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Racy Burger Ad Leaves Teachers Furious
Fox News ^ | September 9, 2007

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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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: ads; hardees; nannystate; naughtyteacherlist
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To: dynachrome

41 posted on 09/10/2007 6:22:28 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: goldstategop
Nobody seems to have noticed the real point of the ad: The commercial is a spoof of Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back".

White kids rapping "I like flat buns!" is the natural analogue to Sir Mix-a-Lot's taste for larger women.

As usual, these hypersensitive crybabies don't even know what the hell they are protesting.

42 posted on 09/10/2007 6:23:02 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: Eric Blair 2084

I’m only up to the double bypass anymore!


43 posted on 09/10/2007 6:23:28 PM PDT by dynachrome (Henry Bowman is right.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084
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!"

Given how many teachers are having sex with their students, I'd call it art imitating life.

44 posted on 09/10/2007 6:23:33 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (To libs killing a windfarm is bad, letting a gal die in your Oldsmobile is not so bad)
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To: live+let_live

Were you Waldo from the Van Halen “Hot For Teacher” music video?


45 posted on 09/10/2007 6:23:37 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084
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.

Oh go on.

46 posted on 09/10/2007 6:25:30 PM PDT by lowbridge ("We control this House, not the parliamentarians!” -Congressman Steny Hoyer (D))
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To: Eric Blair 2084

47 posted on 09/10/2007 6:26:11 PM PDT by fso301
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To: lowbridge
The professional ones - as opposed to the skanks - aren't offering an extracurricular side option.

"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

48 posted on 09/10/2007 6:27:10 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Eric Blair 2084
Not guilty:


49 posted on 09/10/2007 6:27:27 PM PDT by quark
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To: goldstategop
There's also a hot blonde babe in a white shirt eating a Thickburger.

That was really something.

50 posted on 09/10/2007 6:28:12 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (To libs killing a windfarm is bad, letting a gal die in your Oldsmobile is not so bad)
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To: live+let_live
I'm 50 something and I'm going to 'hurry on down to Hardies'

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51 posted on 09/10/2007 6:28:34 PM PDT by Elle Bee
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To: Eric Blair 2084

Well - I guess this justifies those forced union dues!


52 posted on 09/10/2007 6:29:42 PM PDT by Scarchin (+)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

I have seen some of their still commercials on the internet that could get me fired if the boss happened to walk by at that moment.


53 posted on 09/10/2007 6:30:44 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Ever see WILLIS SHAW backwards in your rear view mirror? I have!)
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To: Bullish
I like what Kathy Griffin had to say about white guys who “talk Black”...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EECuM5ih7PE

Although I have some friends who because of ‘busing’ went to >90% black schools in the Washington D.C. area. My friend from Long Island asked them why they sounded funny. ;)

A Black friend of theirs moved to San Diego some 10 years ago and when we get together it is funny because the black guy sounds more ‘white’ (because of San Diego) than the whites (who still live in Baltimore). So it is COOL, but only if it is not an affectation.

My best friend in High School was black and he caught a lot of flack from the local blacks for ‘acting white’. His mother was white, he never really knew his father......so if he ACTED black it would be exactly that, an act, and I doubt if he would be any more convincing than these white rappers talking about ‘flat buns’.

54 posted on 09/10/2007 6:30:57 PM PDT by allmendream (A Lyger is pretty much my favorite animal. (Hunter08))
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To: Eric Blair 2084

One wonders if these teachers would have had time to notice a silly commercial had they been busy teaching.


55 posted on 09/10/2007 6:33:21 PM PDT by Redcloak (The 2nd Amendment isn't about sporting goods.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084
Hmmm,.... makes me want to continue my education.
56 posted on 09/10/2007 6:34:20 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Zimbabwe, leftist success story, the envy of Venezuela)
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To: Eric Blair 2084; indylindy
I don't think I was quite clear in what I was attempting to convey.

It was not the use of the term lady in the general sense, but rather, it's usage by indylindy, given her previous posts on the subject.

Personally, I don't have any problem with the commercial.

Their product on the other hand.........

57 posted on 09/10/2007 6:35:16 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: Eric Blair 2084

Gee Thanks, I am not a blue haired old lady. If a sleazy teacher can get you to buy a greasy fat burger. Go for it.

Bottoms up.


58 posted on 09/10/2007 6:36:52 PM PDT by dforest (Duncan Hunter is the best hope we have on both fronts.)
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To: Navy Patriot
Sit down, Waldo! Made me want to go back and watch the Hot for Teacher video.

Hot For Teacher, Van Halen

Lively debate about which teacher was hotter...Miss Phys Ed or Miss Chemistry.

59 posted on 09/10/2007 6:37:53 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

Serious lack of taste.


60 posted on 09/10/2007 6:39:16 PM PDT by r9etb
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