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Wrigley Fact-Checks Trump Jr. Meme: ‘Skittles are Candy, Refugees are People’
Breitbart.com ^
| 20 Sep 2016
| Daniel Nussbaum
Posted on 09/20/2016 12:31:56 PM PDT by Rockitz
Wrigley — the company behind the popular Skittles brand — responded to Donald Trump Jr.’s use of an analogy involving the candy to illustrate a point about the Syrian refugee crisis in a statement on Tuesday. “Skittles are candy. Refugees are people. We don’t feel it’s an appropriate analogy,” Wrigley Americas vice president of corporate affairs Denise Young told the Hollywood Reporter in a statement.
“We will respectfully refrain from further commentary as anything we say could be misinterpreted as marketing,”Young added.
Trump Jr.’s tweet sent the left into a frenzy on Monday night and Tuesday
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Don Jr. used the perfect analogy, although I've seen a similar one with M&Ms.
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posted on
09/20/2016 12:31:57 PM PDT
by
Rockitz
To: Rockitz
Refugees are people.So are Americans.
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posted on
09/20/2016 12:32:54 PM PDT
by
OddLane
To: Rockitz
Companies need to know when to keep their mouths shut. Now is such a time.
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posted on
09/20/2016 12:33:26 PM PDT
by
Ray76
To: Rockitz
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posted on
09/20/2016 12:34:06 PM PDT
by
MileHi
(Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
To: Rockitz
Fail wrigley. Satanic minions are not people.
To: Rockitz
Whoever thought up this PR stunt just cost that company a lot of money. There was absolutely no need to do anything but ignore this - it’s an all-downside move.
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posted on
09/20/2016 12:34:58 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(This message has been encrypted in ROT13 twice for maximum security)
To: Rockitz
Something tells me Ms. Young has no clue what an analogy happens to be.
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posted on
09/20/2016 12:35:38 PM PDT
by
rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: Rockitz
The left dropped their skittles a long time ago.
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posted on
09/20/2016 12:36:11 PM PDT
by
ViLaLuz
(2 Chronicles 7:14)
To: Rockitz
Well, Skittles do have a wide distribution of skin colors and internal content...
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posted on
09/20/2016 12:36:37 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
To: Rockitz
And Wrigley is run by traitors.
To: rigelkentaurus
Jihadi’s need to cease being people ASAP.
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posted on
09/20/2016 12:37:39 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
To: Rockitz
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posted on
09/20/2016 12:37:45 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(I'm on a mission to make Hillary Clinton feel DEPLORABLE on Nov 8th.)
To: Rockitz
Denise...He didn’t malign your damn candy, he maligned cartain ‘refugees’ who are bad apples - hence the term ANALOGY.
To: Rockitz
Are those people at Wrigley’s complete morons? Geez. They probably pay these idiots also.
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posted on
09/20/2016 12:38:16 PM PDT
by
papageo
To: Rockitz
A better response would have been “Skittles are a candy. We appreciate brand recognition, but WTF?”
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posted on
09/20/2016 12:38:17 PM PDT
by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
To: MileHi
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posted on
09/20/2016 12:38:32 PM PDT
by
themidnightskulker
(And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
To: Rockitz
I never liked Skittles...
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posted on
09/20/2016 12:39:23 PM PDT
by
Smittie
(Just like an alien, I'm a stranger in a strange land)
To: Rockitz
Wow.....Pepe a cartoon frog now the left is up in arms over Skittles. Pffft.
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posted on
09/20/2016 12:40:17 PM PDT
by
ColdOne
((poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Hillary Clinton......unfit to serve, shovel ready. I am deplorable.))
To: WKUHilltopper
To: Rockitz
Wrigley just bumped this back into the news.
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posted on
09/20/2016 12:40:41 PM PDT
by
Raycpa
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