Posted on 12/31/2023 1:40:26 AM PST by Libloather
When 2024 Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Dean Phillips took over his family's booze business in 2000 he oversaw a raunchy ad campaign used to sell Revelstoke, a spiced Canadian whisky.
The ad campaign used strippers to sell the whisky and suggested men needed to drink more of it to deal with overweight, undesirable women.
It also used creative technology so that the name of the whisky brand would show up in urinals as male customers went to the bathroom.
Phillips has used his business background as a benefit since launching a political career in the aftermath of former President Donald Trump's 2016 win.
The Minnesota Democrat was dubbed the 'charming liquor heir' as he flipped a Republican seat blue in 2018 for the first time in 60 years.
Phillips' mother had remarried the heir to Phillips Distilling Company after his father died in Vietnam when the congressman was just six months old.
In his early 30s, Phillips took over the company as president and CEO after he earned his MBA at the University of Minnesota's business school.
In profiles of Phillips - who launched a primary bid against President Joe Biden in late October - that part of his career is often mentioned because the congressman is credited for bringing Belvedere vodka from Poland to the United States.
What's gotten less attention is some of the marketing tactics the company deployed.
A February 2001 Strategy article about the ad campaign noted that, by design, it wasn't 'politically correct' and was a 'throwback to campaigns of old when fun was fun, and advertisers were a little more libertarian in their willingness to offend.'
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“...and suggested men needed to drink more to be around overweight women”
What’s the problem? Perhaps he should have also included narcotics, along with alcohol?
Hunter is running against Dad? The MO fits
Dean Phillips is a nothing, a nobody. Biden’s real primary challenger is RFK Jr.
I sure wish the press would focus on that race, and in particular Biden’s refusal to give RFK Jr Secret Service protection. That’s an outrage.
But no one in the press seems to care.
Who cares? He’s running against ‘Sniffy’ you know?
men needed to drink more of it to deal with overweight, undesirable women.
Ahhh..truth in advertising.
They say it like its a bad thing...
According to the media, men are required to be attracted to fat pigs of women.
Women are permitted to have standards, provided they must date minorities.
Laughing the media has knives out for this guy. Tells you how sacred they are of the anyone-but-crackhead-Biden vote.
Those ads were fun (and funny) before we became woke.
If you want to be happy for the rest of your life....
Very much so.
The big question is did he shower with his daughter and sleep with the babysitter.
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Clearly, a worthy successor to Joe Biden.
Dean Phillips has the same low opinion of women and the virtues of crafty intent as Joe himself.
Agree
Fat women and drinking to handle. Doubly depressing.
Reminds me of the great Dave Chappelle skit called “Samuel Jackson Beer”. It’s really funny but for adults only.
Bud goggles™️ ?
They say it like its a bad thing...
How do women cope with undesirable men? Shopping!!
“If I could rate ‘em on a scale from one to ten
I’m lookin’ for a nine, but eight could work right in
A few more drinks and I might slip to five or even four
But when tomorrow mornin’ comes
And I wake up with a number one
I swear I’ll never do it anymore
Don’t the girls all get prettier at closing time”
Ugh, 2024 is here. I am not looking forward to the next 11 months
Sounds like typical dirty tricks campaigning on Biden’s part.
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