from Target.
The hell with vodka. Just give me some good ol American bourbon on the rocks maybe with a splash of coke and I’m good!
No problem
The Merinoff family doesn’t need our momey to give to democrats
Vodka is pretty much vodka no matter what name is on it. Not much difference between the cheap stuff and the expensive stuff. So buy Popov instead. It’s cheaper and gets you where your going just as well as Grey Goose. You cant taste the stuff at all after you mix it anyhow.
The ad is kinda dorky and harmless. Certainly not malicious. I love the Russians... home to the best classical composers ever.
There are bigger fish to fry that no one seems to care about.
The malicious MSM is largely owned by the following 4 corporations: Disney, Comcast, Time Warner, CBS. Which conservative pundits discuss this unseemly connection? None that I know of. Which conservative activists rant about Big Media? None that I know of. Which radio jocks “speak truth to power” regarding this ongoing vertical assault against conservatives and now POTUS? None that I know of. Any FReepers???
Don’t go after capitalism when it’s simply attempting to be clever. Get some real conviction and stop patronizing the major corporations that are pissing in your shoes.
On a related note, I’m curious about CNN’s recent however sparse concerns for objectivity. Naturally, I have my suspicions...
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Trump’s pick to lead antitrust division raises concerns over vertical mergers
BY HARPER NEIDIG - 05/30/17 11:41 AM EDT
President Trump’s nominee to run the Department of Justice’s antitrust division said that vertical mergers, such as the proposed AT&T-Time Warner deal, can “raise competitive concerns.”
See pot #9
Smirnoff is owned by Brit company Diageo.
They own dozens of brands, including vodkas Ketel One and Popov. Johnny Walker, Crown Royal, Seagram’s Seven and Captain Morgan are among many other of their brands.
Likely this was an ad agency with too much leeway from a big corporation.
From the Author's Note:
This historical narrative account is based on exhaustive research conducted over more than four years in the United States and Russia. Information included in the book was gleaned from over 500 archival documents, approximately 250 articles from periodicals and newspapers, more than 900 books, and interviews with a dozen or more leading experts in related fields. In some instances, primary sources could not be found at all, were incomplete, or in conflict with other sources. In these cases, available documentation and relevant historical context were relied upon to provide likely accounts of events. In other circumstances, corroborating evidence supporting personal recollections or viewpoints could not be found. For example, some of Vladimir Smirnov’s many remembrances, recorded by his third wife, could not be verified. Notations have been included throughout the book to alert readers to these occasions wherever possible.
From page 2 (of ten):
It was the second day of December, and this eloquent tribute was not for a tsar or a high-ranking minister or a military chief. The man inside the long oak box was Pyotr Arsenievich Smirnov, arguably the most famous vodka maker in the world.That such a spectacle would be held for a man like Smirnov would have been unthinkable in 1831 when he was born at the family home in Kayurovo, a small farming village roughly 170 miles due north from Moscow. His parents were poor, barely literate, and most telling, they were serfs, part of Russia’s legally bound underclass. They were essentially slaves, owned by the proprietors of the land on which they lived and worked. All that they earned was shared with their landowners, who had control over what they did, where they went, and how they survived.
This commoner background, in tandem with Smirnov’s ultimate notoriety as a leading purveyor of liquors, was not a life that typically beat a path to prominence. Moreover, for the last decade of his life, alcoholism was raging throughout society and calls for increased controls on spirits producers were rampant. Still, when Smirnov died at age sixty-seven of heart failure, newspapers treated the event as a national tragedy. Descriptions like “distinguished,” “exemplary,” and “a giant of Russian industry” appeared in news stories. Smirnov’s passing shared the front page with the weightiest developments of the day—from the United States’s intention to sell the Philippines, to the controversial and scandalous Dreyfus Affair. Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish artillery officer was serving time on Devil’s Island for allegedly passing military secrets to Germany. But supporters, including writer Émile Zola who published his renowned J’accuse letter, successfully proved that anti-Semites had framed Dreyfus. Ten months after Smirnov’s death, Dreyfus was pardoned, later becoming a knight in the French Legion of Honor.
I boycott all alcohol already, and have for 20 years or so now. 8>)
Okay, adding them to the list, which already contains Absolut.
I believe they are mocking the democrats
This ad doesn’t mock, disrespect of make light of Trump in any way.
It simply says Smirnov is made in America but they’d be happy to discuss their ties with Russia.
By expressing pride in their Russian ties, they are more likely making light of the Democrats obsession with the alleged Trump/Russian connection.
As an avid Trump supporter I would not take offense with this ad.
Especially when there is so much being said by others that IS offensive.
Lighten up folks - there is no slight against Trump in this ad. They are poking fun at the foolishness of the whole issue, not at Trump.
If you’re not drinking Blanton’s, why are you drinking?