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Biden's Democratic challenger Dean Phillips oversaw raunchy ad campaign as young liquor CEO: Advertisements showed strippers and suggested men needed to drink more to be around overweight women
Daily Mail ^ | 12/31/23 | Nikki Schwab

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.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: ceo; deanphillips; democrat; liquor; minnesota; minnesotademocrat; nikkischwab; phillips; phillipsdistilling
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To: Libloather

uhh has anybody ever heard of beer goggles? Alcohol is responsible for plenty of people coming into the world......


21 posted on 12/31/2023 5:03:12 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: Libloather

Beer goggles are a real thing!!


22 posted on 12/31/2023 5:03:29 AM PST by weezel
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To: Libloather

What about ugly women? Harpies? Harridans?

They all can be made better with beer googles. Apply liberally!


23 posted on 12/31/2023 5:04:16 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: Libloather
Its a good thing Phillips didn't own a bag company.
24 posted on 12/31/2023 5:15:41 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
"Ugh, 2024 is here. I am not looking forward to the next 11 months."

It's very concerning how many people feel just that way about 2024.. And if that be the case, just imagine what 2025 will be like... Hard times ahead.

25 posted on 12/31/2023 5:30:51 AM PST by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
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To: Libloather
“The ad campaign used strippers to sell the whisky and suggested men needed to drink more of it to deal with overweight, undesirable women.“


26 posted on 12/31/2023 5:38:53 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Libloather

Phillips is a typical, spoiled, snot-nosed Marxist, running under the MN DFL flag. He’s feeding his ego, but he’s going nowhere in national politics.
Way out of his league.


27 posted on 12/31/2023 5:44:17 AM PST by Fireone (Who killed Obama's chef?)
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To: Libloather

i’ve never seen the ads but that’s funny to me.


28 posted on 12/31/2023 5:52:28 AM PST by ronniesgal (The bidens are actually more white trashy than the Clintons, and that's sayin' something)
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To: MeanWestTexan

Queen said it best-

Take me to them dirty ladies every time
Oh, won’t you take me home tonight?
Oh, down beside your red firelight
Oh, and you give it all you got
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin’ world go round
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin’ world go round
Hey, listen here
Now I got mortgages on homes
I got stiffness in the bones
Ain’t no beauty queens in this locality, I tell you
Oh, but I still get my pleasure
Still got my greatest treasure
Heap big woman, you gonna make a big man out of me
Now get this
Are you gonna take me home tonight, please?
Oh, down beside that red firelight
Are you gonna let it all hang out?
Fat bottomed girls, you make the rockin’ world go round, yeah
Fat bottomed girls, you make the rockin’ world go round
Get on your bikes and ride
Them fat bottomed girls (fat bottomed girls)
Fat bottomed girls
Yes, yes


29 posted on 12/31/2023 6:01:38 AM PST by ninonitti
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To: BobL

Clearly, he understands the concept of “the 2 AM beauty queen”… otherwise known as “Beer Goggles Babeology”.


30 posted on 12/31/2023 6:08:06 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Libloather

All democrats are weirdos , LOL


31 posted on 12/31/2023 6:24:00 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Libloather
I would not like being a man on the dating scene today.

(Yes, there are crappy men out there but that's not my subject right now.)

Women today are spoiling to be triggered, self absorbed, often fat, often tatted up, selfie obsessed, consider treating a man well as beneath them or cowing to the patriarchy, etc.

32 posted on 12/31/2023 6:40:10 AM PST by Lizavetta
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I’m not looking forward to it either. I see our “courageous and brave” el presidente, Jo Pedo owning the far-left “media” once he picks a fight with the Ruzzkis and Americans start dying.


33 posted on 12/31/2023 7:37:33 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (America!Biden has turned what was one of the greatest documentaries into a one season retard sitcom.)
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To: MrRelevant

Bud googles make you think a tranny is a chick


34 posted on 12/31/2023 8:00:07 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: butlerweave

And they want you to drink or smoke grass so ones will not see that.

It’s just fun, right?


35 posted on 12/31/2023 8:01:38 AM PST by Beowulf9
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To: MeanWestTexan

Bud googles were a thing before trannies were a thing.


36 posted on 12/31/2023 8:59:23 AM PST by MrRelevant
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To: Libloather

I like this hit. I like anything that helps keep Crime Boss Joey on the rodents’ ticket.


37 posted on 12/31/2023 12:56:38 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: jmaroneps37; All

Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota, is mounting a long-shot primary challenge against the president, recently said for the first time that he would consider accepting No Labels’ nomination if the election becomes a rematch between Biden and former President Donald Trump and it looked like Biden was “almost certain to lose.”

That’s a reversal for Phillips, who had said that if he loses in the Democratic primary, he would support Biden.

No Labels is a group that is fielding a possible bipartisan “unity” third-party ticket.

While Fulks said Sunday that third-party groups do not pose a major risk of spoiling Biden’s campaign, Biden himself said last fall that the group would “help the other guy,” in reference to Trump.

No Labels officials have insisted they don’t want to run a ticket merely to hurt Biden over Trump.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-campaign-dismisses-3rd-party-labels-threat-2024/story?id=106540206


38 posted on 01/21/2024 11:28:39 PM PST by Texan4Life
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