Posted on 09/10/2007 5:50:28 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084
A fast food chain’s racy new advertising campaign has left at least one teacher’s organization demanding it be pulled.
The ad for St. Louis, Missouri-based Hardee’s Corporation features a sexy teacher, making provocative moves in front of the class while two students rap to a song called "Flat Buns,” according to a report on myFOXstl.com.
"How irresponsible can you get?” said the Tennessee Education Association in a statement on their website. ”At this very moment, there are female teachers in high school classrooms with 30+ students who are working hard to teach our children so that they can compete in today's world. It is unbelievably demeaning to every one of them to promote a television advertisement showing a young teacher gyrating on top of her desk while boys in the class rap about her body in order to sell hamburgers!"
Hardee’s claims the ad is obviously a spoof, pointing out that the target demographic for the ad is young men who find this type of ad campaign appealing.
The fast-food chain courted controversy before with a provocative hamburger ad featuring Paris Hilton.
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Sleazy ad, especially in light of all the female teacher scandals.
Actually, it is a real embarassment.
I saw the same commercial for Carl’s Jr.
“At this very moment, there are female teachers in high school classrooms with 30+ students who are working hard to teach our children so that they can compete in today’s world.”
Maybe the commercial should be used in the sex ed courses starting with the first grade to sort of even out the pro homosexual courses.
I don’t think it’s any worse than the political ad the “teacher” and an entire class of young children did for Barak Obama.
Same company. Carl’s Junior bought out Hardee’s for their breakfast menu.
If that woman in the commercial won’t convert the homosexual men, than nothing will.
O their just ticked cause none of them are that good looking.
Besides, the female of the species seems to have the upper hand these days.
Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s are the same. Carl’s is the West Coast incarnation.
They may have poor taste for ads, but they have great taste for burgers.
Anyways, it just seems like a case of art imitating life to me.
>>>Same company. Carl’s Junior bought out Hardee’s for their breakfast menu.
And from a nutritional point of view, their product is ‘food porn’.
C'mon FReepers, you're slipping.
Teachers angry? Heck for a minute there I thought someone had mistakenly taught their students English or Math.
Yeah, that hamburger commerical must have really touched a nerve. Imagine somone acting as if a teacher might do some improper with students? How dare they!!!
Teachers, clean up your act, then start on others.
teacher ping.
Innocent!
(an ad, but on topic)
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I think the place has really gone to hell since the merger. Their mushroom and swiss burger used to be the food of the gods until they revamped it, and now it could barely pass muster for food of the dogs. They used to have awesome chicken too.
That may not be true anymore. The teachers now, don’t seem to wear those black grandma shoes and instill the fear of bad behavior in kids anymore. Instead, they participate!
The lady in the ad is no teacher. Or then again, maybe she is.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Hardee’s leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
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