Fox & Friends: When Sam Adams Can't Mention God In 4th Of July Beer Ad, 'The Terrorists Have Won'

Mediaite ^ | July 5, 2013 | Matt Wilstein

[EveningStar]

The morning after Independence Day, Fox & Friends' fill-in hosts examined a 4th of July beer had that apparently has drawn the ire of some God-loving American conservatives. The commercial, played in its entirely on Fox, shows a bartender quoting the Declaration of Independence while pouring a Sam Adams. The problem? He neglects to mention that Americans' "unalienable rights" were "endowed by their creator."

As host Clayton Morris explained, Sam Adams was simply obeying the the Beer Institute's guidelines on not using religion in commercials ...

Jesse Watters wasn't quite so understanding. "When political correctness takes over the beer advertising industry, the terrorists have won," he declared ...

[EveningStar]

People, get real. It's a good commercial. This clamor is much ado about nothing.

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[JaguarXKE]

Bull !!!!!!!!!!!

[Williams]

Also the communists have won.

[pallis]

This is why liberals support and accommodate Islamists, because they both hate our Christian culture. It’s why the Democratic Party refuses to take an intelligent stance on limiting Islamic immigration, why they support every kind of sexual perversion, and why they support illegal immigration. Kill the culture that stands between them and their Communism.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Alienating our unalienable rights is not bull.

[heartwood]

Since Sam Adams sponsored the Amos and Opie public sex competition, in which a couple used St. Patrick’s Cathedral, I don’t care whether they can say the word “God” or not. I would rather they didn’t.

[Wanderer99]

Leftists and Islamists are pure evil. Eventually they will attempt to murder your entire family.

It remains to be see if conservatives will FIGHT or cower. I don't know.

[BenLurkin]

If by “terrorists” you include the former SDS radicals who have infiltrated media and government - yes.

[willywill]

so I don’t think this has anything to do with terrorism.
the main groups that go around to schools making sure there is no mention of God, is the aclu and adl.

[EveningStar]

I’m amazed that some people are making an issue of this. This is minor.

[DaveA37]

I’d mention it anyway. Its my ad and my money, they don’t want my ad I take it someplace else and “screw” them. Time to hit those liber bastards in the pocket book., that is all they understand.

[BenLurkin]

I respectfully disagree.

[Bender2]

I went to http://www.samueladams.com/contact-us and sent them this:

Your decision to place the code of the beer industry ahead of the intent of the Declaration of Independence by removing "God" in your advertising quote has moved me.

As I am sure Sam Adams would say and do, "If you believe God is not worth mentioning, then your beer is not worth drinking." While you produce a tasty, quality product, the quality of your advertising policy is sorely lacking in both content and purpose. I shall not purchase nor drink your beer any more as long as you follow this course of action. I shall also urge all my fellow beer drinkers to do the same.

[EveningStar]

And I respect your opinion. I always have. :)

[null and void]

And the other half of the population would write in and say if you think you can get away with using God to sell your damned beer, you've got another thing coming!!! While you produce a tasty, quality product, the quality of your advertising policy is sorely lacking in both content and purpose. I shall not purchase nor drink your beer any more as long as you follow this course of action. I shall also urge all my fellow beer drinkers to do the same.

[stockpirate]

They took God out to appease the left, get real eveningstar.

[Obadiah]

This is not much ado about nothing. It is completely disrespectful of our Creator, from Whom all rights originate. The deliberate misquoting of the Declaration of Independence corrupts that document in the same way that Obama deliberately recites the Pledge of Allegiance and omits the words "under God".

This is no small thing as you suggest. These are deliberate acts attempting to strip us from our relationship with our Creator and our founding principles. There is a clear pattern that is being established. So I will have none of this, "It's no big deal." It is a big deal.

[Safetgiver]

As host Clayton Morris explained,....SHAME on the Lone Ranger....Wait...He’s already dead. That damned silver heeled Indian.

[TADSLOS]

People, get real. It's a good commercial. This clamor is much ado about nothing.

No, it's about EVERYTHING. In fact, it's important enough that the wording is accurately captured on FR's homepage.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.-- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

-- The Declaration of Independence, In Congress, July 4, 1776

Applying political correctness to a revered document that defines our liberties as endowed by Creator not only inaccurately portrays the true meaning of the document, but dismisses God's role in our nation's history...and for what, a shot at bigger market share and showing trendiness in mocking the foundation of God in our society?

Also, I find it odd that you start a new thread on the subject, referencing two other previously established threads on the same subject that you didn't bother to participate in. Why is that?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well if it’s excised from the segment being read, someone did it for some reason. If another segment of the Declaration was read, then of course it wouldn’t be there. But it would be hard to win; if they did include it then another set would be screaming at them about using God for commercial purposes.