Posted on 02/02/2015 3:10:22 PM PST by Reverend Saltine
AP A Super Bowl ad for Jeep Renegade SUVs met a heated backlash Sunday night as outraged Americans took to social media to blast the company for flashing scenes of the Great Wall of China and other far-flung places around the globe as “This Land is Your Land” played in the background. “What kind of globalist bullshit is this?” wrote one YouTube commenter. “Who is in the advertising department?” asked another YouTube commenter. “Fire them. This is an American song. AMERICAN
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Yeah, I had a pretty negative reaction to that one, along with the Nationwide commercial. I was’t too thrilled with the “throw like a girl” commercial either.
This Land is Your Land was written by an American Communist and owned by his Commie children.
Noted this, too. The first 30 seconds of the commercial were good, and then it all came apart rapidly.
Surprise surprise. Jeep iconic as an American vehicle owned by an Italian company (Fiat) and assembled in China. What should they expect?
Somebody get those animals some beer and blondes.
And the one that made it look like the Boston Tea Party and/or the Revolutionary War was no big deal. Can’t remember the name of the advertiser on that one.
“What kind of globalist bullsh#t is this... wrote one youtuber”.
Pretty much the SAME WORDS my husband said aloud.
Didn’t have to search far for this;
“Arlo Guthrie tells a story in concerts on occasion, of his mother returning from a dance tour of China, and reporting around the Guthrie family dinner table that at one point in the tour she was serenaded by Chinese children singing the song. Arlo says Woody was incredulous: “The Chinese? Singing “This land is your land, this land is my land? From California to the New York island?”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Land_Is_Your_Land
Advertising idiots and execs who obviously wanted to imply that a jeep can take you anywhere but completely missed the actual connection Americans would make and the offense it would cause.
Guthrie was a big time Socialist if not Commie.
I think it was a tax preparation ad. And yes, Mrs. rktman was HIGHLY cranked up at the jeep ad. A WTH! moment. And yes, woodie was a pinko pos. “But he’s so brilliant....”
That song is a commie anti America anti private property screed.
I was pretty pissed at the Jeep commercial.
Globalist, commie, feel-good kum by ya bullcrap.
A Commie anthem composed in response to “God Bless America”
I knew that. The point was that his reaction was the same as the comments today.
No word on when "outraged Merkuns" are going to blast the Uniparty in Washington over their theft and lawbreaking...
Party on, Garth! Circus Maximus 2015 ROCKS!
Jeep sucks anyway. Bought one in ‘07. Damned thing fell apart at 60k.
“This Land is Your Land was written by an American Communist...”
Yes, that is true. But it is still a pretty good song and it is still about AMERICA. And that version of it was terrible.
I’m so tired of upbeat songs being turned into dirges for no good reason.
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