Posted on 09/11/2011 3:16:38 PM PDT by djf
I'm watching the Seahawks getting plucked and notice that Southwest Airlines keeps running this commercial. It starts off saying something like "Ten years on..." yada yada, shows airline people standing around with their hats off, and ends with "we salute the American spirit"
Has this struck anybody else as being somewhat cheesy commercializing on a tragic event? Maybe it's just me...
What's next? Hallmark cards for 9/11?
ta dum dum. LOL
Why shouldn’t a company with employees pay homage to a great loss like 9-11? I don’t get it. What is wrong with that and how is that meant for profit only? The Budweiser ad was so heartbreaking that people show it each year via youtube....Budweiser isn’t showing it.
The Budweiser ad is terrific. Very moving.
The State Farm ad, with the kids singing Jay Z to the FDNY, not so much. But I detest Jay Z. If they were singing something patriotic, I would have loved it.
I refuse to participate in “celebrating” this country’s losses and tragedies.
I don’t know why we build monuments like the Alamo where TX saw defeat but don’t observe San Jacinto (4/21) where the enemy was crushed.
We build monuments at Pearl Harbor but don’t observe V-J Day (8/14). We mourn Normandy but don’t celebrate V-E Day (5/8) when we took unconditional surrender from the Nazis.
The there is 9/11 where we still haven’t rebuilt the tower, have denied a church the ability to rebuild what was destroyed but give the enemy permits and money to construct a victory mosque.
Why is it that ordinary New Yorkers who went to work as they would any other day are considered “heroes” for being at the wrong place at the wrong time? We mourn their deaths every year but ignore the tens of thousands who are slain by drunk illegal aliens. Why not mourn the deaths of the Branch Davidians who were murdered by their own government, or anyone who has died of cancer, drowning, crime or just old age?
Maybe we are being conditioned to be losers focused on defeat and looking and celebrating our frailty. Many people know about the Black Monday, the largest percentage drop in the DOW in one day (10/19/87) but can’t even name the year or month of the largest point or percentage increases.
It seems that this focus on death, defeat, being humbled, shamed and disgraced begins from the class of people who feel its their job and duty to have everyone hate America since it is our Fe’ral goverment, academia, and the Enemedia that takes particular delight in trashing the US, trashing and eagerly working to destroy successful businesses and individuals.
Need proof? Americans are supposed to honor December 7th (Pearl Harbor), but celebrate “Cinco de Mayo” Mexico defeating the occupying French. Its a real big deal in TX which is strange because the defeat contributed to the loss of the South in the War of the Northern Aggression. Its sick because Mexico was no friend of the South yet Napoleon’s France was. Why would Texans celebrate our enemy’s win, our ally’s defeat and destruction of a supply source to the South’s Army and economy?
The real Americans remember who won the Superbowls, who won at the OK-Corral, who won the US/USSR Olymic hockey game, who put a man on the moon, won two world wars and defeated communism. I want a country that has swagger, is proud of the fact that we are the best nation the world has ever seen, and wakes up each day asking how we can widen the gap between us and the losers.
Everybody is doing it.
I always give Anhueser Busch kind of a pass, because even though they are now owned by Europeans, they do a LOT for military members. Even aside from the countless free admissions a service member and family can use once a year to their parks, they have donated a lot to the Single Marine Program. This program does wonderful things for Marines alone and away from home. I’m not familiar with what they do for other branches, but I have seen them do a lot for the SMP.
“I always give Anhueser Busch kind of a pass, because even though they are now owned by Europeans, they do a LOT for military members.”
Then I am in agreement with you.
If Southwest is commercializing it, so it Budweiser. At 8:40 P.M. EDT Sunday, on The History Channel, they ran a Budweiser commercial which commemorates 9/11 and the 8-Horse Hitch all bow down on one front knee at the end and the statement on the screen states that we will never forget. It’s not easy to draw the line between honoring and commercializing. I have a feeling these are NOT the only two companies. I say, give ‘em a pass.
You’re not along, I thought they were trying to profit off of 911. Don’t get me wrong, I really like Southwest but I thought the commercial was a bit much.
Tasteless.
I saved that image and it now appears in rotation on my screensaver. No accounting for taste.
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