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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: hole_n_one

I remember you from a few of the smoking threads. Nice to see that you are at least an equal opportunity health cop. You don’t discriminate. At least you are consistent.


61 posted on 09/10/2007 6:39:52 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: r9etb

Lack of taste?

I don’t know anything about that, I haven’t eaten that Patty Melt.


62 posted on 09/10/2007 6:40:51 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: pabianice

Ouch!


63 posted on 09/10/2007 6:41:43 PM PDT by pierstroll
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To: Eric Blair 2084
Here in Cali, Carl's Jr. showed an edited version of the ad.

Carl Karcher who founded the chain of burger restaurants is a lifelong conservative. I remember during the heyday of the anti-war movement of the early 70's the burger joints would give away U.S. flag window things to whoever wanted them. I don't think he'd approve of the advert.

64 posted on 09/10/2007 6:42:17 PM PDT by steveo (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
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To: indylindy

Never said you were. You could be a 20 year old college junior for all I know. I was just pointing out that the commercials are targeted to a particular demographic.

The more it pisses off scolds the more popular the burger will be. You can’t buy this kind of advertising. Fox News story?!

Just ask the folks over at the Heart Attack Grill in Arizona. Business boomed when the nurse association complained.


65 posted on 09/10/2007 6:43:52 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: steveo

Does he still own the company or since it was purchased by Hardees, does he just retain a lot of shares and sit on the board?


66 posted on 09/10/2007 6:45:40 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
Sex sells. The target is 18-35 year old males.

Wow, big news flash! Film at 10!

67 posted on 09/10/2007 6:47:05 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: Eric Blair 2084
Well,
I’m no prude but I think that one may be a little over the top. I’m intrigued by the defense though. Anything goes as long as your ‘target audience’ is low enough.
68 posted on 09/10/2007 6:51:47 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: hole_n_one

Cop outter. LOL. Actually, I do have a problem with it. For the reasons I stated earlier. People that know me know I am no prude. This is national advertising.

The restaurant that has the nurses and the killer cholesterol burgers is fine. I doubt many kids go in there.

I just think it is a bad ad in light of the teacher scandals going on anymore. Its really not funny and it isn’t cute. I have no doubt the guys like it and I can see why.


69 posted on 09/10/2007 6:53:42 PM PDT by dforest (Duncan Hunter is the best hope we have on both fronts.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

This really divides us into two groups: we’re either stuck with the NOW nags and the NEA, or with debasing libertine social elements. (I don’t have to tell you which side I am on. Keep those hags away from me, I’ll be “tasteless” and happy that way.)

Point being — nobody here has claim to this issue free from liberal influence.


70 posted on 09/10/2007 6:56:36 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: Eric Blair 2084
If you want to ingest, inhale or inject whatever, knock yourself out (literally and figuratively).

.....and it was by no means "a few of the smoking threads".

It was one thread, I was bored, and I had a full bottle of scotch at the time.

71 posted on 09/10/2007 6:56:45 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: counterpunch
Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s are the same. Carl’s is the West Coast incarnation.

I'm sure that wasn't always the case. Merger/acquisition?

Years ago, when I went to one of each on either coast in a short period of time, there was no resemblance between them.

72 posted on 09/10/2007 7:01:08 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

Those pix are an in-your-face bitchslap to the muzzies.

Every smokin hot babe in these pix is an insult to the Islamofascists and I say bring it on!

The hezziemuzzies hate, despise, and fear women (just as the gays do).

Well, I DON’T!

;^)


73 posted on 09/10/2007 7:01:21 PM PDT by elcid1970
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To: Eric Blair 2084

Has the Tennessee Education Association ever posted ANYTHING in regard to all the female teachers carring on with their male students?

If not, they ought to be mocked for this posting.


74 posted on 09/10/2007 7:02:23 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

You know what?

GOOD.

Am I the only one getting really, really tired of every group in American whining?


75 posted on 09/10/2007 7:03:10 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (Turn your Blue state, into a Fred state: www.fred08.com)
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(especially unions)


76 posted on 09/10/2007 7:05:57 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (Turn your Blue state, into a Fred state: www.fred08.com)
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To: hole_n_one
It was one thread, I was bored, and I had a full bottle of scotch at the time.

Just remember Barry Goldwaters' warning: "The Government that is big enough to give you everything you need, is big in enough to take away everything you have."

The USSR banned vodka in 1986. The socialists will take away your scotch for your own good. FRegards.

77 posted on 09/10/2007 7:15:14 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: steveo

Conservative girls have midriffs too.

78 posted on 09/10/2007 7:16:34 PM PDT by JillValentine (Being a feminist is all about being a victim. Being an armed woman is all about not being a victim.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

That’s the PC environment that we have created.

If it offends someone...whether it be street noise, perfume...just form a PAC, sue the bastards and enact change.


79 posted on 09/10/2007 7:17:15 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: quark

The face of a human Barbie doll. Not to mention a raving nympho.


80 posted on 09/10/2007 7:20:36 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Our first responsibility is to keep the power of the Presidency out of the hands of the Clintons.)
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